Music Business Worldwide

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1. Dialled In Records launches in London focused on South Asian music in partnership with The Collective, part of Universal Music UK’s Island-EMI

   Dialled In Records launches with two acts: Pakistan-born producer and DJ Ahadadream, and Excise Dept, an India-based multidisciplinary collective.

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2. Wyclef Jean and Jaeson Ma’s D2C service OpenWav launches Snafu-backed indie artist financing platform

   OpenWav says it can pay advances 'anywhere from the low five figures to the high seven figures'

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3. Meta touts Instagram as music superfan hub in new Luminate study

   Musicians who participate in Instagram's Activation program see their streaming numbers jump by roughly 10% in the week an activation launches.

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4. Rostrum Pacific’s FatBeats acquires physical distro company Traffic Entertainment Group, plus D2C store and label Get On Down

   The deal brings together three companies with a combined 50 years of experience in vinyl distribution, physical distribution, and premium catalog re-issues.

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5. Brian Miller appointed Chief Business Officer at TuneCore

   Miller has served as Chief Revenue Officer at TuneCore for the last two years

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6. TikTok’s distro service SoundOn cracks down on manipulated audio via ACRCloud partnership to intercept unauthorized tracks

   ACRCloud’s Derivative Works Detection service uses audio fingerprinting to identify modified works

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7. SeatGeek launches ChatGPT integration, bringing ticket listings to OpenAI’s chatbot

   The ticketing platform says it's the first to bring both primary and resale inventory into OpenAI's chatbot.

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8. ‘In today’s world, what does the word ‘manager’ mean? You’re really just sitting at the table with the artist.’

   Culture Collective founder Jonathan Azu talks about his multi-hyphenate background, working with Grammy-winning artists, and where he wants to go from here…

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9. HYBE to inject $100M into US subsidiary, HYBE America

   Capital injection was approved by HYBE's board on March 31

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10. Elon Musk’s X seizes on Supreme Court’s landmark Cox ruling in bid to derail music publishers’ copyright case

    X Corp has told a Nashville federal court that last week's ruling renders the publishers' surviving claims defunct.

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