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Ed Sheeran has beaten a copyright appeal over his hit single Thinking Out Loud. As reported by Reuters, a US appeals court ...

Roger De Graaf, co-founder of dance music giant Spinnin’ Records, is retiring. MBW has learned that the widely respected ...

The rapper has asked a California court to dissolve his businesses that have been run for years by record exec Egon.

Muir was appointed to his current post in November 2010. Previously, he was CFO for Universal Music Group International, the ...

Big Tech’s lobbying is getting louder, with AI ‘fair use’ proponents like Andreessen Horowitz and Google spending tens of ...

Less than a year after its last round of layoffs, streaming service TIDAL has reportedly announced further job cuts.

Rami Mohsen, Managing Director of Sony Music Entertainment Middle East, and a Amr Diab Sony Music Entertainment Middle East ...

France-headquartered music streaming service Deezer has reported 11% revenue growth for calendar Q3 2024, even as the company’s paying subscriber base remained unchanged from the numbers it reported a ...

Universal Music Group has published its financial results for the three months to the end of September. The headline figure from the world’s largest music rights company’s Q3 ...

Hipgnosis is the latest big name to back the Music Business UK Awards. It will sponsor the Songwriter of the Year Award, a category it has supported since the event was launched in 2016 and which was ...

Images courtesy of BeatStars and Voloco BeatStars CEO Abe Batshon (L) and Voloco CEO Patrick Flanagan. BeatStars, an online ...