Category: Weekly Headline Roundup
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Feb. 6, 2026
It’s the Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at Grammy winners, the latest music industry funding numbers, California’s new bill to cap ticket resale prices, and more. Grammy Winners 2026: Kendrick Lamar Leads With Five; Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga Score Key Wins Kendrick Lamar came into the…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Jan. 30, 2026
It’s the Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at Indie Label Strategy, Livestreaming, GRAMMY Awards, The Pope, Spotify Payouts, and the Power 100. How to Make 2026 Your Breakout Year: Building Your Creative Conduit What is a “Modern Creative?” More importantly, how does a modern creative effectively tap into…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Jan. 23, 2026
It’s the Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at the new Apple Creator Studio, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees, this year’s music industry predictions, and more. Music streaming platforms now host quarter of a BILLION tracks. Where does it end? Last year, Spotify removed over 75 million ‘spammy tracks’…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Jan. 16, 2026
It’s the first Weekly Headline Roundup of 2026! This week we’re looking at the biggest stories in 2025, Spotify, 2026 predictions, a new music index, copyright recapture, and Bandcamp’s AI ban. As Spotify lowers monetization threshold for podcasters, should it increase payout barrier for music artists? Is Spotify spreading its…
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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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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Dec. 12, 2025
Welcome to our Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at combatting fraud, the new mechanical royalty rates, Spotify’s launch of music videos, and more. Indie publisher trade body says members should reject AI deals that do not value songs properly The major labels’ big deals with Suno and Udio…
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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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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…
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Jaybird Weekly Headline Roundup | Nov. 14, 2025
Welcome to our Weekly Headline Roundup! This week we’re looking at the global increase in songwriter royalties, new Spotify and NMPA AV deal, AI track uploads, and importance of local culture. Global songwriter royalty collections reached $13.6bn in 2024, up 7.2%, CISAC reports Creator royalties hit another all-time high in…