The organization’s 35th anniversary gala will take place Oct. 2 in Atlanta.

Billboard 2m ago

The musician explores the aftermath of a breakup in his latest track.

Billboard 8m ago

The legendary British artist spoke with Billboard ahead of the premiere for Frampton, the new documentary directed by longtime band member Rob Arthur.

Billboard 8m ago

This Who Won the Month episode of the 'Greatest Pop Stars' podcast looks at Drake and a bunch of other pop stars who aren't Drake.

Billboard 8m ago

Olivia Rodrigo told Dazed magazine in a new interview ahead of the release of her third studio album that she was “enraged” last fall when she was scrolling on her phone and discovered that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security was using her song “All-American Bitch” to promote ICE deportations.

Variety 20m 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 23m 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 1h ago

The sibling instrumental duo will release their new album Los Ojos del Cóndor via Easy Eye Sound in September

Rolling Stone 1h ago

The issue of mental health in the music industry, and the roles labels, management and other companies can play in helping to keep artists healthy, has been a point of contention for many years. This guest post advocates strongly for a more involved and evolved role for the industry. Dr.

Variety 1h ago

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

The Register 1h 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 1h ago

Universal Music Group rejected hedge-fund Pershing Square’s €55bn acquisition offer last week. But with the latter owning a 4.7% stake in the major label, what happens next? Well, what appears to be happening next is that Pershing Square is selling that stake.

Music Ally 1h ago

Global streaming services are cheering after Canada’s government announced a u-turn for the country’s levy on the DSPs’ revenues in the country. The levy was part of Canada’s Online Streaming Act, and was swiftly dubbed ‘the streaming tax’ by the services as they fought against giving up 5% of...

Music Ally 1h ago

In January this year, Meta announced that its virtual-reality music fitness service Supernatural – which it had once battled regulator the FTC to acquire – would not be receiving any new updates or content.

Music Ally 1h ago

Emerging artists in Aotearoa (the Māori-language name for New Zealand) are facing “increasing challenges… cutting through both locally and internationally” according to Universal Music New Zealand. Now it’s doing something about that: an initiative called nextWAV.

Music Ally 1h ago

Artists including Dua Lipa, Rosalía, Arlo Parks, Dave and Beabadoobee have benefited from YouTube’s ‘Foundry’ emerging-artists program over the years. Now its 2026 cohort has been announced. 24 artists are part of this year’s main program, drawn from 11 countries.

Music Ally 1h ago

TikTok’s US operation is launching a new standalone app, TikTok Pro Events, which it says will “deepen community immersion during major cultural milestones”.

Music Ally 1h ago

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

The Register 1h ago

Speculation about a monster funding round for AI-music firm Suno has been running rife in recent months, but yesterday the official announcement came: a $400m Series D round which Suno said valued the company at $5.4bn.

Music Ally 1h ago

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

Music Business Worldwide 1h 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 1h 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 2h ago

The Croydon-raised artist will support Gracie Abrams on tour later this year.

Billboard 2h ago

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

The Register 2h ago

The latest 'Tim's Take' from Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham Source

Music Business Worldwide 2h ago

BMG acquired the recorded music catalog of Snap! in 2018. Source

Music Business Worldwide 2h ago

Founded in 2017, Asian Fake built its roster around Italy's urban and indie-pop scene. Source

Music Business Worldwide 2h ago

Fresh penalties secured after initial prison, community service sentences for RAC double act

The Register 2h ago

S1 was founded in 2001 by CEO Karlcharn Kongkatong and co-founder Apsornsopha Sariman. Source

Music Business Worldwide 3h ago

CISAC President Björn Ulvaeus delivered a speech at the org's General Assembly in Paris on Thursday (June 4), covering AI, copyright, licensing, Suno and more Source

Music Business Worldwide 3h ago

The set featured a number of rising artists throughout.

Billboard 4h ago

Universal Music Greater China has signed Jason Zhang, one of the most commercially successful artists in Chinese-language pop, in a wide-ranging deal spanning recorded music, artist management, live performance and international strategy, structured in partnership with Zhang’s personal label,...

Variety 4h ago

Means residents can skip the credit card and use 'pay by bank' for local authorities and services

The Register 4h ago

UMG repurchased 14,156,285 of its ordinary shares at €17.66 each after its board recently rejected a takeover proposal from Ackman and Pershing Square. Source

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

The major music company presses play on nextWAV., a 12-month industry-first artist development program.

Billboard 5h ago

Another monster tech contract in the works for one of the usual suspects

The Register 5h ago

Four Indian artists have been chosen for this year’s edition of YouTube Music’s annual global artist development programme Foundry. The Indian contingent of the Foundry Class of 2026—which comprises 24 […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 6h ago

Music producer Abhijit Vaghani—who recently signed an exclusive global management deal with The Hello Group India—is launching The Songwriting and Music Production (Swamp) Academy. The Mumbai-based music institute, for “the […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 6h ago

'Attackers can now cheaply operationalize known vulnerabilities at scale,' boffins tell The Reg

The Register 6h ago

The singer requested the tech owner reinstate X's audio post feature while insulting him

Rolling Stone 7h ago

The 25th anniversary edition of BIGSOUND will play out in the vibrant entertainment district that is Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, from Sept. 1-4.

Billboard 7h ago

The musician released her debut album, Be Sweet to Me, last month

Rolling Stone 7h ago

Laura Karpman and Daniel Lopatin were among those honored.

Billboard 8h ago

Looking cool in all-black, Grohl rocked out with a performance of "Bug in the Cake."

Billboard 8h ago

It was far too easy for a hacker to get the information

The Register 9h ago

The musician shared the secret behind his 31-year marriage to his wife Kari

Rolling Stone 9h ago

Is every musical artist’s fan base just waiting to turn on them, at a moment’s notice? The fickleness of fandom was never more apparent than it was reading the comments this past week from self-proclaimed followers of the artists who were booked to perform at the ill-fated “Freedom 250” concert...

Variety 11h ago

Doja Cat took to X on Wednesday to request that the platform’s billionaire owner, Elon Musk, reinstate the “audio post” feature. It’s not likely the Grammy winner will get her way, however, because she slammed the tech mogul as a “frog build looking bitch” in the same breath.

Variety 11h ago

Questlove tells the band’s story, and Maurice White’s story, in a way that’s at once thrilling and haunting. He captures their rightful place in the pop cosmos.

Variety 12h ago

When performing at a concert in California, the singer took a moment to reflect on her battle with alcohol abuse

Rolling Stone 12h 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 12h ago

Those backup plans need backup testing

The Register 15h ago

Primary Wave Music has announced a partnership with the Grammy-winning Mexican outfit Intocable. Terms of the deal will see the publisher partner with the veteran group on their catalog of music, as well as name, image and likeness.

Variety 16h ago

It's hard to stop a signal jammer if you can't locate the source, say Rice University researchers

The Register 17h ago

"I have to be honest with myself and with you: I'm deeply struggling right now," the singer wrote on Tuesday

Rolling Stone 17h ago

“Get the truth.” That was the simple directive director and executive producer Alexandria Stapleton received from Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson when she started working on “Sean Combs: The Reckoning.” The four-part Netflix documentary traces the allegations of sexual assault, trafficking and legal...

Variety 17h ago

Coreutils serves over 75 Unix commands in Windows and PowerShell command lines

The Register 19h ago

The latest in a series of raised eyebrows over Familiar Faces and other AI ventures

The Register 20h ago

Sara Bareilles has kept a fairly low profile as a performing and recording artist since prior to the pandemic, but the drought on those fronts will come to an end as she releases the album “Good Grief” on Aug. 28, to be followed by a tour of North American theaters in September and October.

Variety 20h ago

Weezer arrives on Aug. 21 and feautres the previously released single “Shine Again”

Rolling Stone 20h ago

Always-on agent promises to keep work moving, provided you trust it with practically everything

The Register 21h ago

The rapper’s own AI chatbot gave a shocking answer when queried about the “Low” rapper’s participation in the Great American State Fair concert series

Rolling Stone 21h ago

CFO Zinsner insists the troubled node was a one-off as 14A stays on track

The Register 21h ago

NGMN wants a clear migration path before next-gen network rollouts begin

The Register 21h ago

CU later, rivals? That's if Broadzilla doesn't eat its lunch first

The Register 22h ago

Suno, an AI music generation platform, pocketed $400 million in its latest funding round, which the company says values the company at $5.4 billion. The funding round, announced Wednesday, was led by Bond Capital, with IVP, Forerunner, Union Square Ventures, Alkeon Capital Management and Quiet...

Variety 22h ago

A film documenting the making of the musician’s first LP in seven years premieres at Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday

Rolling Stone 23h ago

SPONSORED POST: Agents with hands require a hands-on policy

The Register 23h ago

Researchers follow in Nightmare Eclipse’s footsteps, flipping off Redmond in favor of insta-leaks

The Register 23h ago

“He will remain for me always as a real symbol of the joy that music has brought to my life,” Dion shared about the veteran singer, who died this week at the age of 75

Rolling Stone 23h ago

Sandbox Guides are for music marketers: explaining new platforms, new strategies, and how to build new audiences. Featuring cutting-edge case studies, expert interviews, benchmark data, and a series of actionable takeaways, they’re designed so that you can get started immediately.

Music Ally 1d ago

Execution Containers provide safe environment for running AI agents, while Windows Developer Config aims to make Windows less unpleasant for developers

The Register 1d ago

“People are increasingly turning to generative AI tools to help them find, sort through and understand information,” is how Google opens a blog post that goes on to say that its AI Overviews search feature now has “over 2.5 billion monthly active users”.

Music Ally 1d ago

Barely a week goes by at the moment without Meta testing some new features on one of its apps and/or scrambling to head off concerns of regulators about the way they work. We’ve got one of each for you this morning.

Music Ally 1d 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 1d ago

What do you want from a record label? If it’s “intentional and emotionally resonant audio music experiences” then today is your lucky day… That’s what Yannick Bolloré, CEO of advertising group Havas, is promising from its new label Volyum, armed with a name that even ChatGPT might think twice...

Music Ally 1d ago

Back in October 2024, veteran rap group 2 Live Crew won a legal battle over the termination rights for their recordings catalogue. They had faced off in court against label Lil Joe Records, which had acquired the catalogue in the mid-1990s.

Music Ally 1d ago

The announcement of ‘new ISRC auto-assignment capabilities’ may sound dry, but it’s a valuable step forward in the ongoing battle to improve music metadata and get musicians and rightsholders paid accurately.

Music Ally 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

ROGER DALTREY “Say It Ain’t So Joe” Daltrey’s debut was famous for its Leo Sayer songs (co-written with David Courtney), before Leo was a solo act, never mind switching gears to being a popster with Richard Perry.

Lefsetz Letter 1d 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 1d ago

There’s strength in numbers. We’ve been waiting for a universal protest song. But after twenty five years can we admit that we’re never going to get one, just like we’re never going to get a new Beatles? The market is too fragmented. But when you band together, that’s where strength lies today.

Lefsetz Letter 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 2d 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 2d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 4d ago

Today, we’re making available another pre-release version for the upcoming MusicBrainz Picard 3. This beta release offers various bugfixes and improvements over the last beta.

MetaBrainz Blog 5d ago

CNN Sues AI Firm Perplexity, Alleging It Engaged in ‘Massive Copyright Infringement’ — “In the 54-page federal complaint, CNN points to Perplexity’s former ads claiming that it helps users skip the ‘extra steps and clicks’ they’d normally take to access news content.

Copyhype 6d ago

The days are getting longer, the temperatures are rising, and playlists are filling up for the season. With summer around the corner, Spotify’s global editors have been keeping a close eye on the musical landscape and are ready to unveil the songs they think could shape this year’s soundtrack.

Spotify 6d ago

The Podcast Show 2026 reflected an industry entering a more mature and commercially sophisticated phase. While previous years of often focused on podcasting proving its value within entertainment and media , this year’s conversations centred far more on sustainability, audience growth, and...

MIDiA Research Blog 6d ago

Since early last year, our quarterly Creator Milestone Awards have celebrated podcasts from around the world that hit major streaming milestones on Spotify. Today, we’re announcing the first round of 2026 recipients.

Spotify 6d ago

A little refresh can go a long way. We’ve been making behind-the-scenes updates to make Spotify easier to use and more reliable. Based on your feedback, we’re rolling out a series of improvements focused on the everyday features that help keep listening smooth.

Spotify 6d ago