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Brooke Salisbury has joined Sony Music UK in the newly created position of Senior Vice President, International Marketing & Digital Partnerships. Salisbury will oversee the Sony Music UK teams working on international marketing and partnerships with Digital Service Providers. The exec most recently served as General Manager at ADA UK, Warner Music’s Distribution and Label Services division. She has […]

TikTok is testing a feature currently called ‘AI Song’ on its platform that uses a large language model to power lyric generation prompted by text inputs. As first reported by The Verge, the new tool was spotted by users on the ByteDance-owned social media platform over the past week. The tool doesn’t generate music, but rather lyrics, using an LLM called

Warner Music Group‘s Nonesuch Records, founded in New York City in 1964, is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2024. The storied label is marking the occasion with events including special programming at March’s Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN as well as Vinyl Me, Please exclusive Nonesuch reissues. Also, in celebration of its 60th anniversary, the label is

Last year began with tech and media company layoffs – at Google, Meta, Spotify and elsewhere – and this year appears to be starting off on the same foot. According to layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks job losses in tech, the tech sector has laid off nearly 7,800 employees in January so far, with Amazon saying goodbye to several hundred employees in its Twitch and studio

The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) has issued notices of intent to conduct audits of Digital Service Providers (DSPs) that started operating under the compulsory blanket license administered by The MLC in 2021. According to a press release issued on Wednesday (January 17), the audit period noticed includes usage under the blanket license that occurred

Primary Wave Music has appointed Agnes Kacicki to its executive team. Bringing over 13 years of capital market experience to the company, Kacicki joins Primary Wave as Head of Corporate Development. In this new role, Kacicki will work closely with Primary Wave’s CEO & Founder, Larry Mestel, to lead efforts “around larger acquisitions”. According to Primary Wave, those

A New York rapper and his producer have filed a lawsuit against up-and-coming rap star Ice Spice, alleging that her hit In Ha Mood copied their earlier track In That Mood. Rapper D.Chamberz, a longtime fixture in the New York hip-hop scene, and producer/engineer Kass argue in their lawsuit that the two songs are “so strikingly similar that they cannot be

Last year began with tech and media company layoffs – at Google, Meta, Spotify and elsewhere – and this year appears to be starting off on the same foot. According to layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks job losses in tech, the tech sector has laid off nearly 7,800 employees in January so far, with Amazon saying goodbye to several hundred employees in its Twitch and studio

The Price of Music, a new weekly podcast about “the money behind the music industry”, is launching on Wednesday January 31, 2024. In each episode, BBC 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq and Music Ally’s Stuart Dredge will discuss “the latest stories making waves in the music business”. The podcast will also feature conversations with people in the industry like artists,

In a swift executive move, Utopia Music has appointed Michael Stebler as its new CEO, succeeding Alain Couttolenc, who was appointed CEO this past October. The change, effective immediately, was first reported by Billboard on Friday (January 12), citing an internal memo to staff. Within that memo, obtained by MBW, and which you can read in full below, the company’s Board