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In May 2023, Ed Sheeran emerged victorious in two back-to-back copyright infringement cases, filed nearly half a decade earlier, alleging that his 2014 hit Thinking Out Loud had ripped off Marvin Gaye’s 1973 classic track Let’s Get It On. However, as it turned out, that wasn’t the end of the story for the closely-watched civil case, as the […]

JKBX, the trading platform that enables members of the public to buy fractional income streams from music, has announced a partnership with SoundExchange. According to a press release, SoundExchange will serve as the payment solution for JKBX’s Creator Program. Announced last year, JKBX’s Creator Program sees the platform pay songwriters bonuses following the trading of

Since launching in mid-2021, Karta, a metaverse studio that offers in-game experiential marketing, has attracted significant investment and struck major partnerships with brands such as Amazon Music, McDonald’s and Hugo Boss. Founded by industry veterans Erik Londré, former Head of Events at Fnatic, and music business veteran Tony Barnes, Karta bridges the gap between brands, artists, sports teams, and users

Primary Wave Music and production company FiveCurrents are launching the ‘Bob Marley Hope Road‘ experience later this year at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Described as a “revolutionary entertainment experience”, the announcement states that guests “will step into an authentic Jamaican experience as Bob Marley’s life and music unfolds around them in a

Sony Music UK has appointed Harri Davies as Head of A&R at RCA Records UK, effective immediately. Davies will report to Co-Presidents Glyn Aikins and Stacey Tang and will be responsible for steering the A&R strategy and signing talent at the UK label. Davies brings over a decade of experience in A&R, engineering, producing and songwriting

Primary Wave Music has acquired a stake in the music publishing and master recording rights of US singer, songwriter and pianist Neil Sedaka. Described by Primary Wave as “the world’s first teen pop sensation”, Neil Sedaka’s career began in 1957 and he has since sold millions of records worldwide and has written or co-written over 500 songs

Secretly Distribution, the in-house distribution arm of Secretly Group, has appointed Rich Thane as Associate Director of Artist & Label Strategy. Thane joins the company following an eight-year tenure at Warner Music Group, where he most recently served as Senior Director of Global Playlist Strategy, leading teams across London, New York City and Los Angeles. Thane has

Amsterdam-headquartered Armada Music – the Armin van Buuren co-founded label behind such dance/techno legends as Chicane and Ferry Corsten – announced last year the launch of BEAT Music Fund, which it described as the first-ever dance music investment fund. At the time, Armada said it planned to spend $100 million on catalog acquisitions in its first two years; the company now

AI-driven music funding platform beatBread has expanded the services it offers to its artist clients to include publishing administration, via new partnerships with Kobalt and AMRA. Four-year-old beatBread offers advances to artists using an algorithm that forecasts earnings potential by analyzing an artist’s streaming and social data to generate an offer. The automated system means an advance can land in

Supertone, as long-time MBW readers will know, is the AI voice replication software that Korean music giant HYBE fully acquired in a $32 million deal in 2022. At the end of February, the AI capabilities of Supertone were demonstrated via a voice clone of HYBE’s own CEO, Jiwon Park, ‘speaking’ on a company earnings call. Earlier today (April 16),