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Spotify rolls out global toggle that lets users keep kids and family music out of recommendations and Wrapped
The exclusion applies retroactively, so kids and family music users have already streamed will no longer count toward their Wrapped top song or artist. Source...

Live Nation keeps Pukkelpop but won’t run it for at least 10 years, as Belgium closes its competition probe
The running of the festival, along with every asset attached to it, passes to an organization controlled by Pukkelpop founder and CEO Chokri Mahassine. Source...

Kakao Entertainment and Disney Korea plan around 10 K-pop IP projects – plus a ‘K-culture fund’
Kakao Entertainment said it will combine its IP business across the K-culture ecosystem with Disney's portfolio of story assets. Source...

MNRK Music Group acquires recorded catalog of Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society
Catalog spans more than two decades and contains 11 studio albums Source...

New Orleans venue The Howlin’ Wolf sues StubHub over ‘false scarcity’ ticket ads, citing a $24.94 ticket listed at $76
The venue claims StubHub tells buyers that tickets are nearly gone while the venue itself still has its full allocation on sale, at a fraction of the price. Source...

Independence in an interdependent industry.
This MBW op/ed comes from Richard Leach, CEO of Curve Royalty Systems. Source...

Panic! at the Disco company sues online sellers over counterfeit merch
The suit brings two counts under the Lanham Act: trademark infringement and counterfeiting Source...

Spotify’s former Head of Innovation raises $5.5m pre-seed for music app startup; Dawn Ostroff among the backers
The company, which builds apps that let people take apart and rebuild recorded music, was founded in 2024, the same year Zonoozy left Spotify. Source...

5 things You Need to Know About ElevenLabs, the UMG AI partner with an $11B valuation – and big ambitions in music.
UMG and ElevenLabs announced a licensing agreement, which will see the latter build a fan platform for remixes, mashups, and "new track interpretations." Source...