BTS become most popular music group on YouTube Hugely popular South Korean boy band BTS has obliterated yet another record as the K-Pop stars have been officially named as YouTube’s number one most viewed artist […]
Photo Credit: FN Meka Capitol Music Group signs FN Meka, the number one virtual artist on TikTok. Virtual artist FN Meka, the AI-powered rapper who first launched in 2019, is now the number one virtual […]
Warner Music Group (WMG) has officially finalized a new licensing deal with Facebook parent company Meta. The Big Three record label unveiled the freshly inked pact with Meta during its Q2 2022 earnings call, after […]
Warner Music Group (WMG) posted a small revenue increase (quarterly and year over year) for Q2 2022, but during the three-month stretch, recorded music slipped in the digital category for the first time. The Big […]
Photo Credit: Budi Voogt & Tim van Doorne Exceleration Music has acquired the catalog of the Dutch independent label Heroic Music Group. Heroic Music Group was founded by Budi Voogt and Tim van Doorne in […]
Photo Credit: Tony Webster / CC by 3.0 Universal Music Group (UMG) revenue jumped by 25.4 percent year over year during Q2 2022, as streaming income once again improved by double digits. The Big Three […]
Photo Credit: NRK P3 / CC by 2.0 Dutch DJ Afrojack has signed with Virgin Records Germany and Universal Music Netherlands for a new EDM partnership. The new deal also includes a partnership with Afrojack’s […]
Photo Credit: Spotify Pulse Music Group has announced it has renewed its worldwide publishing agreement with R&B superstar Brent Faiyaz. Faiyaz joined Pulse’s roster of songwriters and producers in 2016. Since then, he has collaborated […]
This will be the girl group’s second project for 2022 MANILA, Philippines – South Korean girl group IVE confirmed on Monday, July 18, that they will be making a summer comeback in August, Asia Today […]
Back row, l to r: Minymynx, Hype Train GM Narabordee Sriroengla, Hype Train CMO/CFO Vharittha Chankwang, Hype Train CEO Nino, UMG EVP of market development Adam Granite, UM South East Asia CEO Calvin Wong, UM […]
‘Girls’ also sets a record for highest stock pre-orders for any K-pop girl group MANILA, Philippines – MYs, are you screaming yet? K-pop group aespa set a new record for the highest first-day sales of […]
Insomniac has signed a global administration deal with Sony Music, inking a partnership that has the look of watershed moment for the electronic music powerhouse. Billboard reports the deal entails royalty collection between the two […]
EXCLUSIVE: Joel M. Gonzales, the current board president and executive director of Latino arts advocacy group Nosotros, has joined with philanthropist and entrepreneur Amber Butaud to launch Untold Content Group. The production company will develop, […]
Billboard has learned the estate of late legendary hip-hop photographer Chi Modu filed a lawsuit Friday against Universal Music Group over its use of a photo of Tupac Shakur in a blog post. The suit […]
Photo Credit: Tony Webster / CC by 3.0 Amid a broader embrace of non-music entertainment from artists, Universal Music Group (UMG) has officially launched UMusic Media Network, which higher-ups describe as “a comprehensive media and […]
The estate of photographer Chi Modu, who passed away in May of 2021, is officially suing Universal Music Group (UMG) for copyright infringement over the major label’s allegedly unauthorized use of a Tupac Shakur photo. […]
Universal Music Group (UMG) has officially issued €1 billion (currently $1.06 billion) worth of “Eurobond” notes. The Big Three record label, which listed shares on the Euronext Amsterdam last September, just recently unveiled the more […]
‘It feels surreal to be called a K-pop idol, I still can’t wrap my head around it,’ Filipino-Argentinian member Chanty says Lapillus, MLD Entertainment’s newest girl group, made their highly-anticipated debut on Monday, June 20, […]
‘New Black music is this: find the self, then kill it.” The US poet Amiri Baraka wrote these words in the liner notes to the 1965 live album The New Wave in Jazz, and through […]
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