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The streamer will develop “documentary series and films exploring the lives, music and legacies” of WMG’s roster.

Paid subscriptions, totaling EUR €234.4 million ($269 million), represented 69% of Italy’s total streaming revenues in 2025.

Deal includes the singer’s 17 studio albums, eight live albums and more than 50 singles, including Santa Baby.

BMG Rights Management has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic, the AI giant behind the Claude AI chatbot.

To obtain the volume of tracks needed for the scheme to work, Smith turned to AI, using it to generate hundreds of thousands of songs. Those songs were streamed by his bot accounts billions of times, ...

IFPI has published its new ‘Global Music Report 2026’ showing that global recorded music revenues grew by 6.4% ...

The UK government has backtracked on its position on how artificial intelligence companies should be allowed to use ...

Paris-headquarted Believe has signed a what it says is a “long-term” global publishing administration agreement with iconic ...

Worldwide recorded music revenues reached USD $31.7 billion in 2025, surpassing $30 billion for the first time and marking the industry’s eleventh consecutive year of growth. That figure, revealed ...

Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) published its Q4 and full-year 2025 results on Tuesday (March 17). The company revealed ...

Music firm’s round is led by Charles Goldstuck’s GoldState and private equity giant TA Associates, alongside a credit ...