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Year-End Roundup: The Biggest Music Business Stories of 2024


The biggest music industry stories of 2024 include news about record labels, AI, live music and more areas of the business. Here's our full roundup.

On the deal-making front, the cycle of blockbuster catalog sales continued, while major deals for companies like Believe, Hipgnosis, BMI and Concord made headline news. Meanwhile, radio continued to struggle with waves of layoffs and downsizing (not to mention a bankruptcy filing), and no less a superstar than Drake took unprecedented legal action against his own label over a culture-defining diss-track war. And in a story that exploded into public consciousness last year but has only continued to pick up steam over the past 12 months, a hip-hop superstar from an earlier era suffered a stunning downfall amid a seemingly unending raft of horrifying accusations.

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