With nine Oscar wins, Alfred Newman remains the most honored composer in Academy history. From sweeping romance to epic ...

Music publishers are asking Spotify to remove thousands of unlicensed songs from podcasts on its platform, a massive takedown request spanning work by megastars from Taylor Swift and Kendrick ...

The takedown program includes 19 NMPA member publishers including ABKCO, Anthem Entertainment, Big Machine Music, BMG, Concord Music Publishing, Downtown Music Publishing, Hipgnosis Songs Group ...

Coming from a family of classical musicians, Al reinvigorated a childhood hobby by taking up the violin again when he retired ...

Louisiana Judge Shelly Dick ruled that songwriter Cyril E Vetter was able to reclaim all the rights he’d assigned to his music publisher under a 1963 publishing deal when he terminated that deal ...

By Billboard Japan The Japan Culture and Entertainment Industry Promotion Association (CEIPA) has announced matsuri ’25: Japanese Music Experience LOS ANGELES, a concert featuring performances ...

He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Spotify and Universal Music Group have signed a new multi-year agreement that could result in a tiered subscription approach ...

The Jewish man who wrote it was called Alfred Josephs, and he was sending ... Primo Levi initially struggled to find a publisher for his book, If This is a Man The Italian survivor, Primo Levi ...

The new publishing agreement establishes a direct license between Spotify and Universal Music Publishing Group. By Zoe G. Phillips Spotify and Universal Music Group announced a new multiyear deal ...

The new multiyear partnership will expand monetization opportunities for recorded music and publishing, and align with UMG's new "Streaming 2.0" strategy outlined this year. By Kristin Robinson ...

And, as MBW’s sources nodded to earlier… it includes a surprise direct licensing agreement between Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) and Spotify in the United States (plus multiple other ...