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Elizabeth Dilts Marshall @eadilts

Financial journalist writing about the music industry for @Billboard, formerly @Reuters, @ColumbiaJourn grad billboard.com/author/ediltsm…

Joined February 2009
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How AI Brought Biggie Back From the Dead --and he's only the latest artists to be resurrected with AI billboard.com/pro/notorious-… via @billboard

How AI Brought Biggie Back From the Dead

The Notorious B.I.G. and Timbaland's AI collab raises questions about using artificial intelligence vocal rendering technology for deceased artists.

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Metallica Sells So Much Vinyl It Just Bought Its Own Pressing Plant billboard.com/pro/metallica-… via @billboard

Metallica Sells So Much Vinyl It Just Bought Its Own Pressing Plant

Metallica is buying Furnace Record Pressing in Virginia to manufacture high-quality vinyl for the heavy metal band.

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Just broke this news: Juice WRLD catalog sells for 9 figures @billboard @billboardpro @billboardhiphop 🕵️‍♀️ billboard.com/pro/juice-wrld…

Juice WRLD Catalog Quietly Sold to Opus Music Group

The Juice WRLD catalog sold to Opus Music Group.

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BMG Signed French Rapper With Antisemitic History, Tried to Keep It a Secret billboard.com/pro/bmg-signed… @billboard

BMG Signed French Rapper With Antisemitic History, Then Killed His Contract Before Single Release

BMG signed French rapper Freeze Corleone knowing UMG had dropped him due to antisemitic lyrics, then killed the contract a day before releasing music.

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‘The Garden Has to Defend Itself’: MSG Chief James Dolan Hits Back at Facial Recognition Criticism billboard.com/pro/msg-james-… via @billboard

‘The Garden Has to Defend Itself’: MSG Chief James Dolan Hits Back at Facial Recognition Criticism

MSG CEO James Dolan has defended the use of facial recognition technology at the Garden to bar entry of lawyers.

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Spotify CEO: "I was too ambitious in investing ahead of our revenue growth." Streaming co cuts 6% of global staff billboard.com/pro/spotify-la… via @billboard

Spotify Cutting 6% of Global Staff, Announces Departure of Dawn Ostroff

Spotify said on Monday it will layoff 6% of its global staff and that chief content officer Dawn Ostroff is departing.

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Taylor Swift’s cat, reportedly worth $97 million, is only the third-richest pet in the world.billboard.com/music/music-ne… via @billboard

Taylor Swift’s Cat Olivia Benson Is Reportedly Worth $97 Million

Taylor Swift's cat Olivia Benson is worth $97 million, reportedly. Get the details.

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1 Dec 2022
Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman and I discussed job cuts, Elon Musk and the economy at #ReutersNEXT. Here's my story with @saeedhas and @NiketNishant. reuters.com/business/finance…
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Warner Music Posts $1.5B in Quarterly Revenue as Publishing Rises 32% billboard.com/pro/warner-mus… via @billboard

Warner Music Posts $1.5B in Quarterly Revenue as Publishing Rises 32%

Warner Music Group's fourth quarter revenues grew 16% overall on strong recorded music and publishing growth.

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NPR’s ‘Planet Money’ Podcast Launches Label to Boost ‘Inflation’ and Demystify the Music Biz billboard.com/pro/npr-planet… via @billboard

NPR’s ‘Planet Money’ Podcast Launches Label to Boost ‘Inflation’ and Demystify the Music Biz

The NPR podcast Planet Money formed a record label to release an old song called "Inflation" -- and use the experience to explain how the new music industry works.

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Amazon Music Now Offers 100 Million Songs to Prime Members—a 4,900% increase in songs that Prime members will be able to hear ad-free on shuffle. billboard.com/pro/amazon-mus… via @billboard

Amazon Music Now Offers 100 Million Songs to Prime Members

Amazon Prime members can now shuffle-play 100 millions songs ad-free, up from 2 million

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Ex-WMG Innovation Chief Scott Cohen Named CEO of Music Investing Platform billboard.com/pro/scott-cohe… via @billboard

Ex-WMG Innovation Chief Scott Cohen Named CEO of Music Investing Platform

New venture will allow investors to buy fractional shares in iconic artists' song rights.

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Spotify Stock Sinks as Investors Show Impatience for Long-Term Strategy billboard.com/pro/spotify-st… via @billboard

Spotify Stock Sinks as Investors Show Impatience for Long-Term Strategy

Spotify's long-term strategy to increase profit margins isn't happening fast enough for investors. The company's stock fell 13.1% to $84.42 on Wednesday, following Tuesday's earnings report.

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Investors are betting that if Apple Music can raise prices when U.S. consmer sentiment is in the dumps, then so can Spotify, Amazon, the list goes on... billboard.com/pro/apple-musi…

Apple Music’s Price Hike Boosts Music Stocks

Universal Music Group, Hipgnosis Songs Fund and other music stocks rose on Tuesday following news of Apple Music's price hike, as investors bet it would trigger a wave of streaming subscription cost...

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Blake Shelton Sells Master Recordings Ownership to Influence Media Partners billboard.com/pro/blake-shel… via @billboard

Blake Shelton Sells Master Recordings Ownership to Influence Media Partners

Country hitmaker Blake Shelton has sold the ownership of all of his commercially-released master recordings from 2001-2019 to Influence Media Partners.

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I love this--the U.S. music industry has always been called recession proof. Maybe not as much as #kpop? As Music Stocks Keep Slipping, This One K-Pop Company Is Bucking the Trend billboard.com/pro/music-stoc… via @billboard

As Music Stocks Keep Slipping, This One K-Pop Company Is Bucking the Trend

South Korean music company SM Entertainment, home to NCT 127 and SuperM, has withstood the stock market downturns that have hit all other publicly-traded music companies.

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Former YouTube exec Robert Kyncl named CEO of Warner Music Group billboard.com/pro/robert-kyn… via @billboard

Robert Kyncl Named CEO of Warner Music Group

Former YouTube chief business officer Robert Kyncl has been chosen to replace Stephen Cooper as Warner Music Group’s new CEO, the company announced Wednesday

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While most every other big business is getting the hell out of Russia, French music company Believe ... expanding? billboard.com/pro/believe-mu… @billboard

Believe Is ‘Maintaining All Its Operations’ in Russia — And Some Claim ‘Aggressively’ Growing...

While major music companies have ceased business in the country since its invasion of Ukraine, Believe is "maintaining all its operations." That means it's still making deals and hiring staff.

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Kanye West Camp Tests Market For His Song Catalog, Seeking 35-Times Gross Profit billboard.com/pro/kanye-west… via @billboard

Kanye West Camp Tests Market For His Song Catalog, Seeking 35-Times Gross Profit

Kanye West has been quietly shopping his publishing catalog -- an asset that generates about $5 million a year for the hip-hop star.

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Music’s Top Money Makers: The Highest-Paid Executives and Stockholders at Publicly Traded Companies billboard.com/pro/music-best… via @billboard

Music’s Top Money Makers: The Highest-Paid Executives and Stockholders at Publicly Traded Companies

Billboard’s inaugural breakdown of stock ownership and executive compensation reveals the music industry's best paid executives.

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