Music Business
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.
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.
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.
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
*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
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
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.
TuneCore Names New Chief Business Officer
Miller previously served as the company's chief revenue officer for the last two years.
TuneCore Appoints Brian Miller as Chief Business Officer
Miller previously served as the company's chief revenue officer for the last two years.
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
Brian Miller appointed Chief Business Officer at TuneCore
Miller has served as Chief Revenue Officer at TuneCore for the last two years Source
Responsible Merch Guide encourages planet-friendly products
A report published this week by Green Music Australia, Reverb and The CSO Shop aims to help artists and their teams, as well as labels and merch suppliers, make “better environmental and ethical choices”. The ‘Responsible Merch Guide’ covers issues ranging fromm clothing materials and certification
Create Music Group leads $2m funding for marketing startup Soundlink
Startup Soundlink launched in 2025 as a service to help music marketers solve “the attribution problem” – understanding how their social-media ads impacted streams. Having signed up more than 5,000 artists and labels, now Soundlink has raised a $2m seed-funding round, led by Create Music Group. The
Chartmetric warns 2025’s ‘pop slump’ has continued in 2026
Slump? What slump?! With global recorded-music revenues up 6.4% last year, the industry would be forgiven for taking a quiet moment to celebrate recently. However, analytics firm Chartmetric’s latest research may interrupt that, based on its analysis of the streaming charts. “Last year was notably l
WMG to buy Revelator in wake of UMG’s Downtown Music acquisition
Two theories emerged when UMG completed its acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings recently. One was that the lengthy regulatory scrutiny of the deal might discourage major labels from other indie acquisitions – for a while at least. The other, though, was that it may encourage such deals – particul
US music bodies weigh in to publishers’ Anthropic lawsuit
A group of music publishers are continuing to sue AI firm Anthropic for copyright infringement, focusing on its alleged use of their lyrics to train its Claude model, as well as some of its outputs. Now they have the backing of a group of US music-industry bodies: the RIAA, NMPA, A2IM, SONA, Black M
‘They’ve Done a Lot of Damage to the Festival Scene’: How The Demise of Bluesfest Has Been a Suckerpunch For an Industry In Crisis
The beloved Easter long-weekend festival was meant to get underway today, April 2.
Australia introduces new “orphan works” copyright legislation
Australia’s government has unveiled new copyright reforms this week, specifically involving ‘orphan works’. The post is from Music Ally.
The 2025 Royalty Numbers are in: Loud & Clear Updated with new Data & Takeaways
Artists deserve transparency about how music streaming works. That’s why we launched Loud & Clear in 2021 — to share detailed data on Spotify’s royalty payments, break down how money […] The post is from Music Ally.
Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds Announce Fall Arena Tour
The band, led by Sturgill Simpson's new persona, will hit nearly 30 markets.