Gralen previously served as President and CFO, while Sartory was most recently Chief Revenue Officer. Source
The Bronx rapper briefly addressed the renewed attention surrounding his conflict with Offset before turning focus to his new single “Life On Edge” and upcoming album, They Just Ain’t You.
Seoul police have applied for a warrant to detain Bang Si-hyuk, chair and founder of Hybe, over alleged securities fraud tied to the K-pop conglomerate’s public listing, Reuters reported.
Joining the band on tour are Beddy Rays, who will open all shows, with Teenage Joans appearing in Sydney and Brisbane and Secret World set for the Melbourne date.
Companies in the music industry are using AI in various ways. But few are doing it quite as ambitiously as Greater Music Group. The post is from Music Ally.
The timing of the track’s arrival is notable, coming just ahead of the 10th anniversary of Prince’s death.
Problems with the ground system would have "put current GPS military and civilian capabilities at risk."
The April 27 episode -- which will feature guest judge Nikki Glaser -- will be the first night entirely dedicated to Swift's music in the show's 24 seasons.
Bieber leads the headliner pack on the charts.
He’s a product guy. Cook was an efficiency expert. Although not a total surprise, the timing of this changing of the guard was unexpected. It illustrates that everything comes to an end, and you’re better off if you prepare for it.
The set is one of a career-high seven albums from Bieber on the chart.
A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.
Jimi the Kween's “All I Need” is the first release through Poof Doof Records.
Bieber first posted a cover of the song to YouTube in 2008.
Both sets went past the 1:00 a.m. curfew on Friday and Saturday of the desert festival's second weekend.
I loved Don – he was not only one of the most wired in promoters of his time , he was, as you say, a star in his own right…. Boy, did he know his market – when I did a show with him in Montreal , I met everyone – the building owner or […]
MBW's Inspiring Women series meets former September Management COO-turned-author Delphine Seddon Source
The singer also entered not guilty pleas to additional charges of sexual abuse with a child under 14 and unlawful mutiliation of human remains
Madonna pulled vintage pieces from her personal archive for her special appearance during Sabrina Carpenter's headlining set on Friday, only to find the garments missing later on
MCA Records has announced that three-time Grammy winner Miranda Lambert will release future music with the label, which was formerly known as Universal Music Nashville.
Cook will be executive chairman, but will no longer run the company day to day.
Experts point out a series of flaws, including small size and no control group.
Madonna has posted that the 20-year-old stage outfit she wore while performing Friday night at Coachella with Sabrina Carpenter has gone missing, and she is asking for fans’ help in finding the MIA wardrobe.
“Live Nation is supporting two California bills to lower prices. Can fans trust it?”: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-04-17/live-nation-is-supporting-two-california-bills-to-lower-prices-can-fans-trust-it I don’t believe in it. A. Because fans like resale. B.
Billy Strings has been forced to postpone immediately upcoming tour dates after breaking his leg, mid-show, during a gig Saturday night in Charlottesville, Va.
She pauses to reset the music, joke with the class and start again as students follow her movements in the wall-length mirrors. As NYU students enter ...
Deal collateralized by royalties from a catalog of more than 3,750 works Source
Importers can now request refunds, two months after Trump's Supreme Court loss.
Energy management and speed differentials are the problems of the day.
YouTube’s annual Coachella livestream is the single best place to experience and discover new and contemporary music on the Internet: For three days, it is packed with career-defining sets for some of the most important, influential and up-and-coming artists in the world, exquisitely choreographed,...
April began with the continuation of Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s promotional tour for their new romantic dramedy “The Drama.” The two stopped by “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” ahead of a special New York City screening of the film set for the following evening.
A humanoid robot's record half-marathon run shows China's speed in robotics.
Deezer says it receives nearly 75,000 AI-generated song submissions to its music streaming platform each day, accounting for about 44 percent of all daily uploads, as reported earlier by TechCrunch.
Shaboozey has announced his new concept album, “The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales,” releasing on July 31 via his imprint American Dogwood in partnership with Empire.
AI tracks account for a small fraction of Deezer streams, and most are demonetized for fraud.
The company raised a $500 million Series E in March at a $10.1 billion valuation Source
The Los Angeles County district attorney revealed that before her death, Rivas was a witness in an investigation into the singer for sexual acts with a person under 14
D4vd has been charged with murder following his arrest last Thursday for the death of a teen girl whose decomposed body was found in the trunk of his Tesla.
Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), out May 8, was captured during Eilish’s stretch of shows in Manchester, England, in July 2025, but maintained the integrity of her live show despite the cameras
The future war film, from the director of Moon, is adapted from 2000 AD's comic series.
The band’s performance of “Oblivius” included a montage calling out U.S.-backed assassinations of foreign leaders, as well as more recent footage of destruction in Gaza and Iran
A song that captures a moment can feel like magic. But when you uncover the story behind it—who made it, what inspired it, and the meaning woven into the lyrics—it becomes something even deeper. That’s why we’ve been building new ways to help you go beyond the surface of your favorite tracks.
Kea parrot missing his upper beak "has rewritten what disability means for behaviorally complex species."
Coachella has had countless bombshell moments over the decades, and this year it had surprise guest appearances from Madonna, SZA, Billie Eilish, Peso Pluma, Olivia Rodrigo, J Balvin, Snoop Dogg and Billy Idol, among others.
Record label had pressured Kurt Cobain to remix famed engineer’s In Utero recordings
Madonna’s most die-hard fans are hopeful that the Material Girl will tour again. The anticipation has been intensifying following the announcement of her new album “Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II” and her surprise performance with Sabrina Carpenter at Coachella on Friday night.
Cyberdefenses could be exposed faster than fixes could be deployed.
We reported last week on Laufey becoming the latest artist to headline a season of Fortnite Festival, the music game-within-the-game on Fortnite. But it turns out her activation on the platform goes further than this.
No need to look puzzled: A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is not, in fact, a vinyl-themed boozer in Tokyo’s youth-culture hotspot. It’s actually a “music software label” founded by Máuhan M. Zonoozy, who used to he head of innovation at Spotify. Although he did come up with the name in one of those bars.
Sam Altman is best known as the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, but he’s got another project called ‘World’ that is suddenly directly relevant to the music industry.
Downloads may be well into a long-term decline that shows no signs of a vinyl-style revival, but there are still contexts where they are meaningful for individual artists and labels. Bandcamp is one, and Universal Music Group will be hoping that jazz is another.
Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest is one of the hottest music-political potatoes in the world right now, just under a month before the event in Austria.
The box-office revenues for Spain’s live-music industry grew to €807.2m in 2025, but that’s only part of the picture for the economic impact of the country’s concerts and festivals. Now legal and business-management firm Sympathy for the Lawyer has published a report telling the rest of that story.
Acquisition marks 'an important milestone in PopArabia’s continued growth,' according to PopArabia and Reservoir Source
Actually, a quick public service announcement about ‘hit’ first. It may be high time we stopped using ‘is number one on an iTunes chart somewhere’ as a marker for success in the modern streaming age. With no disrespect to Apple, it doesn’t take *that* many sales to have an iTunes hit nowadays.
How does HEVC implementation really work these days?
The volume of fully AI-generated music being uploaded to Deezer has surged again Source
The singer took aim at the president for sharing a clip of her father performing the classic tune in 1974
It’s out. Parachord for Android v0.4.0-beta.2 is the first public beta of the mobile app, and anyone with an Android phone and a taste for music that lives in too many places at once can now install it.
Blue Origin's reused first stage hit its targets, but New Glenn's upper stage did not.
Sexyy Red, Big Sean, and Dijon also stop by during singer’s Weekend Two headlining gig
Singer makes another surprise Coachella appearance, joining Rae on “Headphones On” before live premiere of You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love single
The laser was used to study the physics of stellar interiors and fusion energy, among other things.
1 You reach a point where you no longer believe. I was doing an interview and I was asked who my heroes were. Stunningly, I’ve never been asked this before. Normally you put a dime in my jukebox and you get endless spiel, these stories are embedded in my DNA. But I was stumped, I […]
Rapper was stabbed 16 times by fellow inmate in May 2025 while 10-year sentence in Megan Thee Stallion shooting case
The sharks might also be the most physiologically vulnerable to warming waters.
A $322 million default judgment against Anna’s Archive looks like a major copyright victory for Spotify and the major labels—but it also exposes a deeper problem.
Grinex says needed hacking resources "available exclusively to... unfriendly states."
Probation for man who used stolen logins and posted private info on social media.
She's well qualified but will need to navigate RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda.
Is $20,000–$25,000 a sweet spot for secondhand electric cars? We think so.
Data centers face construction delays and energy bottleneck as resistance grows.
The two newest Fire Sticks block apps from outside of Amazon's store.
Chartmetric makes it easier for indie artists to compete, with features for playlist pitching, social strategy, and brand affinity insights. All in one place.
New iPhone app Gigs uses AI to turn old tickets, screenshots, and emails into a personal concert archive with stats, memories, and more.
The biggest headlines from the past few days... Source
Pirate site Anna’s Archive hit with $322M default judgment over music scraping — but will Spotify and record labels ever see the money? — “The judge’s ruling also requires internet service providers including Cloudflare to disable access to Anna’s Archive’s domain names and prevent websites that...
Ahead of the second weekend of the Coachella festival, with the Stagecoach festival to follow later in the month, California’s governor Gavin Newsom has published a Big Number on the two events’ economic value to the state.
Venerable US jam-band The Grateful Dead have one of the largest archives of live recordings, thanks to their longstanding policy of supporting fans who wanted to tape their shows. Now their vault of recordings is opening up in hi-res form, in partnership with Rhino Entertainment and Nugs.
The UK parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) committee has published its ‘Fan-Led Review of Live and Electronic Music’ report after nearly a year of consultation with fans and the industry.
Global advertising body the IAB and PwC have released their ‘2025 Internet Advertising Revenue Report’, which tracks a 13.9% increase in those revenue last year to $294.6bn – a record total. Within that, social advertising revenues grew by 32.6% to $117.7bn, and are now 40% of alll digital...
Country sensation Ella Langley is celebrating the release of her sophomore album ‘Dandelion’ with an in-app TikTok experience. While commonplace for major artists, this highlights her rapid rise seeing as the artist released her debut album in 2024.
Coachella weekend one just wrapped. Here are the highlights for artist teams: Justin Bieber leaned into millennial nostalgia, triggering his biggest streaming day since 2025 and a 24.6 million stream surge.
This week lyric licensing and data company LyricFind announced Artist Unlimited, a new subscription plan which allows artists to create professional-tier videos using software courtesy of Rotor Videos.
Shankar, who currently leads TuneCore in the region, will expand her remit across Believe’s Artist Services business. Source
New digital hub combines e-commerce and editorial content focused on jazz repertoire and culture. Source
An unannounced Teenage Engineering device, the KO-Amp 35, can be found over at the FCC in a new filing. The label clearly marks it as a member of the midrange EP family instruments, which currently includes the KO-II and its spinoffs, the Riddim and the Medieval.
News arrives as live music becomes an increasingly important revenue stream for K-pop's biggest companies Source
Over the last few years, Coachella has made substantial changes to its programming. New stages, surprise headliners, and most notably, fewer and fewer artists. Here are the numbers behind Coachella lineups post-pandemic.
For most of recorded music history, quality was scarce. Recording, producing, and distributing a song that sounded “good” required significant investments of time, money, and skill, along with access to gatekeepers, who carefully filtered what entered the system. Source
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Spotify and the three major labels have won a $322 million default judgement against Anna's Archive, the open-source library and pirate activist group that planned to publicly release millions of music files scraped from Spotify's platform.
Can a commercial recording studio still thrive in the age of AI, home recording, and constant industry change? In this episode of Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle, Bobby Owsinski sits down with Tom Weir, Grammy-winning engineer and owner of Studio City Sound.
From gripping thrillers to poignant memoirs, the 21st century has had no shortage of unforgettable books. To celebrate the standout storytelling of our modern era, we’re launching Best of the Century So Far—a curated audiobook collection of titles released each year between 2001 and 2025,...
For many artists, independent venues are where music careers begin and fan communities take shape. Independent venue operators work hard every day to keep local scenes thriving as they navigate a rapidly evolving live music landscape.
Books have always moved with us, whether tucked in our bags or humming in our headphones. With audiobooks, Spotify is building new ways to bring our favorite stories along for the ride. Just over two years after launching, Audiobooks in Premium is now live in 22 markets.
Scroll around the internet and you’ll find a lot of grumbling about subscription prices. Nowadays, everything is a subscription – audio streaming, video streaming, gaming, software, plugins, workstations, AI models, and no doubt several other categories I can’t think of right now.
The creator economy used to be an adjacent entertainment ecosystem to traditional entertainment. Those days are numbered – if not over already. Creators are now a foundational component in how traditional entertainment produces and distributes content at scale. Source
From immersive storytelling to laugh-out-loud comedies, podcasts are booming in popularity across Mexico and Latin America. That’s why we’re excited to announce that next month, Mexico’s biggest podcast celebration, the Spotify Podcast Awards, are back.
A lot of attention is being paid to the “rules of engagement” for podcasting: format preferences, video versus audio, and platform battles like YouTube versus Spotify. The industry is deeply focused on how and where audiences are consuming podcasts, and rightly so. Source
After failing in Congress, the White House is pressuring states to weaken AI safeguards, tying funding threats to policy outcomes and quietly reshaping laws that govern emerging technology today nationwide.