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Concord acquires Mothership Music Publishing and its 5,000-song catalog
Mothership's roster includes Grammy Best New Artist nominee The Marías, Falling In Reverse, Architects, Pam Sheyne and more. Source...

Avex Music Group launches $100M fund to acquire publishing catalogs and companies; strikes first deal with ‘Lose Control’ co-writer Infamous
Infamous co-wrote and co-produced Teddy Swims' "Lose Control", and worked with Lil Wayne and Charlie Puth. Source...

Matt Spetzler’s Pipeline hires Jennifer Scher as CFO, Jason Munro as General Counsel and Jay Srivastav as Head of Data & Product
New senior appointments come as music-focused financing platform builds out infrastructure across capital, legal and data functions Source...

Deezer revenues hit $154M in Q1, down 1.6% YoY, but direct subscribers grew to 5.7m
France-headquartered music streaming service Deezer has published its Q1 2026 results, covering the three months ended March 31 Source...

Indie label group Futures Music raises $6m as it sets sights on catalog deals
Ben Blackburn, founder of Common Knowledge and manager of girl in red, is among the investors Source...

TikTok’s Add to Music App tool surpasses 6B track saves in the past year
6 billion track saves translated to 'many, many billions more streams in repeat' on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music said TikTok Source...

From 75,000 AI tracks hitting Deezer daily to UMG’s copyright lawsuit against Quince… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up
The biggest headlines from the past few days... Source...

Bang Si-hyuk: Police arrest bid rejected by Korean prosecutors (report)
Yonhap News Agency reports today (April 24) that the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office declined the warrant request Source...

How will the major labels overcome the copyright threat from AI music? By turning to the most powerful weapon available: AI itself.
MBW digs through new patent filings describing a 'media rights platform' that sits between rightsholders, gen AI systems, and the end users who want to prompt AI to create derivative works from copyri...

Record labels’ $2B+ copyright lawsuit against Verizon jointly dismissed in wake of Supreme Court’s Cox ruling
The case was originally filed in July 2024 Source...

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