Industry professionals discussed industry issues at Redeye's annual conference, which this year celebrated the company's 30th anniversary.

Billboard 7m ago

Watch the Panthers take on the Packers on Thursday, Oct. 29 — keep an eye out for possible celebrity sightings at the game too.

Billboard 19m ago

The legendary guitarist has a new album, “Live at Ronnie Scott’s.” Audio: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lee-ritenour/id1316200737?i=1000798684274 Amazon:...

Lefsetz Letter 20m ago

The Jonas Brothers gear up to take over Roblox’s Steal an Egg for a one-time-only in-game Halloween concert. The Jonas Brothers are adding a stop to The Burning Up Tour All Over Again on Halloween for fans worldwide to attend in Roblox’s popular game, Steal an Egg.

Digital Music News 21m ago

Leah Barylsky has been Rüfüs Du Sol’s camerawoman for eight years. On the Inhale/Exhale tour — the highest-grossing electronic tour of all time — she became something more.

Billboard 24m ago

Universal Music Group (UMG) has reported a double-digit revenue increase – and a more than 20% paid-streaming spike – for Q3 2026. But the showing hasn’t yet translated into share-price growth, and per CEO Lucian Grainge, the structure of the company’s “DSP agreements has to change.” UMG shed light...

Digital Music News 27m ago

The trustee for Biggie's late mother is still fighting another lawsuit with the rapper's son, CJ Wallace.

Billboard 36m ago

The Federal Trade Commission has demanded a full jury trial against Live Nation in its BOTS Act lawsuit against the ticketing and live events giant. After the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) successfully maintained its case against Live Nation despite the live events giant’s attempts to dismiss it,...

Digital Music News 1h ago

Plus, BMG celebrates Billboard Latin Music Week, and more publishing news and signings.

Billboard 1h ago

5G Home Internet plans start at just $30 per month, including additional monthly savings with T-Mobile.

Billboard 1h ago

A new reissue of the emo greats' most beloved LP may propel it to the Billboard 200's top spot for the first time — if a pop star fan of the band's doesn't get in the way.

Billboard 1h ago

The subpoena is another escalation of bitter litigation between the star's estate and her nephew Bryan Seaver over alleged threats of violence.

Billboard 1h ago

Rodrigo's you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love and MCR's 20th anniversary reissue of The Black Parade are vying for high ranks at the top of the album tally.

Billboard 1h ago

A number of recent label realignments led to a shift in the market share landscape for the third quarter.

Billboard 1h ago

Rust guru rejiggers web app reactivity for potentially speedier page loading

The Register 1h ago

Snoops 'likely still' have access to US government-affiliated network

The Register 2h ago

Amid an intensifying subpoena clash with Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music, DistroKid now has until November 6th to respond to a demand for documents concerning its AI-detection data. As some will recognize from our prior coverage, that opposition deadline was previously November 4th.

Digital Music News 2h ago

The auctioning of the guitar that George Michael played in the iconic “Faith” music video has led to significant drama among the family of the artist’s late assistant.

Digital Music News 2h ago

What do investors need to see out of a startup in a tight environment, and how can marketing support that? Read tips from an agency leader who's grown several unicorns.

Entrepreneur: Latest Music Industry Articles 2h ago

iHeartRadio announces the launch of Lite Mode, designed to give app users the ability to easily toggle between full features and “just essentials.” On Thursday, iHeartRadio announced the launch of “Lite Mode,” a new app feature designed to give users the ability to easily toggle between...

Digital Music News 2h ago

Post Malone and Olivia Rodrigo have similar streaming numbers but very different touring years. The gap comes down to what happens after someone presses play. Artists and industry voices share what it takes to build a fanbase that shows up and sticks around.

Digital Music News 3h ago

Many experts and thought leaders want media coverage but lead with their title and credentials. Editors are looking for something more.

Entrepreneur: Latest Music Industry Articles 3h ago

Revisit five Lost Weekend songs from singer’s cellphone-free gig at World’s Most Famous Arena

Rolling Stone 3h ago

Adjusted EBITDA came in at €729 million ($838.7m), a margin of 21.5%, down from 22.0% in Q3 2025 but up on the 20.5% margin it posted in the prior quarter (Q2 2026) Source

Music Business Worldwide 3h ago

Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing

The Register 4h ago

Before approving the pages, features and platform, define what you expect customers to do differently when the new site launches.

Entrepreneur: Latest Music Industry Articles 4h ago

Bruce Campbell, writer and director of the heartfelt indie comedy "Ernie & Emma," says it’s time to stop waiting for an opportunity and start making your own.

Entrepreneur: Latest Music Industry Articles 4h ago

The rapper will lead 11 shows at Park MGM celebrating the history of hip-hop with special guests

Rolling Stone 4h ago

DoE-backed consortium hoping to scale, says orgs can apply to become, literally, part of BattMan

The Register 4h ago

Post Malone and Olivia Rodrigo have similar streaming numbers but very different touring years. The gap comes down to what happens after someone presses play. Artists and industry voices share what it takes to build a fanbase that shows up and sticks around.

How Music Charts 4h ago

The megastar hasn’t performed the 2017 track in four years

Rolling Stone 5h ago

The singer-songwriter previewed the project with rock-tinged single “Here You Come, There You Go”

Rolling Stone 5h ago

Retaining talent means meeting employees’ needs in a challenging economy.

Entrepreneur: Latest Music Industry Articles 5h ago

Here's a better way to build something customers want: start from what they already ordered and work backward.

Entrepreneur: Latest Music Industry Articles 5h ago

These were stars who died due to senseless violence. The beef was in the music, but the deaths still felt like an anomaly. People cared. I sometimes ...

Medium 5h ago

Auditors have flagged similar security failures since 2014

The Register 5h ago

Artists like T-Pain, Ne-Yo, Flavor Flav, and more have already launched their own teams

Rolling Stone 5h ago

The French duo debut their collaboration with the DJ Gesaffelstein

Rolling Stone 5h ago

Arijit Singh fans who couldn’t get hold of tickets to watch him perform in their city during his 2027 tour have a chance to catch the singer live this year […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 5h ago

Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 2030

The Register 5h ago

John Taylor invited his daughter’s “other dad” to sit in on guitar with the band in Paris

Rolling Stone 6h ago

Shares jumped 15% after an activist investor group that includes one of the burger chain’s biggest franchisees made its move.

Entrepreneur: Latest Music Industry Articles 6h ago

PARTNER CONTENT: Michael Stonebraker and Bruce Momjian on why enterprise AI needs a database that no one controls, and what PostgreSQL 19 says about the road ahead

The Register 6h ago

The demise of gatekeepers was part of the internet’s founding mythology – but, in reality, we quickly learned that they were going nowhere. However, the human ones were cast aside as algorithms took their place. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 6h ago

Officials confirm this week’s tax deadlines extended to November as a result

The Register 6h ago

Prince’s NPG Records and the Prince Estate have announced an expanded edition of the artist’s 2007 album “3121,” arguably the best of his post 1990s albums. The set arrives December 11 digitally and in 3LP + Blu-ray and 2CD + Blu-ray sets.

Variety 6h ago

In the role, Silvertown will oversee Create's legal and business affairs functions and partner with the executive team on strategic transactions, investments, and partnerships. Source

Music Business Worldwide 7h ago

There are no flies in the ointment of the overwhelming touring success of Noah Kahan. The fan enthusiasm that led to across-the-board sellouts for his “Great Divide World Tour” this past summer is highly likely to continue when his “The Last of the Bugs World Tour” hits stadiums in North America...

Variety 7h ago

The 31-date Last of the Bugs World Tour kicks off on the anniversary of The Great Divide

Rolling Stone 7h ago

Nuveen’s CEO has the right instinct about culture.But “listen and learn” is a sentiment, not a behavior.

Entrepreneur: Latest Music Industry Articles 7h ago

What's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!

The Register 7h ago

A scene needs taste, somewhere to put it, and money to keep it going. At ADE last week, the sessions I was part of kept returning to one question: how do you scale all three without losing what made them worth having? “Beyond the Feed” with Bessie-Mae Armitage, Quentin Chambers, and Michail Stan...

MIDiA Research Blog 7h ago

At Music Tectonics, Merck Mercuriadis outlined a new model for artist ownership, management and financing that could change who controls the music business—and who gets paid.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 7h ago

One lucky gamer will earn roughly $900 and a free copy of the most anticipated video game in years.

Entrepreneur: Latest Music Industry Articles 7h ago

Music-industry professionals have been rushing to connect various Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to their AI chatbots of choice. However, there may be more reluctance in some quarters to add the latest launch: it’s from Suno. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 7h ago

The last 24 hours has seen a new flurry of dealmaking between music companies, starting with the news that Create Music Group (CMG) has bought a minority stake in distributor DistroKid, making it a co-investor with private-equity firm CVC Capital Partners. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 7h ago

Earlier this week we reported on artist Sam Fender promising to cut ticket prices and ditch the ‘premium standing’ zone for his upcoming stadium concerts in the UK. Now the tour is making headlines of another kind – for bot disruption. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 7h ago

Independent licensing agency Merlin is celebrating the 10th anniversary of opening its office in Japan with some new stats. Merlin says that its payouts to Japanese members have grown by nearly 60% in the last five years. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 7h ago

Here’s a timely snapshot of how fast games can blow up on Roblox. Steal An Egg only launched towards the end of July this year, but has already racked up more than 9.7bn visits for gameplay summarised as “Steal eggs from pets. Hatch eggs to collect rare pets. Earn money from your pets.” The post is...

Music Ally 7h ago

Meta has been taking some heat recently for an imminent change to the terms of service for its business accounts – that’s anyone using Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp as a business rather than an individual. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 7h ago

Hopefully without disintegrating SRB nozzles

The Register 8h ago

Slow-moving companies are handing AI-savvy founders a huge opening, according to the billionaire investor.

Entrepreneur: Latest Music Industry Articles 8h ago

As John Lewis reports a 96% rise in searches for CD players, music fans share their reasons for ditching streaming CDs appear to be having a resurgence.

The Guardian 8h ago

Picard 3.0.3 is a maintenance release for Picard 3.0 with fixes for reported issues and updated translations.This release fixes a crash when switching color themes, a crash when loading a release from an ISRC lookup, metadata issues in the Album Pane when multiple files match a track, and problems...

MetaBrainz Blog 8h ago

The company said the money will support the next phase of its artist-development model, which brings together record-label functions, content production, and commercial partnerships across sports, brands, live entertainment, and media. Source

Music Business Worldwide 8h ago

The Backstreet Boys have moved into competitive gaming with a celebrity-owned team, and a search for the players who will represent their new Backstreet Gamers Team.

Variety 8h ago

LL Cool J has announced “Rock the Bells: The Residency,” taking over Las Vegas’ Dolby Live at Park MGM next spring. The veteran rapper will stage 11 shows across May and July 2027. The first run of dates will be May 15, 16, 19, 21 and 22, followed by the concluding batch on July 9, […]

Variety 8h ago

Some adults may not need to prove it, but many will

The Register 8h ago

YouTube’s parent company Alphabet published its latest quarterly financial results yesterday. While that’s usually a spur for us to report on the growth of YouTube’s advertising revenues, the Q3 numbers came with a new milestone for its subscription business. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 8h ago

By Music Ally South Asia’s calculations, around 40% of the tracks to peak inside the top ten of Spotify’s Top Songs chart for India in 2026 have been in a […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 9h ago

'The workflow automatically is triggered within a second, and if the workflow is indeed vulnerable, then the attack is executed successfully'

The Register 9h ago

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai disclosed the milestone on Wednesday (October 28) Source

Music Business Worldwide 9h ago

Core developers avoid AI coding assistants, while community contributors face disclosure and review rules

The Register 9h ago

The Orbit Academy is a new Mumbai-based music institute that describes itself as a “finishing school” offering an artist development programme specifically designed for emerging musicians. Conceptualised for vocalists, instrumentalists […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 10h ago

A new Pi Zero 3 W and Pi 4 Model A seen lurking in the repository

The Register 10h ago

Indian live entertainment company SkillBox has launched Zenith Studio, an “AI-powered ‘event creation’ engine” that enables organisers to generate listings, descriptions, ticketing information and artwork using a single-line prompt or […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 10h ago

Attachments in New Outlook come undone thanks to Windows' fundamental interconnectedness of things

The Register 11h ago

Once more, with feeling: 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you'

The Register 11h ago

Cursing in login credentials can help keep the bad guys out, but not when the rest of your security is BS

The Register 12h ago

PARTNER CONTENT: HPE Alletra MP X10000 cache offload delivers up to 20× faster time to first token in testing validated by Kamiwaza. Apparently, remembering things beats calculating them again.

The Register 12h ago

Stevie Nicks, Melissa Etheridge, and Jackson Browne performed at the event on Tuesday (October 27) at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Source

Music Business Worldwide 14h ago

NOW THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT! What kind of crazy f*cked up world do we live in where Bryan Adams writes the best protest song of the Trump era? At a time where you only get a second or two to hook people, I got this song immediately. It’s like Adams channeled his eighties […]

Lefsetz Letter 14h ago

Undercutting Claude on price ahead of Anthropic's IPO

The Register 15h ago

Vietnam’s largest private conglomerate, Vingroup, and premier live event partner Legends Global announce a plan to build a massive 135,000-seat stadium.

Digital Music News 16h ago

2026 ED138 is way out beyond Neptune and perhaps the smallest known object of its type

The Register 16h ago

Prince George’s County in Maryland votes to pass a deal committing to financing $200 million toward bringing Sphere to National Harbor in the DC area. On Tuesday, the Prince George’s County Council in Maryland passed a final vote on a deal that commits financing approximately $200 million toward...

Digital Music News 16h ago

Michael Jackson’s daughter claims attorney John Branca failed to justify the hefty compensation rate

Rolling Stone 17h ago

If I hear one more self-satisfied, establishment Democrat rail against Democratic Socialists… I’m gonna laugh. These people are so out of touch, they don’t realize that they themselves are the problem.

Lefsetz Letter 19h ago

The labor leader and civil rights icon died on Wednesday at 96

Rolling Stone 20h ago

Suno is doubling down on its Apple subpoena push, arguing that the information being sought – about Apple Music’s major label licensing talks, “anti-AI deal terms,” and more – is central to its fair use and copyright misuse arguments.

Digital Music News 21h ago

YouTube Music and Premium cracked a total of 150 million worldwide subscribers during Q3 2026, when “living room” viewing made up more than one-third of YouTube’s advert revenue. Alphabet revealed these and other noteworthy performance figures in its third-quarter earnings report this afternoon.

Digital Music News 21h ago

Boy George has now secured a partnership to release his single “We Will Dance Again” via Warner Music/ADA after the song was taken down from Bandcamp. Boy George’s controversial tribute to the victims of the attack at Israel’s Nova Music Festival, “We Will Dance Again,” was taken down from Bandcamp...

Digital Music News 23h ago

The Copyright Alliance issues an urgent statement regarding Meta’s recently proposed business-related Terms of Service updates. On November 20, Meta will update its business-related Terms of Service (TOS) for its products, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Threads, and WhatsApp.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Brazil’s federal consumer protection agency (Senacon) has ordered five ticketing platforms to stop facilitating resales ahead of BTS’ three São Paulo shows.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Create, supported by private capital backers Flexpoint Ford and Ares, made the investment earlier this year Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Sam Fender postponed the presale for his two homecoming shows at Newcastle's St James' Park on Wednesday (October 28) Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Peermusic acquires Australian music publisher 120 Publishing, appointing Karen Hamilton as Managing Director, Peermusic Australasia. Peermusic, the world’s largest independent music publishing and neighboring rights company with 39 offices across 33 countries and over 200 employees worldwide, has...

Digital Music News 1d ago

Garth Brooks pulled the pre-sale for an extra performance in Kansas City, and now the affected Saturday matinee has been canceled altogether due to bot activity.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Easol, the self-described “all-in-one platform for managing your entire experience business,” has launched a new agentic product and formally announced a $30 million raise. The “all-in-one SaaS platform” debuted Teammates and unveiled the $30 million Series A extension today.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Create Music Group acquires a minority stake in DistroKid shortly after CVC Captal Partners became DistroKid’s majority owner back in July. Create Music Group has acquired a minority stake in music distribution platform DistroKid, the company confirmed on Wednesday.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Sam Fender postpones a pre-sale for three shows in his upcoming tour in the face of a “sophisticated bot attack.” On Wednesday, Sam Fender took to Instagram to tell fans he had pulled the pre-sale for three of his upcoming shows, moving it to Thursday, October 29, “to ensure real fans get the...

Digital Music News 1d ago

The deal gives Peermusic the publishing rights to 120 Publishing's approximately 5,000 works and 120,000 administered copyrights Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Streaming service Deezer has published its financial results for Q3 2026, revealing growth for its direct subscriptions business, but continued decline for its B2B partnerships. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

UK collecting society PRS for Music’s efforts to boost the accuracy of its payouts continues – this time via a partnership with B2B music supplier Soundtrack. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

Maná are one of the most successful Mexican rock bands ever, with tens of millions of sales (and four Grammys) to prove it since forming in 1981. Now they’re aiming to reach old and new fans alike with a free concert stream on YouTube. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

Sound Rink has built a business around VIP and presale programs for touring artists, paying out more than $24m to its clients since 2023. It’s also moved into the fan-clubs space, managing Dashboard Confessional’s ‘Saints & Sailors’ club. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

The genre playlist is the most common object in music streaming and, at the same time, the most misunderstood. Millions of them exist, most of them are mediocre, and the reason is simple: people treat a genre as a sorting instruction rather than as a listening promise.

The Digital Edge 1d ago

Country star Alan Jackson’s farewell concert, “Alan Jackson: The Last Show,” will air on NBC on Dec. 8. The event, which celebrates Jackson’s career and memorializes his final concert performance, will be available to stream the next day on Peacock.

Variety 1d ago

Jennifer Lopez is getting close to releasing new music. The multi-hyphenate tells me she was inspired to write and record again when her kids, twins Max and Emme Muniz with ex-husband Marc Anthony, left for college.

Variety 1d ago

The company says the funding allowed it to develop and launch Teammates, a set of AI agents for festival and experience businesses. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

You may have heard of Tamborzão – but you don’t hear a lot of it in mainstream channels outside of Brazil. Bill Werde wonders why not... Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

What Artists Should Be Doing When the World Thinks Nothing Is Happening. “The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” — Ram Dass Somewhere along the way, the music business decided that if you’re not constantly releasing, performing, posting, promoting, or announcing something, you must not be...

Digital Music News 1d ago

Variety has amassed 62 nominations for the Los Angeles Press Club’s 19th annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, including nods for Print Journalist of the Year for Chris Willman and Online Journalist of the Year for Ethan Shanfeld.

Variety 1d ago

Meta’s Q3 earnings revealed strong revenue growth coming from its core business and “major milestones… toward delivering personal superintelligence for everyone”. Beneath that is a more turbulent picture, however: low user growth, potential ad saturation of its existing audiences, and costly...

MIDiA Research Blog 1d ago

From: Stacie Griffn We have finally posted Jim’s obituary today. It was not an easy task as there is so much more to know about him and there was so much more left for him to do. We continue to receive an enormous number of emails and postings on social media from friends and colleagues […]

Lefsetz Letter 1d ago

Long ago I designed a team collaboration system called eRoom. It was like Slack, but if you propelled Slack backwards in time and somehow it picked up more features and flexibility as it went (but fewer emoji).

furia log 2d ago

Chartmetric and Base for Music have teamed up on a new playbook exploring how artists and music professionals can turn music data into more effective marketing strategies.

How Music Charts 2d ago

The 1990s were a very different time — especially in Silver Lake, California — once a fertile neighborhood of artists and musicians and now a pricey hot spot.

Variety 2d ago

Songwriters celebrate a Supreme Court ruling affirming earlier victories for Cyril Vetter in the Middle District of Louisiana and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding copyright recapture under statutory termination.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 2d ago

The world premiere of the David Bowie immersive concert experience, “Stage,” has been set for Feb. 14 at Berlin’s Uber Arena. It will play during the Berlin Film Festival, representing a rare foray into alternative programming at the European film event.

Variety 2d ago

Donnie Iris, regarded as Pittsburgh’s biggest hometown rock hero for a six-decade career that included hit singles in the 1960s and ’80s, died Monday at 83. He had been fighting bladder cancer for three years. Iris’ biggest chart success came as a member of the Jaggerz, who reached No.

Variety 2d ago

From Wichita Lineman to MacArthur Park, he penned masterpieces. As the great hit-maker resurrects his lost songs, he recalls writing for giants – and the night Richard Harris stripped off and disappeared ‘Flat for 50 miles,” recalls Jimmy Webb, remembering the desolate stretch of Oklahoma that...

The Guardian 3d ago

In my mind, Spooky Season music comes in two distinct flavors. There are the fun, occasionally goofy songs like "The Monster Mash" and John Carpenter's "Halloween Theme." Then there is the genuinely terrifying: Throbbing Gristle, The Body, or Scott Walker's The Drift.

The Verge 4d ago

The government’s lawsuit against REPS & Company exposes an alleged industrial-scale ticket scalping operation. But who financed it, who facilitated the transactions, and why doesn’t the case warrant a federal racketeering prosecution.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 4d ago

Fender criticises stadium pricing, calling it ‘bollocks’ and says it ‘won’t be happening’ on his tour Sam Fender has responded to criticism by fans about ticket prices for his 2027 stadium tour by promising he would lower the cost, telling followers on Instagram: “They’re getting changed.” The...

The Guardian 5d ago

Lindsay Powell, who releases records under the name Fielded, has spent most of her career subverting expectations and genre conventions. According to their Bandcamp page, Fielded started as an experimental noise project before growing into something closer to R&B.

The Verge 5d ago

Para celebrar sua trajetória e a conexão especial construída com os fãs ao longo de sua carreira, Jão voltou aos palcos para sua primeira apresentação ao vivo em mais de um ano. Com o apoio do Spotify, o artista compartilhou esse momento com os fãs que fazem parte de sua história desde o início.

Spotify 6d ago

To celebrate his journey and the enduring connection he has built with his fans, Jão returned to the stage for his first live performance in more than a year. With some help from Spotify, he shared the moment with the fans who have been part of his story from the start. Now, the concert film...

Spotify 6d ago

If you've been feeling nostalgic for your old iPod, you can head over to Apple Music's 404 page to listen to music on a virtual re-creation of the first-generation iPod. The hidden iPod was spotted by users on social media on Friday.

The Verge 6d ago