Warner Music and Bain Capital Target $300M Red Hot Chili Peppers Catalog — How the $1.65B JV Fund Is Reshaping Music Rights
What’s a guitar riff from “Californication” worth when it generates $26 million in annual revenue? According to Warner Music Group...
RIAA 2025 Year-End Report: US Recorded Music Revenue Hits $11.5 Billion as Paid Streaming Subscriptions Cross 106 Million
The US music industry just posted a number that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. According to the RIAA’s...
Atlassian Layoffs AI: 1,600 Jobs Cut as the Jira Giant Splits Its CTO Role for an AI-First Future
1,600 people opened their inboxes on March 11, 2026, and found out they no longer worked at Atlassian. Within 20...
AI Streaming Fraud Guilty Plea: How One Man Used Boomy to Generate 661,000 Fake Streams Per Day and Stole $10 Million
For seven years, Michael Smith ran one of the most audacious fraud schemes the music industry has ever seen. Using...
IFPI Global Music Report 2026: Revenue Hits $31.7 Billion, 837M Streaming Subscribers, and Vinyl’s 19th Year of Growth
$31.7 billion. That is how much the global recorded music industry generated in 2025 — and it is not just...
Native Instruments CEO Confirms M&A Progress — But Can NI Survive Private Equity’s Wreckage?
I still remember the first time I loaded Kontakt on a session. It was the early 2000s, and that sampler...
GDC 2026 Festival of Gaming: 5 Takeaways from Google Genie 3 to the Indie Renaissance
20,000 people. 85 countries. And Google just demoed an AI that generates playable 3D worlds from a text prompt —...
Klobuchar Antitrust Accountability Act: 7 Key Reforms Sparked by the ‘Weak’ Live Nation Settlement
$280 million. That’s what Live Nation agreed to pay across 40 states in antitrust penalties. And somehow, the consensus is...
Tidal Direct-to-Fan Downloads: 90/10 Revenue Split vs Bandcamp’s 85/15 — How the New Feature Changes Independent Music Distribution
Stop giving away 15 cents of every dollar. Tidal just launched direct-to-fan downloads with a 90/10 revenue split — the...
UMG NVIDIA Music Flamingo: The Company That Called AI Music ‘Platform Pollution’ Just Partnered With the World’s Biggest AI Chip Maker
The man who called AI-generated music ‘platform pollution’ just shook hands with AI. In October 2025, Universal Music Group CEO...
YouTube Creator Strategy 2026: Algorithm Changes and Revenue Diversification Guide
The YouTube creator strategy playbook for 2026 looks nothing like it did even two years ago. The algorithm now prioritizes...
UMG Downtown $775M Deal: EU Approves After Forced Curve Royalty Systems Sale — What It Means for Indies
$775 million. That is the price Universal Music Group just paid to absorb Downtown Music Holdings — and the European...