June, 2025

EU opens in-depth investigation into UMG’s $775m Downtown deal
European Commission launches Phase 2 investigation into the proposed acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings Source...

‘Super listeners’ make up just 2% of an artist’s monthly streaming audience, yet buy 50% of concert tickets, Spotify says
Spotify may have just identified the 'super-superfans' who truly drive an artist's career Source...

Producer Lex Luger and Lemonaide launch ‘creator-first’ AI Model with BeatStars
The Lex Luger AI Model offers music creators royalty-free WAV and MIDI loops generated in Luger’s signature style Source...

ONErpm’s Emmanuel Zunz: ‘There are no more distribution companies, there are no more record labels. There are just companies providing solutions to creators.’
ONErpm founder Emmanuel Zunz on hitting $300m revenue, the Universal/Downtown deal, and why traditional music industry categories are dead to him Source...

Recognition Music Group plans $372m bond sale – as value of catalog once known as Hipgnosis Songs Fund continues to balloon
Blackstone-owned Recognition owns the portfolio of music rights built by Merck Mercuriadis at HSF Source...

Naoshi Fujikura on breaking global superstars, Japan’s culture of superfans, and UMG’s positioning in the world’s second-largest music market…
MBW's World Leaders series meets Naoshi Fujikura, President & CEO of Universal Music Japan Source...

Germany’s recorded music sales grew 1.4% in the first half of 2025, marking a significant slowdown
The country's recorded music industry trade group is urging the EU to create the conditions needed for an AI licensing marketplace Source...

Anthropic beefs up legal team ahead of showdown with Universal Music Group (report)
A blog called chatgptiseatingtheworld.com said the judge’s recent decision sets the stage for larger damages in Anthropic’s two legal cases. Source...

Music industry backs reintroduced ‘RAP Act’ that would bar lyrics from being used as evidence in US court trials
‘Freddy Mercury did not confess to having ‘just killed a man’ by putting ‘a gun against his head...' Source...

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos talks up ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ as fictional groups dominate Spotify charts
Seven of the top 15 tracks on Spotify's most-streamed tracks in are by virtual artists from a Netflix movie Source...

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