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Email us here Spotify dominated Thursday's news with blowout Q3 numbers, while Warner Music Group made a structural bet on sync and a high-profile legal battle between two Neptunes legends heated up. Anthropic's Claude Duet launch also raised eyebrows ahead of a reported IPO filing showing $16.3B in H1 2026 revenues. Deals & M&A • WMG unified recorded music and publishing sync under Ron Broitman as President of Global Sync, reporting to COO Tom Corson. Lawsuits & AI • Chad Hugo...

Email us here Spotify's AI-powered remix and covers tool is gaining licensing momentum, with Believe and TuneCore joining UMG, Merlin, and Kobalt — though Sony and Warner remain unsigned. Meta faces escalating legal pressure as a federal magistrate orders the company to name every employee who approved sourcing AI training data from shadow libraries. Meanwhile, Too Lost Music Group continues its APAC expansion and live events platform Hive closes a $27M raise. Deals & M&A • Too Lost ...

Email us here Apple's quiet acquisition of Swiss AI audio startup Samplab signals a major Logic Pro upgrade, while a Supreme Court rejection sends shockwaves through major label publishing. Meanwhile, Spotify's war on AI spam hits a staggering 50-million-track milestone. Deals & M&A • Apple acquired Swiss AI audio startup Samplab GmbH, likely folding tech into Logic Pro and GarageBand. Lawsuits & AI • Supreme Court declined BMG v. Vetter, affirming global copyright termination r...

Email us here A busy Monday dominated by legal firepower: UMG and Sony are muscling DistroKid in the Suno AI case, Cordae faces a $25M lawsuit days before his album drops, and Drake is hit with a copyright claim over his #1 hit. On the deals front, Musixmatch made its first acquisition in 16 years, and a sync startup landed ABBA and pop royalty as backers. Deals & M&A • Musixmatch acquires Music Reports (Songdex owner), its first-ever deal in 16 years, expanding into mechanical, sync...

Email us here UMG's $270M restructuring claimed Def Jam CEO Tunji Balogun, Polydor President Ben Mortimer, and both Interscope A&R Presidents in one brutal sweep — then Jim Roppo walked out of Republic and straight into a Warner Records vice chairman seat, proving one label's loss is a rival's gain. Meanwhile, the Phonorecords V rate fight turned into a full-on brawl: NMPA and NSAI demanded more than double the current per-subscriber cap, Amazon proposed cutting songwriter rates, and Spot...