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Competition authorities on both sides of the Atlantic have signed off on the deal, setting up one of the most significant consolidations in independent music publishing in years.
The major label is building infrastructure to export Asia-Pacific artists globally — and using a Hong Kong act's 250-million-stream debut as its opening argument.
The St. Petersburg rapper's next album arrives with a mournful visual and a lead single on the way — a rollout designed for an artist whose entire business model runs on emotional consistency.
PCCW's Viu and iQiyi International are merging into a single subscription across four Southeast Asian markets — a bundle play that rewrites the competitive math for streaming in the region.
The new concert series films intimate album-release shows and streams them globally. For YouTube, it's a bid to own the moment when music culture is most alive.
The San Diego band sold out a major league ballpark and structured the show as a deliberate arc through their catalog — a business move as much as an artistic one.
Two stories from the same week tell you everything about where music IP is headed: one artist is trying to lock down his voice as a trademark, while a dead one just generated $91.1 million at the box office.
A long-overdue copyright reform closes a gap that left recording artists and labels out of the royalty loop every time their music played in a Japanese restaurant, hotel, or shop.
Billboard is tracking the full slate of music-industry legislation in the 119th Congress. Here's what's actually on the table and why it matters for rights holders, platforms, and everyone in between.
MIDiA Research clocks 10.1% global subscriber growth in 2025. The math behind that number tells you everything about where the streaming economy is headed.
Sir Lucian Grainge's appearance at Music Awards Japan signals a deliberate push to position UMG as the infrastructure layer for Japanese artists crossing into global markets.
Following Taylor Swift's lead, Richie filed four trademark applications covering audio of his own voice — a signal that legacy artists are treating their sonic identity as a revenue-bearing asset in the AI era.
The album captures the chaotic, sweaty, communal energy of a New York summer in ways that feel less like a creative choice and more like a document.
Artist Included is betting that AI-assisted re-recordings can unlock new revenue from catalog music — without the legal headaches of the original masters.
Universal Music Group has launched Def Jam Recordings North Africa, headquartered in Morocco's commercial capital — a structural move that signals where the major sees untapped global streaming upside.
A franchise song with a music video built from film footage just became the most-streamed country single in a day by a female artist on Spotify. The streaming math here is worth unpacking.
The After Hours Til Dawn Tour's 2026 leg adds 3 million tickets and nearly half a billion dollars in gross — and it's not done yet.
After months of multiplatform rumors, Microsoft used its Xbox Games Showcase to make a pointed statement: E-Day is Xbox-only. The business logic is more complicated than the announcement made it sound.
A soundtrack placement that doubles as a platform event: Swift's return to her roots is also a masterclass in how IP, fandom, and streaming economics collide.
The French streamer is opening its AI-detection technology to rival platforms — but getting Spotify and Apple to bite is a different problem entirely.
Six acts joined Australian music's most prestigious honour roll, drawing federal politicians and film stars to a ceremony that doubled as a statement about who the industry chooses to remember.
The Darcos bill would flip the burden of proof in AI copyright cases — and the global creative industry is lining up behind it.
The Harlem rapper headlined the festival's final night with a set built around 'Don't Be Dumb,' a Tokischa guest spot, and the kind of controlled chaos that reminds you why live music still moves units.
Legislation that would move the Copyright Office out from under the Library of Congress has quietly become one of the most consequential policy fights in the music business. Here's what's at stake.
The ruling is a significant setback for artists seeking to recapture their masters under termination rights — and a signal to the broader music industry about the limits of that legal tool.
The Latin music couple pivots from adult contemporary to children's entertainment, bringing in YouTube-native collaborators to build a new audience from scratch.
Piano's benchmark data across hundreds of publisher sites puts hard numbers on what everyone already suspected. The response isn't panic — it's a pivot to engagement, registration, and AI citation strategy.
Code strings buried in an Apple Music Android beta suggest the company is building a lower-cost subscription tier with Spotify-style skip restrictions. The business logic is straightforward: Apple wants the listeners Spotify has been converting for a decade.
The two-day Latin music festival returns to Mexico City on Nov. 28–29 with a lineup that doubles as a streaming-era power ranking.
Timothy Xu is betting that Chinese pop music follows the K-pop playbook to worldwide audiences — and Universal has a strategy built around making that happen.
The actor-turned-author's 'Starlings' skips print and goes straight to Audible Original, with two of British film's most in-demand voices attached.
Ten nights at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano signals how Latin superstars are rewriting the economics of the stadium run.
Art Garfunkel, Jimmy Fallon, Busta Rhymes, and Kirk Franklin didn't just show up to celebrate Puth. They showed up to make the concert impossible to replicate on a screen.
Sex and the City, Turn: Washington's Spies, and a handful of other titles are leaving Netflix next month. The real story isn't what to watch — it's why these shows keep cycling out and what that churn costs everyone.
One of UMPG's longest-serving executives announced his departure on June 1, closing a tenure that stretched across the industry's most turbulent years in music publishing.
The Belmont Plateau set reminded Philadelphia — and the industry watching — that legacy artists still command the kind of live attention no algorithm can manufacture.
The album's staying power at the top of the chart signals sustained consumer demand — and LE SSERAFIM's top-10 debut adds a K-pop data point worth watching.
The appointment signals that Too Lost is moving beyond catalog management into active capital strategy — a telling shift for a platform competing in an increasingly consolidated indie music market.
Director Ally Pankiw's documentary revisits how Sarah McLachlan's female-led festival rewrote the rules of the touring business — and why the moment feels ripe to do it again.
The deal bundles publishing administration and sync licensing with name, image, and likeness representation — a growing template for monetizing legacy hip-hop estates.