"This ain’t nothing like the 99-cent store that I was used to," she said.

Billboard 9m ago

The alt-rock group’s “Self Aware” has also reached No. 8 on Hot Rock Songs.

Billboard 10m ago

After inking licensing deals with Udio and Suno, Warner Music Group (WMG) has set its sights on optimizing AI attribution with the acquisition of Sureel. WMG formally disclosed the Sureel purchase this morning – albeit without shedding light on the hard numbers behind the transaction.

Digital Music News 13m ago

The Cuban urban movement is having a moment -- and the big dogs are jumping on the bandwagon.

Billboard 18m ago

The Canadian soccer star and national team captain talks about his love of Drake and drill, making his own music and what he wants the world to see when Toronto and Vancouver play host.

Billboard 23m ago

The country singer's 17th studio album, The Hill, is due out on June 16.

Billboard 29m ago

The festival will return to Dorset's Larmer Tree Gardens in September.

Billboard 32m ago

Primary Wave Music has announced a partnership with the estate of legendary R&B singer Donna Summer, best known for such disco-era hits as “I Feel Love,” “Bad Girls,” “Hot Stuff” and many others.

Variety 35m ago

The flirty song from her album is a "very cheeky game of cat and mouse," she tells Billboard.

Billboard 39m ago

The country singer calls his recovery a “miracle,” and credits his 5-year-old grandson with helping him through the scare

Rolling Stone 39m ago

Partition's still there, but good luck seeing it and don't upgrade until fix lands, says team

The Register 48m ago

"This has not been a simple journey," the singer said about her career in her acceptance speech.

Billboard 51m ago

The road trip comedy based on the Rock Hall of Fame group's days in a stinky touring van is due out on Aug. 14.

Billboard 55m ago

Bill Werde, Director of the Bandier Music Business Program at Syracuse University, argues that the freemium model championed by YouTube and Spotify may now be holding back growth in the world’s most populous music markets — and that it’s time for the industry to ask whether ‘free’ is still serving...

Music Business Worldwide 58m ago

The Other Songs Live took place at the London Palladium on May 19, with songwriters and musicians performing alongside current BRIT School students Source

Music Business Worldwide 1h ago

The distribution company, in business since 2020, has worked with artists like Hot Mulligan, Pinegrove, Mitski and more over the years.

Billboard 1h ago

Octet will perform at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night for the highly anticipated game

Rolling Stone 1h ago

Files sought by feds were sitting in a deletion queue, not gone for good

The Register 1h ago

The musician will release Frozen Charlotte in full on July 10

Rolling Stone 2h ago

Firefox is in, Snap and Flatpak are still out, but a default AI helper may raise eyebrows

The Register 2h ago

Warner Music Group on Wednesday announced its acquisition of the startup Sureel AI, a platform that uses a technology called “AI DNA” in an effort to protect creative projects and other intellectual property — including music, voices, likeness and performance — from unauthorized use and...

Variety 2h ago

French drill rapper La Rvfleuze (real name: Seny Bengaly) released his debut album, ‘Numéro d’écrou’, in March 2026. He had begun by releasing tracks via DistroKid in 2022 but was later jailed for burglary and eventually released in 2025.

Music Ally 2h ago

Productivity gains lost as staff spoon-feed AI and correct its cock-ups

The Register 2h ago

The three major labels have been striking deals with various AI startups, but now Warner Music Group is acquiring one: Sureel AI.

Music Ally 2h ago

Sureel's multi-patented technology creates "AI DNA" for every work, breaking it into component parts and tracing how AI models use those elements. Source

Music Business Worldwide 3h ago

Shai-Hulud worm exploited exactly this. Better late than never, says everyone except the malware authors

The Register 3h ago

Streaming TV services are entering a new phase of smartphone competition. For years, their strategic focus has been on content depth: exclusive shows, premium originals, and sports rights. Yet on mobile, the battle for engagement is increasingly shaped by experience as much as content. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 3h ago

With Indie Week in New York in full swing, the Libera Awards took place this week to garland artists, labels and industry companies with an independent focus. Artist-wise, the big winners were rock band Geese and electro-pop artist Oklou.

Music Ally 3h ago

Duetti’s business providing funding for independent musicians is well established, but now it is expanding its horizons in two ways. First, it is lowering its “acquisision age threshold” for recordings. No, that doesn’t mean it’s seeking out toddler songwriters.

Music Ally 3h ago

Steve Chokpelle, who performs as Muso, alleged he wrote lyrics for two of Chris Brown's songs but was excluded from the credits and the revenues. Source

Music Business Worldwide 3h ago

As the dust settles from its rejection of an acquisition offer by hedge-fund Pershing Square, Universal Music Group has taken its next financial step forward.

Music Ally 3h ago

Whether any of the spacecraft will be ready in time for H2 2027 remains unanswered

The Register 4h ago

Questions about what YouTube and parent firm Alphabet are training their musical AIs on, and what the licensing structure around that is, have been bubbling for some time. A court filing this week sheds more light on the issue.

Music Ally 4h ago

Google argued that the artists licensed their music to YouTube when they uploaded it – and that the license covers the conduct they are now suing over. Source

Music Business Worldwide 5h ago

Remote, unauthenticated RCE with root privileges is about as bad as it gets

The Register 5h ago

Sony Music argued that the number "is necessary to understand the full extent of Udio's copying." Source

Music Business Worldwide 5h ago

Janette Berrios was elevated to SVP, Corporate Marketing; Ed Poston to SVP, Head of A&R; Lane Roney to SVP, Finance; and Taylor Garland to EVP & CFO. Source

Music Business Worldwide 5h ago

Lyrics Translation will add pairings spanning English to French, German, Italian, Korean, Spanish, and more. Source

Music Business Worldwide 5h ago

Moody's says proposed A-to-G green grades for bit barns could affect financing

The Register 5h ago

MSP says it is 'absolutely devastated' as woman arrested on suspicion of murder

The Register 6h ago

Actual RVA23 hardware and useful performance – for a certain price

The Register 6h ago

Aircraft at core of the Future Combat Air System canned as parties could not decide who leads on the work

The Register 7h ago

Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival faced stormy weather on its opening day Thursday – literally and figuratively.

Music Ally 8h ago

Meet Mobi Fold - creased popster or clever portable mouse

The Register 9h ago

The trio are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their album, Taking the Long Way

Rolling Stone 9h ago

Bill Cody, one of the nation’s most revered country radio personalities from his decades-long roles as an announcer for the Grand Ole Opry and WSM morning show host, died Tuesday in Nashville. He was 67.

Variety 11h ago

Global Music Rights is suing Music Choice over “willful copyright infringement” for continuing to play its catalog after its licensing expired. U.S.-based performance rights organization Global Music Rights (GMR) has filed a lawsuit against Music Choice for “repeatedly and willfully infringing upon...

Digital Music News 12h ago

Swift also delivered a surprise performance of her country hit “I Knew It, I Knew You”

Rolling Stone 13h ago

Udio is facing continued pressure from Sony Music to publicly disclose its “training number,” which the major label maintains “provides necessary context” about the AI platform’s alleged use of protected recordings.

Digital Music News 13h ago

The average stateside streaming user now spends $434 on recorded music annually – up nearly 30% from 2020, according to a new study. But amid a well-documented subscriber plateau in established markets, what’s the best way to drive additional growth?

Digital Music News 14h ago

Not only did Taylor Swift make a surprise appearance at the world premiere of “Toy Story 5” on Tuesday night in Los Angeles, but she also performed after the screening. Taking to the stage, Swift played the piano while singing “I Knew It, I Knew You,” her new song on the “Toy Story 5” soundtrack.

Variety 14h ago

The Puerto Rican Singer and his family had a private meeting with Pope Leo XIV on Monday

Rolling Stone 16h ago

I was laughing uproariously watching this last night. (Is that the proper use of the word? I’m gonna leave it in, you’ll tell me.) We were up to the final episode of “Berlin and the Lady With an Ermine,” but it was an hour and twenty one minutes long and that would be past Felice’s […]

Lefsetz Letter 16h ago

Seeker Music Group, backed by M&G, has announced a global distribution partnership with Virgin Music Group, building on years of collaboration to expand its $400 million catalog.

Digital Music News 16h ago

Music Venue Trust and Audoo announce a partnership aimed at uncovering how music played in grassroots venues is represented in royalty distribution. On Tuesday, the Music Venue Trust (MVT) and Audoo announced a new partnership aimed at uncovering how music played in grassroots music venues is...

Digital Music News 16h ago

Four US-based radio groups operating a total of 15 stations have been accused of broadcasting ASCAP members’ music without payment or license. Four radio groups located in South Dakota, Indiana, Mississippi, and New Hampshire have been accused of repeatedly refusing to renew their licenses to play...

Digital Music News 16h ago

Unless you're an admin or vulnerability manager – then you're totally screwed

The Register 17h ago

The two stars pay homage to the fellow rap icon on his collaborative album with Kurupt and Masta Killa

Rolling Stone 17h ago

The layoffs come after CEO Marc Benioff boasted of record revenue and 'incredible cashflow' two weeks ago

The Register 18h ago

The R&B star was accused of denying credit and cutting the plaintiff out of millions in revenue

Rolling Stone 19h ago

Economists find signs of a ‘large and causal relationship between iPhones and fertility' in AT&T exclusivity-era data

The Register 19h ago

Universal Music Group (UMG) has officially confirmed plans to sell €1 billion (currently $1.2 billion) worth of bonds. Meanwhile, the major’s share price is once again sagging – to the tune of a 36% falloff during the past year.

Digital Music News 19h ago

Long-running New York City band Interpol have announced their first album in four years, “This Mirror Weighs a Ton,” which arrives Aug. 28 and also will be their first for Partisan Records, the Brooklyn-based indie currently riding high with Geese and others.

Variety 19h ago

Applying lessons from Ornette Coleman to popular music, Ulmer was a true original

Rolling Stone 20h ago

The founder of Ed Banger Records, launched in 2003, and former manager of Daft Punk is joining Because Music in Paris. Source

Music Business Worldwide 20h ago

Jack White has a followup album to the acclaimed “No Name” coming this summer, titled “Frozen Charlotte”… and it’s already quietly gone on sale for pre-order on his website, despite the lack of any other official announcement of the project.

Variety 20h ago

Company also changes data retention policy

The Register 20h ago

Talay Riley, the Grammy-winning songwriter for artists like Dua Lipa and Jason Derulo, was the victim of a fatal stabbing in London on Friday. Talay Riley, whose real name was Mark Orabiyi, was one of two people stabbed in the West Ham area of London on Friday.

Digital Music News 20h ago

Jay-Z adds more cities and dates to his 30th anniversary limited comeback tour, with stops in New York City, Los Angeles, and Paris. Jay-Z has announced more shows for the 30th anniversary of his album Reasonable Doubt, with stops at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium and Paris’ Stade de France.

Digital Music News 21h ago

Apple announces all the new features coming to Apple Music with the iOS 27 update at its annual WWDC conference, including Siri AI integration. At Apple’s annual WWDC conference this week, the company unveiled the new features coming to iOS 27, with some major Siri AI updates that add functionality...

Digital Music News 21h ago

The Beatlemaniac might be the easiest category of father to shop for. Nearly 60 years since the band’s peak, there’s no shortage of new photo books, biographies and collectible merch to celebrate the Fab Four.

Variety 21h ago

The star has previously won BET Awards for Video Director of the Year on two occasions

Rolling Stone 21h ago

The four groups operate a total of 15 radio stations Source

Music Business Worldwide 21h ago

As if there weren't enough package poisonings to worry about

The Register 22h ago

Who said sub-millimeter, three-layer science juice had to be expensive to squirt?

The Register 22h ago

Golden Globe winner and Grammy nominee Teyana Taylor will be saluted as Icon of the Year at the 2026 BET Awards. Taylor will receive the special prize during the BET Awards telecast on Sunday, June 28. The show, broadcast live from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, will be hosted by Druski.

Variety 23h ago

iBiz might not win the AI race, but analysts say it's focusing on features people may actually use

The Register 1d ago

Graph database biz says on-prem, air-gapped intel stack gives governments a no-kill-switch option

The Register 1d ago

Last month, RADAR U.K. artist Skye Newman took the stage in East London for a special performance celebrating the release of her debut album, SE9. Nearly 1,000 of the singer-songwriter’s top fans filled the historic Hackney Church for an unforgettable night.

Spotify 1d ago

Geese, Oklou and label of the year Partisan were among the big winners at the Libera Awards, presented by Merlin and the Foundation for Independent Music, with support from the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM).

Variety 1d ago

Following his performance at the Roots Picnic earlier this month and his three upcoming Yankee Stadium shows, Jay-Z and Roc Nation have announced retrospective “Jay-Z 30” shows in Paris on Thursday, September 10, 2026, and Los Angeles on Friday, October 23.

Variety 1d ago

Video is the new (old) battleground for streaming services in 2026: a space, unlike audio, where they can safely negotiate exclusives with big artists. Spotify’s latest partnership is with K-Pop group Le Sserafim, following the recent concert it hosted for them in Seoul.

Music Ally 1d ago

There is plenty of news coming out of US live association NIVA’s annual conference this week. Starting with the launch of the ‘Fix the Tix Fan Action Center’.

Music Ally 1d ago

Berklee College of Music has published a new report exploring “how music is discovered, licensed, created, and used across today’s social media video ecosystem”, as well as the role of video in musicians’ careers, and AI. An important note: this isn’t just a survey of musicians.

Music Ally 1d ago

Apple kicked off its WWDC event yesterday – its annual conference for developers – with the traditional keynote debuting its next raft of software updates and services. Want to know what’s new in Apple Music when the iOS 27 update drops later this year?

Music Ally 1d ago

Once upon a time, making a World Cup song was easy. Herd the squad into a studio, make sure they can’t sway in time with each other OR the music, and job done. Nowadays it’s a different world.

Music Ally 1d ago

94% of US music-streamers say they like or love their streaming service, and 90% describe it as good, very good or excellent value for money, according a report published by the trade association for, ahem, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube and other streaming services.

Music Ally 1d ago

MAC Cosmetics names Chappell Roan as the new face of Viva Glam, with a special edition lip collection featuring three shades co-created by the singer. MAC Cosmetics has named singer-songwriter Chappell Roan as the new face of Viva Glam, introducing three lip shades in a special edition collection...

Digital Music News 1d ago

What if you could use your knowledge of upcoming release schedules, quiet insider chats with artist teams, your skill at reading Chartmetric data – or anything else in the music business that you were pretty certain about – to place bets?

Music Ally 1d ago

What’s the best way to decommission secondary ticketing scams? Demand refunds, call out resale platforms, and contact lawmakers, according to Fix the Tix, which has launched a “Fan Action Center” designed to help shortchanged customers.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Jewish leaders in Tampa Bay are pushing back against the Tampa Sports Authority’s decision to book and allow two concerts by Kanye West to go forward. The Tampa Jewish Federation has condemned the Tampa Sports Authority’s (TSA) decision to book (and double down on) two shows by Ye, the rapper...

Digital Music News 1d ago

Tracking 1,000+ people through the ups and downs of their relationships

The Pudding 1d ago

The public deserves to know how many recordings Suno used to train its models – at least according to the non-Warner majors, which are pushing back against Suno’s demand to keep the much-discussed tally and different data under wraps.

Digital Music News 1d ago

But will it work? Apple presentations are not the must see TV they were in the Steve Jobs era, if for no other reason than the lack of…one more thing… But those presentations were live, ever since Covid, Apple prerecords, which eliminates mistakes, but sucks the life out of the presentation.

Lefsetz Letter 1d ago

Last month, Spotify hosted PURE FLOWERS LIVE, a special event celebrating the release of LE SSERAFIM’s second studio album, ‘PUREFLOW’, pt. 1. Held at the Seosomun Shrine History Museum in Seoul, the show gave 300 of the K-Pop group’s top fans a chance to experience the new songs live before the...

Spotify 1d ago

Stage Tour, the new rhythm game being created as a spiritual successor to Guitar Hero and Rock Band, will feature a slew of artists revealed over the weekend.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Charli XCX has announced the “Music, Fashion, Film Tour,” headlining arenas across North America through September and October. Today, Charli XCX has announced the “Music, Fashion, Film Tour,” promoted by Live Nation.

Digital Music News 1d ago

The AI boom may not be a technology story at all—it may be a forecasting story. As trillions flow into data centers, power infrastructure, and transmission lines, the real risk is not whether AI works, but whether demand arrives before the capital structure collapses.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 1d ago

A tribute to B.B. King’s “Lucille Talks Back” for its 50th anniversary is coming to Memphis alongside the all-star remake of the original 1975 album. A landmark tribute to one of blues music’s most transcendent and overlooked recordings is coming: an all-star remake of B.B.

Digital Music News 1d ago

1 Klaus Meine is intelligent and articulate. So if you listen to the “Wind of Change” podcast, and I recommend that you do, they eventually confront Klaus Meine regarding the CIA’s theoretical participation in the creation of the Scorpions song.

Lefsetz Letter 1d ago

Plus fireside chat recognizing 250 years of American music, special performance of songs from FROZEN by Caroline Bowman (Elsa in North American Touring Production) and surprise appearance by Mickey Mouse in patriotic attire WASHINGTON, DC – Accolades continued for the newly-minted RIAA Honors’...

RIAA 1d ago

Chicago’s 1901 Project, a plan to redevelop the area surrounding the United Center to create a mixed-use entertainment hub, has broken ground. Last week, Chicago’s 1901 Project broke ground with a $7 billion plan to redevelop the area surrounding the United Center to create a massive mixed-use...

Digital Music News 1d ago

Gotham lights up this week with a gaggle of major music industry events, including A2IM Indie Week, the Music Investor Conference, and New York Music Month. And that’s just scratching the surface on a panoply of workshops, shindigs, and awards ceremonies dotting the city.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Warp is looking for a social-first creative to join our team in London, helping bring our Artists’ stories to life across digital platforms. You’ll be a creative all rounder and […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 2d ago

The Supreme Court’s solo foray into copyright this term, Cox v. Sony, has shaken up the landscape of secondary liability. In its wake, a growing chorus of voices have noted that direct liability under copyright law needs a fresh look, particularly the doctrine of volitional conduct.

Copyhype 2d ago

At Spotify, our commitment to the LGBTQIA+ community is year-round. Through GLOW, our global music program, we celebrate and amplify the contributions of queer creators—because when artists are free to be themselves, more voices are heard, more stories are told, and culture moves forward.

Spotify 2d ago

Parachord is a one-person hobby project. I build all of it for fun and love: the desktop app, the Android app, the iOS app (I just started) and Achordion, the companion website to it all. All of it is open-source, none of it earns money, and I pay for all...

Parachord Blog 2d ago

Benn refuses to be pigeon holed. | Image: Benn Jordan Benn Jordan may have initially gained notoriety for his music as Flashbulb and later, reviewing synths and effects pedals on YouTube under Benn and Gear. But about five years ago, Benn decided to take his YouTube channel in a different...

The Verge 4d ago

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Lefsetz Letter 4d ago

RIAA Honors’ Artist of a Lifetime Tallies the Most Albums in Gold & Platinum History at 200M, And Stands as the Only Artist to Ever Earn 10 Diamond Album Certifications WASHINGTON, DC – The Recording Industry Association of America® (RIAA) partnered with the National Archives Foundation to present...

RIAA 4d ago

As mainstream rap shows signs of slowing, the search for hip-hop's next leaders has intensified. The answer may not come from where the industry has typically looked.

How Music Charts 5d ago

Average tour earnings down 45%, with nearly three-fifths of musicians saying touring in Europe is no longer viable More than a quarter of British musicians have lost all their work in the European Union since 2021, according to new research.

The Guardian 5d ago

News publishers take fight over copyright of embedded content to Fifth Circuit — The Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments this week in a dispute between a local news publisher and an online news aggregator over alleged public display of news articles on the aggregator’s app.

Copyhype 5d ago

The genie in the story has been waiting centuries for this moment, for the deliciously fiendish opportunity to allegorize generative AI. LLMs need not be malevolent, they need only their definitional inhumanity, and with it the coiled potential for unintended consequences if the intention we mean...

furia log 5d ago

Event’s Fifth Edition Highlights Unifying Power of Music, in Partnership with Billboard WASHINGTON, DC – Common ground can be hard to find in DC, but music often changes that tune.

RIAA 5d ago

K-pop has had a banner year, with the genre earning multiple Grammy nominations,along with the massive success of Kpop Demon Hunters . As K-pop’s dedicated fans dominate the global stage, they are often seen as the definition of “superfans”, with artists and labels chasing similar levels of fa...

MIDiA Research Blog 6d ago

On this week’s podcast episode, Elliot Easton, guitarist for The Cars and Creedence Clearwater Revisited, takes us through his journey with the band and beyond.

Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog 6d ago