In an updated version of her long-running lawsuit, the Savage rapper’s lawyers claimed Wednesday that they had unearthed evidence that 1501 Certified Entertainment founder (and former Major League Baseball All-Star) Carl Crawford had “dissipated millions of dollars held in 1501’s primary bank account,” including funds that will potentially be owed to Stallion.
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Universal Music responds to the fake Drake AI track that has been doing the rounds on streaming services
Some music streaming services such as Apple Music, Deezer, and TIDAL pulled the track down almost instantly but it took Spotify, YouTube and Soundcloud a bit longer, and not before it had racked up 625K streams on Spotify alone.
Midia estimates that global revenues grew by 6.7% to $31.2bn in 2022.
The data consultancy company found that streaming generated $20bn of recorded music revenue in 2022, up 8.3% year-on-year, accounting for 64.1% of the total revenues.
FAC welcomes new ambassadors including beabadoobee and more
The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) already had more than 100 musicians signed up as ‘artist ambassadors’ to support its advocacy work.
PizzaExpress is launching its own record label in the UK – yes, really.
The restaurant chain is launching its own label, PX Records, focusing on jazz and soul. For those of you that don’t know PizzaExpress, this isn’t a totally crazy move.
Spotify this week announced a whole new load of features to Showcase ads and more
As rumoured, Spotify launched their new homepage for the mobile app, replacing its existing carousels of music, podcast and playlist suggestions with a TikTok-style vertical feed of recommendations.
The US government's ongoing standoff with TikTok shows no signs of cooling down.
The White House said it backed legislation introduced on Tuesday by a dozen US senators to give the administration new powers to ban the Chinese-owned video app and other foreign-based technologies if they pose national security threats
Apple’s new Apple Music Classical app will launch on 28 March for iPhone with an Android version to follow.
It’s a standalone app but not a standalone subscription and came into being after Apple acquired classical streaming service Primephonic in 2021.