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2 weeks ago | 
billboard.com | Richard Smirke
LONDON — When the European Parliament passed sweeping new laws governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) last March, the “world first” legislation was hailed as an important victory by music executives and rights holders.
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2 months ago | 
billboard.com | Franchesca Guim |Elizabeth Dilts Marshall |Bill Donahue |Richard Smirke
After a successful First Spanish Music Encounter at the WiZink Center in 2024, Billboard returned to Madrid on Tuesday (March 18) with “Leaders of Music in Spain,” an event that reaffirms its commitment to the country’s music scene. The cocktail event, held at the Hotel VP Plaza España Design, gathered more than a hundred executives, artists, and key industry figures to strengthen ties and boost the global projection of Spaniard music.
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2 months ago | 
billboard.com | Elizabeth Dilts Marshall |Bill Donahue |Richard Smirke |Melinda Newman
ATEEZ KQ ENTERTAINMENT KQ Entertainment, the South Korean music company behind ATEEZ, signed a multi-year agreement with AEG Presents to oversee the production of all global tours for the K-pop supergroup.
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2 months ago | 
billboard.com | Bill Donahue |Richard Smirke |Melinda Newman |Paul Grein
Universal Music Group is asking a federal judge to halt all discovery in Drake’s defamation lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us,” arguing that the star is unfairly demanding “highly commercially sensitive documents” – including Lamar’s record deal. A day after moving to dismiss the lawsuit, UMG followed up Tuesday by asking the judge to pause discovery until he rules on that motion.
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2 months ago | 
billboard.com | Bill Donahue |Richard Smirke |Melinda Newman |Paul Grein
Miley Cyrus has lost her initial bid to dismiss a copyright case claiming her chart-topping “Flowers” ripped off the Bruno Mars song “When I Was Your Man,” allowing the high-profile lawsuit to proceed toward a trial. Seeking to end the case at the outset, attorneys for Cyrus had argued that the plaintiff who filed the lawsuit lacked the legal “standing” to pursue it.
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2 months ago | 
billboard.com | Richard Smirke |Melinda Newman |Paul Grein |Griselda Flores
LONDON — Global music sales grew for the tenth consecutive year in 2024 but the risk of generative AI systems using copyright-protected music to freely train their systems poses “a very real and present threat” to the future of the industry, warn record executives.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
billboard.com | Gail Mitchell |Chris Eggertsen |Leila Cobo |Richard Smirke
There will never be enough time or space to recognize all the unsung heroes and trailblazers in the music industry that deserve to be acknowledged. But as Black History Month winds down, one pioneer stands out: Regina Jones, former co-owner and editor-in-chief of the groundbreaking music and entertainment publication, SOUL Newspaper.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
billboard.com | Leila Cobo |Richard Smirke |Marc Schneider |Chris Eggertsen
This Tuesday (Feb. 25), at 3:15 p.m., the country of Chile lost power. With a seconds-long shudder that was felt from North to South, 80% of the country was left without electricity.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
billboard.com | Richard Smirke |Marc Schneider |Chris Eggertsen |Michael Saponara
LONDON — Proper Music Group, the U.K.’s leading physical distributor for independent labels and artists, has been acquired by Netherlands-based Artone, bringing an end to a tumultuous three-year period during which the firm was owned by Swiss fintech company Utopia Music. Completion of Artone’s acquisition of Proper Music Group was announced by the company Friday (Feb. 28), one day after Proper was placed in administration (roughly equivalent to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection).
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Richard Smirke
NowExpert explains why the hands and feet of Gene Hackman’s wife were reportedly mummifiedLegendary actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead Wednesday in their New Mexico home, along with their dog, in circumstances officials deemed “suspicious enough” to warrant a thorough investigation. CNN's John Miller and forensic pathologist Dr. Judy Melinek analyze the deaths.
