From UMG’s €1B bond sale to Warner Music’s Sureel AI acquisition… it’s MBW’s Weekly Spherical-up

This week, Common Music Group confirmed a EUR €1 billion bond sale.

Individually, UMG agreed to promote royalty platform Curve Royalty Methods to Merlin and Matt Spetzler‘s Jamen Capital.

In the meantime, Warner Music Group acquired Sureel AI, the attribution startup that traces how AI fashions use artists’ work.

Elsewhere, the Nationwide Music Publishers’ Affiliation struck landmark AI licensing offers with Udio and KLAY.

Additionally this week, Spotify was reported to be searching for the rights to point out reside video of music festivals.

Listed below are among the largest headlines from the previous few days…

1. UNIVERSAL MUSIC CONFIRMS €1 BILLION BOND SALE

Common Music Group has efficiently priced a EUR €1 billion (USD $1.15 billion) bond providing. The bond sale is cut up into two tranches of €500 million every, UMG stated on Tuesday (June 9). UMG, which trades on the Euronext Amsterdam, confirmed on Tuesday (June 9) that it “has efficiently priced €500m of three.375% senior unsecured notes due 2030 and €500m of 4.125% senior unsecured notes due 2036″… (MBW)

2. WARNER MUSIC GROUP ACQUIRES SUREEL AI, THE ATTRIBUTION STARTUP THAT TRACES HOW AI MODELS USE ARTISTS’ WORK

Warner Music Group has agreed to accumulate Sureel AI. Sureel is the attribution startup whose expertise tracks how AI fashions use artists’ work in coaching and era. The acquisition “advances WMG‘s mission to make sure that artists, songwriters, and rightsholders profit wherever and every time their work is referenced in AI-generated works or within the coaching of AI fashions,” based on the corporate… (MBW)

3. MUSIC PUBLISHERS STRIKE AI LICENSING DEALS WITH UDIO AND KLAY AS NMPA REVEALS ‘LANDMARK’ INDUSTRY-WIDE PACTS

The Nationwide Music Publishers’ Affiliation has agreed an industry-wide AI licensing cope with the AI music platform Udio. NMPA President and CEO David Israelite introduced the deal on Wednesday (June 10) on the commerce physique’s annual assembly in New York, the place he additionally unveiled an settlement in precept with a second AI music platform, KLAY. Israelite stated the Udio settlement is the primary industry-wide licensing deal struck with a significant AI music firm, and the primary to “worth songs and sound recordings equally” in terms of AI coaching… (MBW)

4. UNIVERSAL SELLS CURVE ROYALTY SYSTEMS TO MERLIN AND MATT SPETZLER’S JAMEN CAPITAL

Common Music Group and its subsidiary Virgin Music Group have agreed to promote Curve Royalty Methods to Jamen Capital and Merlin. The sale is the divestment that the European Fee required as a situation of clearing Common Music Group’s $775 million acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings in February. It paves the best way for Curve, the royalty processing platform utilized by hundreds of document labels, distributors and publishers, to function as an impartial enterprise once more… (MBW)

5. SPOTIFY SEEKING RIGHTS TO SHOW LIVE VIDEO OF MUSIC FESTIVALS (REPORT)

Spotify has held talks with competition promoters over rights to hold reside live performance video on its platform. That’s based on Bloomberg, which reported on Monday (June 8) that the plans had been described to it by folks acquainted with the talks. It will be Spotify‘s first push into reside video; the corporate has to this point solely tried reside audio… (MBW)