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Music Business Trends, Topics & Stories to Watch in 2025
From a possible TikTok ban to the looming Diddy trial to changes coming in streaming, AI, distribution and concert ticketing, 2025 will be a big year.
Citing national security concerns, lawmakers enacted legislation last year requiring the app’s Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance to either sell TikTok or face a total ban — a measure set to go into effect on Jan. 19. “Effective pricing means creating enough entry points so that fans at every socioeconomic level can find a way to participate,” says Kirk Sommer, senior partner and global co-head of music at WME, whose clients include Hozier, Sam Smith and Adele, among many others. With the latest, the Bob Dylan-focused A Complete Unknown, gaining considerable Oscar buzz, another downpour is forecast into the coming year and beyond with previously announced high-profile biopics portraying the lives of The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Linda Ronstadt and Janis Joplin.
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