*Music Industry Insight
Universal Music has released its final quarter results for 2023, and full year financials. For the full year ending 31 Dec 2023, UMG generated €11,108 million, an increase of 7.4%…
DEALS 🚀 Veteran music publisher Eddie Levy – who was a founding director of ATV Music (ultimately bought by Michael Jackson and then merged with Sony) and later ran Chelsea…
Odetta Hartman returns next month with ‘Swansongs’, her first album since 2018s ‘Old Rockhounds Never Die’. So far she’s released three singles, each collecting a dizzying array of genres together…
The Musicians’ Union has written to UK Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch to express concern about her decision to block Music Export Growth Scheme funding for Belfast rap group Kneecap because…
Following on from recent singles ‘Down Bad’ and ‘Hold My Hand’, Tatyana returns with ‘Control’, the latest track from her upcoming new album ‘It’s Over’. Featuring Dave Okumu on guest…
The European Union is reportedly getting ready to fine Apple in the region of half a billion euros for breaching competition laws by forcing unfair trading conditions on music streaming…
This week: The MLC and Pandora are going to court in a difference of opinion over royalties; Believe CEO Denis Ladegaillerie announces a plan to delist the company from the…
On this week’s show we discuss questions and potential legal action over the politicisation of arts funding, as Kneecap are denied money by the British government and Arts Council England…
AI company Anthropic’s bid to “build an $18 billion business” through the “massive copying” of lyrics published by Universal, Concord and ABKCO “bears no resemblance” to the fair uses that…
ICE is a purpose-driven organisation, founded by rightsholders, for rightsholders. We exist to support songwriters, enabling societies and publishers to accurately compensate them when their work is used internationally. We…