Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our ...

Topping the music industry’s executive shuffles this week is Ole Obermann jumping ship from TikTok to Apple Music. Is this merely the rumble before the earthquake? The timing of Obermann’s move is ...

Singer Steven Wilmot dropped a cover of the song "Need" and credited Taylor Swift. Should he have gotten permission?

James Blake is a Grammy-winning musician who felt the traditional music business wasn't working for him. So he took all of ...

TikTok's top music executive, Ole Obermann, is leaving the company next month after helping transform the app into a music ...

Ole Obermann will depart TikTok as global head of music business development with Tracy Gardner set to replace him.

After five and a half years as Global Head of Music Business Development at ByteDance, Ole Obermann will be leaving the ...

LiAngelo Ball, better known as a basketball star, shifted to becoming a live stage music performer on February 15, 2025, for ...

Drake's new album with PartyNextDoor, "$ome $exy $ongs 4 U," is his first since "Not Like Us." And he uses "Gimme a Hug" to ...

In the early 1980s, when cable TV was young and music videos were on the cutting edge, Doug Herzog used to fly coach for his job as a junior MTV programming executive. When he traveled, Herzog would ...

and snark of the TikTok era. The song was so devastating that Drake sued Universal Music Group—both his and Lamar’s label—for ...