Universal Music Philippines has announced the launch of Island Records Philippines. The new label division is intended to help domestic acts to achieve both local and global success. The launch ...

MANILA, Philippines — A newly launched recording company, Viral Records, recently made its presence felt in the local music industry when it introduced seven artists — four bands and three ...

The big three record labels notched another court victory against a broadband provider last month, but the music publishing firms aren't happy that an appeals court only awarded per-album damages ...

By Glenn Peoples In the ‘00s, The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan looked at the disruptive nature of early social media platform MySpace and saw the death of the record label.

“You’ve got to be pretty bloody-minded to start an independent record label,” said Martin Mills, founder of indie powerhouse Beggars Group, which includes XL Recordings, in a recent Zoom ...

The world’s largest record companies have filed a massive lawsuit ... for both vicarious and contributory infringement. The labels are seeking as much as $150,000 per infringement, and allege ...

And now, there’s a powerful new player threatening artists’ earnings. Last week, major record companies (Universal, Capitol, Atlantic, Warner, Sony and others) filed a lawsuit against two ...

The three largest record labels are suing two artificial intelligence music companies, alleging the firms committed “mass infringement of copyrighted sound recordings” by using artists ...

Morgan Wallen and Sabrina Carpenter (the latter whose label Island Records is included in REPUBLIC’s market share along with Cash Money, Wallen’s labels Mercury and Big Loud and indie ...