Spotify, NAVER Add New Features For Listeners in Korea; Beatchain Expands Into Africa with Wavvi Platform
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Spotify and NAVER Bring Music Integrations and Premium Benefits to Korea
This partnership marks a major milestone for Spotify Korea, embedding the Spotify experience directly into NAVER’s platform across Search, Maps, and NAVER+ Membership.
BMG expands direct music publishing deal with TikTok
The music company said the deal marks the “next phase in a partnership focused on evolving digital rights, creating deeper value for songwriters, and supporting continued innovation across the platform”.
A year of change behind us, a new epoch ahead: Predicting 2026
Change is the constant, and it is clear we are on the verge of a new epoch. Younger generations have no digital spaces to call their own, and existing platforms will struggle as innovation and optimisation start to clutter and degrade the user experience after a certain point.
Global value of music copyright reached $47.2 billion in 2024, says new Will Page report
New report from economist Will Page explores the global value of music copyright.
A Year in Review with LyricFind HQ
The last twelve months have reaffirmed that the strongest progress happens when artists, rightsholders, platforms, and fans move together.
Vocana - A New Steaming Service Challenging Spotify
Vocana is a new streaming service with the stated goal of putting artists first. President Neil Sheehan talks about how the venture plans to beat Spotify.
Beatchain expands into Africa with launch of Wavvi platform
Focused on West African artists, it combines distribution, marketing services, publishing registration and AI mastering, developing a template set out in India by Beatchain’s Muzartdisco – a partnership with Radio City India.
How Human Spark and Grit Drive Eclectic Music’s Global Sound
Simon Elms, Colin Smith, and Carley Reynolds reveal the struggles, triumphs, and human ingenuity behind a generation of award-winning commercial music, from Super Bowl spots to international campaigns
Discogs names its top global artists for 2025
Online catalogue and record marketplace Discogs has released its ‘Year in Review’ for 2025, including naming its top artist globally.
‘Demon Hunters’ Lands Sony Music Taiwan for Global Soundtrack Distribution
Sony Music Taiwan has boarded India-Taiwan co-production “Demon Hunters” as global music distributor, marking a significant commercial partnership as the action-fantasy feature prepares for its international rollout.
To become a $60 billion-plus business, live music must be integrated into international development
According to Goldman Sachs’ Music In the Air update, live music revenues are expected to double to $67 billion by 2035, with demand for tickets outstripping that for museums, gambling, and other forms of entertainment.
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