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Viral Wednesday Links
BundleGate
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/amid-spotify-bundling-dispute-in-the-us-nmpa-calls-on-congress-to-let-music-publishers-opt-out-of-compulsory-license-and-negotiate-with-streamers-in-a-free-market/
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/05/21/nmpa-wants-direct-publisher-negotiations-with-dsps/
 
SUNO DGAF
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/ai-music-generator-suno-raises-125m-valuing-company-at-500m-report/
 
TikTok Clout for UMG
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/tiktok-unveils-new-fan-spotlight-feature-with-billie-eilish/
 
Million Dollar Baby Dance
https://www.tiktok.com/@itsgroovetime/video/7364876902378589486?q=million%20dollar%20baby%20dance&t=1716384047892
 
Kendrick Major League Walk up
https://www.tiktok.com/@fanduel/video/7366264943487896874?q=not%20like%20us%20kendrick&t=1716384239493

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LINKS:
The Rights
https://www.therights.com/
 

Tech Tuesday Links:
 
Who's the GOAT?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/17/arts/music/taylor-swift-sales-tours-grammys.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
 
TIKTUBE?
 
Google AI Sandbox
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/google-unveils-music-ai-sandbox-with-the-help-of-wyclef-jean-justin-tranter-and-marc-rebillet/
 
Slack's Land Grab
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/virginieberger_ai-dataset-aitraining-activity-7197271548372656128-oT2g?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
 
Audio-PMY
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/pmy-group-taps-audoo-for-music-royalty-reporting-at-large-events/
 
@dailymusicdata
https://www.instagram.com/dailymusicdata?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Monday Monday Links
 
Bliie Eilish
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/billie-eilish-releases-highly-anticipated-third-studio-album-hit-me-hard-and-soft/
 
Prior Divas
https://www.billboard.com/culture/tv-film/amy-winehouse-biopic-opening-weekend-back-to-black-1235687342/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/opinion/madonna-celebration-tour.html
 
ACMS?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/entertainment/acm-awards-2024-see-who-won/index.html
 
Bundlegate
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/05/17/mechanical-licensing-collective-spotify-lawsuit-analysis/
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/sony-music-publishing-mulls-all-options-against-spotify-over-bundling-subscriptions/
 
Musicians on call 25th
https://www.musiciansoncall.org/news/musicians-on-call-celebrates-25-years-with-anthems-of-healing-event-featuring-kelsea-ballerini-trisha-yearwood-wynonna-judd-and-more/

LINKS
Bizzy awards
https://musicrow.com/2024/05/music-business-association-names-2024-bizzy-award-winners/
 
SONY AI
https://www.billboard.com/business/tech/sony-music-artificial-intelligence-training-opt-out-1235684192/
 
MLC v Spotify
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-sued-by-the-mlc-for-cutting-pay-rate-to-songwriters-via-premium-bundles/
 
Lucian and Red Lobster
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/sir-lucian-grainge-2023-remuneration-approved-by-universal-music-group-shareholders-at-agm/
 
Downtown
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/downtown-music-launches-downtown-royalties-financial-services-division-led-by-curve-founder-tom-allen/
 
Tamp Impala sale
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/tame-impalas-kevin-parker-sells-complete-song-catalog-to-sony-music-publishing/
 
Penske owns everything
https://trapital.co/pod/
 
Watter& Music Survey
https://surveys.waterandmusic.com/stateofdata2024
 

LINKS
 
Spicy Spotify
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-fires-back-at-music-publishers-legal-threat-over-alleged-lyrics-infringement-calling-it-false-and-misleading/
 
TICKET act
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/05/15/house-reps-pass-ticket-act/
 
Sudden littel Cancellation
https://www.pghcitypaper.com/arts-entertainment/sudden-little-thrills-music-festival-abruptly-canceled-25970944
 
Billie Eilish Litaening
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/billie-eilishs-album-listening-parties-sold-out-so-shes-bringing-hit-me-hard-and-soft-to-theaters/ar-BB1lZ7g2

Viral Wednesday Links
Ten Billion Reasons to be Cheerful
https://www.billboard.com/business/business-news/sony-music-revenue-fiscal-year-tops-guidance-1235682049/
 
SecondarySpotify Artist Profiles
https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/artist-spotify-pages-sped-up-remixes-tiktok-1235681171/
 
Joost
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/14/disqualified-eurovision-contestant-joost-klein-likely-to-face-charges-say-swedish-police
 
TikTok 50
https://www.billboard.com/charts/tiktok-billboard-top-50/
 
Viral 50
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZEVXbKuaTI1Z1Afx?si=da74e964a7544c0b
 
Celines Barrington
https://www.linkedin.com/in/celines-barrington-financialguide/
 
Sebastian Manana
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianmananalenzi/

Utopias are fragile
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/with-another-ceo-set-to-exit-more-layoffs-and-shuttered-offices-whats-going-on-at-proper-the-company-formerly-known-as-utopia-music/
 
Songwriters v. Spotify
https://www.billboard.com/business/publishing/spotify-songwriter-royalty-cuts-music-industry-reactions-1235681499/
 
TikTok Fig Leaf?
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/tiktok-to-start-automatically-labeling-ai-generated-content/
 
Water & Music Daily
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7195797783155535873?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_feedUpdate%3A%28V2%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7195797783155535873%29

Concord Walks on The Elephant
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/concord-bows-out-of-hipgnosis-bidding-war-saying-its-1-51bn-offer-is-final-and-will-not-be-increased/
 
Beatles are Bigger Than the Stones
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=%2Fm%2F07c0j,%2Fm%2F07mvp&hl=en
 
Music Biz Kicks off 
https://musicbiz.org/music-biz-2024-agenda/
 
Lucian's Pay
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/05/07/lucian-grainge-pay-criticism/
 
 
 
 

LINKS
 
Warner Earnings
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/warner-music-group-generated-1-49bn-in-q1-subscription-streaming-revenues-rose-13-5-yoy1/
 
RoyFi rises
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/05/09/royfi-royalty-advance-partnerships/
 
Tencent Takeaways
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/tencent-musics-ai-powered-tech-can-predict-the-next-hit-song-and-5-other-things-we-learned-from-its-latest-annual-report/
 
UMG Takeaways
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/universal-music-group-sees-a-future-where-1-in-5-streamers-pays-for-a-super-premium-tier-and-3-other-things-we-learned-from-umgs-q1-earnings-call123
 
Musonomics on Eanrings, Beef and Bundling
https://musonomics.com/heres-the-beef-and-earnings-roundup
 
Trapital on Beefs
https://castbox.fm/app/castbox/player/id2187495?utm_source=website&utm_medium=dlink&utm_campaign=web_share&utm_content=How%20Hip-Hop%20Beef%20Evolved%20in%20the%20Streaming%20Era-CastBox_FM
 
Kendrick Won
https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/kendrick-lamars-catalog-up-streams-drake-down-beef-1235677562/
 
5 Rods for Downtown
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/downtown-secures-500m-credit-facility-from-bank-of-america-for-indie-artist-advances12345/