April, 2025

‘Success is building something that outlasts hype.’
MBW's Trailblazers series meets Justin Garza, founder of talent management company, the Dream Adopters Source...

K-Pop group Big Ocean debuted a new single at the UN’s AI summit using HYBE’s Supertone voice cloning tech
Supertone said it worked on enhancing the band's English pronunciation, while preserving their vocal tone and style. Source...

TikTok seeking Canada meeting amid looming shutdown (report)
TikTok's Steve de Eyre told Bloomberg that the company is "still looking to get [a deal] to the table." Source...

Chartmetric’s new Make Music Equal report tracks gender representation across 1 million artists
Chartmetric analyzes pronoun data on more than 1 million artists from 230 countries and territories Source...

Orla Lee-Fisher joins Warner as Head of Dual Catalog Strategy, as major steps up M&A activity
Exec joins WMG to 'champion' catalogs represented by WMG across both recorded music and music publishing Source...

HYBE says it will appeal police decision not to charge ADOR ex-CEO Min Hee-jin in breach of trust case
Police in South Korea have declined to file breach of trust charges against Min, as her dispute with K-pop giant HYBE continues Source...

Symphonic Distribution expands European A&R Client Development team with five new hires
New hires are part of a plan to expand Symphonic's artist roster throughout Europe Source...

Naoki Osada, ex-CEO of Avex USA, launches Nebula17 to break Japanese talent in the US and globally
Nebula17 is backed by a group of strategic investors Source...

Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green’s estate strikes music rights deal with Primary Wave
Company to acquire assets in Green’s Rattlesnake music publishing catalog, plus his interest in all compositions written by him, as well as certain recordings Source...

AI companies accused of ‘largest domestic piracy of IP in our nation’s history’ at congressional hearing led by MAGA Republican
At Meta, 'Mark Zuckerberg himself made the call' to pirate vast amounts of copyrighted material Source...

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