MBW has an article on UMG CEO’s thoughts on AI slop:
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/sir-lucian-grainge-talks-ai-music-superfans-in-2026-memo-taking-swipe-at-firms-validating-business-models-that-fail-to-respect-artists-work
Nice to see they’re still pursuing Suno’s platform for artist theft.
Elmo Muskrat is a grifter and a cheat, just like Donnie Boy. This time I’ve got two sources covering the lawsuit Elmo filed to shaft creatives. The first MBW is here:
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I know this isn’t a concern of most indie artists, but there’s this news from Chartmetric:
Does this concern you? I mean, do you publish YouTube videos or music?
This from MBW:
Spotify stands by the artist community? What doublespeak. Right out of Orwell’s 1984! The only thing Spotify does for artists is ass-rape them. Spotify’s payouts to artists is
Stan has this to say about SoundCloud and their grifting of artists on their platform:
Why I’m leaving SoundCloudStan Stewart - @muz4nowStan Stewart - @muz4nowStan Stewart
I had this reply:
I’ve
