MARCH 2026

– March 22-25: MUSEXPO, known as “The United Nations of Music”, will return for its 26th global edition in Burbank, California. – March 2-25: Winter Music Conference (WMC) in Miami Beach, Florida, as part of Miami Music Week. APRIL 2026 – April 9-10: Tallinn Music Week in Estonia. - April 21: Assemblies of the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. – April 22-24: IMS Ibiza 2026, presented in partner...

$39.5 billion That's recorded music global revenues in 2025, up 9.4% compared to the previous year, according to MIDiA Research‘s “Recorded music market 2025 | Rise of the fan economy” yearly report. MIDiA’s founder Mark Mulligan said in a blogpost that the revenue category expanded rights, which includes labels’ participation in merch, live, brand, etc, outperformed the global market growth rate with a 21.5% increase year-over-year. IFPI will release its yearly rep...

These are some of the main stories published by Creative Industries News in the past week: COPYRIGHT & REGULATION> European Parliament adopts AI report on the protection of copyrighted work and the EU’s creative sector in the age of AI> US Senators Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch urge ByteDance to ‘shut down’ AI video tool Seedance 2.0> Catherine Pégard replaces Rachida Dati as Minister of Culture in French government> British Society of Authors launches the Human Authored scheme to help id...