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Will 5G and Web 3.0 Usher in a New Copyright Crisis...

Variety reports: "In the ten years between 1999 and 2009, annual recorded music revenues in the U.S. (the world’s biggest market) collapsed from $14.6...

TikTok Radio Is Coming to SiriusXM as Companies Join Forces To...

MusicBusinessWorldwide reports: "TikTok, SiriusXM and Pandora have joined forces to launch TikTok Radio, a full-time SiriusXM music channel hitting the (online) airwaves this summer." Read...

OneOf is a green $63M funded music NFT platform for the...

Hypebot reports: "While superstar names and $63 million in seed funding will bring attention to OneOf, its real potential lies in plans to break...

NetEase To Spin off Music Streaming Service in $1bn Hong Kong...

Music Business Worldwide reports: "Chinese technology giant NetEase Inc. is planning to spin off its subsidiary Cloud Village, which operates music streaming service NetEase...

Believe Launches €300m Paris IPO Following ‘Most Prolific Quarter’ in Its...

Music Business Worldwide reports: "French indie distribution and services company, Believe, has launched its IPO on the Paris Euronext. The company – the owner...

YouTube Says It Paid the Music Industry Over $4bn in the...

Music Business Worldwide reports: "Could YouTube catch Spotify in future to become the music rights industry’s No.1 royalty payer?" Read more

Netflix and BMG Strike Long-Term Music Publishing Deal Outside U.S.

Variety reports: "Netflix has struck a new long-term exclusive agreement with BMG for the management and administration of its music publishing rights worldwide outside...

Michael Huppe of SoundExchange: ‘All players in the industry, creators or...

Hypebot reports: "SoundExchange CEO Michael Huppe weighs in on what a post-pandemic music industry is shaping up to look like, and why creators and...

Will the new world of the metaverse be governed by old...

Gamesindustry.biz reports: "In April 2020, records were broken when more than 12 million people attended a concert headlined by the US rapper Travis Scott....

Hipgnosis Songs Fund Now Owns a Music Catalog Worth Over $2.2...

Music Business Worldwide reports: "Hipgnosis is the owner of a catalog that has been independently valued at USD $2.21 billion, the UK-listed company revealed...