The deal builds on the record company’s existing stewardship of The Beatles’ recorded catalog.
Spotify fans won’t leave their display dongles in the dust.
For most of the last century, the music business operated under a surprisingly simple idea: If you want to use someone else’s work, you ask permission and pay them money. Want to sample a song? There’s a licensing process. Want to use a song in a movie, advertisement or television show? The people who own the song get paid.
Playlist Notes lets editors attach written context to individual tracks on playlists including Today’s Top Hits and RapCaviar.
A new Harvard study on distracted driving finds a 15% increase in traffic fatalities on days that major albums are released on DSPs.
With the implementation of Cinemo CORE™ Online and Cinemo Live Service™, Hyundai Motor Group will provide the ultimate playback and streaming experience for Hyundai Motor, Kia and Genesis vehicle owners, giving them the power to access and control their favorite music streaming services directly from the infotainment system, including Amazon Music, SoundCloud and, most recently, Spotify.
Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl’s recent appearance on the Semafor podcast has made headlines for his defence of WMG’s deal with Suno. MBW has a writeup on that.
The new streaming website features tens of thousands of performers, hundreds of thousands of tracks and more than 40,000 concerts, sessions, and interviews for free.
“There is simply nothing fair about a company using theft to build for purely commercial purposes a multi-billion dollar business while those from which they steal receive nothing,” Round Hill said.
A new report jointly compiled by Splice and Chartmetric examines how music is made, and how it’s heard, through a genre-specific lens that points inward.
Music artists and songwriters are facing decisions right now about whether to opt in or out of the deals that their labels and publishers are striking with GenAI companies.
The following MBW op-ed comes from MusicInfra CEO and Co-founder Björn Lindvall.
One of 100 Melody A.M. sleeves hand-stencilled by the elusive Bristol artist in 2002 has sold to a local street-art collector.
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