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⏩ One Liners: deals, legal, streaming & digital news including Secretsundaze, Altice, Adidas Kanye lawsuit, Apple Music sued by photographer, NetEast Music outage, APRA AMCOS AI report plus releases, tours + more public
One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 8 min read

⏩ One Liners: deals, legal, streaming & digital news including Secretsundaze, Altice, Adidas Kanye lawsuit, Apple Music sued by photographer, NetEast Music outage, APRA AMCOS AI report plus releases, tours + more

Secretsundaze 9FINITY, Track 88 Creative, Altice settles lawsuit with BMG and others, judge dismisses Adidas lawsuit, Nicki Minaj settles with blogger, YouTube Music growing fast says Kantar data, NetEase Music goes down for two hours, APRA AMCOS report shows AUD $519 million impact from AI + more…
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⏩ One Liners: deals, legal, streaming including Primary Wave, Roc Nation, Red Bull Records, MIDiA, plus releases and tours news public
One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 7 min read

⏩ One Liners: deals, legal, streaming including Primary Wave, Roc Nation, Red Bull Records, MIDiA, plus releases and tours news

Primary Wave acquires Jon Landau rights, Roc Nation label merges with Equity Distribution, Red Bull Records signs Morgan, publishing revenue stats from MIDiA, IRS revokes tax-emption for Kanye West's Sunday Service, Mushroomhead vocalist Hatrix sues for unpaid royalties, plus releases, tours + more…
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⏩ One Liners: music business deals round-up including Mahogany Music Fund, Duolingo x Sony partnership, Secretly Distribution, Deezer, Kunlun Tech’s new AI tools, Idles War Child show, Keychange funding, more Eventbrite lay-offs plus tours and releases public
One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 7 min read

⏩ One Liners: music business deals round-up including Mahogany Music Fund, Duolingo x Sony partnership, Secretly Distribution, Deezer, Kunlun Tech’s new AI tools, Idles War Child show, Keychange funding, more Eventbrite lay-offs plus tours and releases

Today: Mahogany Music Fund, HarbourView x Noel Zancancella, Duolingo x Sony Music, Pulse Records x Grace VanderWaal, Secretly Distribution x Oh Boy Records, Deezer x DAZN music-sports tie-up, Keychange’s €1m funding and more…
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⏩ One Liners: music industry deals, digital, legal and live round-up including Kavinsky's record-setting Shazams, Sony Music Masterworks x Black Sky Creative, Hipgnosis sues Barry Manilow, Soundcloud’s new merch store, plus releases, tours and artist news public
One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 12 min read

⏩ One Liners: music industry deals, digital, legal and live round-up including Kavinsky's record-setting Shazams, Sony Music Masterworks x Black Sky Creative, Hipgnosis sues Barry Manilow, Soundcloud’s new merch store, plus releases, tours and artist news

WIN Annual Report, Hipgnosis vs Barry Manilow, Soundcloud merch store, Kavinsky Shazam record, TikTok group chat and stickers, Molson Coors x All Points East, JYP Entertainment earnings, Jimmy Iovine and Dre’s new school, Sony Masterworks x Black Sky Creative, Mariah Carey lawsuit, + more…
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⏩ One Liners: music industry deals, digital and live round-up including Reach Music x Wyatt Durrette, Universal Nashville partners with Mosley Music, Tencent Music earnings, AEG statement on Bludfest plus releases, tours and artist news public
One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 10 min read

⏩ One Liners: music industry deals, digital and live round-up including Reach Music x Wyatt Durrette, Universal Nashville partners with Mosley Music, Tencent Music earnings, AEG statement on Bludfest plus releases, tours and artist news

Reach Music Publishing x Wyatt Durrette, UMG Nashville x Mosley Music, Conner Smith signs to Pioneer Artists, Angie K signs to Wasserman, Tixel x Kilimanjaro partnership; Chart Cipher, Synchtank, Audioshake, United Masters, Colossal, Collabhouse; Brian May’s badgers doc; Kanye x Skepta collab + more…
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⏩ One Liners: music industry deals, appointments, legal round-up including UMG x Meta partnership, ROXI funding squeeze, Smashing Pumpkins x Marc Jacobs, David Goldsen upped at Warner Chappell plus Kayne in the dark about new Atlanic boss Elliot Grainge public
One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 10 min read

⏩ One Liners: music industry deals, appointments, legal round-up including UMG x Meta partnership, ROXI funding squeeze, Smashing Pumpkins x Marc Jacobs, David Goldsen upped at Warner Chappell plus Kayne in the dark about new Atlanic boss Elliot Grainge

Today: UMG x Meta, ROXI, The Smashing Pumpkins x Marc Jacobs capsule collection, Redlight Starwood partnership, Warner Chappell promotes David Goldsen, Anthropic vs Publishers not in court till 2026, Jay-Z formalises reversion rights for ‘Reasonable Doubt’, K-pop merch brands fined, artists vs Trump…
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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 public
One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 9 min read

⏩ 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 public
One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 12 min read

⏩ 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 public
One Liners - quickfire news from the music business • 10 min read

⏩ 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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