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‘Michael’ becomes highest-grossing music biopic in history – overtaking ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ with $911M+ at global box office

Michael, the Michael Jackson biopic, is now the highest-grossing music biopic in history, having grossed $911.9 million at the global box office to...

Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman on rewarding superfans, breaking artists, and the business of festivals

Few platforms in the history of the live music business are credited with breaking as many artists as the Vans Warped Tour.For nearly...

Wall Street’s hottest debate: Does the flood of mega-IPOs and new shares signal a downturn ahead?

Investors swarmed all over SpaceX’s historic IPO and are hyped about public debuts for OpenAI and Anthropic later this year, but they’re also...

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

Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s Weekly Round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines...

SpaceX: When the IPO starts trading, some ‘shareholders’ will discover they own nothing at all

 The stock market in New York will open at 9.30 a.m. local time as usual today and then, a few hours later, shares...

The head of Claude Code hasn’t ‘written a line of code by hand’ in 8 months

The man who built the tool that’s rewriting how software gets made hasn’t touched a keyboard to write code in the better part...

The curse of Trump watching sports in person: the home team seems to always lose

You’ll usually be in the money — at least if recent history holds. The New York Knicks, after two straight wins in the finals...

Marc Lore’s robots make 500 burrito bowls an hour. A human can make 45.

An “infinite bowl-making machine” can make 500 salads, Tex-Mex, and poke bowls with the exact ingredients you want down to the personalized macros...

OpenAI files confidential SEC S-1 paperwork for IPO

ChatGPT maker OpenAI filed preliminary paperwork that would open the door to it becoming a publicly traded company, the third in a powerhouse trio of artificial...

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