"Thank you for making our mission a part of your love story," wrote New York Cares.
Third-party contractor compromise exposed health information and insurance billing passwords
The festival will take place at Salford's Media City complex in October.
Drake and LeBron's relationship disintegrated during the Toronto rapper's battle with Kendrick Lamar back in 2024.
Fancy a thorium microreactor capable of delivering up to 30 MWe of juice for up to 30 years?
Both weekends of his headlining Coachella 2026 set are now available to listen to on streaming services.
Reggaeton artists’ unoriginality argument falls short in Jamaican producers copyright suit — At issue is “Fish Market”, a 1990 musical work and sound recording that was used without authorization by numerous reggaeton producers.
Which team are you supporting in the World Cup? We don’t mean England, Mexico or Cape Verde. We’re talking Team Jagger, Team Richards or Team Wood! Yes, the Rolling Stones are piggybacking on the men’s football extravaganza with their own ‘Streaming World Cup’ as part of the marketing campaign for...
AI-music startup Udio may have reached licensing deals with UMG, WMG, Merlin and the NMPA – settling lawsuits filed by the first two in the process – but Sony Music has yet to join them.
The US is the biggest recorded-music market in the world, and it’s one where domestic artists are taking a big share of streams according to Spotify. “69% of all streams in the country go to American artists, and American music makes up 70% of the Spotify Top 50 chart in the U.S.
One of the lesser-reported aspects of the rise of AI: it’s bringing corporate hackathons back. Musixmatch is the latest company inviting developers in to build with its API as well as those of partners.
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This April Threads launched Live Chats, which according to Meta “lets you participate in public group chats during the biggest cultural events. It’s a new way to build community with others around shared interests like an album drop or a big game as it unfolds.” Now the feature is getting some...
Dark-pop artist Jared Benjamin recently released his debut album ‘Icarus: Too Close to the Sun’, after successfully building his online audience and bagging a deal with Awal. The artist started releasing music in 2023, with his song “Flatline” sparking some traction online.
If posting to YouTube Shorts as part of your artist’s marketing strategy, you know that traditionally, it doesn’t have the same photo posting feature as Instagram and TikTok do, with Carousels and Photo Mode, respectively – as can be useful towards keeping up posting frequency while not always...
Poland has undoubtedly been an economic success story of the last two decades – this year it has edged past Switzerland to become the world’s 20th largest economy, and is the 16th biggest music market globally.
Afrobeats and dancehall collide on the upcoming new project.
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Spotify has been forced to remove more than 500k streams of a song that topped its US chart after – in the Financial Times’ words – “discovering that the surge in streaming coincided with a jump in suspicious wagers on prediction market Kalshi”.
Kalshi said in April that trading on the its music 'contracts' had already topped USD $400 million in 2026 Source
KPMG finds nearly a third of execs struggle to understand costs as companies rethink deployments
It’s been a good week for Indian singer-songwriter Anuv Jain and his fans on Spotify. On Sunday, 28 June, he staged ‘Coming Home to Anuv Jain’, a special event organised […] The post is from Music Ally.
Ella Langley continues the dominant run by female artists on the ARIA Singles Chart, a takeover that is coming up to a full year.
Report says proposed rewrite gives operators more freedom to shop around for a greener grade
LTAP architecture does some clever engineering beneath a debatable marketing pitch
Indie music retailer Rough Trade and Sweet Relief Musicians Fund have launched a new donation program to support musicians and professionals.
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A final humiliation for Australia’s Securities Exchange and its attempts to run a bourse on distributed ledgers
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21 years after Confessions on a Dance Floor, Madonna returns to the club.
The follow-up to 2005's Confessions on a Dance Floor features collabs with Sabrina Carpenter, Feid, daughter Lola Leon and more.
“Sometimes I like to just hide in the shadows,” mutters Madonna at the start of “I Feel So Free,” the opening track on her 15th album “Confessions II.” “Create a new persona. A different identity. I can be whoever I want to be.” As hard as it may be to picture Madonna hiding in the […]
This is a painful read, at least until NeXT pivots to WebObjects and revenue starts coming in. Yes, this book chronicles Steve Jobs’s time in the wilderness, in between his two stints at Apple. And it hasn’t been documented to this degree before, not really ever.
Spoiler alert: I don’t reveal everything, but if you want to be fresh when you watch this series, beware. This was a painful watch. If I hadn’t invested my time in the previous seasons, I would have stopped. This is what happens when art supersedes plot. You see this most in literature today.
Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts
SPONSORED FEATURE: ZTE unveils 2025 milestones
The eight members reflect on their global breakthrough and the summer they intend to soundtrack.
Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper were also among the celebs descending upon MSG on Thursday
Left hand, meet right hand
The Offspring is trying to make history with their version of the famous pop song
MeetingTV wants to see the evidence
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"Ahead of our partner powered model, we're exploring a developer API and want to hear from you before we start building," Jack Brody wrote. Source
Light joined WMG in March according to his LinkedIn profile Source
Warner Records has announced a strategic partnership with veteran executive Sickamore and his “creative institute,” Three Times Louder. The imprint will continue its partnership with SoundCloud; Sickamore will continue to work alongside Travis Scott and David Stromberg at Cactus Jack Management,...
But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs
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To attend Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding, do you need to know the bride and groom all too well? That’s the big question this week as fans, media and social sets in New York, L.A.
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The ruling from Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein keeps the case at the 333 works that Sony had originally put in suit. Source
Less than a month after announcing that it had closed its first institutional funding round—led by Kobalt founder and chairman Willard Ahdritz’s Ahdritz Capital—Indian music distribution, publishing and marketing company […] The post is from Music Ally.
In fact, Yankovic says he turned down “a nice pile of money” to do a commercial for an AI company
The 121-page document sets out a number of disclosures, from anti-counterfeiting measures to the company's use of generative AI and expansion into physical retail. Source
The couple is rumored to tie the knot this weekend
Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building
Browser game teaches Vim's famously unintuitive movement commands to keep your hands on the keyboard
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have donated $26 million to at least 20 charities this week, a representative announced, in advance of a wedding reported to be taking place this weekend in New York.
The “Rock N’ Roll, Part 2” singer is already serving a 16-year sentence for crimes against schoolgirls
Brooklyn alternative R&B artist Laila! will be the partnership’s flagship artist. Source
In Mumford & Sons’ clip for “Here,” the band need to pick a “Marcus”
Enterprise software giant confirms it's 'applying discipline' when it comes to hiring and business trips as tries to keep pace
Swift's lawyers argue that the amended complaint "fares no better" than the original Source
Researchers scoured logs, finding opsec fail for at least one person who was working with INC and Lynx simultaneously
When up-and-coming independent artists participate in songwriting camps, there’s often a chance that the resultant compositions won’t eventually be released. In the case of—take a deep breath—‘The Indie Circle Songwriting […] The post is from Music Ally.
Attackers need little more than a valid SharePoint account to execute code on vulnerable on-prem servers
North American country to join Australia and Israel as non-European competitors
Gary Glitter, the former singer and convicted child sex offender, has been charged with historic sexual offenses dating back to 1978 and allegedly involving a girl who was under 13 years old.
Some things are too weird even for parody king “Weird Al” Yankovic. Ahead of a Syracuse, New York, stop on his “Bigger & Weirder” tour, Yankovic revealed to Syracuse.com in an interview published this week that he was offered “a nice pile of money” to appear in a commercial for business-focused...
It might seem strange to think about paper on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It’s easy to take it for granted, especially in the digital age, but the fact is, without paper there would be no Declaration.
For decades, the surest route to international success for a Latin artist was to record in English. At Taiwan’s 2026 Golden Melody Festival, Latin Recording Academy CEO Manuel Abud explained why that logic no longer holds.
Spotify is proud to be a home for American culture. As the nation marks its 250th anniversary, we wanted to take a look at how American artists, creators, and authors shape listening at home and around the world.
Music supervision is far more than picking great songs. That was the central message from Brittany Whyte – whose credits span “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Riverdale” and “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” – at the 2026 Golden Melody Festival in Taiwan.
Apple Music has published a second collection of covers of songs by the late country musician Toby Keith, enlisting Tyler Hubbard, Jackson Dean, Kameron Marlowe, and Emily Ann Roberts to put their spin on his work.
One of the more unexpected social-media trends of recent years has been short-video platforms reversing back into photos. TikTok has photo posts, and YouTube Shorts has too.
Japan’s kawaii culture didn’t go global by adapting to Western tastes – it did it by doubling down on its own identity. That was the central argument at one of the 2026 Golden Melody Festival’s most colorful opening sessions, held in Taiwan ahead of the Golden Melody Awards.
The jury found that MGA had not acted with malice, ending the couple's push for punitive damages. Source
Over the last few weeks, much has been written about music streaming platforms’ approaches to AI transparency, moderation, and adoption, which are often vastly different . Just as DSPs differ in their approaches to AI, it turns out that their userbases differ widely on their attitudes towards th...
The secret to Jolin Tsai’s most celebrated albums, according to British producer Richard Craker, has less to do with technique than with trust – and a willingness to sit with uncertainty until the music finds its shape.
The company's first signings are 10cc, singer-songwriter Rumer and electronic duo Lemon Jelly. Source
ADA Central Europe will handle global distribution, streaming strategy, and marketing across AIM Music's full roster. Source
On this week’s podcast episode, session vocalist Darlene Koldenhoven tells us how her music hit #4 on the Billboard classical crossover chart with no manager or label.
The rapper was a no-show at his 20 Years of Carter Classics stop in Maine
The rapper said the blogger violated a previous deal stemming from Cardi’s $4 million defamation victory in 2022
The couple had hoped to restore some of the $53.6 million in punitive damages that a judge in California had previously thrown out
This is not the way I expected it to go down. I expected revolution first, not the system working. But I still don’t believe in the system, not anymore.
... music utterly unforgettable. That's what makes it such a shame that, in recent years, Muse has seemed to crash in quality the longer they go on ...
From dynamic ticket pricing to “blue dot fever,” the live music industry is rapidly evolving. JamBase CTO David Onigman explains how the platform tracks over 100,000 global events and the trends reshaping concerts, festivals, and touring.
Our Spotify Sessions video series turns up the volume on some of Latin America’s most exciting artists, giving them and their hand-picked creative teams a space to reimagine their music.
Calling all wizards, witches, and Muggles, we are pleased to inform you that you have been invited to conjure up the magic of the Harry Potter™ audiobook series as part of your Spotify Premium subscription.
The first PR V settlement preserves inflation protection but leaves unresolved whether statutory mechanical royalties should evolve with market value—or simply keep pace with CPI. Looks like another serving of more of the same.
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The response to MIDiA's audio creator survey has been brilliant, so thank you to everyone who has already taken part. But, if you haven't yet, there's still time to have your say.
Last week at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Spotify Beach brought fans, creators, and brands together for three days of conversation focused on culture and fandom.
Our apologies if you are experiencing outages or slowness on ListenBrainz currently. First it was AI scrapers, now it’s K-pop fans… In short, we are experiencing massive server load from an unexpected and massive increase in listen submissions.
Today, we’re making available the fifth beta version for the upcoming MusicBrainz Picard 3. This new versions brings some important changes: Download links and a detailed list of changes since Picard 3 beta 4 are available below.
Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to "protect artists" and "inform listeners." Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal will label tracks it has identified as being 100 percent AI-generated with an icon.
In France, there’s one day a year where instead of going to the show, the show comes to you, wherever you are. It’s the Fête de la Musique (World Music Day), a 40-year-old tradition where music takes over every city, town, and village across the country. This year, Spotify put a new spin on the...
In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI-generated music that attempts to impersonate an artist or a group, the company said.
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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.
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...
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...