Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximize their income and reduce their touring costs.

Drake's UMG lawsuit, the TikTok ban, the Nelly case and more music legal news from the past week, including cases involving Diddy and Tekashi 6ix9ine.

Now TikTok has garnered over 170 million users in the U.S. Some of the largest record labels nationwide like Universal Music Group have taken advantage of that audience pool, using the app to ...

Chances are, the ban won’t severely disrupt the bottom line of big labels—we saw that when Universal Music Group pulled its music from TikTok last year and suffered no damage. But majors and legacy artists will still lose revenue because of the loss of ...

The U.S. TikTok ban went into effect on the evening of January 18; here's how it could affect the music industry for better or worse.

Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximize their income and reduce their touring costs.

Now TikTok has garnered over 170 million users in the U.S. Some of the largest record labels nationwide like Universal Music Group have taken advantage of that audience pool, using the app to promote artists and their music while the labels take home the ...

Explore TikTok's 'Behind the Breakthrough' campaign via Gigi Perez, whose song 'Sailor Song' made waves on TikTok and the Billboard charts.

Here’s a music industry newsflash: everybody hates Spotify’s cut-rate ‘bundled’ royalty payments — except for Spotify. Six-year-olds enjoy cauliflower more, but now that Spotify just whipped the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) in court,

The Grammy Awards are sticking with their man. Trevor Noah will host the show this year for the fifth consecutive time.

This year's telecast will also raise funds to support relief efforts after wildfires devastated the Grammys' hometown.

The brief shutdown of the platform in the US sparked panic in the music industry, which has found its best platform in the Chinese network. However, many warn of its influence: "It has excessive power over songs and the world in general.