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Drake's UMG lawsuit, the TikTok ban, the Nelly case and more music legal news from the past week, including cases involving Diddy and Tekashi 6ix9ine.

Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximize their income and reduce their touring costs.

Now TikTok has garnered over 170 million users in the U.S. Some of the largest record labels nationwide like Universal Music Group have taken advantage of that audience pool, using the app to ...

The U.S. TikTok ban went into effect on the evening of January 18; here's how it could affect the music industry for better or worse.

Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximize their income and reduce their touring costs.

Now TikTok has garnered over 170 million users in the U.S. Some of the largest record labels nationwide like Universal Music Group have taken advantage of that audience pool, using the app to promote artists and their music while the labels take home the ...

Chances are, the ban won’t severely disrupt the bottom line of big labels—we saw that when Universal Music Group pulled its music from TikTok last year and suffered no damage. But majors and legacy artists will still lose revenue because of the loss of ...

From JADE to Damiano David, Aliyah's Interlude, Coco Jones, and Remy Bond, a new set of rising musicians with genuinely good new music are reshaping the music industry. Here are 25 artists InStyle tapped as the future.

Kendrick Lamar and SZA will take the stage at the year's biggest football game -- but there's some controversy.

Supa King ’s “Tell On Me” becomes the first song to reign on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart for more than two weeks in a row in 2025, spending its second week at No. 1 on the Feb. 1-dated ranking.

Explore TikTok's 'Behind the Breakthrough' campaign via Gigi Perez, whose song 'Sailor Song' made waves on TikTok and the Billboard charts.