"When you make statements that are counteractive to the presentation you've been making, half or more of your audience may disown you," the Big & Rich singer said.
The awards ceremony took place Thursday (Sept. 3) in Marbella, Spain.
The statement announcing the activist's death remembered Steinem for her greatest gift of people feel "seen and heard."
The rapper-singer is ushering a new era ahead of her Press Play EP, which arrives on Oct. 23
Miley's 10th studio album is set to arrive on Sept. 18.
Little is known about the upcoming drop, which the rapper has been teasing for weeks
"With Volume 2, I want to showcase the versatility I can bring as a musician and composer," the Mexican artist tells Billboard.
Shakira, Prince Royce and Romeo Santos were among the top winners at Premios Juventud 2026, broadcast live from the Starlight Amphitheater in Marbella, Spain on Thursday night.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of her sophomore album, Beyoncé has released a remastered version of “B’Day” featuring Spanish recordings, previously released bonus tracks, and a few unheard songs including “Can I Watch You” featuring Pharrell and a new Spanish version of “Irreplaceable”...
Let the battle of lyric providers continue: Following several months of discussions, LyricFind and Musixmatch have failed to reach a mediation agreement – meaning an agreement about beginning mediation – in their ugly courtroom confrontation.
"Bass Persuades" is the first glimpse into the singer's tenth studio album of the same name
Miley Cyrus is setting off her new era with the release of the single and video for “Bass Persuades,” the title track off her upcoming 10th album. “Bass Persuades” goes full dance-pop with tinges of ’80s synths and a spoken-word first verse that recalls the deadpan delivery of Lady Gaga on “Poker...
In a public comment, AEG says live music won't have meaningful competition "as long as Ticketmaster remains vertically integrated with Live Nation."
More than 1,000 of these Frozen Little People sets are selling on Amazon each month. Shop the hot commodity online.
OpenAI slow-walks debut of delayed GPT-6, with Trusted Access Program participants getting first shot
$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note
1 I had to go to Torrance. Those playing the home game will remember that I see this heart doctor who says if I follow her program, I’ll never die of a heart attack, no patient has yet. And like seemingly every good doctor in Los Angeles, she doesn’t take insurance, which means I’ve got […]
The company says it entered an agreement with someone who falsely presented as Blige's rep.
The newly mixed archival live set celebrates the 50th anniversary of an August 1976 Anaheim Stadium show.
Mother Monster does her makeup in a one-minute TikTok video using the rising pop star's song, "I'M ACTUALLY KINDA FAMOUS."
UMusic Hospitality & Lifestyle and Outernet London announce a new partnership to transform the music scene across London’s Denmark Street. UMusic Hospitality & Lifestyle (UMHL) and Outernet London have announced a new partnership to transform the way visitors experience music across London’s...
Post Malone, Zayn Malik, Meghan Trainor, and the Pussycat Dolls all canceled or softened their touring aspirations in 2026. Four very different acts, four canceled or scaled-back tours.
The music IP acquisitions aren’t finished yet: HarbourView has announced a deal covering David Kershenbaum’s “interest in producer royalties and master recordings,” including stakes in tracks popularized by Tracy Chapman and Joe Jackson.
South Korean authorities are seeking an indictment of Bang Si-Hyuk, K-pop music mogul and founder and chairman of Hybe, over alleged investor fraud. South Korean authorities are seeking an indictment of Hybe founder and chairman Bang Si-Hyuk, the music mogul behind K-pop supergroup BTS, over...
1 I was used to the Al Kooper version, with a lot more production. But I was out hiking in the mountains listening to the Spotify playlist I created for the “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby” missive and when it slipped into the Johnnie Taylor version of “Toe Hold” I truly got the lyrics […]
BET announces the triumphant return of the long-running awards show to TV this fall, with a show taped in Chicago, presented by Spotify and Toyota. BET and Spotify have announced the return to television of the long-running Soul Train Awards this fall, with a show taped in Chicago—the city where...
DEAG founder Peter Schwenkow plans a return to the live events business in a serious way, focusing on building a pan-European network of “mid-sized” promoters, producers, and operators. Prof.
BET, CBS, and several other networks will air the ceremony in November
Legendary R&B singer Mary J. Blige was on the receiving end of a barrage of online abuse after the release late last month of a video advertisement circulated by AI music generator Suno, in which she is seen seemingly collaborating and responding positively to an AI-generated song that sounds...
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It will be UMHL's first hotel in the UK, and its second in Europe after UMusic Hotel Madrid, with Madrid the only UMusic Hotel currently operating. Source
Prompted by CentOS 8's premature demise, it's a very visible loss for the Red Hat ecosystem
Brett Gurewitz is not only the owner of Epitaph Records, but a member of Bad Religion as well. We go deep into Brett’s history, from becoming a punk in the San Fernando Valley to ultimately signing Tom Waits to his record label. But before that, Brett opines on the nuts and bolts of running a […]
Primary Wave Music announces a partnership with the estate of Wilson Pickett covering the legendary soul singer’s catalog, name, image, and likeness. Leading indie publisher Primary Wave Music has announced a partnership with the estate of the legendary Wilson Pickett.
When the moon is in the seventh house...
Keyboardist played in indie-rock group Camilo Séptimo
With an eye on expanding his presence in markets throughout Asia, Kaskade has inked an exclusive partnership deal with Ne-Yo’s Pacific Music Group (PMG).
The Soul Train Awards are coming home. Today, BET announced that the long-running awards show will return to television this fall with a show taped in Chicago, the city where Don Cornelius first launched “Soul Train” more than 50 years ago.
The transaction was announced on Thursday (September 3). Financial terms were not disclosed. Source
Somewhere up above, Don Cornelius is celebrating the return of love, peace and soul: BET is bringing back the “Soul Train Awards,” three years after the kudocast was put on pause. The revived “Soul Train Awards” will air Friday, Nov. 27 at 8 p.m. on both BET and CBS — the first time the Eye […]
Primary Wave announced the deal on Wednesday (September 2). Financial terms were not disclosed Source
The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot
Legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Bhutanese auteur Pawo Choyning Dorji are heading to the Telluride Film Festival with “A Song for the Snow Lion,” a 21-minute short built around a Himalayan folktale about vanishing glaciers. Variety is unveiling the film’s first trailer.
Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 2028
Ashe has made plenty of sad songs, but she’d never cried while writing one until “Funeral.” Ironically, the ballad — the second single from her upcoming fourth album “The Girl of Your Dreams,” out Oct. 16 via Atlantic Records — is actually pretty joyful.
“She always wanted to keep everybody being positive around her and put that out there in the world,” Richie Owens says
Ufenau intends to back the initiative as investor and majority shareholder, and says it is already reviewing initial investment opportunities. Source
Jonathan Meléndez, keyboardist for the Mexican group Camilo Séptimo, his wife, 3-year-old daughter, and nanny were found murdered at their home near Mexico City, according to a statement from the State of Mexico Prosecutor’s Office and CNN.
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The B.B. King Music Company and the legendary blues musician’s estate have announced the development of a new feature documentary celebrating his life, music, influence and legacy.
With music consumption now widespread, affordable, and accessible, music fandom has become less about consuming and more about spending as a demonstration of superfandom.
A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone
Miley Cyrus has dropped her last name in the lead up to her tenth studio album, “Bass Persuades,” prompting her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, to speak out on X in defense of the decision.
GPU giant pledges to keep the model hub open to the entire AI ecosystem
Since the temperature started creeping up this summer, we’ve been keeping a close eye on the songs that would come to embody the season. Our editors made their predictions in May, we shared an update in July, and now the time has come to share the final results.
Armed with password hashes and salts, attackers could already be kraken those creds
Suno’s legal team are certainly having a busy week. Hot on the heels of the lawsuit filed by four US-based artists against the company comes another legal action – this one from Canadian collecting society Socan. The post is from Music Ally.
Ticketmaster is giving its mobile app a refresh in 21 countries, with a bigger focus on recommendations and personalisation, including a ‘watchlist’ for keeping tabs on upcoming concerts and events. The post is from Music Ally.
“No spreadsheets. No juggling apps. No guessing. Just ask,” is the pitch for Roster, which has just been launched by South African music-tech firm JO:LA Labs as “an end-to-end music business operating system” for artists and managers. The post is from Music Ally.
We wrote about the songs featured in the ‘extended look’ trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI last week. Now Spotify has released some data on which tracks benefited the most from their inclusion. The post is from Music Ally.
No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets
Reservoir Media’s India-based subsidiary PopIndia has announced its newest deals in the country. It has acquired the catalogue of Vincey Productions, which specialises in Christian devotional music in south Indian […] The post is from Music Ally.
In the US, the big legal argument around generative AI is whether training models on copyrighted material qualifies as ‘fair use’ or not. If it does, AI firms don’t need to sign licensing deals and pay rightsholders. If it doesn’t, they do. The post is from Music Ally.
Hello darkness, my old friend... I've trusted Redmond once again
On this week’s episode, veteran producer, engineer, and Grammy nominee Bruce Sugar explains why staying relevant means embracing new tools without sacrificing the feel and emotion that make music connect.
Reg hack accidentally rattles Microsoft folks' cages… again
Part of wider infrastructure replacement upgrade project with HPE
Children's Commissioner also furious with Ofcom over a string of failures
Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%
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Rumors have swirled about a follow-up to the band’s popular 2025 reunion tour
The singer discussed her new relationship and her breakup with Orlando Bloom in a new interview
Soapbox films artists performing and talking, then uses volumetric-video technology to turn that footage into “life-size holograms”. The post is from Music Ally.
K-pop agency SM and China’s Tencent Music unite to launch a joint venture to develop a new Chinese idol group and manage SM artists in Greater China. South Korean agency SM Entertainment has announced a joint venture with Tencent Music Entertainment Group in China with plans to develop a new idol...
Cassandra Wilson, a Grammy-winning jazz singer, songwriter, and producer, has passed away in Jackson, Mississippi, at age 70. Two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter, and producer Cassandra Wilson passed away on Wednesday, September 2, in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi.
“I think institutions like this are important in people’s lives because it adds a dignity and a gravity to what we do,” said the musician
When it rains, it pours: SOCAN has filed a Suno copyright lawsuit of its own, accusing the platform of unlawfully training on protected works and then generating infringing outputs.
With a number of AI copyright battles unfolding – and with billions riding on the all-important fair use question – the Justice Department has doubled down on its position that training LLMs on protected text constitutes fair use.
Pay attention. It’s your music and they handle a lot. I have been actively looking for a new music distributor, which is one of those jobs that sounds simple until you actually start doing it.
California’s state senate and assembly passed AB 1349 despite the arts communities cautioning that it is no longer the bill they initially supported. Despite numerous warnings from small businesses and arts communities that California’s “ghost” ticketing bill AB 1349 was no longer the version they...
Miley nixed her surname for her upcoming 10th album, Bass Persuades
The Justice Department argues in the New York Times v. OpenAI case for a fair use standard that would allow extensive copying of copyrighted works for AI training without licensing.
It appears to be the first time Washington has intervened in any of the copyright cases now stacked up against AI companies Source
Musicians union AFM Local 47 celebrates the passage of California’s SB 186, which it says will save hundreds of its 5,000 members’ jobs across the entertainment industry.
Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has signed the ‘Taylor Swift Law’ to protect fans from the abusive resale of tickets and to provide free drinking water at large events.
Sports betting platform FanDuel rolls out its upgraded app, with an ad campaign featuring an All-American Rejects cover of a Johnny Cash classic. In a new ad campaign to announce the rollout of sports betting platform FanDuel’s upgraded app, the company has gone all out tapping rock band The...
STE will develop and manage artists for the Greater China market, and says it's preparing a new Chinese idol group for a debut within two to three years Source
Smółka, who joins from Spotify after eight years at the company, will take up the newly created role on Monday (September 7). Source
The move would close a police investigation into the K-pop company's 2020 stock market listing that has been running since December 2024. Source
Judge André Birotte Jr. ruled that plaintiffs failed to identify a single copyrighted work of their own combining the elements they say defendants took. Source
SOCAN is the third collecting society to take Suno to court – and the first to file since one of them won Source
India’s music streaming economy is growing like never before. That’s the big takeaway from the India edition of this year’s Loud & Clear report, Spotify’s annual look at how artists earn money from streaming and where the country’s music economy is headed next.
Following the Supreme Court’s Cox v. Sony decision, internet service provider RCN is doubling down on its push to end the copyright suit filed against it by the major labels.
Music has spent the last decade optimising for infinite choice . Streaming libraries expanded without limit, shuffling became ever more personalised, and feeds manoeuvred themselves into narrower loops. Source
Research firm Stvdio and Secretly Distribution have published a report on the independent-music sector, billing it as “a fight for music’s infrastructure”. The post is from Music Ally.
In March last year, we wrote about a proposed bill in California that would ban ‘speculative’ ticketing – where people list tickets that they don’t actually own (yet) on secondary platforms. The post is from Music Ally.
2024 was Sonos’s annus horribilis and no mistake: privacy mis-steps; a widely-hated app update; delayed product launches and layoffs. The post is from Music Ally.
Given their bitter, ongoing legal battle, Musixmatch and LyricFind won’t enjoy being grouped into the same news story. However, both made announcements in the last 24 hours, and together they show the companies’ product direction. The post is from Music Ally.
The latest lawsuit filed against AI-music firm Suno comes from a group of US-based musicians: Jason Isbell, David Lowery, Guy Forsyth and Eduardo Calle. The post is from Music Ally.
Hybe isn’t done yet in its quest to find talent that will form its first Indian girl group. The K-Pop behemoth has announced that it’s expanding the search — which […] The post is from Music Ally.
Key Takeaways Spotify has put out a bunch of India-specific statistics from its annual Loud & Clear report. Among the highlights: the royalties generated by Indian artists on the DSP […] The post is from Music Ally.
Rep. Thomas Massie named alleged Epstein co-conspirators on the House floor amid his launch of a major push for the ‘Epstein Files Transparency Act II’. Rep.
1 People forget that “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” went to number two for Gladys Knight & the Pips before Marvin Gaye took it to number one little over a year later, on the way to its becoming the biggest Motown single to date. And the Temptations released “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby” […]
We are seeking a motivated, forward thinking, and dynamic YouTube Channel Strategist to join our UK team. Ideally you will have experience advising artist and label clients on Youtube strategy. This […] The post is from Music Ally.
CRAE raises worthwhile economic questions about the proposed Phonorecords V Subpart B settlement, but the Copyright Royalty Judges should not be expected to build the missing economic record themselves.
6.9% Growth Outpaces US Inflation as Streaming, Physical and Sync Revenues Rise Paid Subscriptions Generate $3.4 Billion in First Half of 2026 The Recording Industry Association of America® (RIAA) today announced that US recorded music revenues for the first half of 2026 were up 6.9% from the first...
The Picard team is excited to announce the first release candidate for Picard 3. With this release we are confident that Picard 3 is now suitable for testing by a wider audience. The final 3.0 release is planned to happen in a few weeks.
MusicBrainz is announcing a set of upgrades for its search service on November 30, 2026. The main change will be upgrading Solr from version 9 to 10. Fixes and improvements will be released alongside this. Some of these changes may break some specific search requests.
AI company faces multibillion dollar lawsuit over misuse of copyrighted songs to train Claude models All AI wants for Christmas is a vast back catalogue of songs without paying for it, according to a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the startup behind the Claude chatbot.
I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I've found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP.
Hello, Everyone! I am Md Waqib Sk (waqib2992 on IRC), an undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in Google Summer of Code 2026 with MetaBrainz, where I worked on developing a calibre plugin for BookBrainz.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for "tens of thousands" copyrighted works.
As audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has become increasingly filled with AI-generated music whose melodies and vocals are algorithmically derived from the work of human artists.
Meta’s roughly $17 billion social-media addiction settlement promises sweeping protections for children and teens. But viewed through the inverted moral logic of C.S.