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Atlantic Music Group bumped Dave Rocco up to Chief Creative Officer after he spent the past year running visual campaigns for acts like Cardi B, FKA twigs, and Don Toliver. The guy came over from Universal Music Group, where he handled creative stuff across multiple divisions, and before that he...

Beatdapp dropped a trust and safety platform that goes way beyond its usual streaming fraud detection gig by bundling identity checks, AI music detection, bot spotting, and account hijacking prevention into one system. The Vancouver company raised $17 million earlier this year and is pitching...

Cher locked down her half of Sonny and Cher royalties after a judge ruled that her 1978 divorce settlement trumps copyright law termination rules. Mary Bono tried yanking the singer's cut by claiming heirs could reclaim rights under federal copyright provisions, but the court sided with Cher and...

Live Nation snagged Royal Arena from Realdania and Copenhagen City after running the 17,000-capacity Danish venue since it opened back in 2017. The concert giant plans to drop cash on upgrades like rooftop solar panels, full LED lighting conversion, and battery storage systems that should save...

Universal Music Benelux boss Kees van der Hoeven is bouncing after running the Dutch operation for over 25 years and handling the broader Benelux region since 2013. Frank Briegmann from Central Europe will take over the gig temporarily while the company figures out what comes next. Van der...

Daddy Yankee dropped a massive lawsuit against his ex-wife, Mireddys González-Castellanos, and former manager Raphy Pina over what he claims was a 20-year hustle to steal his publishing money. The Puerto Rican rapper filed the complaint in federal court, alleging that Pina fraudulently added...

Bending Spoons is dropping around $500 million in cash to scoop up Eventbrite, which is pretty wild considering the San Francisco ticketing platform was valued at $1.8 billion before going public back in 2018. The Milan-based private equity outfit has a track record of buying tech brands that...

WME snagged Carín León for worldwide representation, with Kirk M. Sommer running point on pushing the Mexican artist into fresh markets beyond his Regional Mexican stronghold. The five-time Grammy winner crushed attendance records at RODEOHOUSTON earlier this year with over 70,000 people showing...

JioSaavn hit 500 million downloads on Google Play, making it the second-biggest entertainment app in India behind JioHotstar. The streaming platform holds around 100 million monthly users who access more than 100 million songs across 15 languages, though that user count has basically stayed the...

MuseScore Studio dropped version 4.6.4 with Online Sounds that hooks into Cantai's AI vocal tech for instant sung playback when you type lyrics into scores. The desktop notation app became the first one to let composers hear AI-generated singing in real time while they mess around with vocal...

Acon Digital rolled out Extract Dialogue 2 with upgrades aimed at post-production folks who kept complaining about janky reverb and needing seventeen different plugins just to get clean audio. The company built this version after talking to dialogue editors and mixing engineers who wanted better...

VSL dropped their sixth Duality Strings pack focused on ostinato patterns, and the company went hard on avoiding that robotic loop vibe everyone hates. The Synchron Player reassembles individual notes pulled from actual ensemble performances in real time instead of just cycling through...

Myanmar folks living in South Korea who filled out their voting paperwork can hit up the Seoul embassy to cast ballots for the 2025 general election. The spot opens for two days with a six-hour window, and people need to bring their passport or national ID card to actually vote. Similar advance...

PP-DB is dropping a no-confidence motion against the cabinet over economic policy that basically pushed the masses into the streets. Bozhidar Bozhanov says the budget was just the breaking point for how badly they screwed over regular workers and companies, while Nikolay Denkov from the...

A 34-year-old guy walked out on bail after his car slammed into a police vehicle and killed an officer on the Northern Tangent. Miroslav Vassilev was doing 149 kilometers per hour when it happened, and prosecutors wanted him locked up because they figured he might pull something else while...

Bulgaria's Economy Minister Petar Dilov met with Egyptian officials in Cairo to talk up partnership opportunities, hitting meetings with Deputy PM Kamel al-Wazir and Defense Minister Abdul Majid Saqr. The countries are eyeing deeper ties in cars, military manufacturing, and shipping ahead of...

MECH party says they'll back the no-confidence vote against the cabinet that PP-DB is cooking up. Party boss Radostin Vassilev went off on Interior Minister Daniel Mitov after his hearing, saying the guy blamed literally everyone else for protest chaos instead of taking responsibility. Mitov...

Ivaylo Mirchev from Yes Bulgaria and PP-DB claims Delyan Peevski tried getting signatures to dodge Magnitsky sanctions by supporting armored vehicle transfers to Ukraine. The politician says Peevski literally had his secretary hand over a phone mid-session in the plenary hall, asking for...

A mother says her son, Nikolay Aleksiev, got beaten by cops during a protest in Sofia and was locked up without proper cause. Desislava Aleksieva told reporters that Nikolai had to stitch up his own head at a hospital after the violence, and he went back to the demonstration before getting...

Bulgarian cops are putting extra officers on the streets for Student Holiday after checking over 500 party venues and finding 79 fire safety violations at spots missing extinguishers or proper documentation. Traffic Police Commissioner Maria Boteva said officers will be watching for drunk...