Music Business News
TikTok goes offline for 170m+ US users, as divest-or-ban law takes effect
It’s official: TikTok has switched off its service in the US, for now. The ByteDance-owned [...]
From Drake suing Universal Music to TikTok facing a US ban… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest [...]
21 Savage, Gunna, Metro Boomin’, and Wiz Khalifa to perform at Balad Beast 2025 in Saudi Arabia
Artists including 21 Savage, Gunna, Metro Boomin’, and Wiz Khalifa have been confirmed as performers [...]
Supreme Court upholds law that bans TikTok in the US if parent company ByteDance doesn’t sell the app
The clock is officially ticking for TikTok in the United States. Last Friday (January 10), [...]
UK-based Melody Rights launches new rights management and distro platform
A new UK-based company called Melody Rights has launched a music tech platform that, according [...]
Billie Eilish, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Nicks among superstars to headline FireAid benefit concerts in Los Angeles
Shelli and Irving Azoff, and the Azoff family, have teamed up with Live Nation and [...]
As TikTok prepares to shut down in the US, Trump mulls executive order to keep it running (report)
With just several days left before the US’s “divest-or-ban” law against TikTok comes into force, [...]
Reservoir acquires publishing catalog of Lastrada Entertainment
Reservoir Media has acquired the publishing catalog of Lastrada Entertainment, a move that adds 5,600 [...]
Here’s the list of music piracy sites being watched by the US government, and what they do
MBW Explains is a series of analytical features in which we explore the context behind [...]
Vimeo wins appeal in long-running copyright dispute with record labels
Video-sharing platform Vimeo has won the latest skirmish in a 16-year-long legal battle with divisions [...]
Caldecott Music appoints David Nam Le as MD of Vista Musical Instruments and Jon Bahr as Senior Advisor at BandLab Technologies
Singapore-based music industry company Caldecott Music Group has made two significant leadership appointments across its divisions. [...]
Universal Music Group set to list on US exchange; Pershing Square to sell $500m in UMG stock to make it happen
Universal Music Group (UMG) announced Wednesday (January 15) that Pershing Square Holdings, led by billionaire [...]
Universal Music hits back at Drake, says he ‘seeks to weaponize the legal process to silence an artist’s creative expression’
Universal Music Group has responded to a defamation lawsuit filed by Drake earlier today (January [...]
There are now over 200m tracks on audio streaming services. Nearly 100m of them aren’t played more than 10 times each year.
MBW Explains is a series of analytical features in which we explore the context behind [...]
Now Drake launches full-blown defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group – read the filing here
Earlier today we reported that Drake had withdrawn a legal petition against Universal Music Group and Spotify, [...]