Taylor Swift’s new record, The Life of a Showgirl, became the first album to exceed 5 million pre-saves on Spotify ahead of its release today (October 3). The pre-save figure broke the record held by ...

Perhaps most significantly, as reported by MBW at the time, Kobalt secured a Most Favored Nation (MFN) clause in its deal with ElevenLabs, meaning that if any recorded music rightsholder now ...

One of France’s top music industry lawyers has dismissed concerns that UMG might misuse indie label data through its proposed $775m acquisition of ...

Splice has entered the virtual instruments market with a new platform that offers access to over 1,200 playable presets at launch. Splice INSTRUMENT combines multi-sampled presets with full MIDI ...

Aniara, the company behind ABBA Voyage, says the concert series added £833 million to London’s economy in its first three years.

Having first found success writing for One Direction, Julian Bunetta is now hitting new heights working with artists such as Sabrina Carpenter and Teddy Swims. Here he looks back on his career and dis ...

The collaboration features a dedicated game mode called Horde Rush: Demon Rush, which will run through November 1.

TikTok’s US algorithm might suffer under the new ownership structure, and China’s ByteDance could still walk away with the lion’s share of profits.

Daniel Ek and Spotify’s new Co-CEOs Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström participated in a Q&A about the leadership transition. MBW listened in on the call. Here’s what stood ...

The acquisition covers country and pop hits Holman has penned, including songs from Cole Swindell, Florida Georgia Line and Jordan Davis.

Kaefer, the exec in charge of Spotify’s music business and audiobooks business, has decided to leave Spotify at the end of October. Succeeding him as SVP and Global Head of Music is Charlie Hellman, a ...

Grammy-winning producer, songwriter and musician Fraser T. Smith was honoured with the BMI President’s Award at the 2025 BMI London Awards on Monday (September 29).