The K-pop superstars traded the stage for the pickleball court, turning a friendly game into a full-blown competition.

Billboard 4m ago

The latest Tim's Take from MBW founder, Tim Ingham Source

Music Business Worldwide 32m ago

After a day one weather disruption, the festival’s Sunday lineup shifted to include back-to-back-to-back sets from peak-EDM-era icons Skrillex, Calvin Harris and Swedish House Mafia.

Billboard 32m ago

The trio performed hits old and new while rocking out with the Banana Ball Championship League players.

Billboard 42m ago

Italian eyewear conglomerate EssilorLuxottica is accused of using uncleared music by Taylor Swift, Drake, Dua Lipa and Rihanna.

Billboard 1h ago

Watch the Bills take on the Rams on Monday, Oct. 12 — and possible Hailee Steinfeld appearance at the game.

Billboard 1h ago

The song has sustained momentum following the Sept. 27 ceremony.

Billboard 1h ago

There are more than 20 times as many entries in this year's most populated category as in this year's least populated category.

Billboard 1h ago

Though the distributor was ostensibly targeting AI slop and potentially infringing content, numerous artists said their original music was hit with takedowns

Rolling Stone 1h ago

Predicting the Record of the Year race for the 2027 Grammys is both super easy and super challenging… depending on whether we’re focused on narrowing down the thousands of first-ballot contenders to eight nominees, or whether we’re jumping ahead to fixate on who the ultimate winner will be.

Variety 1h ago

The pop star shared a glimpse of a recording session to her Instagram Story, sparking speculation about a possible team-up with a fellow musician.

Billboard 1h ago

1 He’s always been nice to me. There’s an assumption that our musical heroes are just like you and me. They’re not. And they’re not like movie stars, not like politicians, not like any other performers, because they are their music, and their music speaks to us in a way no other medium does.

Lefsetz Letter 1h ago

Sean “Diddy” Combs was taken from federal prison to the hospital on Saturday after suffering a reported head injury. The 56-year-old mogul, who is currently serving a 50-month sentence at Fort Dix in New Jersey, was apparently rushed to the hospital early on Saturday morning for a...

Variety 2h ago

We'll be updating our list as musicians announce their new music, so keep checking back for the latest!

Billboard 2h ago

On social media, the Puerto Rican star revisited the relationship he had years ago with the Colombian superstar.

Billboard 2h ago

The notice of voluntary dismissal does not say whether they reached a settlement with Travis Scott or Sony Music. Source

Music Business Worldwide 3h ago

Spotify Technology, groups four products – Portal, Confidence, Xirp, and Spotify for Backstage – under one name, with its own website. Source

Music Business Worldwide 3h ago

Rollback fixed things, but stop us if you've heard this before

The Register 4h ago

The track comes off the Irish rock band's forthcoming album, Dopamine Chamber

Rolling Stone 4h ago

Taylor Swift has scored a second week atop the Billboard Hot 100 with “Patient Zero,” the lead single off of “The Life of Showgirl: The Encore.” “Patient Zero” is one of four new Swift songs included on “Encore,” which, just yesterday, earned her a 100th week at No.

Variety 5h ago

Pew Research Center finds 51% of Americans say no, cite lack of interest - not know-how - as the top reason

The Register 5h ago

Earlier this year, Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” had another sudden resurgence — one of many since its release in 1998 — after social media users and celebrities spanning Drew Barrymore to Kevin Bacon used the song to showcase photos of what they looked like in the 1990s.

Variety 5h ago

The Orchard is seeking a dynamic, entrepreneurial leader to manage and execute its growth strategy, team building and client relationship initiatives in the Nordics & Baltics. Driving efficient communication and […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 5h ago

Universal Talent Development, in partnership with Universal Film Music and the participation of DreamWorks Animation and Universal Studio Group Music, has launched its fourth composers initiative, a program designed to seek and amplify rising talent in the entertainment industry.

Variety 6h ago

Fancy a bit of fun? It's always DNS

The Register 6h ago

Spears recorded “She’ll Never Be Me” for Britney, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, but the track was left unfinished and scrapped from the record to prioritize other songs

Rolling Stone 6h ago

CPU-only and mixed CPU/GPU configurations due from partners in November

The Register 6h ago

As a frail Love played what could be his final Beach Boys concert, in Nashville on Sunday, Jardine was taking the stage in Cerritos, California, with ex-bandmates Bruce Johnston and David Marks

Rolling Stone 7h ago

Just over two weeks before The Register’s Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA, the questions on the table are the ones that decide the architecture.

The Register 7h ago

What are artists really signing away when they opt into an AI settlement? Join Jen Jacobsen, George Zelcs, Gwendolyn Seale, Tim Kappel and moderator Chris Castle at Artist Rights Symposium V on October 19 at the University of Georgia for a discussion of AI copyright licensing, hidden...

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 7h ago

'Learn More' shortcut to local setup reportedly patched server-side, leaving users with more involved workarounds

The Register 7h ago

Kelly Clarkson does not seem to be winning the war she haphazardly declared against a Brooklyn novelty store. But the mere fact of its existence is proof that Clarkson is providing the public a service, of sorts.

Variety 7h ago

Britney Spears has posted a previously unreleased collaboration with Justin Timberlake titled “She’ll Never Be Me,” originally recorded for her 2001 album “Britney,” as a preview of the album’s 25 th anniversary edition, out on Nov. 6.

Variety 8h ago

Techies at 'Russia's Google' work around the clock as users await access to funds and network connectivity falls to 30% of normal

The Register 9h ago

University alleged cloud software couldn't meet its needs after years of delays to financial systems overhaul

The Register 9h ago

In September, UMG sued distributer DistroKid over the latter’s “illegal, deceptive, and unlawful practices” – with two specific and fairly blockbuster accusations at the lawsuit’s heart: that DistroKid is “flooding” streaming services with “AI-generated slop”; and that it is also committing...

Music Ally 10h ago

Rockstar Games is slowly drip-feeding a ravenous fanbase small nuggets of Grand Theft Auto VI before its launch on 19 November. The company has often led with music in this teasing process, and it has now launched a site where fans can get a blast of the radio stations and songs that will be...

Music Ally 10h ago

We’re used to reading about novel ways of recruiting people en masse from another company, but a “reverse acqui-hire deal” was a new one to us. You’ll be aware of an acqui-hire deal, where one company – usually a major corporation – buys another outright in order to absorb the entirety of their...

Music Ally 10h ago

Netflix is allegedly about to cut 850 jobs as early as next week, according to media industry reporting service Puck. If that’s true – Netflix has not commented – that’s about 5% of its global workforce, which currently stands at about 17,000.

Music Ally 10h ago

Office documents in Copilot? Absolutely! Using Copilot to make Outlook themes? Nah…

The Register 10h ago

Union urges Mayor to halt driverless taxi rollout as City Hall report raises questions about safety, congestion, and who's actually in charge

The Register 10h ago

25 years after taking flight, a surviving packet from the world's most impractical network has attracted a $4,000 bid

The Register 11h ago

The Verge reported that independent artists had been posting on social media about their music being taken down without notice. Source

Music Business Worldwide 11h ago

The complaint alleges that Luxottica's brands set their social media videos to Warner-controlled music without a license and without paying Warner. Source

Music Business Worldwide 11h ago

Walker signed a joint deal with Interscope and Atlanta-based label and management company LVRN in 2017. Source

Music Business Worldwide 11h ago

The new label's first three signings are Atlanta artists Casper Bluff, Nechie, and Dracc. Source

Music Business Worldwide 11h ago

This week on The Kettle, we discuss some arrests and how Mythos' mathematical expertise has led to a second exploited bug that no human would have found

The Register 12h ago

How a micro JavaScript runtime uses native OS webviews to shrink the desktop footprint.

The Register 13h ago

Hi everyone! Sorry if we react slowly this week, that’s because our brains are all slowed down digesting all of the chocolate! Which long term readers will know means we are in Barcelona at our yearly summit all week.

MetaBrainz Blog 13h ago

Nothing this old should scale this well. Yet here these words are

The Register 13h ago

Want a lightweight GUI OS for an old PC? Try this first

The Register 14h ago

“So you’re not only rude, you’re also a liar,” the singer wrote in response to Art of Play’s claims

Rolling Stone 15h ago

While three bosses looked on, our hero made a very expensive mistake

The Register 15h ago

When the Beach Boys played Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium Sunday night, no major announcements were made from the stage, but the sense of import for fans on hand was palpable, with many believing they might be witnessing Mike Love’s last show leading the touring edition of the group.

Variety 17h ago

After Kelly Clarkson took to X on Saturday to share her experience “being treated like Julia Roberts” in “Pretty Woman” during a visit to Art of Play, a novelty shop in Brooklyn, the local business is responding to her claims, saying it has received “widespread outrage” since and explaining that...

Variety 1d ago

Following many Beach Boys fans and followers expressing concern for Mike Love after seeing footage from the group’s Saturday night show in Cincinnati, John Stamos has stepped in with a statement acknowledging that Love is in poor health as they are doing these shows and suggesting that his longtime...

Variety 1d ago

The Neighbourhood’s Jesse Rutherford also performs “Sweater Weather” at Sombr’s Kia Forum gig

Rolling Stone 1d ago

In return to Vegas after cancer battle, singer cuts short the second show in Westgate residency, cancels the third due to illness

Rolling Stone 1d ago

Picard 3.0.2 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 3.0 with fixes for reported issues and updated translations. This releases fixes a crash in the Setup Wizard if Picard was packaged with the automatic update check disabled and several color theme related fixes.

MetaBrainz Blog 1d ago

“He’s been going through some health issues,” John Stamos told the crowd at the start of the show. “We’re all here to support him and give him as much love as we can”

Rolling Stone 1d ago

Band plays five-song set during the encore for first performance since 2019

Rolling Stone 1d ago

Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'

The Register 1d ago

And you'll trust agents to do that for the same reason you no longer worry about automatic transmissions

The Register 1d ago

Korean boffins use oxygen to stop crystals forming in the wrong places, aiming to get tech to commercial sector by 2030

The Register 1d ago

Both songs are from the Spanish singer-songwriter’s highly praised album, Lux

Rolling Stone 1d ago

Artists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice. Now DistroKid has confirmed to The Verge that the takedowns are a direct response to claims made by UMG.

The Verge 2d ago

Sunmi is an undeniable force in K-pop. She first made her debut as a member of the Wonder Girls back in 2007, one of the first K-pop acts to really break through in the West. The English version of their single "Nobody" was the first K-pop song to hit the Billboard Hot 100 in October 2009.

The Verge 2d ago

Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites

The Register 2d ago

Tune in Saturday October 10th to Faction Talk, channel 137, 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

Lefsetz Letter 2d ago

Before stereos, before computers. before the internet… There were cars. And they changed every year and we knew not only the bodies, but what was under the hood. You were your car, assuming you were old enough to drive.

Lefsetz Letter 2d ago

People didn’t love Donald Trump in 2024. But they did hate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Meanwhile, we constantly have to hear about Harris possibly running again, makes me tear out what little hair I have left, she is an inauthentic loser who couldn’t even get one delegate back in the 2020 primary...

Lefsetz Letter 3d ago

San Francisco’s Pier 80 came alive last month as fans packed the dance floor for this year’s Portola Music Festival. If you missed any of the fun or just want an encore, you can now watch select sets and performances from the event in our Portola video hub from artists including Chloé Caillet,...

Spotify 3d ago

The biggest headlines from the past few days... Source

Music Business Worldwide 3d ago

October 10 is World Mental Health Day, but for many podcast creators, wellness is a year-round pursuit. Listeners turn to their shows for accessible self-care tools, alongside inspiring stories of resilience, growth, and community.

Spotify 3d ago

If you’re a fan of SOCIAL MEDIA TITANS BEEF, prepare to record your direct-to-camera ragebait hot take: Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has banned ads from ByteDance from running on its platforms in the US, as well as some other territories, including Canada, Japan and Thailand.

Music Ally 3d ago

When Jack White played a show at BleauLive Theater in Las Vegas on October 2, 2026, the show’s poster was also available for sale – as a board game. All 350 copies of Jack White: Las Vegas Frenzy sold out immediately, but more go on sale online today – at price that means it’s maybe unlikely to be...

Music Ally 3d ago

Part of Suno’s licensing deal with Warner Music Group last November involved acquiring concert-discovery platform Songkick. It felt like a strange quirk at the time – what does an AI music-generating platform have to do with live gigs?

Music Ally 3d ago

Spotify has been feeling confident recently about its internally-built tools – for instance its bespoke “large taste model” to better recommend music, and its Studio platform that can build bespoke podcasts for users.

Music Ally 3d ago

It’s comforting to remember that music isn’t merely a thing that exists in a series of breathless AI press releases – it’s also a nice thing that makes people feel nice.

Music Ally 3d ago

You’ll doubtlessly have heard the news, and so – as decreed by the super-est mind of our times – Music Ally will be referring to AI as “Super Intelligence” for the foreseeable future. Or until it crashes the stock market, whatever. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 3d ago

Fair Use Analysis in ‘Thomson Reuters’ Should Have Generative AI Defendants Worried — “Defendants will keep saying Thomson Reuters is not a generative AI case. That is true, and it also doesn’t matter.

Copyhype 3d ago

The ban also covers campaigns from third-party advertisers that direct users in those markets to TikTok or to other ByteDance-owned services. Source

Music Business Worldwide 3d ago

The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that the deal's terms are similar to those of Rogan's previous Spotify agreement. Source

Music Business Worldwide 3d ago

James Johnston is a country singer-songwriter from Australia who started putting out his music independently in 2021 before signing to Warner Music Australia ahead of his second album, Where You’ll Find Me.

Music Ally 3d ago

There have been some exciting new launches in the world of music marketing tools and tech this week. Here’s what caught our eye: The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 3d ago

Releasing two singles on the same day is a bold way to open an album campaign. It doubles the content, but it also raises the risk of the tracks competing for DSP slots, radio spins and fan attention.

Music Ally 3d ago

It’s Advertising Week in New York, and both Meta and TikTok have announced new advertising features that move them further into the world of agentic AI. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 3d ago

I've expended a lot of time and emotional energy, over the last couple years, on designing a query-language for expressing data algorithms and writing the reference implementation of its engine.

furia log 3d ago

Picard 3.0.1 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 3.0 with fixes for reported issues and updated translations. In particular this release fixes issues on newer macOS Tahoe and Golden Gate, a possible crash when updating from Picard 2.x and the picard-cli utility in the Windows...

MetaBrainz Blog 4d ago

Narrative audio is on an upward curve. Several forces are converging to sustain it: writers and performers of real standing choosing the format, a hunger for lean-in listening, and technology that is reimagining what an audio story can sound like. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 4d ago

For a long time, talking about the music industry meant talking primarily about artists, producers, labels, venues, and songs. While they remain a fundamental part of the industry, music today is also driven by an ever-growing network of voices that listen closely, introduce it to new audiences,...

Spotify 4d ago

Durante mucho tiempo, hablar de la industria musical era hablar, sobre todo, de artistas, productores, sellos, escenarios y canciones. Y aunque ellos siguen siendo parte fundamental, hoy la música también se mueve gracias a una red cada vez más amplia de voces que la escuchan con atención, la...

Spotify 4d ago

Shapers was created to recognize the creators who are helping shape Colombia’s music ecosystem through different formats, perspectives, and communities.

Spotify 4d ago

Shapers nace para reconocer a los creadores que están impulsando el ecosistema musical colombiano desde diferentes formatos, perspectivas y comunidades.

Spotify 4d ago

The Joe Rogan Experience is the world’s most popular podcast, and with 18 million followers has been the most-followed show on Spotify since our partnership with Joe Rogan began in 2020.

Spotify 4d ago

Is live music approaching a golden era of innovation? At a concert, the merchandise queue asks a slightly absurd question: how much of the show would you miss for merch? A committed fan is ready to spend, yet the experience makes them choose between buying and watching. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 4d ago

Teenage Engineering founder and CEO Jesper Kouthoofd told Highsnobiety that it plans to stop making synths. And yes, that includes the iconic OP-1, which put the company on the map. TE isn't just a music gear maker; it's also a sought-after design firm.

The Verge 5d ago

KATSEYE's 'Pinky up', BLACKPINK's 'JUMP,' and LE SSERAFIM's 'CELEBRATION' all share something new: hard techno. K-pop's trademark EDM sound is giving way to something grittier — and insiders say it's just getting started

How Music Charts 5d ago

Nuevo urbano is a sound—and culture—all its own. With genre-blurring beats and strong sense of community, the scene has gained momentum in recent years, along with a loyal fanbase in its home country of Spain and beyond.

Spotify 5d ago

Much controversy surrounds the continued spread of Meta’s AI glasses. With cameras that can record entire interactions, an AI virtual assistant to analyse them live, and small speakers to unobtrusively share those findings with the wearer, its uses are potentially both promising and predatory.

MIDiA Research Blog 5d ago

As the attention economy fractures traditional media consumption habits, Public Service Broadcasters (PSBs) risk losing reach among young viewers. According to Ofcom , three-quarters of 16–24-year-olds report that they get their news from social media platforms. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 5d ago

Today at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s largest gathering of people who love books, we announced that audiobooks on Spotify are going global. By the end of 2026, listeners in more than 180 markets will be able to find their next great book on Spotify, right alongside the music and podcasts...

Spotify 5d ago

Exclusive: 10-year sponsorship extension at a 50% premium on last agreement crowns bonanza year for live venue O2 has struck a record deal thought to be in the region of £200m to retain the naming rights to the London venue the O2 in the largest renewal of its kind in UK history.

The Guardian 5d ago

O fandom transforma o ato de ouvir música em comunidade. Molda a descoberta, influencia o que viraliza e faz as pessoas voltarem sempre. É essa a ideia por trás do Spotify Superfans Experience, ou SFX: nossa primeira experiência global ao vivo para fãs, marcada para os dias 23 e 24 de janeiro de...

Spotify 6d ago

The AstroLab is very difficult to play in this position. | Image: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge Arturia's AstroLab series was already amongst the best stage keyboards out there.

The Verge 6d ago