| Zeit | Aktuelle Nachrichten | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fr | From UMG's approved Downtown deal to Spotify's AI ambitions… it's MBW's weekly round-up | ||
| Fr | Done Deal: UMG's Downtown acquisition approved by EU competition regulator | ||
| Do | The Empire Strikes Back: The majors and Merlin gained (a bit) of market share on Spotify last year. | ||
| Do | Scott Borchetta exits HYBE AMERICA | ||
| Do | HYBE posts record annual revenues of $1.86bn for 2025 as K-Pop firm's concert revenues hit all-time high - but operating profit plunged 73% | ||
| Do | NetEase Cloud Music now counts over 1 million registered indie artists | ||
| Do | Warner Music Group plans to sell EMP, the merch business it acquired for $180m in 2018 | ||
| Do | ASCAP paid out a record $1.76bn to songwriters and publishers in 2025 | ||
| Do | Songs are reaching 1bn Spotify streams 14x faster than a decade ago, and other stats from Chartmetric's 2025 Year in Music report | ||
| Do | Sam Siegler and Mike Nucero named Creative Directors at Matt Pincus' Trust Records | ||
| Do | Sound Royalties says it closed a record $135m in funded contracts in 2025 | ||
| Do | Bella Figura Music buys publishing catalog of The Drums' Jonny Pierce | ||
| Do | Kobalt strikes strategic publishing deal with London-based Geo Music Group, covering funding for songwriters and admin services | ||
| Do | HYBE ordered to pay former ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin $17.6m in shareholder agreement lawsuit | ||
| Do | UMG strikes global deal with ClicknClear to license songs for gymnastics, figure skating and more | ||
| Mi | Olivier Chastan's Iconoclast in sale talks at price tag of around $500 million | ||
| Mi | Music collectibles platform Wax Poetics closes $1m funding round | ||
| Mi | SM Entertainment revenues grew 16.6% to record $219m in Q4, driven by concerts and merch | ||
| Mi | Mitchell Shymansky appointed Chief Data & Technology Officer at Create Music Group | ||
| Mi | SoundExchange expands global neighboring rights coverage via 17 new agreements with CMOs in markets including Barbados, Denmark, Kenya, Portugal, and more | ||
| Mi | Jody Farber promoted to CFO of Peermusic, as Bill Gorjance retires after 20 years | ||
| Mi | Music tech startup Mozart AI raises $6M in oversubscribed seed round led by Balderton Capital | ||
| Mi | Warner partners with UK-based music development organization Generator to 'power new creative opportunities' in North of England | ||
| Di | Roslyn Pineda appointed President, Asia for Sony Music Publishing, as Carol Ng retires | ||
| Di | Spotify eyes AI 'derivatives' as new revenue stream for artists - and says its tech to let fans make remixes, covers is ready |