June, 2026

How to build a brand for your website (and when to hire a branding agency)
Most website owners get branding completely backwards Pick a color. Grab a logo from Canva. Ship it. Done, right? Not even close. Here’s the thing nobody tells you when you’re deep in keyword rese...

UMG spends $290m buying back stock from Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square, amid fund’s exit from music company
UMG repurchased 14,156,285 of its ordinary shares at €17.66 each after its board recently rejected a takeover proposal from Ackman and Pershing Square. Source...

YouTube Music’s Foundry program – which counts Dua Lipa and Rosalía among its alumni – names 2026 class including Drake collaborator Julia Wolf
YouTube credited the program with helping launch the careers of artists including Dua Lipa, Rosalía and Tems. Source...

‘People don’t just want hits. They want honesty.’
Tunde Balogun, CEO of LVRN (Love Renaissance), maps out how the company he cofounded in Atlanta with Sean Famoso McNichol, Justice Baiden, Junia Abaidoo, and Carlon Ramong went from college parties to...

Copyright lawsuit against Travis Scott, SZA, and Future over ‘Telekinesis’ dropped
The move comes less than three months after a federal judge in Manhattan declined to throw the case out of court, rejecting the defendants' bid for dismissal. Source...

Label The Slop.
The latest 'Tim's Take' from Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham Source...

BMG acquires publishing interests of Luca Anzilotti, co-founder of Eurodance group Snap!
BMG acquired the recorded music catalog of Snap! in 2018. Source...

Warner Music Italy acquires catalog of indie label Asian Fake from parent House of Music
Founded in 2017, Asian Fake built its roster around Italy's urban and indie-pop scene. Source...

Universal Music makes minority investment in Thai distribution and publishing company Solution One
S1 was founded in 2001 by CEO Karlcharn Kongkatong and co-founder Apsornsopha Sariman. Source...

Björn Ulvaeus on AI: ‘Human creativity is not just expression. It is testimony. A life lived.’
CISAC President Björn Ulvaeus delivered a speech at the org's General Assembly in Paris on Thursday (June 4), covering AI, copyright, licensing, Suno and more Source...

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