The year ahead: Matt Taylor, Executive Director of MPG
As we head into 2024, CMU recently sat down with many of the music industry’s trade organisations to talk about their work and the key challenges faced by their members.…
🌅 Horizon: hand-picked music jobs for ambitious people.
Horizon is CMU’s weekly newsletter is focused on highlighting the best and most exciting roles we’ve seen, and made for people who are building their careers with ambition. This week…
Spotify uses EU Digital Market Act blog post to take potshots at Apple, announces superfan clubs
Spotify has said that Apple is a “gatekeeper” and that it’s “pretty nuts” that Apple rules mean Spotify couldn’t do various things – like selling digital “superfan” content. In a…
⏩ One Liners: Guns N Roses, Scott Weiland, O2 Arena + More
DEALS 🌊 Primary Wave has signed a wide-ranging deal with the estate of late Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland. It covers his song and recording rights,…
Hipgnosis Song Management “cherry picked assets” for proposed sale to Blackstone says latest briefing from Hipgnosis Songs Fund
The Hipgnosis vs Hipgnosis war of words continues with Hipgnosis Songs Fund and Hipgnosis Song Management firing out briefing memos and counter-briefing memos at an increasingly frantic rate. In the…
⏩ One Liners: OVO Sound, Ludacris, Johnny Marr + More
DEALS 🦉 Santa Anna Label Group has invested in and formed a new partnership with OVO Sound, which is Drake, Mr Morgan, Noah ‘40’ Shehib and Oliver El-Khatib’s record label.…
CMU Exclusive: Apple’s “spatial audio bonus” will favour major labels at the expense of small labels and creators
Bonus applies at a catalogue level not track level For many artists and labels this will mean at a distributor level Money for 10% bonus taken out of royalty pool…
⏩ One Liners: Apple Music, Festival Republic, Sharon Van Etten + more
DEALS 🌐 Sharon Van Etten has signed a new worldwide publishing deal with Warner Chappell. “We’re THRILLED to welcome Sharon Van Etten to Warner Chappell Music”, says SVP Creative Services…
Anthropic expands on its fair use defence in music publisher legal battle
AI company Anthropic last week formally set out a fair use defence in its legal battle with three music publishers, stating that using lyrics “to train an AI model, particularly…
DEAG to re-list shares on Frankfurt exchange and raise €50 million for live industry shopping spree
Berlin-based live entertainment group DEAG has announced that it will re-list its shares on the Frankfurt stock exchange in the first quarter of this year, “subject to market conditions”. Speaking…