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Ari Gelaw promoted to SVP, Creative A&R at Sony Music Publishing
Gelaw will remain based in the company's Los Angeles office, reporting to SMP President, Head of US A&R Katie Welle. Source...

Snapchat now lets users share and save Spotify songs via Snap Map, used by 450m people a month
Social media platform Snap has launched Now Playing on Snap Map, a feature that lets Snapchat users share the music they are listening to Source...

Patreon lays off 20% of its staff in biggest round of cuts in its history
CEO Jack Conte said Patreon's core business was "healthy and strong", but that the platform was restructuring to adapt faster to a shifting market. Source...

Why AI is sampling – and how that will affect the future
The following MBW op/ed comes from Deborah Mannis-Gardner, Owner/President of DMG Clearances, Inc. Source...

UK recorded music exports hit record $1.05B in 2025, up just 0.8% YoY
2025 was the first time the annual total had surpassed £800M, which converts to USD $1.05B Source...

Indonesia scraps song and music copyright registration fee to build a national music database
The change applies only to songs and music, while registration fees for other categories of creative work are unchanged. Source...

Qobuz rolls out real-time synced lyrics to all subscribers
Qobuz's redesigned player carries visuals that shift with a track's album artwork and keeps a mini-player on screen while users navigate the app. Source...

How to Get Cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity: A Publisher’s Guide
You finally hit page one on Google. Feels amazing. Then you ask ChatGPT the same question… and your site is nowhere. A lower-ranked competitor gets the mention instead. That is not bad luck. Google,...

As GEMA awaits its Suno copyright verdict, the German collecting society launches ‘PLAI’ – a fully licensed dataset for training AI music tools
AI music transcription company Klangio is the dataset's first customer. Source...

From 90,000 AI tracks hitting Deezer daily to Suno’s user data breach… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up
The biggest headlines from the past few days... Source...

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