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Is Your Metadata Complete? Muso.AI Wants to Fix the Industry’s Credits Problem by Verifying the Data With Creators Themselves

October 20, 2020

Despite the accumulation of millions in unpaid royalties and the emergence of several purported solutions, missing credits remain a major problem in the music industry. Muso.AI wants to help the music industr... Read More...

Why Music Metadata Should Be Done First, Not Last, In the Recording Process

Paul Resnikoff

August 18, 2020

Artists lose millions of dollars in royalties because of bad, missing, or misplaced music metadata. Now VEVA Sound wants to shift music metadata entry to the front of the recording process and address a major... Read More...

Tunecore, Believe Digital Sued for Massive and Willful Copyright Infringement

Dylan Smith

August 3, 2020

New York City-headquartered publisher Round Hill Music has filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit against Paris-based indie label distribution company Believe Digital and its TuneCore subsidiary. Rou... Read More...

TikTok & Believe Strike a Global Distribution and Marketing Deal

Dylan Smith

July 22, 2020

Short-form video-sharing giant TikTok has struck a global distribution and marketing deal with Paris-based indie distributor Believe. TikTok announced the agreement from its London offices today. Under the d... Read More...

Singer of Christian Band Hawk Nelson Says He Doesn’t Believe in God Anymore — “It’s Time for Me to Be Honest”

Dylan Smith

May 27, 2020

Jonathan Steingard, lead singer of Christian pop-punk band Hawk Nelson, has indicated that he no longer believes in God. The 36-year-old came forward with the stunning admission in a lengthy (all-text) Insta... Read More...

Mattel Taps Warner Music Group for Global Distribution Pact

Ashley King

May 1, 2020

Toy giant Mattel is signing a multi-year, global music licensing deal with Warner Music Group's Arts Music division. The deal will allow WMG to become the sole distributor of songs from brands like Thomas &a... Read More...

Believe, Nuclear Blast Launch ‘Blood Blast Distribution’ — Specializing in ‘Extreme Music’

Paul Resnikoff

February 24, 2020

Is genre-specialized music distribution next? Believe and Nuclear Blast Records are now cutting the ribbon on Blood Blast Distribution — for those that prefer the more brutal side of things. Nuclear Blast Re... Read More...

End of an Era — CD Baby Is Shutting Down Its Online Music Store

Ashley King

February 19, 2020

The end of an era is here – CD Baby is shutting down its online music store at the end of March. CD Baby first launched its online presence in 1998 as one of the first online CD stores for indie artists. Sin... Read More...

Spotify Launches ‘Songwriter Pages’ — With Clickable Songwriting Credits

Ashley King

February 12, 2020

Spotify is launching 'Songwriter Pages' as a way to give behind-the-music creators a better digital presence. The new program allows Spotify listeners to click on songwriters' names in the credits. A profile... Read More...

Apple Music Has Been Quietly Expanding Its Preferred Distributors List — Here’s Who Made the Winner’s List

Ashley King

February 11, 2020

The Apple Music Preferred Distributors Program continues to grow more than a year after its release. Here's how things look. Back in November of 2018, Apple launched its Preferred Distribution Program, as f... Read More...

Downtown Music Is Going ‘Full Stack’ — Acquires Amsterdam-Based FUGA

Marsha Silva

January 22, 2020

Downtown Music Holdings's AVL Digital Group has acquired FUGA, an Amsterdam-based digital music distributor and service provider. The purchase, which was announced publicly this morning (January 22nd), is th... Read More...

As UMG Sale Talks Slow, Liberty Media, Apple, KKR, and Tencent Emerge as Frontrunners

Armed With $500 Million, Saban Music Group Inks a UMG Distribution Deal

Colin Cohen

January 9, 2020

The Saban Music Group has announced that it has reached a global distribution and marketing deal with Universal Music Group (UMG), which comes six months after billionaire Haim Saban pledged $500 million for ... Read More...

SRR Capital Launches With a VC-Style Approach to Music Investing

What Is Attribution?

So Busy With "The Quiet Time..."

Netflix Won the Streaming Wars. YouTube Changed the Rules.

Indonesia: One of the World’s Most Promising Digital Music Markets

What Politicians Could Learn from the Music Business: A Midterm Election Primer

Musixmatch Re-Inks With DistroKid; Partnership Aims to Help Independent Artists Layer More Lyrics Into Their Releases

DMN Pro Weekly: The Suno Subpoena Wars Are Targeting the Music Industry’s Deepest, Darkest Secrets. Here’s Where Things Stand.

What Is Attribution?

Create Music Emerges from the Shadows as a DistroKid Minority Investor

Former Sony, Discovery, WWE Executive James Rosenstock Joins Too Lost as CFO

Is Your Metadata Complete? Muso.AI Wants to Fix the Industry’s Credits Problem by Verifying the Data With Creators Themselves

Why Music Metadata Should Be Done First, Not Last, In the Recording Process

Tunecore, Believe Digital Sued for Massive and Willful Copyright Infringement

Mattel Taps Warner Music Group for Global Distribution Pact

Believe, Nuclear Blast Launch ‘Blood Blast Distribution’ — Specializing in ‘Extreme Music’

End of an Era — CD Baby Is Shutting Down Its Online Music Store

Spotify Launches ‘Songwriter Pages’ — With Clickable Songwriting Credits

Apple Music Has Been Quietly Expanding Its Preferred Distributors List — Here’s Who Made the Winner’s List

Downtown Music Is Going ‘Full Stack’ — Acquires Amsterdam-Based FUGA

Armed With $500 Million, Saban Music Group Inks a UMG Distribution Deal