Author: Zachary Gulino
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Dec. 19, 2025
It’s the last Weekly Headline Roundup of 2025! This week we’re looking at the biggest stories in 2025, the word of the year, indie publisher market share, the biggest AI stories of 2025, predictions for 2026, and more. Year-End Roundup: The Biggest Music Business Stories of 2025 (And a Look…
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Muse By Clios: Jessie LaBelle of AM2/Angry Mob Tells Brands: ‘Do Your Homework’ When Working With Musicians
Muse by Clios sat down with Angry Mob’s Jessie LaBelle for their ‘2 Minutes With’ series! How brands should approach working with musicians.Do your homework! Find artists who genuinely love what you do. Your values, your aesthetic, your actual product should already resonate with them. If you’re approaching someone hoping…
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Record of the Day: Angry Mob Music Signs Foreign Sub-Publishing Agreement With D-Version Music Publishing in Greece
Record of the Day featured the news that Angry Mob has signed their newest Sub-Publishing partner, D-Version in Greece. Angry Mob Music has signed a new sub-publishing agreement with D-Version Music Publishing to represent their catalog in Greece, bringing the Angry Mob Music catalog to the Greek market for the…
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Record of the Day: Symphonic Distribution Unveils ‘Your Story 2025’
Record of the Day published Symphonic’s recent announcement unveiling ‘Your Story 2025’ Year-End Recap for Clients and paying over $100M to Independent Artists in 2025. Symphonic Distribution is giving its clients the opportunity to share their stats from the year with Your Story 2025, a year-end recap tool that helps…
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Angry Mob Music Signs Foreign Sub-Publishing Agreement With D-Version Music Publishing in Greece
Los Angeles, CA (December 10, 2025) – Angry Mob Music, an independent music publisher boldly serving songwriters, composers, artists, and creatives, has signed a new sub-publishing agreement with D-Version Music Publishing to represent their catalog in Greece, bringing the Angry Mob Music catalog to the Greek market for the first…
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Music Connection: Assignments December 2025, Weston McGowen
Music Connection’s December 2025 hiring column included SourceAudio’s promotion of Weston McGowen to Global Head of Catalog Services. SourceAudio has promoted Weston McGowen to Global Head of Catalog Services. Based in New Orleans, McGowen will now oversee SourceAudio’s global catalog ecosystem, including client operations, metadata, and rights-management infrastructure for the company’s extensive network of…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Dec. 5, 2025
Welcome to our Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at AI transparency, ISWCs, need for better metadata in AI, indie label revenue sharing, Bad Bunny, and the 10th Anniversary of Music Business Worldwide. ECSA calls for transparency over the major’s AI deals – and confirmation songs and recordings will…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Nov. 25, 2025
Welcome to our Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at Udio’s future, future of labels, UMG acquisition, how much content Suno makes, funding, and continuing to highlight our our first Pass The Mic interview with Stuart Dredge. UMG & WMG Are Reshaping Udio for 2026. Just One Question: Will…
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A&R Worldwide: EVEN Strikes Deal with Symphonic
A&R Worldwide included Symphonic and EVEN’s new partnership in their latest newsletter. Direct-to-fan platform EVEN has partnered with Symphonic Distribution to bring “sell-before-streaming” storefronts to Symphonic’s creators. EVEN, described as an “infrastructure platform powering direct-to-fan music sales ahead of streaming releases,” can now be activated directly within a Symphonic account.…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Nov. 21, 2025
Welcome to our Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at our first Pass The Mic interview, super fans creating AI music, Spotify’s new song credit features, AI, and Tiny Desk. AI music creators: music’s superfans Not a week seems to go by without some big news in the world…