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Billboard’s Music Industry Events Calendar Available

A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.

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Billboard's Music Industry Events Calendar Available

A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.

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The Foundation of Trust: Why Royalty Infrastructure is the Key to Artist Retention in 2026

Artists and rightsholders have unprecedented leverage over where to house their catalogs. Legacy brand prestige is no longer enough to retain them; instead, your artist network’s loyalty depends heavily on […] The post is from Music Ally.

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Billboard Music Industry Events Calendar

A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.

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Billboard's Music Industry Events Calendar Available

A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.

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Billboard's Music Industry Events Calendar: A Comprehensive Guide

A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.

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Pooh Shiesty Arrested on Robbery, Kidnapping Charges Over Alleged Gucci Mane Label Dispute

The rapper—AKA Lontrell Williams, Jr.—was arrested on April 1 along with seven other suspects

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Pooh Shiesty Accused of Kidnapping and Robbery Related to Record Deal

The "FDO" rapper is accused of organizing an "armed takeover" and forcing one of the victims to sign a release from Pooh Shiesty's record contract.

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Bastian Langebaek Signs with Sony Music Publishing UK

More in publishing news: Lykke Li signed with Warner Chappell Music Scandinavia and The Wavys signed with Kobalt.

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Publishing Briefs: Bastian Langebaek Signs with Sony Music Publishing UK

More in publishing news: Lykke Li signed with Warner Chappell Music Scandinavia and The Wavys signed with Kobalt.

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Publishing Briefs: Olivia Dean Songwriter Bastian Langebaek Signs With Sony Music Publishing UK

More in publishing news: Lykke Li signed with Warner Chappell Music Scandinavia and The Wavys signed with Kobalt.

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Pooh Shiesty Arrested for Kidnapping & Gunpoint Robbery of Gucci Mane Over Record Deal

The "FDO" rapper is accused of organizing an "armed takeover" and forcing one of the victims to sign a release from Pooh Shiesty's record contract.

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NSYNC Choreographer Sues Sony Music Over Deadpool Routine Usage

Darrin Henson claims he owns the copyright for his choreography, which won an MTV Music Video Award. *NSYNC Choreographer Sues Sony Music for Letting Deadpool Dance His “Bye Bye Bye” Routine Liz Shan

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*NSYNC Choreographer Sues Sony Music for Letting Deadpool Dance His “Bye Bye Bye” Routine

Darrin Henson claims he owns the copyright for his choreography, which won an MTV Music Video Award. *NSYNC Choreographer Sues Sony Music for Letting Deadpool Dance His “Bye Bye Bye” Routine Liz Shannon Miller

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Rostrum Pacific’s FatBeats acquires physical distro company Traffic Entertainment Group, plus D2C store and label Get On Down

The deal brings together three companies with a combined 50 years of experience in vinyl distribution, physical distribution, and premium catalog re-issues. Source

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NSYNC Choreographer Sues Sony Music Over 'Deadpool' Scene Licensing

The choreographer behind the iconic dance says it's now become "unjustly affiliated with Marvel" because Sony Music licensed a piece of IP it didn’t own.

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TuneCore Names New Chief Business Officer

Miller previously served as the company's chief revenue officer for the last two years.

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TuneCore Appoints Brian Miller as Chief Business Officer

Miller previously served as the company's chief revenue officer for the last two years.

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Music industry trade bodies join forces with music publishers to defeat Anthropic’s “AI is fair use” defence

The music publishers suing Anthropic recently asked the judge to reject the AI company’s fair use defence. Now eight music industry organisations have filed an amicus brief also arguing that AI training can never be fair use, because the development of AI music models causes market dilution

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Brian Miller appointed Chief Business Officer at TuneCore

Miller has served as Chief Revenue Officer at TuneCore for the last two years Source