Publicly listed Indian record labels Saregama and Tips Music have been talking up both short-format video platforms and generative AI in their Q2 earnings calls, reports the Economic Times. In […]
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Sonu Nigam joins new Asia-focused entertainment company Pacific Music Group
Indian film playback and pop icon Sonu Nigam, along with American R&B star Ne-Yo and Chinese-American hip-hop pioneer MC Jin and veteran music executive Jonathan Serbin, is part of the […]
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Bandcamp artist and label relations lead, Aly Gillani: “If we don’t all buy each other’s records, the whole thing falls apart”
August 2025: Aly Gillani, artist and label relations lead at Bandcamp. He talks about why downloads are still a lifeline for many artists, how paying to own music has become […]
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Independent labels Hopeless Records and Fat Wreck Chords unite
Is 2025 going to be the year of indie mergers rather than just majors buying indies? It’s possible. The latest example is a union of famed punk labels Hopeless Records […]
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Behind The Campaign: Black Country, New Road
On the release of their second album (Ants From Up There in 2022), experimental/alternative band Black Country, New Road announced that lead singer and guitarist Isaac Wood was leaving. The […]
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Create Music Group acquires another electronic label – Monstercat
In 2024, Create Music Group (CMG) received $165 million in private equity funding. Since then it’s been on something of a company-per-month tear: in March, it bought the Deadmau5 and […]
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beatBread CEO Peter Sinclair on getting more options, insight and choices in music funding
In the latest episode of the Music Ally Focus podcast, we speak to beatBread CEO Peter Sinclair – on getting more options, insight and choices in music funding, and how […]
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BPI to hold second cohort of Grow Music startups programme
UK labels body the BPI’s first Grow Music startups programme clearly went well: having just completed its 12-week run, plans for a second cohort have already been announced. The first programme involved […]
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Warner Music UK COO, Isabel Garvey: “We will tolerate the red for a long time”
January 2025: Isabel Garvey, COO of Warner Music UK. The success exposition: in the age of LPs and CDs, that mystical era from the closing century of the previous millennium, […]
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Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota: “Licensing has always been too restrictive”
Startups need to understand (and respect) music and music’s value more, but equally copyright owners need to stop putting unnecessary obstacles.
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Hospital Records unveils three mentorship schemes for 2025
Independent drum’n’bass label Hospital Records has launched its latest mentorship schemes. The three schemes will kick off in 2025, and are in partnership with its Hospitality events arm. The first […]
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What we’ve learned after nearly 1,500 advances: Labels want independence too
When we launched beatBread in 2020, our intent was to free artists of the onerous economic terms and loss of control that comes with major record deals and provide opportunities […]
