May 2024
Kanye West, private equity and the Aussie firm caught in concert feud
In industries of excruciating insularity, one’s owners can end up being as much of a constraint as one’s competitors.
- Myriam Robin
December 2023
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- Online gambling
Stake.com billionaires build secret position in local bookie PointsBet
Ed Craven and his business partner, Bijan Tehrani, have spent weeks buying shares in the ASX-listed group as they establish a foothold in the local market.
- Zoe Samios
September 2023
Universal Music strikes deal to reshape streaming economics
The world’s largest record company and French streaming service Deezer have agreed an arrangement they expect will lift payouts to professional artists by 10 per cent.
- Anna Nicolaou
August 2023
Google and Universal Music negotiate deal over AI ‘deepfakes’
The goal is to develop a tool for fans to create these tracks legitimately, and pay the owners of the copyrights for it. Artists would have the choice to opt in.
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- Anna Nicolaou and Madhumita Murgia
July 2023
Drake joins the pop-star poetry struggle
The singer is the latest in a long line of musicians to publish works in verse, and deal with the response.
- Sophia Nguyen
June 2023
AI helps complete ‘last’ Beatles song with John Lennon’s voice
More than 50 years after the Beatles broke up, Paul McCartney said artificial intelligence helped create one last song that will be released later this year.
- Derrick Bryson Taylor
February 2022
Virgil Abloh couture sneakers sell for $35 million at auction
Two hundred pairs of Nike Air Force 1 sneakers created by the late fashion designer Virgil Abloh have sold for a combined $35.53 million at a Sotheby’s auction.
- Marina Stanley
December 2021
Today’s Gen Z pop stars make Millennials look like Boomers
A playful competition is evidence of a dynamic that has been increasingly noticeable this year: the growing generational divide between pop’s Millennial elders and their Gen Z heirs.
- Lindsay Zoladz