Welcome to Music Enterprise Worldwide’s weekly round-up – the place we be sure you caught the 5 largest tales to hit our headlines over the previous seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximize their revenue and scale back their touring prices.
Reside Nation‘s acquisition of LA-based expertise administration agency Timeline has highlighted the truth that the live performance and ticketing large can be a significant participant in expertise administration. And Timeline’s involvement with on-line influencers doubtlessly opens a brand new avenue for Reside Nation to advertise its exhibits and artist administration shoppers…
On the opposite aspect of the Pacific, HYBE-owned label ADOR filed a lawsuit in opposition to Okay-pop group NewJeans. The lawsuit adopted the group’s announcement every week earlier that it plans to go away ADOR. The label argues that NewJeans don’t have the power to cancel their contract unilaterally.
Elsewhere, Craig Peters, the CEO of Getty Photographs, penned an op-ed for Fortune this week criticizing AI builders’ copyright thievery.
Additionally this week, TikTok revealed its lists of the largest musical tracks and artists on the platform this 12 months. The corporate stated that 13 of the 16 tracks that hit No. 1 on the US Billboard Scorching 100 had been linked to tendencies on TikTok.
Lastly, MBW seemed again at this 12 months’s largest music offers. The 12 months was dominated by non-public fairness investments and huge issuances of securities backed by music belongings. On the catalog acquisition aspect, Sony Music dominated with quite a lot of blockbuster offers.
Reside Nation is a dwell music promotion and ticketing large, nevertheless it additionally runs a powerhouse expertise administration enterprise.
Certainly, the Michael Rapino-led firm claimed in its 2023 annual report back to be “one of many world’s main artist administration corporations primarily based on the variety of artists represented.”
On Tuesday (December 3), Reside Nation revealed the newest addition to its expertise administration operation: It’s acquired a majority stake in Timeline – described by LN as one among Los Angeles’ “premier expertise administration corporations.”
Timeline makes a speciality of “younger Hollywood and influencer expertise.” The acquisition of a majority stake in Timeline is a big improvement for Reside Nation, given the rise and energy of influencer advertising and marketing on social media platforms…
ADOR, a subsidiary of Okay-pop powerhouse HYBE, has filed a lawsuit to stop lady group NewJeans from terminating their unique contract, escalating a high-stakes dispute within the South Korean music trade.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday (December 3) with the Seoul Central District Courtroom, challenges the group’s current try to go away the label, with ADOR asserting that the prevailing contract stays legally binding and can’t be unilaterally terminated.
“Though we didn’t want to search authorized intervention with the artist, we determined that it was essential to make clear to each the artist and all related stakeholders that our unique contract can’t be unilaterally terminated primarily based solely on the claims of 1 aspect,” ADOR stated in a press release despatched to MBW.
The lawsuit follows a press convention held by NewJeans on November 28, the place the group publicly introduced their intention to exit ADOR. Group member Hanni claimed the label “has neither the power nor the need to guard” the members, citing psychological misery and a “breach of belief…”
TikTok has lengthy promoted itself as a significant driver of music discovery, and its Yr-Finish Music Report for 2024 reiterates this theme.
In line with TikTok, 13 of the 16 tracks that reached No.1 on the US Billboard Scorching 100 had been indirectly linked to a development on the platform.
Moreover, 10 of the 11 tracks to hit No.1 on the UK’s Official Singles Chart had been boosted by TikTok reputation, the report advised.
“In 2024 TikTok really grew to become the music trade’s major launchpad for music, artists and creativity,” Ole Obermann, TikTok’s International Head of Music Improvement, stated in a press release…
In a scathing op-ed revealed by Fortune this week, the CEO of pictures company Getty Photographs, Craig Peters, criticized the argument that utilizing copyrighted content material obtainable on the web to coach AI with out permission is ‘truthful use’ below copyright regulation.
He advocates as an alternative for a nuanced method to assessing truthful use, supporting AI’s potential for societal good with out undermining the inventive industries – together with music.
Peters’ piece concludes with the argument that there “is a good path that rewards creativity and delivers the guarantees of AI”.
He provides: “Let’s cease the rhetoric that every one un-permissioned AI coaching is authorized and that any requirement to respect the rights of creators is on the expense of AI as a expertise…”
As the worth of music corporations and copyrights continues to develop, so do the offers being made within the trade – and the involvement in non-public fairness in these transactions.
In financial phrases, the largest deal of 2024 (up to now, anyway) got here courtesy of PE agency Hellman & Friedman, which struck a ten-figure settlement to amass a stake in Irving Azoff’s US-based PRO International Rights Administration (GRM).
One other side of the music trade that’s grown quickly in 2024 is the securitization of music belongings. This 12 months noticed quite a lot of main asset-backed securitizations from music copyright holders, together with Hipgnosis Songs Fund, Harmony, and Kobalt.
On the catalog offers aspect, Sony Music dominated 2024, shopping for all or elements of the catalogs of Queen, Pink Floyd, and Michael Jackson…
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