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Hipgnosis Song Management “cherry picked assets” for proposed sale to Blackstone says latest briefing from Hipgnosis Songs Fund

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Hipgnosis • 5 min read

Hipgnosis Song Management “cherry picked assets” for proposed sale to Blackstone says latest briefing from Hipgnosis Songs Fund

There comes a point where there should be rules about giving three companies near-identical names. There’s more Hipgnosis-Hipgnosis-Hipgnosis drama with memos flying and allegations ramping up…

Sam Taylor • 24 Jan 2024

CMU Exclusive: Apple Music’s “spatial audio bonus” will favour major labels at the expense of small labels and creators

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Apple • 3 min read

CMU Exclusive: Apple Music’s “spatial audio bonus” will favour major labels at the expense of small labels and creators

Apple’s 10% 'bonus' operates at distributor level, not track, artist or label level - and creating Spatial Audio has significant costs. Major labels will definitely benefit - but whether independent labels and creators will is another question entirely.…

Sam Taylor • 23 Jan 2024

Lyric regurgitation: can we make Anthropic’s Claude write American Pie?

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Artificial Intelligence • 6 min read

Lyric regurgitation: can we make Anthropic’s Claude write American Pie?

Anthropic says ‘lyric regurgitation’ is a bug, and it’s put safeguards in place to prevent it happening. In October we got Anthropic’s chatbot Claude to regurgitate key lyrics from ‘American Pie’. Three months later, it’s still doing it…

Sam Taylor • 22 Jan 2024

DEAG to re-list shares on Frankfurt exchange and raise €50 million for live industry shopping spree

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DEAG • 2 min read

DEAG to re-list shares on Frankfurt exchange and raise €50 million for live industry shopping spree

DEAG - having gone private during COVID - is set to re-list its shares as a public company on the Frankfurt stock exchange to raise money for “five to eight” acquisitions a year…

Sam Taylor • 22 Jan 2024

Hipgnosis war of words ramps up with Extraordinary General Meeting proposal for £20 million "bung"

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Hipgnosis • 4 min read

Hipgnosis war of words ramps up with Extraordinary General Meeting proposal for £20 million "bung"

Stand off between Hipgnosis Songs Fund and Hipgnosis Song Management continues with new board calling for EGM and offering £20 million to anyone who might want to buy the company…

Sam Taylor • 19 Jan 2024

MLC planning massive audit of all streaming services - but it’s not as dramatic as it sounds. Yet.

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MLC • 2 min read

MLC planning massive audit of all streaming services - but it’s not as dramatic as it sounds. Yet.

The MLC in the US has announced it will audit streaming services, including those run by Spotify, Apple, Amazon and YouTube - the collecting society has the right to undertake audits under the compulsory licence it administers…

Sam Taylor • 19 Jan 2024

Utopia Music has a new CEO. Again. In fact, it's now got three CEOs.

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Utopia Music • 4 min read

Utopia Music has a new CEO. Again. In fact, it's now got three CEOs.

Another day, another Utopia CEO. Michael Stebler, leader of Utopia's Christmas Coup, is now Utopia's Group CEO - with most recent CEO Alain Couttolenc moved sideways and downwards. It's like musical snakes and ladders.…

Sam Taylor • 12 Jan 2024

India’s streaming growth explodes to hit over one trillion streams, Gen Z pull back on streaming subscription spend

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Music Data • 8 min read

India’s streaming growth explodes to hit over one trillion streams, Gen Z pull back on streaming subscription spend

In 2023 83% of the global streaming catalogue failed to reach the new thousand stream ‘artist-centric’ threshold, while India saw exponential growth in stream volumes. Read CMU’s expert analysis of the numbers.…

Sam Taylor • 11 Jan 2024

Universal “most successful company in the history of the music industry” hoots Grainge in 2024 memo

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Lucian Grainge • 4 min read

Universal “most successful company in the history of the music industry” hoots Grainge in 2024 memo

Universal Music CEO Lucian Grainge has sent out his start-of-the-year memo, formally welcoming the changes that have been made to the streaming model which he first demanded a year ago, and confirming that super-serving superfans will be a priority in 2024…

Sam Taylor • 10 Jan 2024

Artificial Intelligence and the music industry in 2023

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Artificial Intelligence • 37 min read

Artificial Intelligence and the music industry in 2023

Music industry experts CMU take a deep-dive look at everything that happened in AI and the music business during 2023. Bookmark this for later!…

Chris Cooke & Sam Taylor • 03 Jan 2024

Linkfire announces changes to C-level team, de-lists from NASDAQ First North exchange

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Linkfire • 6 min read

Linkfire announces changes to C-level team, de-lists from NASDAQ First North exchange

Extraordinary General Meeting at Linkfire sees CEO and CFO exit and company to delist from Stockholm First North stock exchange…

Sam Taylor • 27 Dec 2023

More changes at Utopia as investors demand more control, increased oversight

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Utopia Music • 4 min read

More changes at Utopia as investors demand more control, increased oversight

EGM at Utopia sees new chair appointed, Hjelmstedt to step back but keep board seat, €15 million fresh investment from syndicate of existing investors.…

Sam Taylor • 21 Dec 2023