The artist officially wrapped the European leg of her Yo Canto tour at the Movistar Arena, before kicking off its Latin American trek this week.
Rapper Lil Tjay was arrested on Monday night in connection with Offset’s shooting in Hollywood, FL. The Seminole Police Department stated that the musician, whose real name is Tione Jayden Merritt, was arrested and “charged in connection with the incident that took place Monday night at a valet...
The festival is set to take place July 30 through Aug. 2.
In the streaming age, the probability of a song becoming a chart hit is often directly proportional to the size of its promotional budget. According to a recent report in […] The post is from Music Ally.
Awards show will take place in Las Vegas on May 17
The Grammy-nominated girl group's elder stateswoman was not on hand for last month's run of South American shows and she's not expected to join them at this weekend's Coachella.
Home Office says rapper's presence "would not be conducive to the public good" Source
This year's festival has been canceled due to the U.K. denying the rapper entry.
A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.
The Bronx rapper was charged with disorderly conduct and a traffic violation
Raised between Reykjavik, Iceland, and Washington, D.C., Laufey learned piano and cello as a child before studying at Berklee College of Music Source
The deal includes a 50/50 joint venture to sign and develop new and established artists Source
The rapper's jogger style is a fan favorite and makes a great everyday shoe.
The singer talks about her new album Hades, killing Cry Baby and her favorite artists in the new episode of Billboard's In Conversation.
Is 90 percent accuracy good enough for a search robot?
The chart ranks the top dance tracks worldwide, based on monitored airplay across 200-plus dance stations in more than 30 countries.
Linux devs think even one second spent on 486 support is a second too many.
The album marks her first leader on any Billboard chart.
The pop star called off the concert on doctor's orders, and it's unclear if she'll still be able to play her other Mayhem Ball tour dates this week
It marks the third visual in the band's ARIRANG album era.
Olivia Rodrigo will drop the first single from her third album, “Drop Dead,” on April 17. The singer revealed the news on her Instagram Tuesday alongside a photo of her blowing a bubble with gum, with the name of the single embroidered on her shirt.
The AI-powered musicmaker Suno is struggling to reach licensing deals with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. That's according to a report from the Financial Times, which says both sides can't agree on whether users should be able to share the AI-generated songs they create.
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square claims world’s biggest music company has suffered because of delay of US listing Business live – latest updates Billionaire Bill Ackman’s hedge fund has offered to buy Universal Music Group (UMG) in a deal that values the world’s biggest music company at about €55bn...
Top agency The Team (formerly Wasserman) has named Kevin Shivers co-president of its music group. In this expanded role, Shivers will partner with music group president Lee Anderson to oversee the group’s global strategy, operations, and continued growth across all sectors of the live music...
The Moon, the Earth, and the Sun; oh what fun!
UPDATE — Celine Dion has added six more concert dates to her hotly anticipated Paris residency kicking off on Sept. 12. Unveiled by Dion’s team on social media on Tuesday, the new dates bring the total number of concerts scheduled at Paris La Défense Arena to 16.
MBW founder Tim Ingham on telling details within Pershing Square's proposal for a new Universal Music Group Source
The app went live on the App Store on Wednesday (April 1), following several weeks during which it had been listed ahead of its formal release Source
The AI fintech and investment banking veteran joins the music rights firm during a period of strategic expansion. Source
Singer-songwriter will open festival's Mojave tent on Saturday in highly coveted slot
Jack Antonoff and his band will headline the Fillmore on May 20 for the first stop of our six-date tour
The test document also shows the effect on range of fitting all-terrain tires.
The three-day festival was supposed to take place in July
Rick Mitarotonda tells Rolling Stone the first offering from the band’s new album, Big Modern!, is all about “surrendering to an ecstasy in all of that chaos”
Update: Things moved fast with this story today. Festival Republic has now confirmed that the UK Home Office has withdrawn Ye’s ETA [electronic travel authorisation], denying him entry into the UK.
The controversial Kanye West-headlining Wireless Festival in the U.K. has been canceled, following the artist’s denial of entry into the country due to his antisemitic hate speech over the past few years, according to a statement from the festival.
The Home Office rejected the rapper's travel application, saying his presence in the country would not be conducive to the public good
Karol G wants to speak out more on politics – specifically ICE actions in the United States – but she’s regularly warned not to. “People will say, ‘It’s better you don’t,’ the Colombian Grammy-winner says in an interview accompanying her new cover of Playboy. “Why?
An announcement last week by TikTok’s distribution arm SoundOn sounds dry, but it’s part of the bigger debate about distributors’ role in the spread of fake or infringing music on streaming services.
Music-industry economist Will Page’s world tour continues: he appeared at the recent Vanderbilt Music Law Summit in Nashville with a presentation on ‘The Global (and American) Value of Music Copyright’. Page shared details of his session with Music Ally, including key data points.
The Coachella festival begins on Friday (10 April) and as ever, YouTube is the event’s livestreaming-video partner – with a new traditional-TV-style twist to its 2026 coverage.
Last week we reported on Universal Music Group’s sharp response to Drake appealing the dismissal of his ‘Not Like Us’ defamation lawsuit against the major label. Now it has some backup.
Who knew the members of K-Pop band Enhypen were vampires? At least that explains the lack of mirrors in their stage sets, their refusal to play daytime slots at festivals, and the strict ‘no garlic’ clause in their tour rider.
While we’re on a ‘majors suing companies’ tip… Universal Music Group locked horns with Believe and TuneCore late in 2024, accusing them of “industrial-scale copyright infringement”.
We wondered what independent music bodies would make of Warner Music Group’s announcement last week that it is buying B2B firm Revelator, whose services are used by a number of indie artists.
Readers of a certain age may wish to cover their eyes and scream for a bit now: the self-titled debut album by Gorillaz is now 25 years old. Spotify has published some startling stats about the album’s streaming performance to celebrate the quarter-century anniversary. The album has racked up...
AI-music firm Suno may have settled the lawsuit filed against it by Warner Music Group, but it remains locked in litigation with the other two majors. Their lawyers will be eagerly reading The Verge’s latest investigation, which claims that the guardrails in the Suno Studio software designed to...
Yes, you read that right: for once Universal Music Group is part of a corporate-acquisition story as the company that is potentially being acquired. The buyer? Hedge fund Pershing Square, owned by billionaire Bill Ackman. The price? Potentially €55bn ($63.5bn at current exchange rates).
Back in April 2022, we reported on the launch of ‘Qishui Yinyue’ (Soda Music) in China. It was a music-streaming service from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance. “Can even ByteDance take a bite (or a byte?) out of Tencent Music [TME] and NetEase Cloud Music’s dominance in China?” we wrote at the...
Starting today, Prompted Playlist is expanding beyond music to now include podcasts. Launched earlier this year in beta, this feature lets you steer the algorithm by creating playlists based on your listening history and real-time signals on Spotify, including trends and charts, so the playlist...
Indian composer duo Salim-Sulaiman, comprising siblings Salim and Sulaiman Merchant, have crossed a milestone 100 performances with TribeVibe, the division of promoter BookMyShow that stages gigs at college campuses across […] The post is from Music Ally.
“My only goal is to come to London and present a show of change, bringing unity, peace, and love through my music,” the rapper said
Several members of the hip-hop collective failed to appear at their Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney shows in March
Intel is hoping to cash in on the AI boom.
UPDATE: The U.K. government has blocked Kanye West from entering the U.K., where he was due to headline the Wireless Festival, according to the BBC. The Home Office has reportedly rejected West’s application for an Electronic Travel Authorisation after it was made yesterday on the grounds “his...
Benn's statement comes as the fallout from the booking continues to mount. Source
The company is in search for members of a boy group it plans to debut in 2027 Source
The publishers claim X never attempted to secure an individual license and that X cannot cite an example of a music publisher rejecting such a request. Source
"UMG's stock price has languished due to a combination of issues that are unrelated to the performance of its music business and importantly, all of them can be addressed with this transaction," says Ackman Source
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management disclosed early Tuesday that a takeover bid for Universal Music Group has been submitted to UMG’s board. The offer includes about $10.9 billion in cash, plus additional stock that pushes the total consideration to about $35 a share.
Coachella-goers — and home streaming viewers — can start setting alarm times for the coming weekend on their watches now. Set times for the first weekend of performances this Friday through Sunday were finally posted late Monday night, allowing Southern California and the world to know exactly when...
"Humans have probably not evolved to see what we’re seeing. It is truly hard to describe. It is amazing."
Jonah Hill said during a recent appearance on “The Zane Lowe Show” that it was “bizarre” when Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, took to Instagram in 2023 and wrote that Hill’s performance in the 2012 comedy film “21 Jump Street” made him “like Jewish people again.” “I felt that he did...
The charter renewal gives Kennedy broad authority to pick anyone for the panel.
New model can respond to disruptions and figure out moves it wasn't trained for.
Court rules US preempts states from applying gambling laws to prediction markets.
Congress rejected huge cuts to science in 2026, but Trump is trying again.
OpenAI brainstorms ways AI can benefit humanity in effort to counter bad vibes.
Lori Glaze: "We have seen real commitment to try and do that... from both Blue and from SpaceX."
LG almost released a rollable smartphone in 2021, and this is what it looked like inside.
If platforms can assign identity without consent, the problem isn’t metadata—it’s governance. ACR won’t fix systems designed to ignore verification.
The market for new cars has slumped as Americans look for deals on used EVs.
"Don't expect hi-res video."
As podcasting continues to evolve, growth increasingly means building beyond audio. Creators are expanding into video, merch, and live events, finding new ways to deepen listener relationships and bring audiences together. One clear example is the paranormal-comedy podcast Let’s Get Haunted.
Director Christopher Nolan's breakout film explores themes of the nature of memory and personal identity.
For the first decade of streaming, success was largely about access. The industry focused on getting music onto digital service providers as quickly and widely as possible, and solving distribution […] The post is from Music Ally.
Like the immortal lives of vampires, some stories never really end. That’s the vibe K-Pop boyband ENHYPEN brings to The Blood Diary, a new video podcast series that explores mysterious events from around the globe, where members of the group take turns blurring the line between fact and fiction.
Anajak: https://www.anajakthai.com What kind of crazy, f*cked up world do we live in where the best Thai restaurant in Los Angeles is in the San Fernando Valley? You’ve got to know, the Valley used to be the pits.
“I’m a long distance romancer I keep trying ’til I get an answer Gimme gimme one more chance She’s a greater little operator” I didn’t know it was written by Mickey Jupp! So I was reading today’s “Los Angeles Times” and there was an interview with Nick Lowe. Wherein he said he never wanted to […]
Los Thuthanaka basically came out of nowhere last year to capture Pitchfork's album of the year with their self-titled debut. Because it wasn't available on streaming, it largely flew under the radar.
AI music platform Suno's policy is that it does not permit the use of copyrighted material. You can upload your own tracks to remix or set your original lyrics to AI-generated music. But, it's supposed to recognize and stop you from using other people's songs and lyrics.
Quizlet flashcards seem to include sensitive information about gate security at CBP locations.
"I think the fixation on the toilet is kind of human nature."
We are all looking to make it. And we employ signifiers, status markers, to indicate that we’ve crossed the threshold, that we are no longer trapped amongst the great unwashed, that finally we are SOMEBODY!
A state bill is a glimpse of how corporations are limiting people's ability to make their own fixes and upgrades.
Murphy Campbell is at the center of a brewing storm around AI and a broken copyright system. | Image: Murphy Campbell In January, folk artist Murphy Campbell discovered several songs on her Spotify profile that did not belong there.
The records that were hits at the same time as the British Invasion. Tune in Saturday April 4th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz
Congress will likely reject the White House's NASA cuts, just as it did last year.
No other K-pop boy group has ever taken a four-year break. BTS did and came back with 2.5x the streams. Here's what the data behind Arirang reveals about one of music's most loyal fanbases.
Top Noteworthy Copyright Stories from March 2026 — “March 2026 was one of the busiest months in recent memory for the copyright world, with huge developments on critical copyright issues that all creators and copyright owners must know about.” Penguin to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT version of German...
Richard Blumenthal says company acts like it has ‘get-out-of-jail-free card’ as records show it upping fees to cut losses Ticketmaster quietly raised other fees after US crackdown on hidden charges Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Senators slammed Ticketmaster for raising ticket...
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
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.
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.
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
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.