{"id":661309,"date":"2026-10-30T04:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661309\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T04:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:28:11","slug":"suno-appoints-ticketmasters-michael-chua-to-lead-live-music-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661309\/","title":{"rendered":"Suno appoints Ticketmaster\u2019s Michael Chua to lead live music team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/suno.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Suno<\/a> has hired Michael Chua, former vice president of global business development and strategic partnerships at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ticketmaster<\/a>, as vice president and general manager of Suno Live Experiences, which includes the concert discovery platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songkick.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Songkick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Songkick was acquired by Suno from Warner Music Group in November 2025, as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/headlinerhub.com\/warner-music-group-launches-new-partnership-with-ai-music-company-suno.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deal that settled Warner Music Group\u2019s copyright lawsuit<\/a> against the AI company. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Suno has said that the live experiences team will work to integrate Songkick\u2019s discovery platform with Suno AI and to improve Songkick\u2019s concert recommendations.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Chua has said that he sees his appointment at Suno as an opportunity to help artists \u201ctake a song from the first idea to the stage, and bring their fans along the whole way.\u201d <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBringing Suno and Songkick together opens up new possibilities to better connect artists and fans and ultimately create entirely new experiences that couldn\u2019t have existed before Suno\u2019s industry-leading tools,\u201d said Chua.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At Ticketmaster, Chua helped build product partnerships with companies including Apple Music, Google, Snap, Spotify, TikTok, and YouTube, according to Suno. These partnerships enabled fans to access event information and purchase tickets without having to visit Ticketmaster\u2019s own platform.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019re building the first creative entertainment platform, and live music is a pivotal part of that,\u201d said Paul Sinclair, chief music officer at Suno. \u201cA central focus of our live experiences team will be helping emerging artists, like those in our Spark program, an incubator program designed to help independent artists bring their music projects to life and more easily create live experiences.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMichael has spent his career at the intersection of tech and live music, and I\u2019m excited to build this team with his support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sinclair, previously general manager and executive vice president of Atlantic Records, joined Suno in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Image credit: Ashlynne Sorensen via Pexels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suno has hired Michael Chua, former vice president of global business development and strategic partnerships at Ticketmaster, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-661309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}