February, 2026

The AI Music Streaming Flood: Where We’re At
The latest 'Tim's Take' from Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham Source...

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square is selling its remaining Universal Music Group stake, days after UMG rejected its $64B takeover bid
The news comes days after Universal Music Group's board officially rejected a takeover proposal from Ackman and Pershing Square Source...

BMI promotes four executives across Creative and Corporate Communications teams
BMI promoted John Ellwood to Vice President, Creative, and elevated Deirdre Chadwick, Jeff Gilligan and Jodie Thomas to Assistant Vice President positions. Source...

Using Data-Driven Tools to Strengthen Investment Decisions
Most investors do not suffer from a shortage of information. They suffer from an inability to extract clear signals from it quickly enough to act with confidence. That is the core problem that data-dr...

How to build a brand for your website (and when to hire a branding agency)
Most website owners get branding completely backwards Pick a color. Grab a logo from Canva. Ship it. Done, right? Not even close. Here’s the thing nobody tells you when you’re deep in keyword rese...

UMG spends $290m buying back stock from Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square, amid fund’s exit from music company
UMG repurchased 14,156,285 of its ordinary shares at €17.66 each after its board recently rejected a takeover proposal from Ackman and Pershing Square. Source...

YouTube Music’s Foundry program – which counts Dua Lipa and Rosalía among its alumni – names 2026 class including Drake collaborator Julia Wolf
YouTube credited the program with helping launch the careers of artists including Dua Lipa, Rosalía and Tems. Source...

‘People don’t just want hits. They want honesty.’
Tunde Balogun, CEO of LVRN (Love Renaissance), maps out how the company he cofounded in Atlanta with Sean Famoso McNichol, Justice Baiden, Junia Abaidoo, and Carlon Ramong went from college parties to...

Copyright lawsuit against Travis Scott, SZA, and Future over ‘Telekinesis’ dropped
The move comes less than three months after a federal judge in Manhattan declined to throw the case out of court, rejecting the defendants' bid for dismissal. Source...

Label The Slop.
The latest 'Tim's Take' from Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham Source...

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