A deceased newborn baby was found in a restroom at the Electric Forest music festival on Sunday morning, according to Michigan State Police. As CBS News reports, the body was found in the bathroom of the camping area of the event, which takes place across four days in Rothbury, Michigan.
The artist-filed lawsuit targeting Spotify’s alleged “undisclosed filtering practices” is heating up: Now, the streaming platform is facing an expanded complaint and a possible temporary injunction.
Kenny G opened the service with a solo performance, while Dionne Warwick eulogized the great record executive
Last week, Vi—which was created from the merger of Vodafone India and the Aditya Birla Group conglomerate’s telecom company Idea Cellular—has entered into a partnership with Spotify. Through the tie-up, […] The post is from Music Ally.
Police are still investigating the discover, asking anyone with information to come forward
Tickets are available now at BillboardLatinMusicWeek.com at a discounted rate through July 22.
Each year, Taiwan’s Golden Melody Festival conferences, which take place before the Golden Melody Awards, bring together local and international music industry experts across a series of keynotes and panels covering topics ranging from the global market and music production to extended economic...
Former EVP Nicholas Rumanes alleged he was fired in May 2025 in retaliation for flagging what his complaint called "serious corporate misconduct." Source
Innovate UK’s latest competition will see it invest up to £10m in ‘createch’ startups. The good news is that music is included.
The singer's new XRAYS site also features photos, notes and artwork ideas.
It’s been a little while since we checked in on the esports market, but y’know who’s checking in regularly on professional gaming tournaments? Gen-Z, that’s who.
Hip-hop nostalgics could lose plenty of time going misty-eyed while scrolling through Genius and Sprite’s ‘The Living Tracklist’ collaboration.
BlizzCon is the annual convention held by games company Blizzard Entertainment, whose franchises include World of Warcraft, Diablo, Hearthstone and Overwatch. It’s been going since 2005, and music often plays a role in the convention.
Everybody! (Yeah!) File your trademarks! (Yeah!) Everybody! (Yeah!) Protect your body of vocal work… alright! No, it doesn’t scan. But US man-band Backstreet Boys have become the latest artist to use a trademark filing as a defensive weapon in the battle against unauthorised voice clones.
Immediately after Justin Bieber’s first set at Coachella this year, we saw some mutterings online of the ‘he was playing his old YouTube videos and singing along, that’s that about?’ variety.
UK managers body the MMF has a long-term relationship with YouTube for its management accelerator. Now the program is evolving and rebranding as ‘Hyperdrive’.
Organizers of the Michigan dance-music fest said police are asking for the public's help in determining the cause of the infant's death.
Singer Fred Schneider wrote that the band's crew was forced to duck and cover during what reports say was a tornado in Tilloloy, France.
The complaints covered malicious online posts, the illegal sale of the members' airport ticketing information, and breaches of the artists' privacy and safety. Source
“The debate over AI governance is stuck in a false choice between over-regulation and no regulation. There is a middle way,” noted the tech giant in a blog post about its latest report.
The application, made with the US Patent and Trademark Office, covers the group saying: “Hi, we’re the Backstreet Boys.” Source
Leo Nicholas has been appointed Managing Director, UK, Aldo Lonobile named Vice President, Global A&R, and Martina Palermo promoted to Global Head of PR. Source
The Puerto Rican artist played a double-header of sold-out gigs in London this weekend (June 27 and 28).
From Taraji P. Henson's time in the sky to the audience's reactions to several surprise guests, check out the best non-televised moments from the 2026 BET Awards.
The festivities will feature a slate of classic American acts.
It's called Culture's Biggest Night, not Culture's Most Predictable Night.
Doechii, SZA, Doja Cat, Queen Latifah, Nas, Ice Cube, Wyclef & more paid tribute to the singer/rapper as she accepted the new award.
As parts of Europe undergo a sweltering heatwave, several music festivals in France and the Netherlands have been cancelled following official heat alerts.
The pioneering industry executive was also feted by Monami Entertainment & BMAC during BET Week.
Madonna called the use of AI “the complete opposite of making art,” saying she likes to step away from social distractions when creating new music. During a recent interview with Vogue Italia, Madonna took a jab at the rise of artificial intelligence and social media algorithms in the realm of...
Live Nation hopes to dismiss the $35 million lawsuit filed against it , shrugging it off as little more than a resentful former employee misunderstanding financial documents.
Lauryn Hill was honored with the Living Legend Icon Award as well as a very robust all-star performance featuring Doechii, Nas, Doja Cat, SZA, Common and Queen Latifah, among many others, at the BET Awards 2026. Ice Cube introduced the megawatt tribute by giving Hill her flowers.
The trio brought New York and Miami vibes to L.A. with their dual performance
The full rundown of who won what at Sunday night’s awards ceremony
The rapper returned to the BET Awards stage with a high-octane set full of songs from her most recent album, including a pointed diss aimed at BIA
The multidisciplinary artist delivered an emotional speech after Janet Jackson presented her with the honor
The Atlanta native was nominated for three awards at this year's ceremony
The BET Awards 2026 took over Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater on Sunday night, making for a three-and-a-half-hour spectacular that went extra heavy on performances from everyone spanning Kehlani and Don Toliver to Cardi B and Baby Keem.
You don’t want to fail in public. This is why acts are wary of stretching to play larger venues. Nothing puts a stink upon your act like empty seats. Forget the buzz on the outside, the business and the social media scuttlebutt, the attendees are also turned off.
1 There was a standing ovation after almost every song. As previously established, my dentist turned me on to Yes. His nephew made an 8-track tape of the first album for him and we listened to it as the Dodge station wagon which needed a front end alignment trundled down I-91 from Vermont back to...
“Last night was a total disaster. The promoter knew the dangerous storm that was brewing and on its way to The C Trop Music Festival,” frontman Fred Schneider says
Suno has ambitions to be more than just a toy to churn out AI slop, it also wants to be a streaming destination and to break new artists. Spark is their new incubator program for independent artists that provides grants, mentorship, and marketing support.
“I was backstage at the show in the middle of hair and makeup when this news was delivered, and they gave me no choice,” singer says
Madonna recently slammed artificial intelligence in a new interview with Vogue Italia, telling the outlet that relying on AI is the “opposite of making art.” “Once you were around painters and musicians and dancers and artists in one place and working from a very pure place for each other.
Gracie Abrams, the daughter of “Star Trek” director J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot co-CEO Kaite McGrath, recently told The New York Times’ “Popcast” that she understands the online discourse about her nepotism. “The nepo stuff is obviously in the discourse, appropriately,” Abrams said.
We’ve just marked a dozen years of Spotify hitting the Croisette for the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, and this year’s Spotify Beach might have been our most memorable yet—a can’t-miss destination for the creators, artists, brands, and fans descending on the South of...
Taipei Arena erupted on Saturday night as the 37th Golden Melody Awards – the Grammys of the Mandarin pop world – delivered one of its most memorable ceremonies, with pop titan Jolin Tsai walking away with the evening’s ultimate prize.
Teenage Engineering has already issued multiple substantial updates for its surprisingly capable $329 EP-133 KO II sampler. Its latest is one of the biggest yet. OS 2.5 adds audio over USB, selectable sample rates for lo-fi fun, sample reverse, an arpeggiator, equal-length autochopping, and it...
The rock legend is headed to Madison Square Garden for the superstar's big day, according to multiple sources
There was no measurable rain in Washington, D.C. Friday night, but even a threat of scattered showers was enough to melt Vanilla Ice’s planned performance on the National Lawn as part of the Freedom 250 events, as the free show was called off hours before it was set to occur due to “inclement...
It was anything but June gloom when the Gotham Television Awards kicked off the month in New York City. Winners and honorees included Chase Infiniti, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kerry Washington, “I Love LA” and “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette.” In London, Variety launched its London...
iHeartMedia sent a memo to employees this week announcing staff cuts as part of restructuring efforts coinciding with its bolstered tech capabilities. iHeartMedia has triggered a broad round of layoffs across the country, affecting numerous stations and employees.
Tune in June 27th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. Phone #: 844-686-5863 If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz
BritBox trailer: (Not that I’d tell you to watch it, it reveals too much, you’re much better off taking the series in cold.) There’s something about Suranne Jones… So we were watching “Wrong Side of the Tracks,” a Spanish show on Netflix recommended by my cardiologist.
The Backstreet Boys have officially joined Lionel Richie and Taylor Swift in moving to trademark their voices amid the gen AI boom. The 33-year-old group’s BSB Entertainment company submitted a sound-mark trademark application on Wednesday.
Kay Hanley, the singing voice of Josie in 2001’s Josie and the Pussycats, has received less than $1,500 in residuals—and has received none since 2009. Letters to Cleo frontwoman Kay Hanley, whose singing voice was given to Rachael Leigh Cook in 2001’s Josie and the Pussycats film, says she’s only...
Performance rights organization BMI and a group of music publishers have been awarded over $18,000 in statutory damages from Baltimore’s Ottobar for unlicensed karaoke songs. Performance rights organization Broadcast Music Inc.
Sean Brock might be just as consumed with vintage Southern-flavored vinyl as he is with interpreting the original flavors of the American South. In his one-year-old West Hollywood restaurant Darling, a large listening bar is centered in the middle of the airy room, the plywood shelves filled with...
K-pop band CORTIS is having an impressive debut, with 600 million streams on Spotify, over 2 million physical album sales, and a major tour. BigHit Music’s rookie boy band CORTIS’ debut album, Color Outside the Lines, has surpassed 600 million streams on Spotify and 2.1 million physical units sold.
Here’s a recap of recent music industry hires and in-house promotions as of June 26th, 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.
Following the confirmation of a February 2026 conversation between Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino and the president, the Coalition for Ticket Fairness (CTF) is calling for the DOJ settlement to be scrapped.
SMP songwriters were recognized across 27 of ASCAP's top-performing R&B, hip-hop and gospel songs of the past year. Source
Pandora bets on a major horseracing constitutional precedent to strip the MLC of its constitutional authority to sue. Source
The biggest headlines from the past few days... Source
YouTube’s Lyor Cohen and the Recording Academy’s Harvey Mason Jr. recently penned an op-ed for Variety in which they made the case for the NO FAKES act being seen as the starting pistol rather than the finish line. Source
If you thought we had reached the theoretical zero-point of how short a short-form piece of video content can reasonably get – or wondered how they can possibly get any shorter, well, now you may know the answer: short content can just be consumed quicker.
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Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft — The lawsuits challenging the unauthorized use of copyrighted works to train Large Language Models do not appear to be slowing down.
Touring, as every artist knows, is a tough game. Uncertainty is high, margins are razor thin, and once an artist deducts piffling luxuries like, erm, accommodation and food from their income, tours often end in losses.
Twitch and SoundCloud have linked up for SoundCloud Sessions, a 12-hour DJ marathon on Twitch taking place today, June 26, from 9AM – 9PM Pacific Time. Hosted on Soundcloud’s Twitch channel, it features sets from DJs whose fandom straddles the two partner platforms.
It’s prediction market news week here on Music Ally, apparently – to catch up, try listening to The Price of Music from a couple of days ago – and in that episode, we wondered how the music business might best engage with prediction markets – which, remember, is a market that’s worth over...
As legacy platform algorithms become less creator-friendly, many artists have faced the dilemma of their fans not seeing tour dates, release announcements and other updates on their feeds. We think that Highnote FM could be one solution to this.
It appears that social media might be moving away from opaque systems that predict user interests, and instead are handing over the reins for users to decide.
Participating stores will collect the records for recovery partner Virterras Materials to assess for potential material recycling. Source
We are excited to announce the 7 GSOC participants working with us this summer on MetaBrainz projects! Our apologies for not publishing this sooner, in this complicated first part of the year we simply forgot the announcement, but rest assured the work is progressing on all projects.
According to RadioInsight, nationwide station budget cuts began Tuesday and rolled out through the week. Source
Communities are increasingly challenging data-center projects over NDAs, shell companies, secrecy, transmission costs, and subsidies as a bipartisan backlash reshapes infrastructure politics nationwide.
Anthropic has accused Chinese tech company Alibaba of “brazenly” and “illicitly” attempting to steal its artificial intelligence capabilities. AI company and Claude chatbot creator Anthropic has issued a letter to the U.S.
SoundCloud and Twitch announce the launch of SoundCloud Sessions, a collaborative effort enabling DJs to reach new audiences across both platforms. This week, Twitch and SoundCloud announced the launch of SoundCloud Sessions, a collaborative partnership focused on helping DJs reach new audiences...
As the Michael Jackson biopic inches closer to $1 billion, the film surpasses two Lord of the Rings films in its box office gross. Michael continues to grow larger than life, much like the career of the man on which it is based.
Pandora is doubling down on its aggressive push to effectively invalidate the MLC’s ability to sue – this time by citing a new appellate court decision. Meanwhile, the MLC is firing back against the argument.
Lionel Richie and Rod Stewart both experienced unsteadiness on stage this week, sparking concerns that older musicians are pushing themselves too hard. Following reports that he was battling a respiratory illness, Rod Stewart had to use an oxygen mask to finish his performance in Utah over the...
Bassnectar is making a comeback in a big way, with Paula Moore’s Greater Music Group signing the EDM legend to a new management deal. Paula Moore, the CEO of Greater Music Group (GMG) has announced a comprehensive business transformation initiative for longtime EDM darling Bassnectar, highlighted...
As it grapples with multiple copyright suits – and continued criticism – Suno has launched an artist incubator program called Spark. The AI music platform formally announced Spark today, as it remains embroiled in litigation spearheaded by indie artists, the majors, and others yet.
Live Nation-promoted run sold more than 225,000 tickets, according to the concert giant. Source
We are in the process of moving user accounts, authentication and OAuth applications from the MusicBrainz website to the MetaBrainz website.This centralizes our account management between all the *Brainz projects, along with some security improvements.
English-language tracks now account for an even 86% of on-demand streams in the States – a share that’s said to be “steadily eroding” amid the continued rise of Latin, K-pop, and more.
Los fans de la música conocen esa sensación: una canción te atrapa por completo y de inmediato quieres saber más. ¿Qué la inspiró? ¿Cuál es su significado? En Spotify creemos que entender el proceso creativo y el contexto detrás de una canción puede profundizar tu conexión con la música que amas.
Podcasting has spent much of the last decade trying to prove its value through metrics inherited from a fundamentally different era of digital media. That era may finally be coming to an end.
After a successful study on the sound quality of recycled vinyl, WMG launches a vinyl record take-back pilot across record stores nationwide. Warner Music Group and a collection of independent record stores across the United States have announced the launch of a vinyl take-back pilot.
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We’re all getting tired of the AI slop that’s being handed to us, and it’s even worse when you have to compete with it. One platform where it’s particularly egregious is TikTok, and a new report from Kapwing outlines the problem in detail.
On this week’s podcast episode, I speak with Keith Jopling about what separates artists who last from those who burn out chasing the wrong metrics. Keith spent 25 years inside the business, including time at Spotify, before interviewing 80 artists and bands to write Riding the Rollercoaster.
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Mow a series of lawns as efficiently as you can. We will publish the analysis in a few weeks.
After a long history of promises, last week I basically got the Parachord iOS app to feature parity with the Android and desktop apps. Multi-servcie content resoltuion, playback engine(s), catalog, scrobbling, the chat DJ, the social stuff, the Achordion integration and more.
There has never been a better time to make video. The barriers to creation have collapsed. Editing software that once cost thousands is available on subscription. AI can generate transcripts, captions, thumbnails, clips, and even entire video sequences. Source
From shocking true-crime investigations to chaotic comedies, 2026 has already been a standout year for podcasts. To help you discover your next favorite, we’re sharing a curated collection from around the world, hand-picked by our editors.
In 2006, JoJo’s “Too Little Too Late” climbed the charts, winning over fans and critics alike. It was a career‑defining moment for the artist, but also for the song’s writer, RuthAnne, who was all of 17 years old.
One of the most powerful men in the American recording industry who promoted Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin and Barry Manilow Controversial, ruthless and staggeringly successful, Clive Davis, who has died aged 94, was the most complete specimen of the old-school record industry...
Jelly Roll, J Balvin, and Nelly Furtado are just a few of the big names aiming to hit the back of the net with their contributions to FIFA's most musical iteration yet.
The United Kingdom is set to enact bans on social media for under 16s by spring 2027, with further restrictions for 16 and 17 year olds under consideration. It will also likely affect how adults use social platforms as age verification measures and algorithmic adjustments take place. Source
Reseller is also ordered to refund more than 50,000 fans, while its rival Viagogo remains under investigation Business live – latest updates The online ticket reseller StubHub UK has been fined almost £900,000 and ordered to make payments to more than 50,000 fans for not showing the full price of...
Explore the Buttolph Collection from the New York Public Library's archive of historic menus.
What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?
The legendary music executive signed everyone from Patti Smith to Barry Manilow and changed the industry forever Clive Davis: music industry executive who signed Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen dies aged 94 Clive Davis: a life in pictures from Diana Ross to Aretha Franklin Clive Davis always...
The influential music executive has died at the age of 94, leaving behind a career filled with success, signing stars such as Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel Clive Davis: music industry executive who signed Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen dies aged 94 Clive Davis predicted...
Davis, who discovered many of the defining musicians of the 20th century and helmed major record labels, said he ‘never’ tired of the music business Clive Davis predicted music’s biggest stars like no one else Clive Davis: a life in pictures from Diana Ross to Aretha Franklin The famed US music...