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Klay is first AI-music startup to strike deals with all majors
This is certainly the month for major-label deals with AI-music companies. Bloomberg reported this morning that Klay has become the first GenAI music startup to bag all three majors, with plans […]
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Music Ally Mid-Year Wraps: Majors and Indies
If you’ll excuse us for borrowing a popular shaving-ads slogan from the 1980s: major labels like independent music so much, they’re buying the companies! Majors buying independent labels and distributors […]
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President and CEO of A2IM, Richard Burgess: “The majors are screwing themselves for the future if the independent sector is not thriving”
May 2025: Richard Burgess, president and CEO of A2IM. Independent dependency: with a background in electronic music (he was a member of Landscape), music production, artist management, music technology and […]
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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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Disney+ to crack down on password sharing, will the music industry follow?
Disney’s streaming platforms (Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+) are now turning a profit. That profit is driven by moderate subscriber sign-ups and advertising increases, but annual revenue per user (ARPU) for […]
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UMG buys Saban Music Latin and Oriental Star Agencies catalogue
The world’s biggest major label is certainly hitting the ground running in 2023 with deals. Two more acquisitions came yesterday.
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UMG and Tencent Music have renewed their licensing deal
Universal Music Group is starting the year as it means to go on: with a licensing deal to bolster its business.
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Believe CEO thinks majors want premium slice of streaming payouts
As revenues from DSPs have reached enormous levels, it’s inevitable that there will be some behind-the-scenes machinations…
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Artists and labels can be prolific partners – David Martin, Featured Artists Coalition (guest column)
This is a guest column by David Martin, CEO of the Featured Artists Coalition – the UK trade body that represents the rights and interests of music artists.
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One-off ‘non-DSP’ payments fuelling major labels’ revenue surge
The three major labels’ revenues could have grown by 29% in 2021 according to new number-crunching by Midia Research.
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Campaign Manager, Universal Music Catalogue – UMG – London
Job title: Campaign Manager Reporting to: Director of Marketing Division: Universal Music Catalogue Location: 4 Pancras Square, Kings Cross (remote working currently) Music is Universal It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who […]
