April, 2025

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...

TikTok launches new features for songwriters to spotlight their work
The app is working to better integrate with the music community and formalize its relationship with music companies Source...

Why the ‘Long Fat Tail’ of the Oasis catalog will Live Forever
The following MBW Explains article was written by Will Page, the author of 'Pivot: Eight Principles for Transforming Your Business' and the former Chief Economist for both Spotify and PRS for Music So...

‘A manager’s job is to be the last guard at the gate for the artists that they work with in terms of their art. That’s a pretty deep responsibility.’
Chris Woltman on the huge and sustained success of Twenty One Pilots, why record labels still matter, the rock revival, streaming economics and AI Source...

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