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From Blackstone’s Citrin Cooperman acquisition to Travis Scott’s alleged copyright infringement… it’s MBW’s Weekly Spherical-Up

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January 12, 2025
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Welcome to Music Enterprise Worldwide’s weekly round-up – the place we ensure that you caught the 5 largest tales to hit our headlines over the previous seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximize their revenue and scale back their touring prices.


The catastrophic wildfires nonetheless unfolding in Los Angeles County have clearly overshadowed each piece of music business information this week.

Music Enterprise Worldwide‘s ideas exit to all of these affected.

Amongst the devastation: Malibu’s beloved Harbor Studios, the place quite a lot of superstars have recorded, was sadly destroyed by the Palisades Fireplace.

Confirming the information on Instagram yesterday (January 9), proprietor Zach Brandon wrote: “I cried this morning, however not as a result of Harbor burned down. I cried as a result of it settled in with me that Harbor was taken from so many artists who cared so deeply about Harbor. It was a spot of musical freedom… a sanctuary in probably the most literal sense of the phrase. I beloved it.”

Brandon vowed that his workforce would “come again stronger from this”, writing that “fortunately, the magic that has been bestowed upon us by our shoppers is one thing that may by no means go away. It’s within the soil, it’s within the air, and it’s in our souls.”

Elsewhere within the music business this week, we noticed breaking information involving Travis Scott, Daniel Ek, Blackstone, Spotify and extra.

Listed below are 5 of the most important headlines from the music enterprise over the previous few days…


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1) TRAVIS SCOTT, SZA, FUTURE SUED FOR ALLEGED COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT OVER 2023 HIT ‘TELEKINESIS’

We’re only a week into 2025, and the primary blockbuster copyright infringement lawsuit of the yr has already been filed in a New York court docket.

In accordance with authorized paperwork obtained by MBW, Travis Scott, SZA and Future are being sued by RocNation-signed artist Victory Boyd, and her publishing firm Songs of Glory, for allegedly ripping off her music Like The Manner It Sounds to create their 2023 hit, Telekinesis.

Telekinesis has been streamed over 413 million occasions on Spotify alone. It was launched as a part of Scott’s smash hit, US No.1album, Utopia (Cactus Jack/Epic Data/ Sony Music)…


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2) DANIEL EK HAS CASHED OUT OVER HALF-A-BILLION DOLLARS IN SPOTIFY STOCK TO DATE, BANKING ANOTHER $28M THIS WEEK

Spotify CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek has launched into 2025 with one other vital monetary transfer.

Ek bought an extra USD $27.8 million price of firm shares on Wednesday (January 8), persevering with a sample of considerable inventory transactions.

Since Ek cashed out a tranche of Spotify shares for the primary time in July 2023, he has banked round USD $568 million from SPOT inventory gross sales in whole (together with the most recent transaction), in accordance with MBW calculations…


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3) BLACKSTONE MAJORITY-ACQUIRES CITRIN COOPERMAN, ONE OF MUSIC’S BIGGEST VALUATION FIRMS

It’s one of many key valuation and advisory gamers in music’s blockbuster M&A market. Now, Citrin Cooperman (CC) has an attention-grabbing new proprietor… and a mammoth price-tag.

A Blackstone-led investor group has majority-acquired New York-headquartered CC, shopping for out the agency’s earlier investor, New Mountain Capital.

The Monetary Occasions stories that the deal provides Citrin Cooperman – which claims to be one of many largest skilled providers corporations in the USA – an enterprise worth of over $2 billion…


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4) UK MUSIC STREAMING SUBSCRIPTION REVENUES JUMPED 7.8% YOY IN 2024 TO $2.58BN – BOOSTED BY SPOTIFY PRICE RISE

The amount of cash spent on music subscriptions by UK shoppers grew healthily final yr, up 7.8% YoY.

That’s in accordance with new preliminary stats from the UK’s Leisure Retailers’ Affiliation (ERA), whose members embrace Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, and SoundCloud.

In accordance with ERA’s information, some GBP £2.018 billion (USD $2.58bn) was spent on music streaming subscriptions in 2024, up from GBP £1.870 billion in 2023.

In financial phrases, that represented a YoY improve of GBP £146.4 million.

(To be extra-clear: ERA’s figures are retail quantities – i.e. what shoppers spent on subscriptions, quite than the wholesale determine paid to music rightsholders. They don’t embrace income from ad-supported tiers.).. (MBW)


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5) SPOTIFY NABS 48-HOUR EXCLUSIVE FOR THE WEEKND ‘BILLIONS CLUB’ CONCERT FILM

Spotify is solely premiering a live performance movie from famous person artist The Weeknd on its platform this week, because the streaming firm expands its video content material technique.

Beginning Tuesday (January 7), the 45-minute particular, titled Billions Membership Dwell with The Weeknd: A Live performance Movie, will stream solely on Spotify for 48 hours earlier than changing into accessible on different platforms.

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The 48-hour exclusivity window represents Spotify’s first main take a look at of time-limited long-form video content material….


MBW’s Weekly Spherical-Up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximise their revenue and scale back their touring prices.Music Enterprise Worldwide



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