Watch the Eagles take on the Bears on Monday, Sept. 28.

Billboard 2m ago

John Mayer knows his way around Las Vegas’ Sphere, having spearheaded the residencies that Dead & Company did at that venue in 2024 and 2025. That Grateful Dead spinoff group may have reached its natural end with the death of Bob Weir in January of this year, but as it turns out, that did not […]

Variety 16m ago

The musician is also partnering with schools in the communities the trek will visit to benefit student programs.

Billboard 22m ago

"It's Easier," "My Life Story of Love," "I Can See the Sun in Late December" and "I'm Into Livin'" were mixed by the original LP's production team.

Billboard 22m ago

Hussein Chalayan explained how the team wanted to convey "vulnerability as the upper layer dissolves."

Billboard 29m ago

The move is the latest in a flurry of changes to WMG's leadership team.

Billboard 34m ago

The hiring announcement follows UMG's recent deals with Spotify and ElevenLabs to allow for AI remixes and mashups.

Billboard 37m ago

Hi everyone, I’m Sreehari, also known online as owlpharoah (op3kay on Matrix). I’m a second year student at IIIT Jabalpur. This summer I worked on the foundations of a GraphQL server in Rust that sits over the MusicBrainz PostgreSQL database, under the guidance of @bitmap and @jadedblueeyes.

MetaBrainz Blog 46m ago

The Sept. 25 performance marked West's first since his Chicago homecoming earlier in the month.

Billboard 50m ago

The musician will perform a special run of shows with three distinct sets: solo, with a full band, and with his blues-rock trio

Rolling Stone 57m ago

Sombr, Teddy Swims and Adam Lambert also took the stage for a George Michael tribute.

Billboard 59m ago

Lawyers for Tony Buzbee say his former client is an "unreliable" witness and suggest the woman was paid to repudiate her allegation against the star.

Billboard 1h ago

The documentary chronicling the Gallaghers' reunion will begin streaming on Disney+/Hulu on Oct. 9 featuring exclusive performances of Oasis chunes filmed in their entirety

Rolling Stone 1h ago

Bring Me the Horizon will open all dates with various additional support coming from Lamb of God, Acid Bath, and others

Rolling Stone 1h ago

On tour now, the pop star hits the road with dates across the United States — shop tickets here.

Billboard 1h ago

Takhar will report to Val Blavatnik, who was confirmed last week in his new position as Managing Director of Warner Music North America, UK & Corporate Development Source

Music Business Worldwide 1h ago

Artist, who’ll be playing iconic album on tour this fall, recorded the EP’s songs in the original 1976 album sessions

Rolling Stone 2h ago

The musician will sell more than 70 choppers at a sale this fall in New York City

Rolling Stone 2h ago

As the summer begins to wind down in September, Hollywood is just getting started with a new crop of awards season movies premiering at the Venice Film Festival.

Variety 2h ago

EU firms capture less than 10% of the bloc's datacenter chips, server assembly, and cloud infrastructure markets

The Register 2h ago

Veteran publicist Lydia Kanuga, previously of the Chamber Group, Def Jam and Columbia Records, has launched her own firm, When There Are Nine — the name inspired by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s response to the question of when there will be enough women on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Variety 2h ago

Oasis’ highly anticipated documentary “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” which charts the reunion of brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher as they perform together again for the first time in 15 years, has set its Disney+ and Hulu premiere date. The documentary will bow exclusively on the platforms Oct. 9.

Variety 2h ago

Research suggests ChatGPT maker's agents got surprisingly creative when a UN data API proved less than cooperative

The Register 3h ago

MTV’s Video Music Awards (VMAs) is done for another year, with 2026’s big moments including a Madonna / Sabrina Carpenter / Charli XCX medley-collab; a Dolly Parton tribute from Kacey Musgraves; and Taylor Swift debuting a new music video.

Music Ally 3h ago

ClassicalBot started as a way to map classical-music concerts in the developer’s home country, before expanding to the world. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 4h ago

Grant retirement went off the rails, so Redmond is offering affected organizations help starting over

The Register 4h ago

Its creator Evan King is well on the way to his $10.6k Kickstarter goal for this “generative audio sampler and groovebox” The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 4h ago

“It is time for upload fees to be instituted across the digital supply chain to disincentivise bad actors, as current approaches to the problem have not worked,” wrote executive director Patrick Clifton in a recent blog post. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 4h ago

For major labels, the last couple of years of corporate disruption have included several rounds of layoffs, but also a roiling stew of reorganisation. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 4h ago

Sheeran’s concerts were due to take place on Friday and Saturday (25 and 26 September), but at the last minute were both called off due to severe weather warnings across New England. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 4h ago

Active-duty campaign targeted at least ten organizations and sought $1 million in ransom payments

The Register 4h ago

Independent UK music publisher Minds on Fire used Tipalti’s Mass Payments to eliminate invoice-chasing, speed up their international royalty runs, and scale its global roster without growing its finance team.

Digital Music News 4h ago

Whitehall unit will examine critical contracts after Capita pensions fiasco strengthens case for bringing work in-house

The Register 5h ago

Sabrina Carpenter and Charli XCX joined the Queen of Pop on stage for a star-studded performance

Rolling Stone 5h ago

Madonna, Snoop, Nirvana, Taylor, and the ghost of the Nineties loomed large at the annual awards show

Rolling Stone 5h ago

Regulator intervenes after deciding altnets may be unable to match the offer and recover their costs

The Register 5h ago

Antares says the updated Auto-Mode pitch algorithm inside Advanced is the "largest engineering investment in the AutoTune algorithm since its introduction." Source

Music Business Worldwide 6h ago

The tag appears at release level, flagging albums that include content Qobuz has identified as AI-generated. Source

Music Business Worldwide 6h ago

The duo Home Team claim the 2023 track copies the lyrics and melody of their own "Pick It Up," released on or around July 3, 1992. Source

Music Business Worldwide 6h ago

Every ticket went during three days of onsale windows running from Friday to Sunday (September 25–27). Source

Music Business Worldwide 6h ago

Max Ciociola turned Musixmatch into the world’s largest lyrics company. Now, with backing from TPG – and having struck a deal with Suno for a copyright-detection tool called Sentinel – it’s on a path to becoming something much bigger… Source

Music Business Worldwide 6h ago

The Jevolution will not be televised, because The Kettle is audio only

The Register 6h ago

Government wants public spending to back British business, but the French supplier could remain at the tax collector until 2036

The Register 7h ago

Denial and distraction have served the bit barn barons very badly. Wise up

The Register 8h ago

The country singer also discussed celebrating his new album release with the help of Chris Stapleton

Rolling Stone 9h ago

The duo previously collaborated on a joint single, “Ahí”

Rolling Stone 9h ago

Sunday NetScaler patch dump fixes trio of critical vulns and five more serious messes

The Register 10h ago

Friday afternoon is not the time for snap decisions, but weekends are useful to cover your tracks

The Register 10h ago

A high-profile Japanese actor and anime voice talent has filed suit against TikTok over videos allegedly featuring an AI clone of his iconic voice. Fans sometimes idolize voice actors in Japan’s celebrated animation industry as much as the characters they portray.

Digital Music News 11h ago

Amid allegations that agents may have gone off the rails thousands of times, China set up some kind of agentic incident hotline

The Register 11h ago

It’s been over 40 years since Madonna’s iconic performance at the first MTV VMAs, but in 2026 she was the night’s biggest winner—even more so than Taylor Swift.

Digital Music News 11h ago

Oasis and Live Nation remind fans to avoid scams selling tickets on social media and warn that tickets on the secondary market may be canceled. All tickets for Oasis’ eagerly anticipated 2027 tour sold out over the weekend during three days of pre-registration onsale windows.

Digital Music News 11h ago

Swift dedicates the award for “The Fate of Ophelia” to Dolly Parton, “the ultimate showgirl”

Rolling Stone 14h ago

It’s a love story? Hardly — it’s a ghost story. Taylor Swift brought her “Patient Zero” music video to the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night for its official world premiere, following up the release of the single at the beginning of the weekend with visuals that take the triangle in the song into...

Variety 15h ago

PLUS: Singapore helps Meta find new form of scam; Nothing bets it can create Indian consumer tech giant; Bangkok floods, tech holds on

The Register 15h ago

Gwen Seale and Chris Castle discuss the streaming mechanicals panel at Artist Rights Symposium 5.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 16h ago

Kacey Musgraves led a touching tribute to Dolly Parton at the MTV Video Music Awards 2026, honoring the late country icon just a month after her death with a rendition of “I Will Always Love You.” The pre-taped performance began with footage of Parton introducing the classic 1974 tune.

Variety 16h ago

Madonna performed for the first time in 23 years at the MTV VMAs on Sunday, opening the show by bringing out special guests Sabrina Carpenter and Charli xcx to perform their respective duets.

Variety 16h ago

The 2026 MTV Video Music Awards brought the industry’s biggest stars together to jockey for awards. The ceremony took place at the Peacock Theater in L.A., and Snoop Dogg was the host for the night.

Variety 16h ago

The 2026 MTV VMAs are in full swing, and music’s biggest stars are showing up and out on the red carpet. Hosted by Snoop Dogg, this year’s Video Music Awards promises audiences a jam-packed program, including a performance from Madonna (her first at the show in more than two decades), a Dolly...

Variety 18h ago

Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn't Suno in a box, though.

The Verge 20h ago

I thought this book was going to be about the Vail fire. After all, there’s a picture of Two Elk lodge burning right on the cover! But that’s not what it’s about, not really. I thought this was a niche book, for a narrow audience, those who remember this 1998 fire. But then I saw […]

Lefsetz Letter 20h ago

https://ai.meta.com/muse/ The AI platform, not the band. Mark Zuckerberg gives piss-poor presentation. It’s funny, Steve Jobs created the paradigm. You write it and you rehearse it, to the point where even Tim Cook could keep the audience’s attention… But Zuck?

Lefsetz Letter 20h ago

He takes swings at not only Taylor Swift, but Paul McCartney! Beck has a new album, I see the press everywhere. About an old girlfriend, a return to form…can’t say I read any of them, for numerous reasons.

Lefsetz Letter 21h ago

The final developer build offers a glimpse of the future Cupertino abandoned for NeXT

The Register 1d ago

The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks

The Register 1d ago

Drums on film. | Image: Decap I don't think I'm going to hurt anyone's feelings by pointing out that Decap doesn't have the name recognition of Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo, or Charli XCX.

The Verge 1d ago

Chuck Varga, a founding member and vocalist of the heavy metal band Gwar, died on Friday following a battle with cancer. He was 68. Gwar bassist Casey Orr announced his death in a statement shared to Facebook, writing, “Chuck Varga has left this earthly realm.

Variety 1d ago

Artists including Tinie Tempah and the Smiths’ drummer Mike Joyce ramp up pressure on government to keep its pledge to outlaw for-profit resales The government has stepped up work on new laws to stop ticket touts fleecing fans, as the prime minister came under pressure from artists including the...

The Guardian 2d ago

Your spare Android won’t come back to life in a hurry but – like neglected PCs – it really should

The Register 2d ago

Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats

The Register 2d ago

So, tune in Saturday September 26h to Faction Talk, channel 137, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. Phone #: 844-686-5863 If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

Lefsetz Letter 2d ago

Latin music recorded revenue topped $540 million in the U.S. during 2026’s opening half thanks to solid paid streaming gains and triple-digit vinyl growth, according to a new report.

Digital Music News 2d ago

Attorneys for streaming fraudster Michael Smith request probation rather than prison time for their client, downplaying the severity of his crimes. Michael Smith, the man who generated millions by mass-uploading AI-generated songs and garnering billions of plays, has pled guilty to a single count...

Digital Music News 2d ago

AI music is not going away. It is separating into a transient synthetic economy and an artist-centered business built around identity, ownership, relationships and fans. Something fundamental is happening in music, and I think we have been asking the wrong question about generative AI.

Digital Music News 2d ago

Here’s a recap of recent music industry hires and in-house promotions as of September 25th, 2026. If you have a job shuffle to share, we’re all ears. Send us a note to news@digitalmusicnews.com. If you’d like to post a job on our Job Board, just send us a request to noah@digitalmusicnews.com.

Digital Music News 2d ago

Warner Music Group (WMG) has announced a big reorganization of its recorded music leadership this morning, shifting executives across its international divisions, independent distribution arm, and frontline labels.

Digital Music News 2d ago

An experiment is afoot to sidestep C as the language of interoperability with Rust

The Register 2d ago

The unnamed woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 has withdrawn her claims, saying that she has never met the rapper. A woman who alleged Jay-Z raped her when she was just 13 years old has formally withdrawn her claims and now says she has never met the rapper. The woman, […]

Digital Music News 2d ago

Once a single-scalar home, spreadsheet cells are being redeveloped to handle many tenants

The Register 2d ago

Better conductors and improved sensing capabilities expected to unlock at least 23 gigawatts of additional capacity

The Register 2d ago

Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour faces more setbacks with the cancelation of his planned shows at Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium “due to severe weather.” After the intense controversy surrounding Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour this month, the singer-songwriter will ultimately not be performing at billionaire Robert...

Digital Music News 2d ago

Apple Music announces its first run of shows at Apple Music Hall with a lineup starting with Elton John on opening night, September 28. Today, Apple Music has announced its first run of shows at the new Apple Music Hall in London’s Battersea Power Station, with Elton John set to perform on opening...

Digital Music News 2d ago

Imagine asking Spotify to “play some fresh indie soul I might like” and then, mid-session, saying “I love... The post Bootstrapping Conversational Recommendation Agents at Spotify: Synthetic Data Generation and Self-Improvement Loops appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

Spotify Research 2d ago

The biggest headlines from the past few days... Source

Music Business Worldwide 3d ago

Suno’s AI vocalists could learn a thing or two from this glitchy image. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno.

The Verge 3d ago

ABOUT Y ROYALTIES Y Royalties is a data-led and innovative workplace with a growing presence in the music rights space. We sit at the crossroads of music, data and finance […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 3d ago

Remsberg will run EVEN's commercial relationships across the music business, dealing with labels, distributors, managers, artist teams, and other partners. Source

Music Business Worldwide 3d ago

Robson, President, EMEA, Recorded Music, WMG, will step down in December. Source

Music Business Worldwide 3d ago

Since launching in 1984, the MTV Video Music Awards have helped establish the music video as an art form: artist-defining, boundary-breaking, trend-setting, culture-defining. The awards show is also synonymous with legendary performances that bring those videos to life.

Spotify 3d ago

Alejandro Duque promoted, as Aaron Bay-Schuck is confirmed as the sole Chairman and CEO of Warner Records Group Source

Music Business Worldwide 3d ago

Monday night’s alright for… lighting up Apple’s new music venue? Elton John will be the first artist to play Apple Music Hall in London. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 3d ago

US labels body the RIAA has published its mid-year report on US Latin recorded-music revenues, and it shows healthy growth for the sector. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 3d ago

8.6% Growth Outpaces Overall US Market Cultural Moments from Super Bowl to World Cup Spotlight Latin Music as Paid Subscriptions Rise 12.4% & Vinyl More Than Triples US Latin recorded music revenues topped $542.2 million in the first half of 2026, up 8.6% compared with the same period last year,...

RIAA 3d ago

“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”: Court records show what Microsoft and OpenAI actually thought about AI training — “Internal Microsoft communications identified the ‘real risk’ that generative AI could ‘significantly disrupt the employment of the very people who generated the...

Copyhype 3d ago

Having been removed from Ed Sheeran’s ‘Loop’ tour in the US, Macklemore found himself with some white space in his live schedule. He’s moved to fill that quickly. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 3d ago

In March, American producer Michael Smith pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, following accusations that he had botted his way to more than $10m in royalties for his AI-generated music. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 3d ago

The UK’s Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) has historically had a close relationship with PRS for Music. Now it’s making some changes, with plans to start working “directly with an expanded network of specialist partners”. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 3d ago

Spotify announced its new ’Reserved’ feature in May, with plans to identify the keenest fans of participating artists, then reserve them tickets for upcoming concerts. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 3d ago

You certainly can’t accuse promoter Goldenvoice of putting all its festival-livestream eggs in the same streaming service’s basket. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 3d ago

SymphonyOS has launched SymphonyOS V2, its biggest update since launch. Billing itself as "the agent company of music", the platform has rebuilt its marketing suite around six specialised AI agents, each dedicated to a different part of an artist's career or a label's rollout.

Music Ally 3d ago

Another day, another video expansion for Spotify, which has debuted a dedicated MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) hub and is preparing to add “select performances from the 2026″ edition. Spotify announced its Video Music Awards plans and wider Paramount partnership today.

Digital Music News 3d ago

Qobuz launches a tag signifying music that has been identified as AI-generated, enabling users to better understand what they’re listening to. AI-generated content continues to gain traction across the music industry, and Qobuz wants that information to be readily visible to users.

Digital Music News 3d ago

Calvin Harris breaks another attendance record with the largest-ever electronic headline tour in Australia. DJ superstar Calvin Harris has sold out the largest electronic tour ever seen in Australia, breaking yet another record just days after his Guinness World Record-making free concert in...

Digital Music News 3d ago

After initially rescheduling some Friday performances to accommodate stormy weather, Oceans Calling has canceled the first day of the three-day festival altogether. Oceans Calling in Ocean City, Maryland, had already modified its schedule ahead of the inclement weather rolling in this weekend.

Digital Music News 3d ago

With an eye on making “interoperable metadata” the norm for AI-powered voice models, Voice-Swap has joined the Digital Data Exchange (DDEX) as a full member.

Digital Music News 3d ago

A new report from the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator finds that Live Nation’s dominance of the outdoor amphitheater market rests heavily on government-owned buildings and public subsidies—even after a federal jury ruled in April that the company illegally monopolized the live events industry.

Digital Music News 3d ago

In the music industry, global availability is not the same as global success. A song can be one tap away for a listener in any country and never leave its home market. Some music genres win their audience in neighboring countries before they cross an ocean.

Digital Music News 3d ago

The “Frankenstein” reggaeton lawsuit against Bad Bunny and a multitude of others isn’t finished yet. Weeks after suffering a serious setback in the marathon case, the plaintiffs are urging the presiding judge to reconsider his “unjust” and “inconsistent” ruling.

Digital Music News 3d ago

Explore how music from Mexico, Japan, Brazil, India, and Nigeria is crossing borders—and the different paths each market is taking toward global growth.

How Music Charts 4d ago

Last week, Spotify welcomed 500 guests from across the songwriting, producing, and publishing world to the second annual Created by Women Summit, a day dedicated to building a more equitable music industry.

Spotify 4d ago

Earlier this year, we introduced Reserved by Spotify, a new experience designed to give an artist’s most dedicated fans a better chance to see them live. Eligible Premium subscribers ages 18+ in the U.S.

Spotify 4d ago

Is this a recent development, or are you a die-hard compact disc fan? What do you like about the format? Despite the prevalence of music streaming services, CDs players appear to be having a resurgence.

The Guardian 4d ago

Young people are spending fewer hours listening to music, and in particular, music is occupying a smaller share of teenager's time than it used to. The decline in weekly hours spent listening to music sits in contrast with nearly every other entertainment format increasing its time with younger...

MIDiA Research Blog 4d ago

At Spotify, we’re always thinking (obsessing) about new ways to connect listeners to the music, podcasts, audiobooks, and videos they love. You can talk to Spotify. You can turn any idea into a playlist. You can even ask Spotify to soundtrack your next run.

Spotify 4d ago

Even the biggest artists on earth started somewhere small—at home. That’s the idea behind Hometown, Spotify’s latest concert series. Designed to celebrate the places that have shaped U.K.

Spotify 5d ago

Track the artists and songs making an impact across streaming and social media with the Chartmetric Top 50, a new public chart updated daily.

How Music Charts 5d ago

NCT’s JOHNNY was born and raised in Chicago, but moved to South Korea as a teenager to train as an artist. Years later, he’s still discovering new things about his adopted home every day.

Spotify 5d ago

Spotify has always been built around your taste, and now we’re bringing our latest advances in personalization to more listeners. Following initial testing in New Zealand earlier this year, we’re rolling out Taste Profile (Beta) to Premium listeners ages 18 and older in the U.S.

Spotify 5d ago

The power dynamic between media personalities and media distributors is shifting – a change that has picked up pace over the last few years. Traditional media companies are cautiously opening their doors to creator talent, recognising them for the lucrative opportunity that they represent. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 5d ago

Recently, fans of the German podcast Gemischtes Hack received a mysterious invitation to an event simply called “HACKTAG,” taking place September 22 at the Berliner Ensemble in Berlin. Without knowing anything else, an audience of 600 gathered, anxious to see what the evening might have in store.

Spotify 5d ago

How do you know which recommender system is actually best? The standard approach of holding out some user... The post From IR to RecSys: Evaluating LLM-based Judges in Cranfield-style Recommendation Collections appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

Spotify Research 5d ago

TL;DR: We investigate whether personalised shelf concepts can be generated from listener profiles and... The post Hypothesis-Driven Shelf Generation for Personalised Recommendation appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

Spotify Research 5d ago

TL;DR: Recommender systems have always assumed a human recipient but AI agents break that assumption. In our... The post Who Are We Recommending To? Recommender Systems in the Agentic Web appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

Spotify Research 5d ago

In a September interview with Sources , Mark Zuckerberg dropped the finding that Threads is as big – or at least closing in on – X, the platform it was designed to compete with. The platforms’ respective monthly active user reported numbers are 550 million for X, as of May 2026, and 500 millio...

MIDiA Research Blog 6d ago

We received good feedback on the previous release candidate 3, which resulted in several bugfixes and small improvements. The Picard team hence decided to release a fourth release candidate in preparation for the final release of Picard 3.0.

MetaBrainz Blog 6d ago

The venue is opening below Battersea Power Station, also well recognized for featuring on the cover of Pink Floyd’s Animals album. | Image: Apple Apple is preparing to open a new "state-of-the-art" live music venue in the UK, a 600-capacity space for hosting performances, recording sessions, and...

The Verge 6d ago

We are very pleased to announce that the MetaBrainz Foundation has appointed Silona Bonewald as Executive Director, following the unfortunate passing of our Rob at the beginning of the year.

MetaBrainz Blog 6d ago

Hi! It’s been a while since our last release since we have been working on stability improvements for both website and search to better cope with all the load we are handling recently.

MetaBrainz Blog 6d ago