When an AI-generated country song called “Walk My Walk” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s country digital song sales chart this month, it was credited to a fictional artist named Breaking Rust – a white, digitally generated avatar that didn’t exist two months ago....
AI is still in its early days. Investment is surging, talent is pouring in, and a crop of new, ambitious startups are working with music again for the first time in more than a decade. This is the moment to shape the business models, set the guardrails, and...
Los Angeles-based music technology company KLAY Vision Inc. has closed separate AI licensing deals with Universal Music Group, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony Music Entertainment (SME), Sony Music Publishing, Warner Music Group, and Warner Chappell Music....
The European Commission is reportedly preparing to hand down a “formal warning” about Universal Music’s proposed $775 million Downtown buyout – albeit without blocking the deal outright. That reportedly imminent development surfaced in a recent Bloomberg piece....
Robert Kyncl shared WMG’s AI strategy mere hours after announcing deals with Udio and Stability, listing his non-negotiables in licensing talks. Hours after Warner Music Group (WMG) announced a settlement and licensing deal with Udio and a similar agreement with...
AI audio company ElevenLabs has launched Eleven Music – a platform that’s said to generate “studio-grade music” from “natural language prompts” – after striking partnerships with independent music licensing organization Merlin and publisher Kobalt. London and...
