Suno hires Ticketmaster’s Michael Chua to guide its dwell music workforce, together with Songkick

Suno has employed Michael Chua from Ticketmaster as Vice President and Basic Supervisor of Suno Reside Experiences.

Within the position, Chua will lead the AI music firm’s dwell music operations, which embody live performance discovery platform Songkick.

Suno acquired Songkick from Warner Music Group in November 2025, as a part of the licensing settlement that settled WMG’s copyright lawsuit towards the corporate.

Chua says he sees a possibility at Suno to assist artists “take a track from the primary concept to the stage, and produce their followers alongside the entire approach.”

In keeping with Suno, the dwell experiences workforce will work on connecting Songkick’s discovery platform with what Suno calls its “inventive leisure platform.”

The workforce may even look to enhance Songkick‘s live performance suggestions in order that followers attend extra exhibits, the corporate mentioned.

“As Suno builds instruments that assist musicians create, attain followers and construct lasting careers, dwell music must be a part of that,” mentioned Chua. “I see an unimaginable alternative at Suno to assist artists take a track from the primary concept to the stage, and produce their followers alongside the entire approach.

“Bringing Suno and Songkick collectively opens up new potentialities to raised join artists and followers and in the end create totally new experiences that couldn’t have existed earlier than Suno’s industry-leading instruments.”

Chua joins Suno from Ticketmaster, a division of Reside Nation Leisure, the place he was Vice President of World Enterprise Growth and Strategic Partnerships.

In keeping with Suno, he constructed product partnerships at Ticketmaster with corporations together with Google, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, and Snap.

These partnerships allowed followers to find occasions and purchase tickets with out visiting Ticketmaster‘s personal web site or app.

Suno says Chua has greater than ten years of expertise in dwell music.

He was named on Selection‘s record of 10 AAPI Music Executives Making an Affect in 2024.

“We’re constructing the primary inventive leisure platform, and dwell music is a pivotal a part of that,” mentioned Paul Sinclair, Chief Music Officer at Suno.

“A central focus of our dwell experiences workforce can be serving to rising artists, like these in our Spark program, an incubator program designed to assist impartial artists convey their music initiatives to life and extra simply create dwell experiences.

“Michael has spent his profession on the intersection of tech and dwell music and I’m excited to construct this workforce along with his assist.”

Suno launched Spark, its incubator for unsigned impartial artists, on June 25.

In keeping with the corporate, artists chosen for Spark obtain a grant, further advertising funding, and invites to work with established artists at Suno’s writing camps.

Sinclair, beforehand Basic Supervisor and Govt Vice President of Atlantic Information, joined Suno as Chief Music Officer in July 2025.

Suno says the music workforce he leads contains former leaders from Atlantic Information, Spotify, YouTube, Meta, Amazon Music, Patreon, Snap, Motown Information, Capitol Information, and Sony.

The workforce additionally contains managers who’ve labored with artists together with Charlie Puth, Portugal. The Man, Miguel, Usher, Vince Staples, and André 3000, based on Suno.

Chua‘s appointment follows a job itemizing posted by Suno in late April for a Basic Supervisor of Songkick.

The itemizing, which mentioned the position would report back to Sinclair, known as for the brand new rent to “develop and execute an integration roadmap that connects Songkick’s dwell music graph with Suno’s artist and creation ecosystem.”

On April 30, emails despatched to Songkick customers confirmed that their private information could be transferred to Suno, which might grow to be the “controller” of that information.

In keeping with the e-mail, despatched by Songkick operator SK Acquisition Ltd, the info included customers’ account particulars, in addition to their artist and placement preferences.

Suno has additionally moved into bodily merchandise this yr.

In August, the corporate opened a waitlist for Suno Vinyl, a service that presses songs made on its platform onto 12-inch information.

In September, MBW noticed a Suno merchandise storefront marked “Coming quickly,” powered by creator commerce platform Fourthwall.

Suno raised greater than $400 million in June at a $5.4 billion valuation.

The corporate says greater than 100 million folks have used its platform.

On September 9, Suno launched its v6 fashions in partnership with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Consider.

Common Music Group and Sony Music Leisure filed a second copyright lawsuit towards Suno in Boston federal courtroom on September 18.

The grievance accuses Suno of copying 60,202 of the 2 corporations’ sound recordings with out a license.

Common and Sony are additionally nonetheless pursuing their authentic case towards Suno, filed in June 2024.

Suno mentioned in an announcement that the claims “stay basically flawed on each the info and the legislation.”Music Enterprise Worldwide