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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...

Samsung moves to dismiss Dua Lipa’s $15M lawsuit, arguing she holds no trademark in her own image
The motion is scheduled to be heard on December 14 in the US District Court for the Central District of California. Source...

Oasis announce 38-date Live ’27 tour, with fixed ticket prices and no general onsale
The itinerary takes in Scotland, England, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Italy, the US, and Ireland. Source...

ElevenLabs launched Music v2.5 – shortly after announcing its UMG licensing deal.
The model went live on September 11 and is now the default “for prompted and reference generation” in ElevenMusic, the company said. Source...

Suno hires ex-Hightouch CFO Cherry Miao as its first finance chief: ‘Music is one of the things that makes humans human’
Miao oversaw finance, legal, data and revenue operations at Hightouch, and had been both a customer and an angel investor in the company before joining it. Source...

Non-English-speaking artists now account for 30% of Live Nation’s top 50 tours – but 47 of the top 75 international markets lack modern arenas to host them
"It's not going to be that long where I'm sitting here saying now over half of our artists are not U.S., U.K. English-speaking artists," Berchtold told Goldman analyst Stephen Laszczyk Source...

Matt Serletic – Grammy-winning producer, ex-Virgin Records, Amazon Music exec – named Dean of the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music
Serletic is the sixth person to serve as dean of the Frost School of Music, which was established in 1926 and recently marked its 100th anniversary. Source...

Spotify promotes Mia Nygren to Vice President and General Manager for Europe and Latin America
Nygren stepped into the role over the summer, having previously served as the streaming company’s General Manager for Latin America. Source...