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Billboard 19m ago

The film will also feature new music from the artist.

Billboard 20m ago

Versatile drummer backed Jackson 5, Paul McCartney, D'Angelo, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Timberlake, Beck, and many others

Rolling Stone 24m ago

“The more people hate her, the more I love her,” the Swedish pop star added.

Billboard 27m ago

Tame Impala's 2025 song jumps nine places week-on-week into the top five.

Billboard 32m ago

The LP goes one place better than her 2023 debut, My 21st Century Blues.

Billboard 37m ago

The singer explained the origin of the whispers from her time playing Daisy Duke in the 2005 "Dukes of Hazzard" movie.

Billboard 40m ago

The globally renowned rapper hit the stage to celebrate Garnier’s newly launched Vitamin C Micellar Water.

Rolling Stone 43m ago

The deal will end a huge copyright case that claimed TuneCore's DIY business model is "fueled by rampant piracy."

Billboard 1h ago

Universal Music Group and Believe have settled the copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the Paris-headquartered music company and its distribution platform TuneCore in late 2024.

Music Business Worldwide 1h ago

No other K-pop boy group has ever taken a four-year break. BTS did and came back with 2.5x the streams. Here's what the data behind Arirang reveals about one of music's most loyal fanbases.

How Music Charts 1h ago

The members announced the song's existence just two days prior to its release.

Billboard 1h ago

Days before the kickoff date of his world tour, Simon stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to play this rarity from There Goes Rhymin' Simon

Rolling Stone 1h ago

The violinist and vocalist who played on "Jungleland" and toured with Springsteen's band for five months in the mid-1970s died from cancer on April 1.

Billboard 1h ago

The church of 50 is now in session.

Billboard 1h ago

One late night a few weeks ago, a mechanical noise on the floor below my hotel room was keeping me awake — a muffled, wheezing, grinding sound like a garbage truck that would rev for a few minutes and then stop for a few more before resuming, vibrating the floor just enough to be supremely […]

Variety 2h ago

Some OEMs saw double-digit growth in Q1, others saw double-digit declines.

Ars Technica 3h ago

The mayor is asking New Yorkers to pen a short ad for the launch of his free childcare initiative for two-year-olds, rolling out this fall

Rolling Stone 3h ago

"G.O.D. and the Broken Ribs” and “Derecho Demonico” are likely to be performed on the SNL broadcast where host Jack Black enters the prestigious Five-Timers Club

Rolling Stone 3h ago

The beauty brand reintroduced its iconic micellar water to SXSW goers with a gorgeous, glowing activation.

Rolling Stone 3h ago

The Grammy-winning R&B star offers an update on his Mutt follow-up and discusses the unique performance he recorded for a new concert series from Delta and YouTube

Rolling Stone 3h ago

OpenAI says program will remain in Los Angeles and will be editorially independent.

Ars Technica 4h ago

“Oasis Live ’25” might have been the hottest ticket of last year, but nearly as intense was the frenzy to buy the reunion tour’s merchandise. The mammoth merch campaign around the band’s first tour in 16 years — orchestrated by Warner Music Group’s WMX division — has finally wrapped up, following a...

Variety 5h ago

Top Noteworthy Copyright Stories from March 2026 — “March 2026 was one of the busiest months in recent memory for the copyright world, with huge developments on critical copyright issues that all creators and copyright owners must know about.” Penguin to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT version of German...

Copyhype 5h ago

Indonesia recently became the second country to implement a social media ban policy for children under 16. New data from Australia’s eSafety Commissioner – the first country to initiate a ban three months ago – now reports that 4.7m accounts of children under 16 have since been removed, deactivated...

Music Ally 6h ago

Meta recently unveiled a suite of updates including new Reels ad placement options, improved creator partnership discovery, and new AI creative tools. Reels trending ads – which enable ad placement alongside popular Reels content – are now bookable around major events like Fashion Week or F1.

Music Ally 6h ago

This week’s Sandbox dives into the album as a format, which is undergoing something of a cultural resurgence led by album-focused artists like Charli xcx, Lily Allen, Geese, Bad Bunny and Rosalía.

Music Ally 6h ago

Richard Blumenthal says company acts like it has ‘get-out-of-jail-free card’ as records show it upping fees to cut losses Ticketmaster quietly raised other fees after US crackdown on hidden charges Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Senators slammed Ticketmaster for raising ticket...

The Guardian 8h ago

Artists and rightsholders have unprecedented leverage over where to house their catalogs. Legacy brand prestige is no longer enough to retain them; instead, your artist network’s loyalty depends heavily on […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 12h ago

“It’s a time that has our band digging deeper into our lives to find a wellspring of songs to try meet the moment,” says Bono

Rolling Stone 14h ago

The collaboration arrives alongside “Bobby,” a solo single from Lenae, who recently told Rolling Stone that her next album is “nearing the end”

Rolling Stone 14h ago

U2, which until this year had not released a batch of newly written material since 2017, is really starting to prolifically make up for lost time. At the stroke of midnight on the east coast, as Good Friday was ushered in, the band released “Easter Lily,” its second six-song EP of 2026.

Variety 14h ago

Lionsgate’s ‘Michael’ opens on April 24th, and it’s already well on its way to beating the musical biopic box office record holder, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ Lionsgate’s Michael is about to be startin’ somethin’.

Digital Music News 14h ago

A quadriplegic man is using his brain implant to produce musical tones by assigning them to different movements identified by six chips in his brain. Galen Buckwalter has been a quadriplegic since a diving accident when he was 16 left him paralyzed from the chest down.

Digital Music News 14h ago

In February, Hybe and Geffen Records announced that Manon Bannerman would be taking a hiatus from the global girl group

Rolling Stone 15h ago

“I don’t think we could be more pleased."

Ars Technica 15h ago

That’s one way to get out of a record deal: Pooh Shiesty is now facing federal charges – and the possibility of life in prison – for allegedly kidnapping and robbing three individuals amid an ill-advised attempt to exit a contract.

Digital Music News 16h ago

Tzruya “Suki” Lahav, an Israeli songwriter and poet who is best remembered by American music fans as a violinist who recorded and toured with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in the mid-’70s, died in Jerusalem Wednesday at age 74.

Variety 18h ago

https://www.reddkrossfilm.com This is strangely interesting. I only checked it out because Steve Poltz recommended it, and I trust him implicitly. But to be honest, I’m not a big Redd Kross fan. Actually, I’m not a fan at all.

Lefsetz Letter 18h ago

Today in contentious music industry litigation: Sony Music is facing a lawsuit from NSYNC choreographer Darrin Henson over the “Bye Bye Bye” dance’s appearance in Deadpool & Wolverine.

Digital Music News 18h ago

Google, Meta, and Perplexity accused of sharing millions of chats to increase ad revenue.

Ars Technica 21h ago

Hudson Stone, who stars as Desi in the Disney Channel movie “Camp Rock 3,” has signed an exclusive recording contract with Hollywood Records. The singer-actor, who turns 15 in November, will release his debut solo music later this year and will hit the road this fall on the “Worlds Collide Concert...

Variety 21h ago

I’d never even heard of her a month ago. But then I read she donated a million bucks to MrBeast’s TeamWater charity and… Musicians don’t donate that much. Almost nobody does. And if they do, they want to let everybody know about it. Where did Sophie Rain get all this money? ONLYFANS!

Lefsetz Letter 21h ago

Trump’s Thursday morning social media posts focus on his personal grudges once more as he slams Bruce Springsteen and urges a boycott of his concerts. Thursday mornings, it’s time for Trump to tell his fans who to hate in his Truth Social posts, and this week it’s Bruce Springsteen.

Digital Music News 21h ago

Amazon denies violation, says SpaceX caused conflict by lowering Starlink satellites.

Ars Technica 21h ago

Loyalty doesn’t pay. You torch your reputation and then you’re kicked to the curb like a dog, promised some gig later, like an unnamed player in a sports trade. Now the biggest news today is not Bondi’s firing, but Macron’s excoriation of Trump.

Lefsetz Letter 21h ago

April began with the continuation of Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s promotional tour for their new romantic dramedy “The Drama.” The two stopped by “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” ahead of a special New York City screening of the film set for the following evening.

Variety 21h ago

This May, The Phoenix, a national sober community of nearly two million, hosts its third annual Music on the Mountain festival in Ludlow, Vermont. Music festivals have long been synonymous with “drugs and rock ‘n roll” culture, which generally includes an excess of drinking.

Digital Music News 21h ago

Google Vids brings together Google's most capable AI creation tools.

Ars Technica 22h ago

A receptor that's used to find prey is also activated by progesterone.

Ars Technica 22h ago

TikTok’s music distribution platform SoundOn partners with ACRCloud’s Derivative Works service to crack down on unauthorized uploads. SoundOn, the music distribution and promotion platform owned by TikTok, has deployed a new detection service from content recognition firm ACRCloud.

Digital Music News 22h ago

Rapper Pooh Shiesty and his father are among the suspects arrested in connection with a kidnapping and robbery involving Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane and two others at a recording studio in Dallas in January, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Shiesty (real name: Lontrell Denell Williams, Jr.)...

Variety 22h ago

CTM Outlander acquires singer-songwriter Matt Simons’ master recording catalog, including the global hit “Catch & Release.” On Wednesday, CTM Outlander announced the acquisition of the master recording catalog of American singer-songwriter Matt Simons.

Digital Music News 23h ago

Vocalist extraordinaire. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/betty-lavette/id1316200737?i=1000758827609 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/81ac818c-d188-4f8c-9008-402234643bd7/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-betty-lavette

Lefsetz Letter 23h ago

As one of the most popular duos in country music (or country-pop crossover), Dan + Shay are known as serious romantics, to the point where they acknowledge and joke about how many marches down the aisle or first dances they’ve provided the soundtrack for.

Variety 23h ago

The NFL has tapped Kane Brown, Wiz Khalifa, and Poison frontman Bret Michaels to headline its Draft Entertainment Series, which is scheduled to kick off in Pittsburgh on the 23rd.

Digital Music News 23h ago

A study conducted by Luminate (and commissioned by Meta) finds that Instagram is the de facto home for music superfans—not TikTok or YouTube. TikTok may claim to be the biggest driver of music culture across social media platforms, but Instagram’s unique relationship with fans—and a study conducted...

Digital Music News 23h ago

At least as the stage design suggested, Ye (the artist formerly known as Kanye West) was standing on top of the world last night at Inglewood, CA’s SoFi Stadium — a barely veiled metaphor strung across the first of two sold-out comeback concerts at the 70,000-capacity venue.

Variety 23h ago

Collection of fossils includes Ediacaran, Cambrian species, suggesting a transition.

Ars Technica 1d ago

Dialled In Records launches with two acts: Pakistan-born producer and DJ Ahadadream, and Excise Dept, an India-based multidisciplinary collective. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

OpenWav says it can pay advances 'anywhere from the low five figures to the high seven figures' Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Both GDDRHammer and GeForge hammer GPU memory in ways that compromise the CPU.

Ars Technica 1d ago

And solar power accounted for about three quarters of the renewables.

Ars Technica 1d ago

Musicians who participate in Instagram's Activation program see their streaming numbers jump by roughly 10% in the week an activation launches. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Olivia Rodrigo has announced that her new album, “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” will be released on June 12 via Geffen Records. The singer revealed the news on Instagram, which she wiped yesterday in anticipation of the album announcement.

Variety 1d ago

The deal brings together three companies with a combined 50 years of experience in vinyl distribution, physical distribution, and premium catalog re-issues. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Gemma 4 brings the first major update to Google's open models in a year.

Ars Technica 1d ago

Only three race cars have ever gone quicker around this famous track.

Ars Technica 1d ago

But the effort to stop the spread of leaked Claude Code client code is an uphill battle.

Ars Technica 1d ago

In today’s fragmented marketing world, artists have to promote more than just their music – they have to build dedicated fandom. To achieve this, more artists are implementing transmedia elements – that is, adapting a brand story across multiple platforms – into their marketing strategies. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 1d ago

NASA has struggled to deal with the widespread sentiment that NASA has “been there, done that."

Ars Technica 1d ago

Between January and March, Tesla built 50,000 more cars than it could sell.

Ars Technica 1d ago

Amazon wants in on the low-Earth orbit Internet action.

Ars Technica 1d ago

Miller has served as Chief Revenue Officer at TuneCore for the last two years Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

PassPass claims to be “the #1 viral giveaways platform in America” with its real-world scavenger hunts and contests. Now it wants to get more artists involved with its promotions. The startup has launched ‘PassPass for Artists’ as a way for artists and their teams to submit tracks for review.

Music Ally 1d ago

A report published this week by Green Music Australia, Reverb and The CSO Shop aims to help artists and their teams, as well as labels and merch suppliers, make “better environmental and ethical choices”.

Music Ally 1d ago

Startup Soundlink launched in 2025 as a service to help music marketers solve “the attribution problem” – understanding how their social-media ads impacted streams. Having signed up more than 5,000 artists and labels, now Soundlink has raised a $2m seed-funding round, led by Create Music Group.

Music Ally 1d ago

Slump? What slump?! With global recorded-music revenues up 6.4% last year, the industry would be forgiven for taking a quiet moment to celebrate recently. However, analytics firm Chartmetric’s latest research may interrupt that, based on its analysis of the streaming charts.

Music Ally 1d ago

Two theories emerged when UMG completed its acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings recently. One was that the lengthy regulatory scrutiny of the deal might discourage major labels from other indie acquisitions – for a while at least.

Music Ally 1d ago

A group of music publishers are continuing to sue AI firm Anthropic for copyright infringement, focusing on its alleged use of their lyrics to train its Claude model, as well as some of its outputs.

Music Ally 1d ago

ACRCloud’s Derivative Works Detection service uses audio fingerprinting to identify modified works Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

There’s a lot going on around social-media platforms right now, much of it not-entirely positive. A group of stories today offers a snapshot of some of the concerns – but also the money that’s still driving the giants of the sector.

Music Ally 1d ago

The ticketing platform says it's the first to bring both primary and resale inventory into OpenAI's chatbot. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Culture Collective founder Jonathan Azu talks about his multi-hyphenate background, working with Grammy-winning artists, and where he wants to go from here… Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

On this week’s podcast episode, I talk with Richard Chycki, the multi-platinum mixer and engineer behind work with Rush, Dream Theater, Aerosmith, Mick Jagger, Alice Cooper, and Pink.

Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog 1d ago

These days, professional musicians are expected to be creators, who are somehow automatically equipped with the skills to constantly upload slickly filmed social media content that consistently keeps them in […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

Australia’s government has unveiled new copyright reforms this week, specifically involving ‘orphan works’. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

Artists deserve transparency about how music streaming works. That’s why we launched Loud & Clear in 2021 — to share detailed data on Spotify’s royalty payments, break down how money […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

Spotify rolls out interactive carousel ads to draw more marketing dollars, calling itself an “interactive multiformat ecosystem” in its new era. On Tuesday, Spotify announced the addition of interactive carousel ads in a bid to draw more money across its marketing channels and generate sales.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Ex-Fleetwood Mac guitarist and vocalist Lindsey Buckingham was attacked by a woman in Santa Monica, according to law enforcement. Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac’s former guitarist and vocalist, was attacked by a woman described by authorities as a stalking suspect when he showed up for an...

Digital Music News 1d ago

The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and its SONGS Foundation tossed another splashy golf gala this week at The Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles. And it was exactly the kind of country-clubbing, cigar-chomping, golf-playing ‘gala’ the lawyers at Elon Musk’s X warned you about.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Kanye West has been announced as headliner for this year’s Wireless Festival in London. Now, the Jewish Leadership Council has condemned that choice. This year’s Wireless Festival in London will feature disgraced musician Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, as its headliner for all three nights of...

Digital Music News 1d ago

Liftoff of Artemis II with four astronauts occurred at 6:35 pm EDT (22:35 UTC) on Wednesday.

Ars Technica 1d ago

Revelator has a new owner: Warner Music Group (WMG), which intends to integrate the B2B indie distributor and rights management platform’s features en route to transforming “the suite of services that WMG labels and ADA offer to artists.” Warner Music disclosed its latest buyout, which is expected...

Digital Music News 1d ago

Anthropic pulled thousands of copies of its Claude AI source code from GitHub after leaking it to the public, seemingly by accident. On Tuesday, a software engineer discovered that AI company Anthropic had included access to the source code for its Claude AI model in a recent release.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Microsoft, Intel are also working on their own solutions for the issue.

Ars Technica 1d ago

Australia’s Parliament has passed the Copyright Amendment Bill 2026, thereby setting the stage for loosened “orphan works” restrictions and an expanded educational licensing framework covering online learning.

Digital Music News 1d ago

The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach announces Lupe Fiasco as the headliner of the Friday Concert Presented by Acura on April 17. On April 17, Grammy-winning rapper and producer Lupe Fiasco will headline the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach’s Friday Concert, which takes place on the stage outside the...

Digital Music News 1d ago

A persistent agent, stealth "Undercover" mode, and... a virtual assistant named Buddy?

Ars Technica 1d ago

Sperm gets lost in space; raccoons solve puzzles; the physics of folding a crepe; and more.

Ars Technica 1d ago

Post Malone announces a slew of new world tour dates across Asia after a record-breaking India show. The Asia leg kicks off on September 16. Post Malone’s BIG ASS World Tour, featuring special guest Don Toliver, is getting an extra limited run in Asia this September and October following a...

Digital Music News 1d ago

Let the Salt-N-Pepa v. Universal Music copyright termination battle continue: Now repped by veteran entertainment attorney Richard S. Busch, the rap duo has fired off a firmly worded appeal brief following a lower-court dismissal on contractual-language grounds.

Digital Music News 1d ago

After a massive year for pop in 2024, the charts have slowed to a crawl. New releases are struggling to compete with long-running hits and resurgent catalog tracks, leaving 2025 –and early 2026– defined by stagnation.

How Music Charts 1d ago

Capital injection was approved by HYBE's board on March 31 Source

Music Business Worldwide 2d ago

Havells mYOUsic is an Indian talent hunt that distinguishes itself from similar initiatives in multiple ways. Firstly, it isn’t restricted to singers and is also open to music producers, lyricists, […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 2d ago

The playbooks for streaming TV services and creators are collapsing into one – but even so, misconceptions remain. Large parts of the traditional entertainment industry consider the engagement techniques in two lanes. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 2d ago

This year, Spotify celebrates the five-year anniversary of EQUAL, our global program dedicated to advancing equity for women in audio. We recently marked the milestone by launching EQUAL: The Podcast, creating an intimate space for women artists to share their stories.

Spotify 2d ago

About 20 years ago, I bought a turntable with the idea that it would be a staple of my music-making setup. I dreamed of learning to scratch and digging through dollar bin vinyl for samples. Instead, it just got hooked up to a stereo. But a few months ago, I got my hands on the Korg Handytraxx Play.

The Verge 2d ago

Spotify has evolved from a streaming platform to an interactive, multiformat ecosystem where fans come to listen, watch, and engage. As we’ve evolved, so have the ways we help brands connect with audiences.

Spotify 3d ago

We have added a range of great new MetaBrainz designs to our merch store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/metabrainz/shop These designs by Monkey, previously only available to MetaBrainz summit attendees, have been lightly modified (summit-specific text removed) for everyday wear.

MetaBrainz Blog 3d ago

A new version of python-discid, a Python wrapper library for libdiscid, is now available. Version 1.4.0 focuses on modernizing the code base and updating the documentation. The public API is now fully type-hinted and the type hints are also used in the documentation. A Disc.pregap property was...

MetaBrainz Blog 4d ago

People don’t like that they can’t identify AI music. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge AI has touched every part of the music industry, from sample sourcing and demo recording, to serving up digital liner notes and building playlists.

The Verge 4d ago

Slop yourself. | Image: Suno Suno just released one of its biggest updates yet with v5.5 of its AI music model. Where previous updates focused mostly on improving fidelity and creating more natural vocals, v5.5 is about giving users more control.

The Verge 5d ago

Two juries have now found social media platforms liable for harms to children—raising a deeper question: where were the boards overseeing these profitable, engagement-driven systems?

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 6d ago

Boom boxes, instant cameras, and even landlines are making a comeback. Here are the coolest retro-inspired devices available.

TechCrunch 6d ago

Most of what you hear about AI and music is a conversation about the wrong thing. There is a much more interesting and useful discussion to be had, and almost nobody is having it. The post Music AI is not AI Music appeared first on New Music Strategies.

New Music Strategies 6d ago