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📑 CMU Digest: Music industry lambasts Anthropic's defence + Spotify lays into Apple (again)
CMU Digest is a weekly round-up of the most interesting music business news stories from the last seven days.…
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⏩ One Liners: deals, appointments, legal including Lemonaide x Beatstars, BTS star crashes Gucci Japan website, Sonos puts products on hold to sort out app disaster, iHeartMedia earnings, Burning Man tickets shock, Travis Scott arrest
Lemonaide x Beatstars; Gucci x BTS Jin; appointments at Bauer Media, MCT Agentur, Tickets For Good, Capitol Christian Music Group, TikTok; Travis Scott arrest; Beyoncé copyright lawsuit dropped; Instagram metrics; Sonos app woes; Audial Music; iHeart earnings show podcast growth and more…
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⏩ One Liners: deals, appointments, legal round-up and earnings including Downtown x Double P Records, Avex USA, Concord, Peer Music, Defected Records, Featured Artists Coalition, SMIA, Kakao plus Spanish consumer watchdog eyes live music and ticketing
In today’s music business news round-up: Downtown’s deal with Peso Pluma, Nigerian producer Zone signs with Avex USA, FAC reveals Amazon Step Up Fund recipients, Kesha will record Diddy diss, Minelli memoir, SMIA Summit, Kakao & SM Entertainment earnings, plus release and tours news…
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⏩ One Liners: deals, appointments, legal round-up and earnings update including Sentric’s Cooking Vinyl JV, Gamma’s Africa focus, Believe gobbles up Turkish label plus Sony, Warner and Hybe earnings
What do you do when you get sidelined as top dog at a major? Remind yourself that you’re JULIE FUCKING GREENWALD, pick yourself up and get on with things. Also today: Sentric, Gamma, Believe, Bandlab, ProRata.ai, IPOA, SoundExchange, Paquin, Sony, WMG, Hybe plus Pitbull’s $6m stadium deal + more…
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⏩ One Liners: deals, appointments, legal round-up including Beatdapp x MLC, Spotify sued over Group Session and Jam, Vick Bain appointed LIPA companion, Independent Venue Week 2025 plus releases & tours
MLC partners with Beatdapp, Solange Knowles creates glassware line, Lordi create OnePlus song, Spotify sued by BlueJay Technologies, 50 Cent beats drug dealer lawsuit over 'Power', HYBE launches US services business, Independent Venue Week, LIPA Companions, plus latest releases + more…
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⏩ One Liners: deals, legal updates, artist news including Meta's AI voice deals and 'Vultures 2' sample criticism, plus latest releases
Meta negotiating AI voice deals, IMPEL allies with AMRA, Portishead criticise 'Vultures 2' sample, Daniel Bedingfiled is AI fan, Jarvis Cocker is a dog breed says Gen Z, Aerosmith retire from touring, NSYNC reunion discussions, latest releases + more…
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📑 CMU Digest: Suno and Udio file fair use defence + The 1975 sued by Malaysian festival
CMU Digest is a weekly round-up of the most interesting music business news stories from the last seven days.…
One Liners: deals, appointments, legal & industry news round-up including Britney biopic, Journey spat, Juice WRLD, Apple vs Bytedance plus latest releases
Universal Pictures planning Britney biopic, new B-unique label, SM Entertainment unveil British boy band, Believe financials, legal dispute between Journey members, Garbage cancel rest of tour, latest releases + more…
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⏩ One Liners: deals, appoints, legal round up and industry news including Hybe revamp, Rimas scouting deal, Internet Archive lawsuit plus releases & tours
Wise Music signs Dobrawa Czocher, Secretly Canadian signs Brandon, Rimas teams up with Wild Company in Chile, Sony Music Publishing ups Rob Stratton, majors agree to private mediation in Internet Archive lawsuit, Live Nation’s lawyer problem, Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom still fighting extradition + more…
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⏩ One Liners: deals, appointments, digital, legal and industry news round up including Believe deal with fabric, Romy x White Claw, Wasserman’s private equity hire, Bytedance ban for US lawmakers plus releases & tours
R&B legend Monica re-signs to WME; Deezer & Live Nation earnings; Spotify’s 180 on lyrics; AmplifyWorld’s $500k artist grants fund; Restore The Music funding for music in schools; Transparency Code now effective plus new music from BADBADNOTGOOD, The Blessed Madonna, FLOHIO, Sub Focus + more…
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⏩ One Liners: deals, appointments, legal and industry news round-up including Blackstone's SONG wrap, Wu-Tang legacy, Barbara Butch bullying + more
Blackstone's SONG deal is done; GEMA appoints new Digital Transformation honcho; Live Nation's competitors don't like how much access it has in DOJ lawsuit; Barbara Butch files legal complaint over online Olympics abuse, Hong Kong Customs arrests in Karaoke copyright infringement…
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⏩ One Liners: Deals, appointments, legal and industry news round-up including Sony’s Apollo deal, Prescription Songs, Britain’s Got Talent lawsuit plus releases + tours
Apollo provides “$700 million capital solution” to Sony, Big Machine and Prescription Songs appointments, Fremantle Media wins legal battle with ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ contestant, Apple Music adds radio data, new releases including from Halsey, Max Richter and Ray LaMontagne + more…