The collection features silhouettes made for the statement-maker with both colorful and neutral options.

Billboard 16m ago

Instagram announced that its paid subscription tier, Instagram Plus, is now available for users, and several new features can provide a better experience for fan engagement.

Billboard 31m ago

“Toy Story 5” VFX supervisor Thomas Jordan has been keeping a secret for months. During a SXSW London panel on Friday, he revealed that he’s known about Taylor Swift’s song for the animated film since February.

Variety 36m ago

The news comes on the heels of her top-secret show at Madison Square Garden.

Billboard 36m ago

“West’s remarks are vile and a slap in the face to our state’s Jewish community,” Rick Scott wrote in a letter to the Tampa Sports Authority

Rolling Stone 39m ago

The 30-second preview comes ahead of the group's June 13 homecoming gig.

Billboard 44m 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 48m ago

"The images circulating of me supporting presidential candidates are fake," said the Colombian superstar.

Billboard 1h ago

After performing intimate pop-up shows across the country — and one set at Madison Square Garden — the singer-songwriter will embark on her first solo tour in three years this fall

Rolling Stone 1h ago

Only the most hardcore fans at the kickoff of Dylan's summer tour in Troutdale, Oregon, recognized "Baby, Won't You Be Me Baby" from the expanded Basement Tapes box set

Rolling Stone 1h ago

The group sizzled with its eventual song of the summer.

Billboard 1h ago

"I don’t think anybody really, truly knew how bad it was gonna get, but it got bad," singer says after heavy rain and wind gusts hit Barcelona fest

Rolling Stone 1h ago

Following a sold-out acoustic show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden Thursday night where she unveiled eight new songs, Phoebe Bridgers has revealed details of “The Lost Tour” for 2026.

Variety 1h ago

Durk's lawyers say the new charge is a "pathetic pivot" by prosecutors and an "acknowledgment of weakness."

Billboard 1h 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 1h ago

SQL Server licenses can now be consumed in the rival cloud's DBaaS

The Register 1h ago

Rick Scott wants Raymond James Stadium to pull the plug on the gigs slated for June 26 and 29.

Billboard 2h ago

'The music world has lost one of its most fearless champions.' Source

Music Business Worldwide 2h ago

Universal Music Group has been making a number of moves in south-east Asia recently. The latest is a partnership with S1 in Thailand.

Music Ally 2h ago

Those receiving aid in the famine-threatened, war-torn territory told support will remain

The Register 2h 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 2h ago

After Madonna took the stage in Times Square, the performance went viral on social media. But the show marked the launch of The Square, New York City’s most high-tech venue to date.

Billboard 3h ago

The TV service promises reliable TV at a stable price with DISH’s 2-Year Price Guarantee.

Billboard 3h ago

Who needs one big CPU when you could have dozens of little ones?

The Register 3h ago

Thai pop has been quickly gaining worldwide momentum, thanks to fandom culture as a growth driver. With an expected T-pop label collective revenue of Bt11 bil (£250 mil) for 2026 and 13Bt (£295 mil) projected for 2029, the genre has been upsurging, recovering from pandemic levels with the help of...

Music Ally 3h ago

After a round of testing with selected users, Threads has launched a music stickers feature which allows creators to include 30-second song clips in both posts and replies through streaming services.

Music Ally 3h ago

In mid-May, Amazon Prime Video launched the first season of their new show Off Campus, which instantly became a global hit. The series reached 36 mil viewers in its first 12 days, becoming the platform’s third biggest debut series ever.

Music Ally 3h ago

Our latest Sandbox explores the under-16 youth social media bans, first introduced by Australia this past December. A growing number of countries have followed suit, with Indonesia, Brazil, and, as of June 1, Malaysia all now requiring social media platforms to implement similar age verification...

Music Ally 3h ago

Taco Bell has been supporting hungry artists on tour for 20 years now via its ‘Feed The Beat’ initiative, which began in 2006.

Music Ally 3h ago

Instagram has confirmed the details of what people will be getting in the $3.99-a-month Instagram Plus tier.

Music Ally 4h ago

Forecasts earnings well ahead of expectations, even as it taps credit facilities to lock in memory supply

The Register 4h ago

Tidal’s latest D2C move is a feature enabling artists to sell albums or individual tracks to their fans via its Tidal Upload offering.

Music Ally 4h ago

Cost model designed to protect against low-cost bid bias, claims rival

The Register 4h ago

Music-rights tech firm Chordal continues to build momentum for its ‘InstantClear’ pre-clearance licensing system.

Music Ally 5h ago

It can be tough out there touring in 2026, but two new tools from Bandsintown and Laylo are aiming to help artists fill venues.

Music Ally 5h ago

How do you write a micro-drama script? TikTok wants to educate more of its creators on how to write episodic shows for its app.

Music Ally 5h ago

Blue Badge holders exposed to each other after BCC function proves too complex

The Register 5h ago

Collecting-societies body Cisac has been taking a prominent role in the AI policy debates. Its latest contribution is a declaration.

Music Ally 5h ago

Regulator says NCA's aging tech drags down productivity, forces officers to juggle hardware and do manual workarounds

The Register 6h ago

Comms watchdog says up to 83% of tests fail the 'good performance' threshold

The Register 7h ago

The musician's third album, Oh Yeah?, will arrive in July

Rolling Stone 7h ago

The singer previewed the song during her DJ set at Coachella earlier this year

Rolling Stone 7h ago

The song will appear on the musician's forthcoming album, The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales

Rolling Stone 8h ago

On 14 May, Mumbai joined nine cities across the world in hosting Spotify’s Equal Day. The event—named after Spotify’s global initiative to fuel equality in the music industry—was held in […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 8h ago

When the nominations for this year’s Grammy Awards were announced in November 2025, releases by Indian acts made up half of the six nods in the Best Global Music Album […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 9h ago

Indian music industry professional and former executive VP at Saregama, Rashna Pochkhanawala, has founded PaRa Music, an “AI-powered” company. But the venture won’t involve AI artists or music. Instead, the […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 9h ago

Bulletproof vests and armored vehicles were not in the job description

The Register 9h ago

“It’s weird not having a phone, isn’t it?” said Phoebe Bridgers to the 18,000-or so strong audience who’d willingly had their devices locked up for Thursday night’s special acoustic concert at Madison Square Garden. “I love it. I appreciate you allowing this to be an internet-free zone.” She added...

Variety 10h ago

Swift co-wrote and produced "I Knew It, I Knew You" with her longtime confidant Jack Antonoff

Rolling Stone 11h ago

Jessie and her owner are reunited, in the apparent scenario laid out in Taylor Swift’s new “Toy Story 5” song, “I Knew It, I Knew You,” which debuted on digital services Thursday night.

Variety 11h ago

"Durk Banks is innocent, no matter how many indictments they want to throw at him," the artist's attorneys claim

Rolling Stone 11h ago

The president also installed country singer Lee Greenwood as a replacement performer after several artists dropped out

Rolling Stone 12h ago

22 years after its founding, ticketing platform Tickets.ie has abruptly shut down – leaving some organizers unable to access revenue from their newly concluded festivals. Unsurprisingly, Dublin-headquartered Tickets.ie’s demise initially entered the media spotlight in Ireland.

Digital Music News 13h ago

That didn’t take long: Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square has officially offloaded its Universal Music Group (UMG) stock, and the major label itself has purchased about 14.2 million of the shares.

Digital Music News 14h ago

Sorry, Vanilla Ice. The “Freedom 250” concerts scheduled for the National Mall in Washington, D.C. have been officially canceled by President Donald J. Trump, after almost all of the artists bailed.

Variety 15h ago

The plea for caution comes the same week it beat AI archrival OpenAI to filing for an IPO

The Register 15h ago

Disrupting the UBS AI in Entertainment Summit in Santa Monica this week was the Human Artistry Campaign, who contracted a plane to circle over Santa Monica with the words “Say No To Suno.” Trucks in the city carried multiple mobile billboards with the same sentiment.

Digital Music News 16h ago

A familiar tactic popularized by chaotic crime crew Lapsus$

The Register 17h ago

Another ally questions reliance on American AI

The Register 17h ago

Evan Bogart’s Seeker Music has acquired the music publishing catalog of songwriter-producer-instrumentalist Simon Raymonde, which includes his work as a longtime member of Cocteau Twins. Raymonde is also a solo artist, producer and co-founder of the U.K.

Variety 18h ago

Following ample criticism from on-demand music and video platforms, the Canadian government has walked back its controversial “streaming tax.” Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture Marc Miller just recently announced the regulatory pivot as well as a fresh funding package for the sectors.

Digital Music News 18h ago

Concord announces a partnership with Lito Music, marking a strategic step in the company’s expansion into the global Latin music market. Leading independent music company Concord has announced a partnership with Lito MC Cassidy’s Lito Music, marking a strategic step in the company’s continued...

Digital Music News 18h ago

ABBA co-founder and CISAC president Björn Ulvaeus opened CISAC’s event in Paris celebrating its 100th anniversary, providing a statement on AI. CISAC, the global network representing over 5 million creators of music, audio-visual, drama, literature, and visual arts, celebrated its 100th anniversary...

Digital Music News 18h ago

“The Biggest Hits on Spotify Right Now Are a Blast From the Past – From Gen Z to Boomers, listeners across generations are increasingly embracing throwbacks” https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/music/spotify-streaming-hits-nostalgia-old-972818d5 Apple News+: https://apple.news/AwwVLXJvzStGa8lsYCnjWtw...

Lefsetz Letter 19h ago

The copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Travis Scott, SZA, and Future over their 2023 track “Telekinesis” has been voluntarily dismissed. Victory Boyd, the Roc Nation-signed artist who sued Travis Scott, SZA, and Future for alleged copyright infringement over their 2023 track...

Digital Music News 19h ago

In writing an album that is largely about loss and calling it “Good Grief,” singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles is clearly playing with the wording of that common phrase, finding a way to make it feel literal, not like an oxymoron.

Variety 19h ago

Ticketmaster hits pause on the sale of Celine Dion tickets after identifying “suspicious activity” that prevented real fans from securing their seats. Celine Dion’s comeback shows have fans chomping at the bit to get tickets, with the Canadian superstar slated to perform 26 shows at the La Defense...

Digital Music News 19h ago

John Summit expands his extensive touring schedule with four European headline dates this month, after kicking off his debut residency at [UNVRS]. On Thursday, dance music powerhouse John Summit expanded his busy touring schedule with four European headline dates this month in Paris, Amsterdam,...

Digital Music News 19h ago

Codex drops an HTTP/2 Bomb

The Register 20h ago

Its location in the skies was significant – directly over the UBS AI in Entertainment Summit at the Shutters on the Beach hotel, where Suno CEO Mikey Shulman was among the speakers. Source

Music Business Worldwide 20h ago

Fresh off of rejecting a takeover proposal from capital fund Pershing Square, Universal Music has announced it is repurchasing a sizable portion of its stock back from the company founded and operated by billionaire investor Bill Ackman. The world’s largest record company will repurchase over 14.2...

Variety 20h ago

Legendary concert promoter Jim Koplik is the president of Connecticut and the Upstate New York Region for Live Nation. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jim-koplik/id1316200737?i=1000771141122...

Lefsetz Letter 21h 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 21h 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 21h ago

Forbes lists are largely a status symbol for the 1%, but as the business publication has expanded its purview — and as the music business has grown legit billionaires — its lists and criteria have grown.

Variety 21h ago

The deal expands Concord’s presence in Latin music Source

Music Business Worldwide 22h ago

Scientists and industry leaders push for mandatory DNA synthesis screening

The Register 22h ago

Tech biz teaching AI to use computers by slurping staff activity

The Register 23h ago

Who controls the machinery of copyright in the United States, and what happens to music if that control shifts? Source

Music Business Worldwide 23h ago

Country star Alan Jackson’s farewell concert, set for June 29 in Nashville, will be filmed for an NBC special, to be titled “Alan Jackson: The Last Show,” with an unspecified air date later in 2026, the network announced Thursday.

Variety 23h ago

Intel still owns the room, but Epyc keeps nicking the furniture

The Register 23h ago

The measures were announced by Marc Miller, Canada's Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Franzoni joined WCM in 2016 and rose through the ranks in the A&R team Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Users probe backup failures find Claude-assisted commits. Veteran engineer retorts: "I did not just vibe-code 'convert test suite to python'."

The Register 1d ago

Founded in 2021, mprs – pronounced 'Empress' – was spun out of artist management and services company mtheory when Universal Music Group acquired mtheory's label division Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Nvidia's prefill accelerator was shelved, but Chipzilla's Crescent Island could fill the void

The Register 1d 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 1d ago

Pips Accenture and NEC to bag decade-long deal for cops across England, Wales, and beyond

The Register 1d ago

YouTube credited the program with helping launch the careers of artists including Dua Lipa, Rosalía and Tems. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Tunde Balogun, CEO of LVRN (Love Renaissance), maps out how the company he cofounded in Atlanta with Sean Famoso McNichol, Justice Baiden, Junia Abaidoo, and Carlon Ramong went from college parties to over 30B streams and a $100m+ valuation. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

The move comes less than three months after a federal judge in Manhattan declined to throw the case out of court, rejecting the defendants' bid for dismissal. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Cash-for-intel tradecraft continues to concern intelligence officials years after it was first spotted

The Register 1d ago

His research interests include the American West, American religious history, the nineteenth century, and music history. In his free time, he enjoys ...

Medium 1d 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 1d ago

We’ve seen this movie before. Back in the nineties, with Bob Morgado and the Warner Music Group. A man with no expertise in music single-handedly destroyed the company. But it was even worse, he ultimately fired his co-conspirator Doug Morris, who went on with Edgar Bronfman, Jr.’s money to create...

Lefsetz Letter 1d ago

Two-time Grammy Award-winning singer Peabo Bryson, known for his Disney duets in “Aladdin” and “Beauty and the Beast” in the ‘90s, has passed away. Peabo Bryson, the R&B singer best known as the voice behind the Oscar-winning Disney film duets from “Beauty and the Beast” (with Celine Dion) and...

Digital Music News 1d ago

Garth Brooks is reportedly exploring his options for the sale of his extensive music catalog in a deal that could be worth a whopping $2 billion. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that country music star Garth Brooks is looking into selling his vast music catalog, with valuations ranging...

Digital Music News 1d ago

A new partnership with Apple Music Classical will see all new Wigmore Hall Live releases premiere exclusively on the platform for three months. West London’s Wigmore Hall has announced a new partnership with Apple Music Classical, which will see all new Wigmore Hall Live releases premiere...

Digital Music News 1d ago

An Amsterdam judge has allowed two upcoming shows by Kanye West to move forward in the Netherlands despite an emergency lawsuit from the Central Jewish Council.

Digital Music News 1d ago

After securing a $267 million ABS tranche, Seeker Music has acquired Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde’s publishing catalog, including his full body of work with the band.

Digital Music News 1d ago

On the heels of its failed Universal Music Group (UMG) takeover attempt, Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square is reportedly preparing to sell off its remaining interest in the major label.

Digital Music News 1d ago

AXS strengthens its position in the independent venue space with new and renewed partnerships spanning some of the most iconic clubs in the nation. Today, AXS bolstered its place in the independent venue market with a fresh round of partnerships spanning iconic clubs across the United States.

Digital Music News 1d ago

YouTube Music unveils its 2026 picks for its Foundry program, which has worked with over 250 artists since 2015 to help them build sustainable careers. What platform has the greatest ability to break new artists?

Digital Music News 1d ago

Suno has officially wrapped a $400 million funding round at a $5.4 billion post-cash valuation – thereby upping its six-month raise total to a staggering $650 million. Though Suno’s Series D was all but confirmed last month, the AI music platform formally disclosed the round today.

Digital Music News 2d ago

Here’s a recap of recent music industry hires and in-house promotions as of June 3rd, 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

The infrastructure of entertainment consumption has never felt more feudalistic. Distribution, discovery, and monetisation increasingly operate through a small number of platforms that shape how audiences find, consume, and pay for content. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 2d ago

The rise of generative AI in music raises significant legal and logistical challenges for music supervisors, including issues of authorship, rights management, and increased piracy risks, complicating traditional licensing processes.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 2d ago

Ben Folds explains the challenges now facing the National Symphony Orchestra amid Trump’s recent overhaul of the Kennedy Center in an open letter. Musician and former National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) artistic advisor Ben Folds released an open letter outlining the challenges now facing the...

Digital Music News 2d ago

It was hard getting into another book after “London Falling.” We’re searching for excellence in a world of me-too. And even though we all use the same language, the same alphabet, certain artists rise above. Then again, how many people creating deserve the term “artist”?

Lefsetz Letter 2d ago

Hack your DAW. | Image: Ableton Ableton already has Max for Live, which allows users to build MIDI effects, synths, and samplers for its digital audio workstation (DAW). But now with its Extensions SDK, features can be added to Ableton Live with common JavaScript.

The Verge 2d ago

After months of testing, Meta has announced three new paid subscriptions: Instagram Plus, Facebook Plus, and WhatsApp Plus. Features will vary according to platform.

MIDiA Research Blog 3d ago

Today I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr., who is CEO of the Recording Academy — that’s the outfit that puts on the Grammy Awards. I last talked to Harvey in 2024, when it was obvious that generative AI would upend the music industry, but still not exactly clear how that would happen.

The Verge 4d ago

The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution prohibits the federal government from taking private property for public use without just compensation, embracing a principle at least as old as Cicero, who wrote in his 44 BCE book On Duties, “he who will administer a commonwealth must especially see to...

Copyhype 4d ago

Sarah Wynn-Williams’ Careless People won the Freedom to Publish Award while Meta and Mark Zuckerberg personally are defendants in multiple copyright lawsuits alleging Zuckerberg directed Facebook/Meta employees to use pirated books via BitTorrent to train AI systems.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 4d ago

Even the cover revels in a low-bit digital aesthetic. | Image: Saddle Creek / Feeble Little Horse From the opening moments of bitknot, it's obvious that Feeble Little Horse has found an entirely new gear.

The Verge 4d ago

We have released Picard 3 beta 4. The recently released beta 3 did crash on macOS and when running the picard-plugins command line tool, both has been fixed in this. In addition beta 4 fixes display issues in the new log view.

MetaBrainz Blog 4d ago

Bill Ackman said he wanted to "unlock value" at UMG. Then UMG unlocked part of that value itself. Why Bolloré was right, why artists deserve more than buybacks, and why AI infrastructure may be the better investment.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 6d ago