"Hannah’s the kind of person that I feel like I could invite over for a plain old bologna sandwich, and she wouldn’t bat an eye," Folsom says
EBiDAN's "Yes! Tokyo" falls to No. 3.
The star commemorated the opening by talking about his love for art.
At the Esports Foundation, Hans Jagnow is determined to treat gamers like rock stars
New York watchdogs say the Evolutions Festival violated state law by pocketing more than $243,000 in advanced ticket sales for an event that never happened.
From Laura Pausini to Alejandro Sanz, these are the artists who have shared the stage with the Colombian superstar at the Shakira Stadium.
The band previously led with “Weak and Powerless” in 2003.
The first update from the "Montero" star since June ends with him holding up a sign that reads "World's Greatest," the title of his single due out on Thursday (Oct. 1).
Netflix's four-part docuseries on the disgraced mogul won an Emmy earlier in September.
MeetTwins is still in development, but it's a genius idea if the goal is to prove more time-wasting calls should just be emails
The song is the latest single from the group's upcoming 10th studio album, O My Beloved.
Indie label 7cult is on a mission to use data and advertising dollars to build stars. With oskar med k, the executives think they found their early blueprint.
Elder emos can relive their glory days with a monthlong celebration of the album that defined a generation, exclusively at Hot Topic.
That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment
Song will feature on post-rock group's upcoming Happy Tears compilation
Billy Joel gave a health update during a call-in with fans on his SiriusXM channel this week, noting that he’s doing well after revealing earlier in September that he’d undergone brain surgery to relieve some of the symptoms of normal pressure hydrocephalus, a disorder he was diagnosed with in...
Paul Chowles helped himself to 50 coins while examining devices linked to Silk Road 2.0
Song features on Black Sabbath guitarist's upcoming solo album, From the Dark
The Register takes HPE and NVIDIA to dinner in Washington to answer the question that stalls AI in regulated industries, off the record.
By including Baseten in its marketplace, OpenAI signals it wants its models to win on the merits, not through coercion
LCD Soundsystem will continue their nearly ten-year tradition of NYC year-ending residencies with 12 shows over three weekends, beginning November 19-22 at Knockdown Center in Queens, continuing with a November 30-December 3 return to Brooklyn Steel, and concluding with four more shows December...
Whether it’s friends and family sharing their lives with one another, communities creating closer bonds, or creators finding broader audiences, Facebook has always brought people together.
Kuok remains Group CEO of parent company Caldecott Music Group, where Chen also continues as Group President. Source
As the summer begins to wind down in September, Hollywood is just getting started with a new crop of awards season movies premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, OBE, previously served as CEO of U.K. Music and Director of Strategy to the U.K. Prime Minister at No. 10 Downing Street. Variety welcomes responsible commentary, please direct inquiries to music@variety.com.
This year has shown a clear audience appetite for live, shared viewing experiences. The finale of the UK’s The Traitors attracted a live audience of 9.4 million viewers in January. An international audience flooded to watch sporting events like the Super Bowl and World Cup, with both events...
Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin
Partnership is the guiding motif of the World Soundtrack Awards’ Film Music Days, where live performances will give cult films bold new scores and industry mixers encourage emerging composers and filmmakers to find their creative match.
Build it, bill it, bin it as forward-deployed engineering leaves customers dependent on outside expertise
Global recorded-music body the IFPI has made its latest submission to the EU Counterfeit and Piracy Watchlist consultation: a document listing the biggest sources of infringement it sees in 2026.
Distributor Ditto Music has been surveying more than 5,000 independent artists, with the findings zeroing in on some of their main pain points when trying to sustain their careers.
Independent-publishing bodies Impel and IMPF are the latest music-industry orgs to set out some principles for how AI-music licensing should work. One of the key points is aimed as much at labels as at AI companies.
Independent label Best Music’s CEO Mariana Voronina has been talking about the challenges facing Ukraine’s music industry since the country was invaded by Russia. “It affects literally every part of our work. We work through daily shelling and power cuts.
Japanese band Mrs. Green Apple’s global prominence continues with an activation on TikTok this week. The group are getting the platform’s signature ‘in-app hub’ campaign for the release of their new album ‘Pops’.
Meta has been making a big noise about its Muse AI agent, but now ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has unveiled its competitor, Dots, at its DevDay 2026 event. The company described Dots as “remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything… frontier intelligence that have your back”.
Replaceable earbud batteries lift iFixit score from zero to a dizzying two out of ten
White label business management platform launches with Cherry Red Records and Blue Raincoat Music as its first named customers. Source
The World Soundtrack Awards’ Discovery of the Year prize has a knack for spotting emerging talent. Gustavo Santaolalla (“21 Grams”), Michael Giacchino (“The Incredibles”) and Nicholas Britell (“Moonlight”) all won it before reshaping the modern film score, and recent winners Daniel Blumberg (“The...
Now nearing its 26th edition, the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent have made the Belgian city film scoring’s home base. That story began in the 1980s, when Film Fest Ghent adopted screen music as its calling card, a focus that led to the World Soundtrack Academy and Awards at the turn of the...
Japanese music company Avex has expanded its stake in management firm S10 Entertainment by acquiring 85% of the company from founder Brandon Silverstein (pictured) and his partners.
A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption
Prosecutors have put Smith's emails in front of Judge Koeltl, and say they show a man who knew from the start that his scheme was fraud. Source
Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts
US federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that an AI company's copying of protected material to build its training data was not fair use. Source
The High Court in London also ordered AEI and the label's former sub-publisher to provide interim accounts setting out the debt owed to NCS. Source
The two organizations are now calling on collective management organizations (CMOs) and other licensors to support the principles. Source
Government survey puts the figure at 808k, says detecting and removing malware most common weakness
Boston-headquartered startup has raised $60 million to date Source
Plus, Klassik recreates the KDE 3 desktop experience on Qt 6
The agency behind BTOB and Lee Chae Yeon will put concert and content IP onchain via its WAVIST platform, which has until now run on rival chain Story. Source
Both appointments are effective immediately, Music Services said on Tuesday (September 29). Source
British Transport Police’s six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive
Larsson’s global Midnight Sun tour continues through early November
Researchers find a way to recover stale indirect branch prediction entries
The rousing track comes off the musician’s new album, Everyone Gets Everything They Want
The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers
Red Hat, Nvidia, OpenAI and friends are working on an enterprise edition they say is ‘Kubernetes for agents’
Indie publishing orgs IMPF and IMPEL have outlined a licensing framework for generative AI to create a fair and sustainable market for the future. Independent music publishing organizations IMPEL and IMPF have now issued a licensing framework for generative AI based on several key principles that...
A judge called the original $12.9 million in damages award "excessive"
The Backstreet Boys’ highly anticipated return to Germany, where their story began 30 years ago, saw more than 450,000 tickets sold. In May of 1996, Germany helped elevate the Backstreet Boys to international superstars.
Streaming fraudster Michael Smith could get 46 months of prison time plus the $8 million in restitution he owes for his AI-driven streaming fraud. Michael Smith, whose AI-driven music scams stole over $8 million in royalties, argued last week that his crimes were victimless and took such a small...
Also requires name change to 'Superintelligence'
Prosecutors are urging the judge to sentence Michael Smith to 46 months in federal prison to “send a clear message”
A look at some common (and often invisible) issues blocking your royalties and how to unblock them to get your revenue flowing. The following article, from DMN partner Equalizer Consulting, offers a step-by-step framework for music businesses to develop a deliberate, documented metadata strategy.
As X (formerly Twitter) continues to successfully fend off music-sector infringement claims, the IFPI is urging the European Union to include the social platform on its 2027 “Counterfeit and Piracy Watchlist.” The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) recently made that...
Charles Kelley, the co-lead vocalist and founding member of the country band Lady A, has been diagnosed with the rare blood cancer multiple myeloma. The singer shared the news on his Instagram on Tuesday, with the caption “A little health update” under the video. “Hey everybody.
It's a worm attack, AI-style
Universal Music Group has named Libby Bush to the newly created role of President, Global Brands and Commercial Partnerships, starting in November. According to the announcement, she will “lead a new global function that brings together UMG’s brands, media, and commercial partnership businesses,...
It's not OpenClaw. It's dots
Caleb Flynn, a former contestant on “American Idol,” was found guilty of murdering his wife in their Ohio home. A jury deliberated for around two hours on Tuesday and convicted him on all nine counts that he faced of of murder, assault and tampering with evidence. On the morning of Monday, Feb.
Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website
About 29 months after investing in S10 Entertainment, Avex has upped its stake to 85% and announced an expanded role for Avex Music Group head Brandon Silverstein.
Caleb Flynn was charged with shooting his wife inside their Ohio home after telling his mistress he wanted her dead
Kentucky’s governor announces a new “Office of Music” dedicated to highlighting the state’s storied music legacy and supporting the music industry. Last week at Kentucky’s Bourbon & Beyond festival, Governor Andy Beshear joined state officials and music industry leaders onstage to announce the...
Ahead of a high-stakes trial, “the largest copyright-free record label in the world,” NoCopyrightSounds (NCS), has secured a £1.4 million (currently $1.9 million) pre-interest interim payment in its contract dispute with AEI Music.
It will be headed by Red Light Management UK founder James Sandom and The Very Good founder and CEO Jakob Emtestam. Source
September typically heralds the start of the festive season in India. The last four months of the year are when such major Hindu religious festivals such as Ganesh Chaturthi, Navratri, […] The post is from Music Ally.
An expression may be easy to use in one language, but nearly impossible to explain in another. That’s the challenge at the heart of Flip the Language, a new video podcast on Spotify.
Music D2C platform Even has launched a white-label version called Even Studio, available today to artists on an invitation-only basis. The post is from Music Ally.
Deezer’s efforts to grow its B2B streaming business have an unexpected new partner: French collecting society Sacem. The post is from Music Ally.
2025 was a bumper year for the music-publishing sector according to Midia Research’s latest report, tracking growth of 9.6%. The post is from Music Ally.
For us, Kurt is the king of that sound right now. He still has a very traditional way of recording heavy bands in an era where a lot of heavy music is ...
Independent label NCS (formerly NoCopyrightSounds) is involved in a high-court battle with former partners AEI Music and Featherstone Music. The post is from Music Ally.
A federal judge rules that the FTC can absolutely pursue litigation against Ticketmaster under the BOTS Act for allegedly enabling mass-scale ticket resale. The case will now proceed to discovery.
Live Nation’s longtime legal chief, Michael Rowles, will exit in November following the government’s antitrust litigation against the company. In November, Live Nation’s longtime legal chief, Michael Rowles, will step down from his position and into a senior legal advisory role.
One month after dropping his multimillion-dollar Sony Music infringement lawsuit, Jermaine Dupri is staring down a copyright complaint for allegedly lifting from a decades-old work to create 2023’s “Pick It Up.” The members of hip-hop duo Home Team, brothers Patrick Watler and Van J.
Independent UK music publisher Minds on Fire used Tipalti’s Mass Payments to eliminate invoice-chasing, speed up their international royalty runs, and scale its global roster without growing its finance team.
Todd Rundgren takes aim at Taylor Swift, calling her music mediocre and blaming video games for the biggest artists in the world being female. Singer-songwriter and producer Todd Rundgren, known for his own hits like “I Saw the Light” and producing classic albums like Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell,...
Silona Bonewald, our new Executive Director, will be hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on our forums at: 5th October 202617:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST)In this forum thread Please respect the code of conduct, as you always do!
Today in Warner Music Group (WMG) executive shifts: KYN Entertainment co-founder Sonny Takhar is officially set to begin leading Warner Music UK & Ireland in the new year.
There is one number almost every artist checks the morning after a campaign launches. It sits at the top of the Spotify for Artists dashboard, updates in near real-time and has become the industry’s default shorthand for whether a release is working. The problem?
With an eye on curbing “foreign digital piracy,” federal lawmakers have introduced the Defend IP Act, which would enable rightsholders to petition district courts for ISP-level site-blocking orders.
Live Nation opens The Truth in Nashville, a new 4,400-capacity venue the company calls the first chapter of its grand opening season in Music City. Live Nation’s latest venue, The Truth in Nashville, opens on Thursday, October 1, with a sold-out Miranda Lambert show to christen it.
John Mayer will perform live at Sphere in April 2027, with a general onsale beginning Friday, October 9, at 10 AM PT on Ticketmaster. John Mayer is gearing up to perform live at Las Vegas’ Sphere in 2027, on April 8, 10, 11, 15, 17, and 18. At such a unique venue, these performances promise […]
Oasis’ highly anticipated documentary, “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” hits Disney+ and Hulu on October 9, with previously unreleased footage. “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger,” the highly anticipated documentary covering the reunion of Noel and Liam Gallagher after their fallout 15 years prior,...
A new Chartmetric/Splice report finds afro house's biggest market has shifted from the US to Germany, echoing how Berlin once absorbed and reinvented Detroit techno decades ago. Now, shifting policy and a Gen Z techno revival may be converging at the same moment.
Hi everyone, I’m Sreehari, also known online as owlpharoah (op3kay on Matrix). I’m a second year student at IIIT Jabalpur. This summer I worked on the foundations of a GraphQL server in Rust that sits over the MusicBrainz PostgreSQL database, under the guidance of @bitmap and @jadedblueeyes.
MTV’s Video Music Awards (VMAs) is done for another year, with 2026’s big moments including a Madonna / Sabrina Carpenter / Charli XCX medley-collab; a Dolly Parton tribute from Kacey Musgraves; and Taylor Swift debuting a new music video.
ClassicalBot started as a way to map classical-music concerts in the developer’s home country, before expanding to the world. The post is from Music Ally.
Its creator Evan King is well on the way to his $10.6k Kickstarter goal for this “generative audio sampler and groovebox” The post is from Music Ally.
A high-profile Japanese actor and anime voice talent has filed suit against TikTok over videos allegedly featuring an AI clone of his iconic voice. Fans sometimes idolize voice actors in Japan’s celebrated animation industry as much as the characters they portray.
Gwen Seale and Chris Castle discuss the streaming mechanicals panel at Artist Rights Symposium 5.
Catalogue is becoming a key revenue stream, while streaming's share of publishing income is set to rise further through 2033 London, UK – Music publishing revenue grew 9.6% in 2025 to reach $12.2 billion, with major publishers outgrowing independents, according to MIDiA Research's 2026–2033 glob...
Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn't Suno in a box, though.
I thought this book was going to be about the Vail fire. After all, there’s a picture of Two Elk lodge burning right on the cover! But that’s not what it’s about, not really. I thought this was a niche book, for a narrow audience, those who remember this 1998 fire. But then I saw […]
He takes swings at not only Taylor Swift, but Paul McCartney! Beck has a new album, I see the press everywhere. About an old girlfriend, a return to form…can’t say I read any of them, for numerous reasons.
Drums on film. | Image: Decap I don't think I'm going to hurt anyone's feelings by pointing out that Decap doesn't have the name recognition of Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo, or Charli XCX.
Artists including Tinie Tempah and the Smiths’ drummer Mike Joyce ramp up pressure on government to keep its pledge to outlaw for-profit resales The government has stepped up work on new laws to stop ticket touts fleecing fans, as the prime minister came under pressure from artists including the...
So, tune in Saturday September 26h 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
Imagine asking Spotify to “play some fresh indie soul I might like” and then, mid-session, saying “I love... The post Bootstrapping Conversational Recommendation Agents at Spotify: Synthetic Data Generation and Self-Improvement Loops appeared first on Spotify Engineering.
Suno’s AI vocalists could learn a thing or two from this glitchy image. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno.
Since launching in 1984, the MTV Video Music Awards have helped establish the music video as an art form: artist-defining, boundary-breaking, trend-setting, culture-defining. The awards show is also synonymous with legendary performances that bring those videos to life.
8.6% Growth Outpaces Overall US Market Cultural Moments from Super Bowl to World Cup Spotlight Latin Music as Paid Subscriptions Rise 12.4% & Vinyl More Than Triples US Latin recorded music revenues topped $542.2 million in the first half of 2026, up 8.6% compared with the same period last year,...
“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”: Court records show what Microsoft and OpenAI actually thought about AI training — “Internal Microsoft communications identified the ‘real risk’ that generative AI could ‘significantly disrupt the employment of the very people who generated the...
Explore how music from Mexico, Japan, Brazil, India, and Nigeria is crossing borders—and the different paths each market is taking toward global growth.
Last week, Spotify welcomed 500 guests from across the songwriting, producing, and publishing world to the second annual Created by Women Summit, a day dedicated to building a more equitable music industry.
Earlier this year, we introduced Reserved by Spotify, a new experience designed to give an artist’s most dedicated fans a better chance to see them live. Eligible Premium subscribers ages 18+ in the U.S.
Is this a recent development, or are you a die-hard compact disc fan? What do you like about the format? Despite the prevalence of music streaming services, CDs players appear to be having a resurgence.
Young people are spending fewer hours listening to music, and in particular, music is occupying a smaller share of teenager's time than it used to. The decline in weekly hours spent listening to music sits in contrast with nearly every other entertainment format increasing its time with younger...
At Spotify, we’re always thinking (obsessing) about new ways to connect listeners to the music, podcasts, audiobooks, and videos they love. You can talk to Spotify. You can turn any idea into a playlist. You can even ask Spotify to soundtrack your next run.