February, 2026

Absolute Label Services opens AI-powered Anthology business management ‘Music OS’ to indie sector: ‘Infrastructure is the next logical thing to democratize’
White label business management platform launches with Cherry Red Records and Blue Raincoat Music as its first named customers. Source...

Indie publishers set out seven principles for AI licensing: ‘The song must be properly valued.’
The two organizations are now calling on collective management organizations (CMOs) and other licensors to support the principles. Source...

Key Songs In The Life Of… Michael Nash
Universal Music’s EVP and Chief Digital Officer Michael Nash tells us the tracks that influenced and inspired him… Source...

Oasis archive recordings pulled from auction as band take legal action against former sound engineer
The claim was filed in the High Court in London on Tuesday (September 29) Source...

Warner sells EMP, the merch business it acquired for $180M in 2018, to whynow, owned by Mick Jagger’s son Gabe Jagger
whynow is a London-headquartered media and commerce company Source...

Sia sells 50% of music catalog to Pophouse in $180M deal
Pophouse says it's acquired Sia's "publishing and master music rights"; the pricetag suggests a $360M valuation for the full set Source...

Tokyo court rules that a person’s voice can be protected by publicity rights – a first for Japan
Kenjiro Tsuda lost his takedown claim against TikTok, and won something better: Japan's first ruling placing the human voice inside publicity rights. Source...

TikTok launches global in-app campaign for ‘POPS,’ the new album from Japan’s top-selling act Mrs. GREEN APPLE
According to TikTok, the band is the first Japanese artist to be selected for one of the platform's artist-specific global campaigns, which it runs with top artists worldwide. Source...

TikTok builds a Taylor Swift ‘Patient Zero’ hub – as her video rollout keeps skipping YouTube
"Patient Zero" went to the VMAs, Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music before YouTube got it on September 29. TikTok's hub followed a day later. Source...

Linking songs to recordings is music data’s ‘single biggest unsolved problem.’ Expect it to come up at DDEX’s Meta-backed summit next month.
Mark Isherwood, who heads DDEX's Secretariat, explains his views on music data – and where we're headed Source...

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