Music Business Day

TikTok goes offline for 170m+ US users, as divest-or-ban law takes effect

From Drake suing Universal Music to TikTok facing a US ban… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

21 Savage, Gunna, Metro Boomin’, and Wiz Khalifa to perform at Balad Beast 2025 in Saudi Arabia

Supreme Court upholds law that bans TikTok in the US if parent company ByteDance doesn’t sell the app

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Independent labels reach digital tipping point – driven by streaming

LA Reid and Natalia Nastaskin join Midem’s Artist Accelerator Committee

Daniel Miller’s Mute signs with [PIAS] for UK label services

Warner posts net profit in Q2 as streaming income overtakes download

Facebook has 10 times as many users as Spotify and Pandora combined

Call for Canada to extend copyright for songwriters

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UK-based Melody Rights launches new rights management and distro platform

Billie Eilish, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Nicks among superstars to headline FireAid benefit concerts in Los Angeles

As TikTok prepares to shut down in the US, Trump mulls executive order to keep it running (report)

Reservoir acquires publishing catalog of Lastrada Entertainment

Here’s the list of music piracy sites being watched by the US government, and what they do

Vimeo wins appeal in long-running copyright dispute with record labels