The ISNI International Agency, the Registration Authority for the ISNI standard, has published a new industry resource designed specifically for authors and creative contributors working in the global...

Greg Prata has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer at Sony Music Publishing, effective March 31. He will continue to be based in New York office and will report to SMP Chairman & CEO Jon Platt. I...

Generative AI music company Suno has appointed former Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota as its new Chief Commercial Officer. Based in New York, he reports directly to Suno co-Founder and CEO Mikey Shulman. In ...

NASDAQ-listed independent music company Reservoir Media has inked a multifaceted deal with independent record label Fool’s Gold Records, which will see Reservoir acquire the catalogue master rights of...

Global music streaming and discovery platform Audiomack has partnered with independent fraud detection company Beatdapp, to address streaming fraud across the Audiomack platform. Through the partnersh...

British music rights society PRS for Music collected £1.15 billion (€1.37bn) in 2024, up by 6.1% compared to the previous year, and distributed a record £1.02 billion (€1.21bn) to rights holders, up 8...

SACEM collected €1.601 billion in 2024, a 7.6% increase compared to 2024, with collections in France up 2% to €852m, while collections from abroad were up 15% to €749m, according to figures unveiled b...

Jeremy Sirota, who has served as CEO of independent label's digital licensing company Merlin since 2020, will step down from the position effective December 31, 2025. No replacement has been announced...

A wide coalition of creative industries' international organisations have joined forces to express their opposition to the third draft of the European Union's General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practic...

Independent music company Concord has acquired independent distributor Stem Distribution. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Variety estimates the transaction to be in the $90 million range. Cu...

A group of ten music industry organisations — representing record labels, music publishers, songwriters, performers, industry workers' unions, among others — have urged the US administration to adopt ...

Just 3 of the around two dozen major-label CEOs are women, and the situation isn’t much better in other sectors of the music business. Why not more?

Virgin Music Group — Universal Music Group's services and distribution division for the independent sector — has entered into "a definitive agreement" to acquire independent music company Downtown Mus...

British songwriter and performer Crispin Hunt has been elected as the new President of the PRS Members’ Council, effective from 1st January 2025. He takes over from the inaugural President, Michelle E...

Mark Robinson has been appointed to the position of Executive Vice President, Global Business and Legal Affairs at Virgin Music Group, Universal Music Group's services and distribution division for th...

A global study measuring the economic impact of AI in the music and audiovisual sectors — commissioned by the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) — has estimated ...

The UK's Association of Independent Music (AIM) has appointed Gee Davy as its new Chief Executive at the organisation's 2024 annual general meeting held at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. Dav...

British music rights society PRS for Music, alongside PPL PRS Limited, the joint venture between PRS and neighbouring rights society PPL, have filed a lawsuit in the Intellectual Property division of ...

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