Amazon Music, Bandsintown Partner for Concert Listings; Spotify Reveals All-Time Most-Streamed Artists, Albums, Songs
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Amazon Music partners with Bandsintown for concert listings
Through a Bandsintown for Artists integration, users will be able to find live shows on the artists’ profile pages on Amazon Music. They can also click on the “buy ticket” buttons to purchase tickets on Bandsintown.
Spotify Reveals All-Time Most-Streamed Artists, Albums, Songs and More
With a reported 290 million subscribers, Spotify is the world’s largest paid streaming service by a wide margin.
Are We Reaching Peak Streaming Subscription?
With YouTube raising its subscription prices, and everything else becoming monetized and paywalled in front of our eyes, we may be at a breaking point.
AI And Music Publishing Licensing – How Do We Get There?
The following MBW op/ed comes from Monica Corton, a veteran music publisher of over three decades.
Create Music Group forms joint venture with Jonnyshipes’ GoodTalk
Led by producer and entrepreneur Jonnyshipes, GoodTalk has emerged as a focused platform for building talent from the ground up. With a roster generating more than 60 million monthly streams and multiple RIAA certifications in the past year, the company has quietly established itself as a powerful partner to a new wave of artists operating outside traditional systems.
TuneCore Lets Artists “Give Nature a Split” of Their Streaming Revenue
Funding is distributed to Indigenous and community-led nature protection and restoration initiatives in endangered ecosystems, with proven ecological impact.
Is agentic AI coming to Pro Tools? Avid announces “strategic partnership” with Google Cloud to further integrate AI into its portfolio
The partnership first brings generative and agentic AI to Avid’s video editing and data platforms – but Pro Tools could soon see similar enhancements.
Soccer legend Ronaldinho launches Tu Música record label in partnership with Brazil’s Sua Música Group
New venture, led alongside executives from Sua Música Group and ASJ, plans World Cup-themed debut project.
Streams Don’t Build Careers: Fans Do
An industry built on metrics often fails at delivering real career growth to artists. But deeper relationships, community, and direct interaction can last decades.
Prepare Now for the Post-Suno Era
Beyond the week’s headlines, there are structural questions about what it even means to build something on Suno, and the answers aren’t reassuring.
Karol G Sees Streaming Boom Following Coachella Performance
Chart-toppers “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” and “Provenza” return to the Hot Latin Songs chart.
Spotify and Apple Music both have exclusive Olivia Rodrigo videos
Two of the world’s biggest music-streaming services have exclusives on Olivia Rodrigo’s new music video.
Warner Chappell launches in India
“This strategic move marks a transition from WCM’s previous sub-publishing model to a full-scale, direct-to-market presence, offering Indian songwriters unprecedented access to the company’s global creative network and rights management infrastructure,” said a statement.
The future of music is human-generated
While the industry obsesses over AI copyright, the real value is migrating from “perfect content” to messy reality.
Anthropic claims that training on lyrics is ‘transformative’
Fresh from raising another $5bn from Amazon – with potentially up to $20bn more to come – Anthropic is getting back into the details of its legal battle with music publishers
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