The Haim guitarist/singer said this season's bombshell revelations have people on the street asking her to explain what is really happening on her favorite Bravo reality show.
In a statement to Billboard, Turnstile says it's “grateful that Mr. Yates survived” and that “we have no language left for Brady.”
This Vintage Pop Stardom episode of the Greatest Pop Stars podcast continues 2006 Week with a deep dive on the clear career peak of the most dominant male pop star of the '00s.
Dialled In Records launches with two acts: Pakistan-born producer and DJ Ahadadream, and Excise Dept, an India-based multidisciplinary collective. Source
We're celebrating 2006 Week at Billboard by looking back at that year's 10 highest grossing concert tours.
Musicians who participate in Instagram's Activation program see their streaming numbers jump by roughly 10% in the week an activation launches. Source
“All In Now” debuts on Mainstream Rock Airplay.
Cole previously suited up professionally for the Rwanda Patriots in 2021 and the Scarborough Shooting Stars in 2022.
The singer also revealed her dream collaborator and talked about her Ticketmaster tiff in an ELLE cover story for the Women in Music issue.
"SWIM" debuts at No. 2, besting "Dynamite" and its No. 3 peak.
The couple got engaged in August.
The non-singles worth remembering from our favorite albums of 20 years ago.
Olivia Rodrigo has announced that her new album, “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” will be released on June 12 via Geffen Records. The singer revealed the news on Instagram, which she wiped yesterday in anticipation of the album announcement.
“I am so proud of this record and I can’t wait for you to hear it,” she says of her third album
The deal brings together three companies with a combined 50 years of experience in vinyl distribution, physical distribution, and premium catalog re-issues. Source
Gemma 4 brings the first major update to Google's open models in a year.
Only three race cars have ever gone quicker around this famous track.
But the effort to stop the spread of leaked Claude Code client code is an uphill battle.
After Brady Ebert allegedly targeted the Turnstile frontman’s dad, the band says, “We have no language left for Brady”
No need to wipe off that glittery makeup after a weekend of desert raving: “Euphoria” will screen at Coachella. The Season 3 premiere of the HBO drama will play in the campgrounds of the festival on Sunday at 11:59 p.m. PT, after the weekend’s final performances.
In today’s fragmented marketing world, artists have to promote more than just their music – they have to build dedicated fandom. To achieve this, more artists are implementing transmedia elements – that is, adapting a brand story across multiple platforms – into their marketing strategies. Source
NASA has struggled to deal with the widespread sentiment that NASA has “been there, done that."
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, which was renamed Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital earlier this year, will use the funding to invest in “a little bit of everything”
“The guy is a total loser,” wrote the sitting president of the United States of America
Between January and March, Tesla built 50,000 more cars than it could sell.
Chinese-American singer Emei has signed with Atlantic in partnership with Nice Life Records, which is also home to the Marias and Lizzo, the companies announced on Thursday. She will release the title track from her forthcoming EP “Night at the Opera” tonight at 9 p.m.
Amazon wants in on the low-Earth orbit Internet action.
Donald Trump is firing back at Bruce Springsteen on Truth Social after the The Boss opened his “Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour” with multiple speeches that eviscerated Trump and his administration.
Lin-Manuel Miranda will direct a feature film adaptation of the award-winning stage musical “Octet.” The project marks his second film directing effort since his debut with “Tick, Tick… Boom!” in 2021.
Miller has served as Chief Revenue Officer at TuneCore for the last two years Source
PassPass claims to be “the #1 viral giveaways platform in America” with its real-world scavenger hunts and contests. Now it wants to get more artists involved with its promotions. The startup has launched ‘PassPass for Artists’ as a way for artists and their teams to submit tracks for review.
A report published this week by Green Music Australia, Reverb and The CSO Shop aims to help artists and their teams, as well as labels and merch suppliers, make “better environmental and ethical choices”.
Startup Soundlink launched in 2025 as a service to help music marketers solve “the attribution problem” – understanding how their social-media ads impacted streams. Having signed up more than 5,000 artists and labels, now Soundlink has raised a $2m seed-funding round, led by Create Music Group.
Slump? What slump?! With global recorded-music revenues up 6.4% last year, the industry would be forgiven for taking a quiet moment to celebrate recently. However, analytics firm Chartmetric’s latest research may interrupt that, based on its analysis of the streaming charts.
Two theories emerged when UMG completed its acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings recently. One was that the lengthy regulatory scrutiny of the deal might discourage major labels from other indie acquisitions – for a while at least.
A group of music publishers are continuing to sue AI firm Anthropic for copyright infringement, focusing on its alleged use of their lyrics to train its Claude model, as well as some of its outputs.
ACRCloud’s Derivative Works Detection service uses audio fingerprinting to identify modified works Source
There’s a lot going on around social-media platforms right now, much of it not-entirely positive. A group of stories today offers a snapshot of some of the concerns – but also the money that’s still driving the giants of the sector.
The ticketing platform says it's the first to bring both primary and resale inventory into OpenAI's chatbot. Source
Culture Collective founder Jonathan Azu talks about his multi-hyphenate background, working with Grammy-winning artists, and where he wants to go from here… Source
Fremantle’s new documentary series “The Michael Jackson Story,” produced by Fremantle’s Emmy award-winning 72 Films, has sold to multiple global territories including France, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and the Middle East.
On this week’s podcast episode, I talk with Richard Chycki, the multi-platinum mixer and engineer behind work with Rush, Dream Theater, Aerosmith, Mick Jagger, Alice Cooper, and Pink.
These days, professional musicians are expected to be creators, who are somehow automatically equipped with the skills to constantly upload slickly filmed social media content that consistently keeps them in […] The post is from Music Ally.
Australia’s government has unveiled new copyright reforms this week, specifically involving ‘orphan works’. The post is from Music Ally.
The pop star performed songs by Chappell Roan, Paramore, and Olivia Rodrigo on the reality show
Artists deserve transparency about how music streaming works. That’s why we launched Loud & Clear in 2021 — to share detailed data on Spotify’s royalty payments, break down how money […] The post is from Music Ally.
Spotify rolls out interactive carousel ads to draw more marketing dollars, calling itself an “interactive multiformat ecosystem” in its new era. On Tuesday, Spotify announced the addition of interactive carousel ads in a bid to draw more money across its marketing channels and generate sales.
Ex-Fleetwood Mac guitarist and vocalist Lindsey Buckingham was attacked by a woman in Santa Monica, according to law enforcement. Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac’s former guitarist and vocalist, was attacked by a woman described by authorities as a stalking suspect when he showed up for an...
SPOILER ALERT: Details follow for Season 14, Episode 12 of “The Masked Singer,” “Finals,” which aired March 25 on Fox. The stars aligned for Ashlee Simpson, who was unmasked on the Season 14 finale of Fox’s “The Masked Singer” as Galaxy Girl, this season’s champion and winner of the golden ‘Masked’...
Tiffany Young, the Los Angeles-born K-pop pioneer who came of age as a lead member of Girls’ Generation, has signed with Pacific Music Group in a 360 deal that covers both recording and management.
The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and its SONGS Foundation tossed another splashy golf gala this week at The Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles. And it was exactly the kind of country-clubbing, cigar-chomping, golf-playing ‘gala’ the lawyers at Elon Musk’s X warned you about.
Kanye West has been announced as headliner for this year’s Wireless Festival in London. Now, the Jewish Leadership Council has condemned that choice. This year’s Wireless Festival in London will feature disgraced musician Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, as its headliner for all three nights of...
Liftoff of Artemis II with four astronauts occurred at 6:35 pm EDT (22:35 UTC) on Wednesday.
When appearing on Billy Corgan’s podcast, Love urged Grohl to tell his fan base of “straight white males” to stop “picking” on her
The female suspect allegedly doused the ex-Fleetwood Mac member with an unknown liquid substance
“With time apart and much personal growth from us all, Sungazer feels like it’s captured the most pure collection of music we’ve ever made," the band said in a statement
Revelator has a new owner: Warner Music Group (WMG), which intends to integrate the B2B indie distributor and rights management platform’s features en route to transforming “the suite of services that WMG labels and ADA offer to artists.” Warner Music disclosed its latest buyout, which is expected...
First of all, let’s dispense with some Bruce Springsteen mythology: It is a fallacy that all his concerts last three hours. Opening a fresh tour Tuesday night at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Springsteen and the E Street Band turned in a performance that lasted exactly 2 hours and 54 minutes,...
Anthropic pulled thousands of copies of its Claude AI source code from GitHub after leaking it to the public, seemingly by accident. On Tuesday, a software engineer discovered that AI company Anthropic had included access to the source code for its Claude AI model in a recent release.
Microsoft, Intel are also working on their own solutions for the issue.
Australia’s Parliament has passed the Copyright Amendment Bill 2026, thereby setting the stage for loosened “orphan works” restrictions and an expanded educational licensing framework covering online learning.
The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach announces Lupe Fiasco as the headliner of the Friday Concert Presented by Acura on April 17. On April 17, Grammy-winning rapper and producer Lupe Fiasco will headline the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach’s Friday Concert, which takes place on the stage outside the...
A persistent agent, stealth "Undercover" mode, and... a virtual assistant named Buddy?
Sperm gets lost in space; raccoons solve puzzles; the physics of folding a crepe; and more.
Post Malone announces a slew of new world tour dates across Asia after a record-breaking India show. The Asia leg kicks off on September 16. Post Malone’s BIG ASS World Tour, featuring special guest Don Toliver, is getting an extra limited run in Asia this September and October following a...
Did you know that Ohio is a hotbed of UFO activity?
Let the Salt-N-Pepa v. Universal Music copyright termination battle continue: Now repped by veteran entertainment attorney Richard S. Busch, the rap duo has fired off a firmly worded appeal brief following a lower-court dismissal on contractual-language grounds.
Swiss finance minister filed a criminal complaint over Grok's "defamation."
Confidential SEC submission sets up largest IPO in history.
Paul McCartney performed a concert for Apple employees in Cupertino last night to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary, playing a range of career-spanning hits. No, it’s not an April Fool’s prank.
After a massive year for pop in 2024, the charts have slowed to a crawl. New releases are struggling to compete with long-running hits and resurgent catalog tracks, leaving 2025 –and early 2026– defined by stagnation.
Judge invalidates Trump executive order, but Congress also cut off all funding.
Capital injection was approved by HYBE's board on March 31 Source
X Corp has told a Nashville federal court that last week's ruling renders the publishers' surviving claims defunct. Source
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is distancing the city’s government from the 2026 Wireless Festival, which announced earlier this week that Kanye West will headline three shows at Finsbury Park on July 10-12.
MBW’s new series delves into the stories behind the music industry’s most notable founder-led companies. Source
The rapper’s recently announced performance has caused an outcry following his controversial past
“I’ve been pushing myself past my limits lately … my body finally said enough. It honestly scared me,” the rapper says after being hospitalized after falling ill midway through Moulin Rouge performance
Havells mYOUsic is an Indian talent hunt that distinguishes itself from similar initiatives in multiple ways. Firstly, it isn’t restricted to singers and is also open to music producers, lyricists, […] The post is from Music Ally.
Welcome to our first Insight Report of 2026, which looks at the music streaming ecosystem.And the topic that dominates this year’s issue is, of course AI. But fret not: this isn’t an ‘AI is brilliant’ brovangelising report, but neither is it a ‘sky’s falling in’ doomread.
The playbooks for streaming TV services and creators are collapsing into one – but even so, misconceptions remain. Large parts of the traditional entertainment industry consider the engagement techniques in two lanes. Source
Our resident Carcharodon lunaris weighs in about today's historic launch.
People want small, efficient cars, and it seems Kia is listening.
Pair instability supernovae create a "mass gap" in black holes.
UK-based south Asian cultural organisation Dialled In—which operates in such areas as festival production and live programming—has launched Dialled In Records. The London-headquartered label will develop and break south Asian […] The post is from Music Ally.
This year, Spotify celebrates the five-year anniversary of EQUAL, our global program dedicated to advancing equity for women in audio. We recently marked the milestone by launching EQUAL: The Podcast, creating an intimate space for women artists to share their stories.
About 20 years ago, I bought a turntable with the idea that it would be a staple of my music-making setup. I dreamed of learning to scratch and digging through dollar bin vinyl for samples. Instead, it just got hooked up to a stereo. But a few months ago, I got my hands on the Korg Handytraxx Play.
Sweden is bringing back books amid declining test scores.
"It’ll go when the engines light at T-0."
The ripples from the recent US Supreme Court ruling in favour of ISP Cox Communications – and against labels who had sued it – are beginning. The post is from Music Ally.
Dhurandhar The Revenge, the sequel to the 2025 Hindi blockbuster, was one of the most anticipated releases of this year. Its accompanying soundtrack, which follows the prequel’s clutter-breaking OST, was […] The post is from Music Ally.
The problem is the major labels have all the leverage, as a result of their catalogs. They wield these in negotiations with each and every distributor, and the indies have little power.
Giggin’ says live concert platforms are looking at attendance demand backwards. But can predictive modeling and better data help venues – and artists – better project their live audiences and boost profits?
Last week, the US Supreme Court handed a decisive defeat to major label conglomerates — and a billion-dollar victory to Cox Communications. But this decision is likely to go far beyond Cox and ISPs harboring piracy, with the ripple effects already becoming glaringly apparent.
"I just don't want to get caught flat-footed when we start to have to protect US interests out there."
Pricing concerns are continuing to dog Spotify stock (NYSE: SPOT), which, despite rising about 2% on the day, is still down about 16% from 2026’s start. Meanwhile, investors remain generally optimistic about shares’ long-term trajectory. As many will recognize, these concerns aren’t new.
What the production behind his Las Vegas residency tells us about where EDM at the Sphere is headed. I attended ILLENIUM’s Odyssey residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas.
With the Cox v. Sony ruling dismantling enforcement models of the past, Muzit’s data-driven super fan strategy looks like a good path forward. This article was created in collaboration with DMN partner Muzit. When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its unanimous decision in Cox Communications, Inc.
A judge rules that MTV’s case against Zeus Network over Nick Cannon’s new show “Bad vs. Wild” for its similarities to “Wild ‘n Out” can move forward. On Monday, Judge Arun Subramanian ruled that MTV’s lawsuit against Zeus Network over Nick Cannon’s show “Bad vs.
A federal judge rules that Trump’s order eliminating PBS and NPR funding is unconstitutional. But funding is unlikely to restart from the ruling alone. Last May, Trump signed an executive order to eliminate funding for the nation’s two leading public broadcasters: NPR and PBS.
K-pop and entertainment giant HYBE launches a hunt in India for the next girl group sensation, starting today through July 31. Korean entertainment giant and BTS parent company HYBE has announced a nationwide girl group audition across India, opening applications for the latest phase of its talent...
After multiple years of back-and-forth litigation, Cardi B and Warner Music have prevailed in an infringement showdown centering on “Enough (Miami).” That victory came to light in an order from Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., who tossed the complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction.
Spotify has evolved from a streaming platform to an interactive, multiformat ecosystem where fans come to listen, watch, and engage. As we’ve evolved, so have the ways we help brands connect with audiences.
We have added a range of great new MetaBrainz designs to our merch store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/metabrainz/shop These designs by Monkey, previously only available to MetaBrainz summit attendees, have been lightly modified (summit-specific text removed) for everyday wear.
A new version of python-discid, a Python wrapper library for libdiscid, is now available. Version 1.4.0 focuses on modernizing the code base and updating the documentation. The public API is now fully type-hinted and the type hints are also used in the documentation. A Disc.pregap property was...
I didn’t respond because I’m pretty sure someone as fabulous as you will be with us a long time. Keep me posted – I went on Kalshi and placed a bet on your condition – 90% are betting it’s an infection.
People don’t like that they can’t identify AI music. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge AI has touched every part of the music industry, from sample sourcing and demo recording, to serving up digital liner notes and building playlists.
I want to thank everybody for their e-mails and texts of concern, I really appreciate it. I am now back in Los Angeles and will get on the case re getting a scope when business resumes tomorrow, Monday morning. Until then… Let me say that other than lack of sleep due to anxiety, I’m fine. […]
I was pissing blood. No, that’s not entirely accurate…I was EXPLODING blood! I was lying on the couch reading David Pogue’s Apple book, minding my own business, when I realized I finally had to get up to pee. The urgency has disappeared since Skip prescribed the cocktail, of Avodart and Flomax.
Slop yourself. | Image: Suno Suno just released one of its biggest updates yet with v5.5 of its AI music model. Where previous updates focused mostly on improving fidelity and creating more natural vocals, v5.5 is about giving users more control.
Two juries have now found social media platforms liable for harms to children—raising a deeper question: where were the boards overseeing these profitable, engagement-driven systems?
Boom boxes, instant cameras, and even landlines are making a comeback. Here are the coolest retro-inspired devices available.
Most of what you hear about AI and music is a conversation about the wrong thing. There is a much more interesting and useful discussion to be had, and almost nobody is having it. The post Music AI is not AI Music appeared first on New Music Strategies.
The music industry is seeing unprecedented democratisation in both consumption and creation. Leading execs often point to the rise of consumer creation and the ‘Instagrammification’ of music as a growth engine. Source
Supreme Court Reverses $1 Billion Verdict, Rules Cox Not Contributorily Liable for Subscribers’ Copyright Infringement — “Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, filed an opinion concurring only in the judgment.
Apple Music: "What do you want to hear?" Me: "Atmospheric instrumental black metal to write to." Apple Music: "Here's three metal songs with vocals, a field recording, an ambient electronic track, and a piece of doom jazz." I am skeptical of AI's ability to serve up the music I want to begin with,...