Emmanuel Legrand

The Recording Academy — organisers of the annual Grammy Awards — has named rapper Torae Carr (pictured, left) and DJ/producer Dani Deahl (pictured, right) as the new co-Chairs of the organisation's National Advocacy Committee.

Audio Ai solution platform Music.AI has partnered with SourceAudio provide AI-powered stem separation to SourceAudio's 567,000 active users. The partnership will allow more than 140 broadcasters and 3000 catalogues to create stems on-demand from any content at scale.

UK music sector's contribution to the British economy in 2023 in terms of Gross Value Added (GVA) reached a record £7.6 billion, up 13% from £6.7bn

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Brendan Carr as the next Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the USA's telecoms and traditional media regulator. Carr, A Republican, has been since 2017 one of the five members of the FCC, which is currently chaired by Jessica Rosenworcel.

$300 billion That's reportedly how much TikTok's parent company ByteDance is valuing itself, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The European Parliament's hearings of the two Commissioner-designate most relevant to the creative sector — Glenn Micallef (Malta) for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport, and Henna Virkkunen (Finland) as Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy — has provided a glimpse of the policies they will apply once confirmed as members of the European Commission.

Music company Kobalt has signed Mexican singer and songwriter Ana Bárbara to a worldwide publishing agreement. Bárbara has released more than 10 studio albums, and built a following throughout Latin America and beyond. She has receivedn six Latin Grammy nominations with one win, four Premios Lo Nuestro Awards, and seven Furia Musical Awards and two American Grammy nominations.

NOVEMBER 2024 Nov. 28-29 Digital Days Music, held at Culturgest in Lisbon. DECEMBER 2024 – Dec. 4

President-elect Donald Trump has settled the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Guyanese–British songwriter and performer Eddy Grant and his company Greenheart Music Limited over the use of 40 seconds of his 1983 song 'Electric Avenue' in an online political spot used during the 2020 presidential campaign.

The Societies' Council for the Collective Management of Performers' Rights (SCAPR) and the Ibero-Latin-American Federation of Performers (FILAIE) have signed a framework agreement. “This agreement marks a significant step forward in further developing our cooperation with Latin American CMOs” said Rémy Desrosiers, Managing Director of SCAPR. The partnership opens access for all FILAIE affiliated Collective Management Organisations (CMOs) to utilise SCAPR's International Performer Number (IPN) C...