Boy George, it turns out, IS a man with conviction… that AI can help artists rather than pose an existential threat to their livelihoods. He’s working with a new startup called Artist Included to prove it. In this case, the AI is being put to use to enable musicians to “reimagine classic recordings and create new, artist-owned masters for today’s market”.
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BMG and Concord reveal plans to merge under BMG name
The recent rumours were right: BMG and Concord are set for a merger to create “the leading independent music company in the world”.
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BMG revenues fell in 2025 after selling ‘non-core’ live businesses
The 2025 annual report of BMG’s parent company Bertelsmann offers the latest insight into its music division’s financial performance. While BMG’s revenues fell in 2025, there are other positive metrics to report. […]
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BMG joins the lyrical lawsuits against AI company Anthropic
Music lawsuits may not be Anthropic’s biggest legal headache at the moment, given its escalating battle with the US administration. However, it has now picked up an additional adversary on the […]
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Simply Divest: Pophouse buys majority stake in Tina Turner catalogue
Swedish firm Pophouse is best known as one of the founding investors in ABBA Voyage, and as a buyer of music rights – for example its acquisition of rock band Kiss’s […]
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Report claims Concord is an acquisition target for BMG
With UMG’s acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings seemingly heading for regulatory approval, could we see another industry-rippling deal in the near future? Bloomberg suggests that we might. It reported that BMG […]
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BMG founder Hartwig Masuch joins Swedish music startup Hyph
Hyph, the music-creation app launched in 2025 by Swedish songwriter Andreas Carlsson, is adding another industry veteran to its team.
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BMG merges sync, production music and media-services teams
There is more restructuring afoot within BMG, which is bringing together its sync, production music and media services teams into one brand called Sync+. The company said the new structure […]
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BMG renews and expands its music-publishing deal with TikTok
TikTok has renewed its direct music-publishing agreement with BMG, which TikTok described as “expanded”. Both companies announced the deal.
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Spotify reveals its latest direct publishing deal: with BMG
Spotify’s drive to sign direct licensing deal with music publishers continue. The last year has seen it ink agreements with the publishing arms of all three major labels as well […]
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Jason Aldean is part of BMG’s biggest catalogue acquisition yet
BMG was sounding the trumpets this week for the “single largest catalogue acquisition investment in its history”. The star of that show being country artist Jason Aldean’s recorded music catalogue. […]
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BMG revenues down 8% but company is growing its profitability
“All-Time High Ebitda Margin” may sound like a niche-curator Spotify playlist or a secret track on the next Ed Sheeran album. Who knows, perhaps it’ll be both! But today it’s […]
