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Qobuz rolls out real-time synced lyrics to all subscribers
10+ hour, 18+ min ago (411+ words) Qobuz has added real-time synchronized lyrics to its mobile and tablet apps, alongside a redesigned player. The lyrics scroll line-by-line in time with the music and include translations, according to Qobuz. A new Explore section builds recommendations around the track…...
Iron Maiden manager Rod Smallwood talks Eddfest, Eddie, Fan Clubs, anti-touting, and the secret to a near-50-year management partnership…
3+ hour, 8+ min ago (1879+ words) Rod Smallwood has managed Iron Maiden for 47 years. Not “managed and then renegotiated.” Not, “managed, departed, and returned in an advisory capacity.” Managed continuously since he first shook hands with the band’s founder, bassist Steve Harris, in 1979. Smallwood’s path to…...
Ari Gelaw promoted to SVP, Creative A&R at Sony Music Publishing
5+ hour, 55+ min ago (612+ words) Sony Music Publishing has promoted Ari Gelaw to Senior Vice President, Creative A&R. The company announced the promotion on Monday (July 27). Gelaw will remain based in the company’s Los Angeles office, reporting to SMP President, Head of US A&R…...
Snapchat now lets users share and save Spotify songs via Snap Map, used by 450m people a month
6+ hour, 19+ min ago (614+ words) Social media platform Snap has launched Now Playing on Snap Map, a feature that lets Snapchat users share the music they are listening to with their friends. The company announced the feature on Monday (July 27), with Spotify the first service…...
UK recorded music exports hit record $1.05B in 2025, up just 0.8% YoY
8+ hour, 16+ min ago (810+ words) UK recorded music exports rose to £800.3 million (USD $1.05 billion) in 2025. But the rate of growth slowed, rising just 0.8% year-over-year. According to the BPI, the trade body for the UK’s record labels, it was the first time the annual total had…...
Why AI is sampling – and how that will affect the future
8+ hour, 23+ min ago (857+ words) MBW Views is a series of op-eds from eminent music industry people… with something to say. The following MBW op/ed comes from Deborah Mannis-Gardner, Owner/President of DMG Clearances, Inc., who knows everything there is to know about clearing…...
Indonesia scraps song and music copyright registration fee to build a national music database
10+ hour, 14+ min ago (552+ words) Indonesia will stop charging songwriters, performers, and record producers to log their work on the national copyright register. The change was announced by the Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DJKI), part of Indonesia’s Ministry of Law, and applies only to…...
From 90,000 AI tracks hitting Deezer daily to Suno’s 55m-user data breach… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-up
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (526+ words) This week, Deezer revealed that fully AI-generated music accounted for more than half of all new tracks uploaded to its platform for the first time in June, with the streaming service taking in nearly 90,000 AI tracks a day. Meanwhile, Alphabet…...
As GEMA awaits its Suno copyright verdict, the German collecting society launches ‘PLAI’ – a fully licensed dataset for training AI music tools
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (668+ words) German collecting society GEMA has launched a music dataset built to train AI tools on copyright-cleared content. The product, called PLAI by GEMA, bundles sound files, metadata, and both composition and master rights from a single source, according to the…...
Move Concerts CEO Phil Rodriguez: ‘I’m bullish about our business. Music and sports are the last tribal experiences.’
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (1775+ words) MBW’s World Leaders is a regular series in which we turn the spotlight toward some of the most influential industry figures overseeing key international markets. In this feature, we speak to Phil Rodriguez, founder and CEO of Latin America-focused Move…...