Kaboom! YTD 2025 Music Industry Funding Cruises Past $7 Billion; Q3 Funding Alone Tops $4 Billion as Asset Securitization Tips the Scales
As the industry truism goes, ‘Music has value’— but 2025 is taking that expression to an extreme.
83% of Writers Have Unpaid Royalties in MLC’s Database—Muso.AI’s New Audit Tool Reveals the Shocking Scale
Muso.AI’s new audit service is giving songwriters and publishers the ability to solve a nagging industry problem with MLC royalties. The amount of royalties recaptured could be staggering.
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Meet the New TikTok, Same as the Old TikTok?
If you kinda wish TikTok was going away, join the music industry club. But assuming the brand-new 'American TikTok' is imminent, what's about to change — if anything?
One can be forgiven for lamenting the su... Read More...
Relationl Founder Max Bernstein Calls on Music Companies to Modernize Their Systems Immediately — ‘It’s Intoxicating’
Max Bernstein, founder and CEO of the fast-rising music industry systems development firm Relationl, is an Airtable authority who says conventional spreadsheets and dated workflows are holding music companies... Read More...
Distribution, Promotion, and Advance Platform Kahuna Announces $1 Million Seed Raise, Targets Continued Expansion
AI-powered distribution, promotion, and funding platform Kahuna has scored $1 million in seed capital and set its sights on continued expansion initiatives.
Headquartered in London but possessing a signific... Read More...
Addressing the Source, Not the Symptom: A Top Metadata Expert Explains Why Proactive Data Quality Beats Data Cleaning
It’s time for the music industry to shift from endless data clean-up to a strategy of quality at the source, and transform data from a liability into a reliable asset.
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First-Half 2025 Music Industry Funding Edges Towards $4 Billion — As the Record-Setting Investment Pace Continues
Music industry funding levels are now approaching the crazy place, with first-half, YTD core investments edging towards $4 billion. According to investments exclusively captured and compiled in DMN Pro’s Music Industry Funding Tracker, total core funding topped $3.812 billion through June, the start of a potentially record-setting 2025.
Music AI Startup Arthos Scores $730,000 Pre-Seed Raise, Tees Up ‘Mozart AI’ DAW Launch
Music AI startup Arthos has announced a $730,000 raise and the upcoming launch of its first product, a digital audio workstation (DAW) called Mozart AI.
London-based Arthos reached out today with word of th... Read More...
Wyclef Jean Introduces Superfan Monetization Platform OpenWav at Indie Week 2025
Grammy-winning artist Wyclef Jean, 88rising cofounder (and early investor in Musical.ly and Triller) Jaeson Ma, and former Head of Amazon Music for Independent Artists Madeline Nelson gathered for Indie Week ... Read More...
Base for Music Raises $1.73 Million to ‘Redefine Music Marketing’
Base for Music has scored a $1.73 million fundraising round with strategic investors to “redefine music marketing” through fan engagement.
French startup Base for Music, founded by Maxence Bazin and speciali... Read More...
Why Is Music Production So Messy? Boombox.io Has a Plan to Fix It
For those finding music production to be a hair-brained mess – even in 2025 – Boombox.io has an app for that. The solution to the problem, according to Boombox's Cofounder and Head of Product India Lossman, i... Read More...
Does Music Promotion Require Actual Promoters Anymore? DropTrack’s AI-Based Promotional Platform Is Making the Case for Ditching the Middleman
Once upon a time, it took an army to promote music to the vast reaches of radio, clubs, and streaming platforms. Fast-forward to 2025, and the need for multiple middlemen is quickly becoming a thing of the pa... Read More...
