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MUSIC BUSINESS NEWS: Concord acquires Hipgnosis • UMG earnings • Coachella Wk 2 • Pandora claims MLC overreach • More

THURSDAY 4.18.24 • Music Business News Updated Continuously Under The MORE NEWS TAB Above

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Why must musicians get the short end of OpenAI’s Bad Business Model?

Tech companies claim AI needs free access to copyrighted materials for proper and accurate training, leaving artists uncompensated for the use of their property and with more AI-created competition…..

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Spotify, Apple, Roblox, Meta make Dirty Dozen sexual exploitation list

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation has named Spotify, Apple, Roblox, Meta, Reddit, and Dischord to its annual Dirty Dozen list of mainstream contributors of sexual exploitation…..

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Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Artists caught in streaming crackdown • Sped up songs on Spotify • Superfan mania • More

Episode 192 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now…..

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Spotify to help fans edit, speed up songs and promises to pay artists

According to a new WSJ report, Spotify will add tools that allow fans to speed up, mash-up, and edit songs without prior permission…..

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Will you actively support WIN’s Global Values for Independent Music?

Music trade group WIN (Worldwide Independent Network) has announced a new set of Global Independent Values as part of its ongoing campaign to unify and clarify the sector’s positions…..

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How are artist and royalty disputes resolved on SoundExchange?

Artist and royalty disputes often happen when there is an overlap in royalty splits, or the cause could be as simple as a typo. Sound Exchange explains how they resolve these disputes…..

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QUICK HITS: Secretly adds labels • Feedfm + Cynite • Image-Line buys MSXII • Bella Figura funding • Kobalt

Secretly Distribution is adding Jazz Is Dead and Linear Labs to its growing independent record label distribution roster…..

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Spotify [NYSE: SPOT] stock up 63.7% this year, with more growth ahead, say analysts

Spotify stock is up 63.7% since the start of 2024 and 133.7% in the last 12 months while most overall market indexes are up just 7% to 9% year to date. Spotify [NYSE: SPOT] closed Monday at $309.O7…..

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.MUSIC is giving away 1 million free domains: Get Yours Now!

.MUSIC, the new top-level domain dedicated to music, is giving away a million free MUISIC domains through May 24th…..

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