Music Industry News
- ‘Arabic music is not a niche waiting to be discovered.’
Anghami co-founder Eddy Maroun on new venture IPNation's $100M quest for MENA catalogs Source
- HYBE says it is ‘incubating’ markets in Southeast Asia, as local acts rise in the region
Comments were made on HYBE's Q3 2026 earnings call on Tuesday (November 3) Source
- Adobe partners with Universal and Warner to bring licensed music to Premiere mobile, its free video editing app
The partnerships, announced on Tuesday (November 3), will let users add up to 60 seconds of a track to a video Source
- WMG acquires indie distributor Zebralution Music
Zebralution Music Co-CEOs Konrad von Löhneysen and Sascha Lazimbat will remain with the company and continue to run its distribution business. Source
- HYBE banks $1B+ in Q3, its biggest ever quarter – with over $500M from live
Concert revenue hit a quarterly record of KRW 726.8 billion ($512m), led by the European and US legs of BTS’s ARIRANG world tour Source
- FTC and four states demand jury trial in BOTS Act lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster
The US Federal Trade Commission and four states have demanded a jury trial in their lawsuit against Live Nation and its ticketing subsidiary, Ticketmaster. Colorado, Florida, Illinois, and Nebraska joined the FTC in the demand, which was filed in federal court in Los Angeles on Tuesday (October 27). The lawsuit alleges that Live Nation and … Continued Source
- Alphabet shareholder sues Sundar Pichai and 12 others over training Google’s AI, including Lyria, on copyrighted works
Phil Rosen is suing on Alphabet's behalf in a shareholder derivative suit, meaning any damages recovered would be paid to Alphabet itself rather than to him. Source
- Live Nation’s Ticketmaster brings festival ticketing subsidiary Front Gate Tickets into CashorTrade face-value resale partnership
Fans who bought festival passes through Front Gate can now resell them to other fans on CashorTrade for no more than they originally paid. Source
- Irving Azoff’s Music Artists Coalition joins Cate Blanchett and CAA on AI licensing brief in New York Times’ case against OpenAI
RIAA, NMPA, ASCAP, BMI, and five other music organizations filed a proposed brief of their own, formally backing the plaintiffs. Source
- Raye, Sam Fender, Garth Brooks… and the bots. Five things to know about the AI arms race in live ticketing
Bots overwhelmed a presale sign-up, a ticket queue, and a ticketing site in October. Here’s how, and what lawmakers plan to do about it. Source