February, 2025

On… Lola Young, M-UK-GA!, and communing.
MBW founder Tim Ingham's latest Review commentary Source...

Gallery: Glassnote welcomes in 2025 at HMV Oxford Street
Event at HMV's historic 363 Oxford Street store was attended by quite the who's who of the UK music biz Source...

SM Entertainment majority shareholder Kakao is building a superfan app to take on HYBE’s Weverse (report)
Unlike HYBE's Weverse, Kakao’s BERRIZ will incorporate content from Korean movies, dramas, and webtoons Source...

TikTok rival Triller secures $50m in equity funding
Funding round was secured through a private placement with institutional investors Source...

Read Sir Lucian Grainge’s 2025 memo to Universal Music Group staff: ‘Streaming 2.0 will represent a new age of innovation, consumer segmentation, geographic expansion, greater consumer value and ARPU growth.’
UMG boss says: "I’m pleased to report that the Streaming 2.0 era has arrived." Source...

Trump signs executive order to create US sovereign wealth fund that could buy TikTok
Trump hinted at the fund’s potential role in the TikTok acquisition, saying, “I have the right to do that, and we might put that in the sovereign wealth fund” Source...

Spotify posts $1.5bn annual operating profit for 2024, as subscriber base grows to 263m in Q4
Spotify posted a quarterly operating income of over half a billion dollars Source...

Warner Music Group and Audiomack expand licensing deal to cover 47 additional countries
Partnership began in 2019 and was Audiomack’s first licensing deal with a major music company Source...

Virgin Music Group expands presence in Africa, partnering with Ghana-based services company RainLabs
The partnership's goal is to ensure that the music of African artists “reaches global audiences and achieves lasting success" Source...

NMPA hits Spotify with ‘extensive’ takedown action over alleged unlicensed songs in podcasts
The publishers' group says Spotify has known 'for years' about widespread violations of music copyrights on the podcasts it hosts Source...

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