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Editorial Team · Music News & Industry Coverage
MuzicFanatic follows the music people are hearing now and the business decisions shaping what comes next. Our team covers releases, artists, tours, streaming platforms, and the moments that move a song or career into the wider conversation. We work from official announcements, firsthand material, and reliable industry reporting, then turn it into clear coverage for readers who want the news without the noise.
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Jermaine Dupri Ends $18 Million Sony Music Royalty Lawsuit
Jermaine Dupri and his So So Def companies have ended their $18 million royalty lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment less than two months after filing it, telling a…
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Ariana Grande Wins Court Approval to Identify Alleged Music Leakers
Ariana Grande can begin subpoenaing social-media platforms and payment services in an effort to identify the people she accuses of stealing, leaking and selling years of unreleased music.…
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Spotify Reaches 300 Million Premium Subscribers in Streaming Milestone
Spotify has reached 300 million Premium subscribers, hitting a new scale for paid audio streaming as subscriber growth, revenue and profitability all increased during the second quarter of…
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Influence Media Agrees to Buy Anthem Catalogs for Over $600 Million
Influence Media Partners has agreed to acquire substantially all of Anthem Entertainment’s assets for more than $600 million, adding a sprawling collection of publishing rights, master recordings and…
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Sony Music Sues Udio Over Alleged Use of 30,117 Recordings
Sony Music Entertainment has filed a second federal copyright lawsuit against AI music company Udio, alleging the service copied 30,117 Sony-controlled sound recordings to train its generative music…
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X and Music Publishers End Three-Year Copyright Licensing Battle
X Corp. and a group of major music publishers have ended the competing federal lawsuits at the center of a three-year fight over copyright, licensing and music used…
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Apple Music Raises Subscription Prices as Licensing Costs Increase
Apple Music has raised subscription prices in the United States and numerous international markets, with Apple pointing directly to rising music licensing costs as the reason listeners will…
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Sony Music Publishing Completes Acquisition of 45,000-Song Recognition Catalog
Sony Music Publishing has completed its acquisition of Recognition Music Group’s music-rights portfolio, bringing interests encompassing more than 45,000 songs assembled during the modern catalog-investment boom into one…
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Lit Settles Sony Music Lawsuit Over Streaming Royalty Rates
Lit has reached a settlement in principle with Sony Music Entertainment in a lawsuit built around an unusually modern question buried inside a recording contract signed in 1998:…
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Primary Wave Completes $1.5 Billion Kobalt Music Acquisition
Primary Wave Music has completed its acquisition of Kobalt, closing a transaction worth roughly $1.5 billion that brings one of the music industry’s largest independent publishing and royalty-administration…