PARTNER CONTENT: The gap between having a backup and actually recovering from a disaster is wider than most IT teams realize

The Register 22m ago

Still, Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” is the year’s longest-leading hit.

Billboard 58m ago

Fedora-derived server distro is ready for local testing, but production deployments should wait

The Register 1h ago

The Argentine-Venezuelan singer filed suit in both the US and Venezuela, alleging that UMG is claiming to own five albums he recorded from 1986 to 1992. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1h ago

The film now stands as the biggest release in Lionsgate's history, ahead of 2013's "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," which grossed $865 million. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1h ago

Founding singer of costumed disco band and cowriter of such classics as "Macho Man" and "In the Navy," died after a "short but aggressive illness."

Billboard 2h ago

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.

Spotify 2h ago

“Tim McGraw” by Swift, then 16, entered Hot Country Songs.

Billboard 2h ago

We’re halfway through 2026, and the music industry has already had its fair share of headline-making moments. From Spotify’s AI remix plans and Drake’s surprise three-album drop to company mergers and antitrust battles, Billboard‘s business editorial team breaks down the biggest stories shaping the...

Billboard 2h ago

Some crawlers gather data for both search and AI training, so when publishers block them to protect content they risk disappearning from search results ...

The Register 2h ago

Firebird Music Holdings has a new $750m fund for acquiring music catalogues, following its investments in management firms and labels.

Music Ally 2h ago

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.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 2h ago

AI server gold rush leaves budget laptops starving for chips as sub-$500 machines down nearly a fifth stateside

The Register 2h ago

Murray will help establish and guide the company's music strategy and develop opportunities across music, sports, branding, IP and partnerships. Source

Music Business Worldwide 2h ago

The new company will operate as a record label, management company, publisher and on special projects.

Billboard 2h ago

Billboard can exclusively reveal the new specialist law firm serving Australasia's music, media and arts industries -- Hewitt Glass Law.

Billboard 3h ago

The “Y.M.C.A.” and “Macho Man” singer died after a “short but aggressive” illness

Rolling Stone 3h ago

But also claims XenServer 9 is great in the DaaS niche it retreated to a decade back

The Register 3h ago

Rights-tech firm Notes·fm has launched its new Credits·fm “free and open music credits database” this week.

Music Ally 3h ago

The pushbacks came after the legendary group had to reschedule a June 24 show in Fort Worth over travel and border-related delays.

Billboard 3h ago

Liberty Global, Telefónica, and InfraVia have grand designs on the UK fiber market

The Register 3h ago

Pitbull’s BST Hyde Park concert this July in London won’t just be a collection of bangers from Mr Worldwide’s back catalogue.

Music Ally 4h ago

Kill switches, Coreboot, and PureOS target the security-conscious with deep pockets

The Register 4h ago

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a new law banning junk fees, ticket-buying bots and the resale of tickets that sellers don't yet possess. Source

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

Beyond the heated debates and dealmaking around GenAI music, use of chatbots and other AI tools is growing rapidly across the music industry.

Music Ally 4h ago

Long-serving APAC/MENA COO Peter Loxton now leads the region, effective July 1, reporting to Legends Global CEO, Dan Levy.

Billboard 4h ago

Hemminga joins Merlin from Downtown Music, where he most recently served as VP Product & Services Strategy. Source

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

Today’s the day (1 July) for Beatport’s leadership transition, with CEO Robb McDaniels handing over the electronic-music brand’s reins.

Music Ally 4h ago

Almost 4,500 of those performers and recording rightsholders are receiving a payment from PPL for the first time. Source

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

Excuse me while I kiss this guy… All the lonely Starbucks lovers… Parrot, parrot, parrot eyes… and now Doobie Scoot Canoe.

Music Ally 5h ago

European independent-music body Impala is never shy about putting forward its views on how the music industry should develop.

Music Ally 5h ago

It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix

The Register 5h ago

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.

MIDiA Research Blog 5h ago

How the tech giant's "Rural Ecosystem" initiative is bridging the digital divide across 20+ nations with green connectivity and inclusive services

The Register 5h ago

Home Office deals with Deloitte and PA Consulting raise questions over Cabinet Office spending controls

The Register 6h ago

Victor Willis, the founding lead singer of Village People and co-writer of “YMCA,” “Macho Man” and “In the Navy,” died on Tuesday. He was 74. “We are profoundly sad to announce the death of Victor Willis, lead singer of Village People.

Variety 6h ago

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets AI agents connect to outside data sources and act on them Source

Music Business Worldwide 6h ago

Can't verify the publisher's identity? Maybe stick a fried egg on it?

The Register 6h ago

The centerpiece is the "iHeartRadio and TikTok LIVE Premiere with Madonna," streaming on July 2 from the album's release party in London. Source

Music Business Worldwide 6h ago

We’ve learned so much cleaning up after Fukushima, let’s level that up with added AI, says minister

The Register 9h ago

The band pushed back two dates at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas

Rolling Stone 10h ago

Nadiem Makarim vows to appeal sentence given he was found not to have profited from $600 million laptops-for-schools program

The Register 11h ago

The woman was attacked by a security dog at the singer's Los Angeles mansion in 2020

Rolling Stone 13h ago

303,000 cores that power internal networks headed out the door

The Register 14h ago

Chris Brown was found liable by a Los Angeles jury on Tuesday for $13 million in the gruesome case of a dog that mauled and disfigured his housekeeper at his home in 2020. At the end of a two-week trial, the verdict went strongly in favor of Maria Avila, who was viciously attacked by Hades, […]

Variety 14h ago

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking about what other awards shows could learn from Sunday's show.

Billboard 14h ago

There are ways to find a live feed of the Mexico vs. Ecuador game online, including ways to livestream the Round of 32 matchup for free.

Billboard 14h ago

We got a new cornhole set. The last one was left in Monica’s backyard and the boards got warped and… It was time for a new one, we got the itch after throwing the bags at Blake’s wedding. Cornhole… That’s the name, kinda funny, don’t you think? Especially after Cornholio on “Beavis and Butt-head.”...

Lefsetz Letter 15h ago

Singer-songwriter Ashe has signed with Atlantic Records and has struck a publishing deal with Doomsday/ Universal Music Publishing Group. She will be on tour this summer supporting Benson Boone.

Variety 16h ago

I read this article about Tide: “Tide Already Dominates Detergent. Why Is P&G Pushing a New Version? – The company controls about 60% of the market, but won’t stop reinventing. Now, it’s betting the future of laundry is ’tiles.'”...

Lefsetz Letter 16h ago

Got important chats older than 30 days? You'd better be sure the transcripts still exist

The Register 17h ago

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.

Spotify 18h ago

With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall

The Register 18h ago

My oldest daughter just turned 41. She was conceived in a Chevy van with the mural from the Relayer album on the side. I still can’t get her to enjoy Yes. Al Jones Covington, LA ________________________________ Glad you got to see Jon with the Band Geeks.

Lefsetz Letter 19h ago

SEMQ promises an abstraction layer for separating semantics from embeddings

The Register 19h ago

29% of security pros were open to fully autonomous pentesting last year; now only 9% are

The Register 19h ago

Danielle's attorney, Jung Jong-chae, who filed the complaint, said the FTC began investigating on June 4. Source

Music Business Worldwide 21h ago

Allen & Company LLC acted as financial advisor to Primary Wave Music in connection with the transaction Source

Music Business Worldwide 21h ago

Ex-employee claims this 'meets the definition of an insider threat'

The Register 22h ago

61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead

The Register 22h ago

A lost 27-year-old demo recording that Chris Martin and Coldplay reportedly intended for a James Bond theme — and later admitted wasn’t good enough — is going up for auction.

Variety 23h ago

In 2005, Spymob decided to call it quits. The pop-rock quartet had spent the last few years expanding their global footprint as the opening and backing act for N.E.R.D., the alt-rock project of the Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, after becoming the first rock group to sign to the duo’s...

Variety 1d ago

Song will appear on artist’s upcoming o\i album

Rolling Stone 1d ago

The three songs — including collaborations with James Blake and Blue Ivy Carter — were previously only on Tidal

Rolling Stone 1d ago

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has received another, seemingly-final setback in his battle against UK collecting society PRS for Music.

Music Ally 1d ago

By Randi Zimmerman, Content Specialist, Symphonic Latin America was one of the fastest-growing recorded music regions in 2024, with revenue up 22.5%. Today, the region continues to shape global pop, […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

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.

MetaBrainz Blog 1d ago

It’s a year since the release of Lorde’s fourth album, ‘Virgin’, and she celebrated the anniversary by dropping 49 demos.

Music Ally 1d ago

Tidal is the latest music-streaming service to set out its policies around AI-generated music, and it’s going further than many of its peers.

Music Ally 1d ago

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.

MetaBrainz Blog 1d ago

Madonna-maniacs, take note: this Thursday (2 July) the Queen of Pop is hosting a listening party for her new album ‘Confessions II’.

Music Ally 1d ago

The singer apologized for moving the upcoming concerts due to production issues

Rolling Stone 1d ago

Sony Music Indonesia and Sun Eater Group have unveiled Lunar, a joint-venture record label aimed at developing and distributing Indonesian artists with global ambitions.

Variety 1d ago

People have no idea how hard it is to make it. Never mind sustain. The spin on this film is what an a**hole Maurice White was. But that’s not what I took, because I know people who are icons are not like the average person, they’re one-minded and dedicated, their dreams are almost too big […]

Lefsetz Letter 1d ago

New Order announced Monday that Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert will not be joining their show at Primavera in Chile in November “due to personal health reasons.” “Circumstances make it impossible,” the band said in an Instagram post.

Variety 1d ago

While she was initially stressed by the disappointing chart numbers, Lizzo says she came to terms with the reality of the industry and past allegations

Rolling Stone 1d ago

This is a full-time role at the global leader in assisting Rightsholders (writers & publishers) to Direct License their Live Public Performance Rights. EXPERIENCE: SKILLSET: ROLE: OPPORTUNITIES: WAGE: If you […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

The band made their earliest recordings around Tull's kitchen table and released their best-known LP, Massachusetts, on Sub Pop in 1996

Rolling Stone 1d ago

The band said the two members “won’t be touring for the foreseeable future” including an upcoming show in Chile

Rolling Stone 1d ago

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.

The Verge 1d ago

The music streaming service Tidal said on Monday that artists uploading music wholly or substantially created using AI will have them label them as such — and those songs won’t be eligible for royalties.

Variety 1d ago

The music biopic surpassed Oppenheimer's box office record, earning $977 million so far

Rolling Stone 1d ago

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...

Spotify 1d ago

Bruce Springsteen once decried TV as a venue that offers “fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on.” He apparently doesn’t feel that way about PBS. “PBS NewsHour” co-anchor Geoff Bennett recently interviewed the musician about the opening of the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, the Monmouth...

Variety 1d ago

The funeral of legendary music executive Clive Davis — who died last Monday at the age of 94 after a six-decade career — was every bit as dignified, flawlessly executed and deeply emotional as one of the events he staged or hits he oversaw, with moving speeches from Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys,...

Variety 1d ago

In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI-generated music that attempts to impersonate an artist or a group, the company said.

TechCrunch 1d ago

Vi—which was created from the merger of the telecom companies Vodafone India and the Aditya Birla Group conglomerate’s Idea Cellular—has entered into a partnership with Spotify. Through the tie-up, Vi […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 2d ago

Innovate UK’s latest competition will see it invest up to £10m in ‘createch’ startups. The good news is that music is included.

Music Ally 2d ago

Which teams don’t need asterisks by their title?

The Pudding 2d ago

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.

The Verge 2d ago

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...

Spotify 3d ago

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 Verge 3d ago

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

MIDiA Research Blog 5d ago

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The Digital Edge 5d ago

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The Digital Edge 5d ago

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.

Copyhype 5d ago

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.

MetaBrainz Blog 5d ago

Communities are increasingly challenging data-center projects over NDAs, shell companies, secrecy, transmission costs, and subsidies as a bipartisan backlash reshapes infrastructure politics nationwide.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 5d ago

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.

MetaBrainz Blog 6d ago

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.

Spotify 6d ago

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.

MIDiA Research Blog 6d ago

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The Digital Edge 6d ago

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.

Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog 6d ago

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.

Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog 6d ago

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The Digital Edge 6d ago

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The Digital Edge 6d ago

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The Digital Edge 6d ago

Mow a series of lawns as efficiently as you can. We will publish the analysis in a few weeks.

The Pudding 6d ago

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.

Parachord Blog 6d ago

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

MIDiA Research Blog 6d ago