Saturday night's (July 4) set also had an onstage Pride celebration featuring a parade of drag queens and kings.
The funds will go to the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, providing educational intervention for the children affected by the recent quakes.
The England team progressed to the quarterfinals of the 2026 FIFA World Cup following a thrilling 3-2 win over Mexico on Sunday night (July 5).
ShinyHunters leaks names, addresses, DOBs, and more after Christian college discloses cyberattack
It’s not just AI-music companies being sued by rightsholders. Hollywood studios have also been slapping some GenAI disrupters with lawsuits.
Modula-based source code resurfaces after nearly four decades
Barney Rubble points to bubble trouble
We are sorry to report the death of Alexi Cory-Smith, the well-respected CEO of Bella Figura Music, whose passing was announced on Friday.
What’s been happening to the music catalogue-sales market in the last couple of years? Philippe Astor has been crunching the numbers.
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Zipped just 800m past Asteroid Torifune as part of very extended mission
Some people see AI as a hellscape, but for the music industry, it’s an ‘L’ scape. Lawsuits, licensing and lobbying.
SCO's legal successor Xinuos asks legal brains to let it bite IBM over ancient license and copyright claims
Anthony Albanese's office responded Monday morning with a one-line statement.
A Sydney music services agency has issued an apology after being called out for booking an AI artist for an event, a move they claim was a mistake. Sydney-based booking agency Good Intent Music has issued an apology on social media after being called out for booking an AI artist for an event.
The grime icon is returning to Australia and New Zealand this November and December for the We Want Bass tour.
Amazon Prime debuted NBA YoungBoy’s concert film on its streaming service on July 4. The move follows a theatrical release in April that earned $1.84 million in its opening weekend.
The financial institution brought out a number of stars to its suite inside the temporarily-named 'Los Angeles Stadium' during the World Cup
Spotify secures a landmark partnership with Afro Nation Portugal 2026, bringing one of the world’s biggest African music festivals to the streamer. Last week, Spotify notched a major expansion to its Afrobeats footprint with an exclusive streaming partnership with Afro Beats Portugal 2026.
Suno quickly seizes on Udio’s legal victory against Sony Music over admissible infringed works Last week, a federal judge denied Sony Music’s motion to expand its lawsuit against AI company Udio to include another 30,000 allegedly infringed works.
From the size of the guest list to when they tied the knot, here's what has been revealed from Tayvis' big day.
PLUS: India attacks Uber; South Korea warned AI boom is dangerous; Scuba-diving cyborg cockroach; and more!
The Taylor Swift-led set makes a No. 1 bow on the Kid Albums tally.
Andy Reid shared the "touching" tip the comedian/wedding officiant gave newlyweds Swift and Kelce.
The winner advances to face Norway, who upset Brazil in an earlier match on Sunday.
Bruce Springsteen said during his recent PBS special, “Bruce Springsteen: Finding America in Song,” that being a true patriot is all about coming face-to-face with America’s flaws and encouraging the government and your fellow citizens to do better.
K-pop group Ateez has scored its third No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with “Golden Hour : Part.5.” The album starts with 228,000 equivalent album units, with 223,000 accounting for pure album sales thanks to 30 CD variants and five vinyl variants.
First, you drop bombs, then you send aid. Totally logical. | Image: Definitive Jux There was a period in the early aughts when Definitive Jux (nee: Def Jux) seemed like it was going to be the future of hip hop.
Financial institutions are putting their clients at risk in the name of convenience.
Sixty-two years after the Beatles last performed "I Want to Hold Your Hand," McCartney played the song for the first time as a solo artist at Madison Square Garden reception
Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched
https://www.acquired.fm I’d never heard of it. Then again, doing a bit of research I found it was blown up by the “Wall Street Journal,” and I read that pretty comprehensively.
As you’ve probably heard, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got married on Friday and summoned a firestorm of non-stop media coverage. In case you’ve had a hard time keeping pace, let this be your guide to all the most important details of the star-studded ceremony at Madison Square Garden.
“I wouldn’t marry me, either,” Taylor Swift sang — bitterly, it’s fair to say — just a few years ago. Remember when the world’s biggest pop superstar was writing about how she had been deemed Not Marriage Material? You don’t? Most people probably wouldn’t.
Beyoncé is ringing in July 4 with a treat for her fans, dropping the long-unreleased song “Morning Dew (Donk)” ahead of the 20th anniversary of her sophomore album “B’Day.” “Morning Dew (Donk),” which hit streaming services early Saturday morning, begins a 60-day countdown to the reissue of “B’Day”...
AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron took to X on Friday night to share a detailed account of what went down inside Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Madison Square Garden wedding. “It did not look like Madison Square Garden,” Aron wrote in the since-deleted post.
Steven Knight-produced film about Gallagher brothers' unlikely reunion to hit cinemas in September before its Disney+ and Hulu streaming premiere later this year
That is the face of a man who enjoys what he does. | Image: Reato Morris Erick the Architect is a founding member of, and the primary producer for, the legendary Flatbush Zombies and his solo debut was released in 2024.
"The only stressful weddings are the ones where you have a small amount [of guests] and people are on the bubble," the singer said last year
The track, written by the singer, Pharrell Williams, The-Dream, and Darius Dixon, will appear on an upcoming 20th anniversary reissue of Beyoncé's B'Day, out on Beyoncé's birthday (September 4)
The Happy Gilmore actor led the ceremony at the couple's wedding at Madison Square Garden on July 3
"Love really works in mysterious ways, and today's happy ending genuinely moves me"
The Fleetwood Mac singer took the stage at Madison Square Garden following the couple's ceremony on Friday night
The pop star married Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden on July 3
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Spotify releases some listening stats for America’s 250th birthday, revealing that 70% of the Spotify Top 50 in the US is made up of American music. The United States is turning 250, and Spotify has released some fun listening statistics to celebrate the occasion.
We’ve heard plenty about streaming fraudsters gaming the system to pocket royalties. But what about using artificial plays to cash bets? Spotify has reportedly booted north of 500,000 fake streams from Malcolm Todd’s “Earrings” after learning of several curiously timed wagers tied to the song’s...
Tune in July 4th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz
1. Steve Miller “Fly Like an Eagle” He hadn’t put out an album in nearly three years and by this point no one was waiting, it appeared he’d fallen off the radar screen. After 1973’s smash “The Joker,” all we got was crickets. “Fly Like an Eagle” was different from what came before, short songs […]
Adam Sandler officiated Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s star-studded Madison Square Garden wedding. The reveal came via a press release obtained by Variety in the minutes following Swift and Kelce’s official marriage announcement.
Only a very few performers put out their debut album having already established themselves as frontrunners for the Grammy for best new artist. Sienna Spiro is in that category, and let’s just say that “The Visitor,” her first full-length release, does nothing to diminish her chances in the...
The celebrity power couple married on July 3 at Madison Square Garden
Anybody who is anybody is making their way to New York’s Madison Square Garden dressed to the nines in an apparent march to get to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding.
Here’s a recap of recent music industry hires and in-house promotions as of July 3rd, 2026. If you have a job shuffle to share, we’re all ears. Send us a note to news@digitalmusicnews.com. If you’d like to post a job on our Job Board, just send us a request to noah@digitalmusicnews.com.
"It will feed so many families, and what a way to start a marriage," the country singer said on social media ahead of the couple's wedding
Travis Kelce posted a surprise “New Heights” interview with Prince William on Friday, the day he’s set to get married to his popstar fiancé Taylor Swift at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are preparing to tie the knot at Madison Square Garden this Fourth of July weekend with a lavish ceremony and surrounding street closures. But what will it cost taxpayers? Jeff Bezos took over the entire city of Venice for his wedding last year to Lauren Sánchez.
Suno has started exploring the launch of a developer API for its AI music generation platform, revealed in a LinkedIn post this week. AI music platform Suno has revealed plans for the launch of a developer API, announced in a LinkedIn post by the company’s Chief Product Officer, Jack Brody, on...
Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones… and duvets
Online emporium's Starlink rival says it will start service later this year as another 29 birds reach orbit
Cory-Smith's colleagues at Bella Figura confirm tragic news on social media Source
Australia’s social media ban for under-16s has set off a domino effect. The UK has announced a social ban of its own set for Spring 2027, with many other countries also considering measures On the surface, the under-16s bans will simply cause teens to wait until they are old enough to make...
Third-party contractor compromise exposed health information and insurance billing passwords
Fancy a thorium microreactor capable of delivering up to 30 MWe of juice for up to 30 years?
Artist Mark Kratter’s “undisclosed filtering practices” lawsuit against Spotify has gotten very ugly, very fast: Moments after the DSP moved to shift the case to federal court, Kratter has fired back against the “frivolous” request and demanded attorney’s fees for his trouble.
Reggaeton artists’ unoriginality argument falls short in Jamaican producers copyright suit — At issue is “Fish Market”, a 1990 musical work and sound recording that was used without authorization by numerous reggaeton producers.
Which team are you supporting in the World Cup? We don’t mean England, Mexico or Cape Verde. We’re talking Team Jagger, Team Richards or Team Wood! Yes, the Rolling Stones are piggybacking on the men’s football extravaganza with their own ‘Streaming World Cup’ as part of the marketing campaign for...
AI-music startup Udio may have reached licensing deals with UMG, WMG, Merlin and the NMPA – settling lawsuits filed by the first two in the process – but Sony Music has yet to join them.
The US is the biggest recorded-music market in the world, and it’s one where domestic artists are taking a big share of streams according to Spotify. “69% of all streams in the country go to American artists, and American music makes up 70% of the Spotify Top 50 chart in the U.S.
One of the lesser-reported aspects of the rise of AI: it’s bringing corporate hackathons back. Musixmatch is the latest company inviting developers in to build with its API as well as those of partners.
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This April Threads launched Live Chats, which according to Meta “lets you participate in public group chats during the biggest cultural events. It’s a new way to build community with others around shared interests like an album drop or a big game as it unfolds.” Now the feature is getting some...
Dark-pop artist Jared Benjamin recently released his debut album ‘Icarus: Too Close to the Sun’, after successfully building his online audience and bagging a deal with Awal. The artist started releasing music in 2023, with his song “Flatline” sparking some traction online.
If posting to YouTube Shorts as part of your artist’s marketing strategy, you know that traditionally, it doesn’t have the same photo posting feature as Instagram and TikTok do, with Carousels and Photo Mode, respectively – as can be useful towards keeping up posting frequency while not always...
Poland has undoubtedly been an economic success story of the last two decades – this year it has edged past Switzerland to become the world’s 20th largest economy, and is the 16th biggest music market globally.
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Spotify has been forced to remove more than 500k streams of a song that topped its US chart after – in the Financial Times’ words – “discovering that the surge in streaming coincided with a jump in suspicious wagers on prediction market Kalshi”.
Kalshi said in April that trading on the its music 'contracts' had already topped USD $400 million in 2026 Source
KPMG finds nearly a third of execs struggle to understand costs as companies rethink deployments
It’s been a good week for Indian singer-songwriter Anuv Jain and his fans on Spotify. On Sunday, 28 June, he staged ‘Coming Home to Anuv Jain’, a special event organised […] The post is from Music Ally.
Report says proposed rewrite gives operators more freedom to shop around for a greener grade
LTAP architecture does some clever engineering beneath a debatable marketing pitch
Indie music retailer Rough Trade and Sweet Relief Musicians Fund have launched a new donation program to support musicians and professionals.
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With a fourth trial now in the books, T.I. and Tameka “Tiny” Harris have been awarded a whopping $0 in punitive damages in their long-running legal battle with Bratz and Little Tikes maker MGA Entertainment.
Sydney beach brand Swim Shady has secured a trademark victory against rapper Eminem, who argued the company’s name was too similar to his alter ego. Will the real Swim Shady please stand up?
This is a painful read, at least until NeXT pivots to WebObjects and revenue starts coming in. Yes, this book chronicles Steve Jobs’s time in the wilderness, in between his two stints at Apple. And it hasn’t been documented to this degree before, not really ever.
Weird Al reveals that he was offered a lucrative ad spot for productivity software, but he backed out once he realized the product involved AI. “I’m not a fan of AI.” Parody king Weird Al Yankovic sat down for an interview with Syracuse.com ahead of his Syracuse stop on his Bigger & Weirder Tour,...
Exceleration Music and NexTone have acquired the recording and publishing catalog of Ryuichi Sakamoto, one of Japan’s most celebrated cultural legacies. U.S.-based independent music company Exceleration Music has acquired the recording and publishing catalog of composer Ryuichi Sakamoto in a...
"Ahead of our partner powered model, we're exploring a developer API and want to hear from you before we start building," Jack Brody wrote. Source
Light joined WMG in March according to his LinkedIn profile Source
Earlier this week, Digital Music News broke the news of a voluntary settlement proposal tied to upcoming US-based mechanical licensing rates as part of the broader Phonorecords V CRB proceedings.
YouTube Shorts announces some new features, including adding 15-second music clips to image posts and enabling users to double their playback speed. YouTube has announced some new functionality to expand YouTube Shorts and further vie with TikTok and Instagram Reels.
On June 30, family, friends, collaborators, and leaders from across the industry gathered in Memphis to celebrate the life of producer Tay Keith. On Tuesday, June 30, family, friends, collaborators, and leaders from across the music industry—including Gunna, Sexyy Red, Murda Beatz, Turbo, Ryan...
The ruling from Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein keeps the case at the 333 works that Sony had originally put in suit. Source
The 121-page document sets out a number of disclosures, from anti-counterfeiting measures to the company's use of generative AI and expansion into physical retail. Source
Brooklyn alternative R&B artist Laila! will be the partnership’s flagship artist. Source
Swift's lawyers argue that the amended complaint "fares no better" than the original Source
Spotify has officially moved to shift to federal court the “undisclosed filtering practices” lawsuit filed against it by artist and attorney Mark Kratter.
It might seem strange to think about paper on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It’s easy to take it for granted, especially in the digital age, but the fact is, without paper there would be no Declaration.
Spotify is proud to be a home for American culture. As the nation marks its 250th anniversary, we wanted to take a look at how American artists, creators, and authors shape listening at home and around the world.
The jury found that MGA had not acted with malice, ending the couple's push for punitive damages. Source
A federal judge has denied Sony Music’s request to dramatically expand the list of allegedly infringed works in its lawsuit against Udio. As we previously reported, Sony Music, the sole major still litigating against Udio, moved to supersize its infringement action in late May.
Over the last few weeks, much has been written about music streaming platforms’ approaches to AI transparency, moderation, and adoption, which are often vastly different . Just as DSPs differ in their approaches to AI, it turns out that their userbases differ widely on their attitudes towards th...
The company's first signings are 10cc, singer-songwriter Rumer and electronic duo Lemon Jelly. Source
Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation is granting $100,000 to earthquake relief efforts in Venezuela following back-to-back devastating earthquakes. Back-to-back devastating earthquakes hit Venezuela on June 24, registering at magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5 and hitting less than a minute apart.
On this week’s podcast episode, session vocalist Darlene Koldenhoven tells us how her music hit #4 on the Billboard classical crossover chart with no manager or label.
From dynamic ticket pricing to “blue dot fever,” the live music industry is rapidly evolving. JamBase CTO David Onigman explains how the platform tracks over 100,000 global events and the trends reshaping concerts, festivals, and touring.
Our Spotify Sessions video series turns up the volume on some of Latin America’s most exciting artists, giving them and their hand-picked creative teams a space to reimagine their music.
Calling all wizards, witches, and Muggles, we are pleased to inform you that you have been invited to conjure up the magic of the Harry Potter™ audiobook series as part of your Spotify Premium subscription.
The first PR V settlement preserves inflation protection but leaves unresolved whether statutory mechanical royalties should evolve with market value—or simply keep pace with CPI. Looks like another serving of more of the same.
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The response to MIDiA's audio creator survey has been brilliant, so thank you to everyone who has already taken part. But, if you haven't yet, there's still time to have your say.
Last week at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Spotify Beach brought fans, creators, and brands together for three days of conversation focused on culture and fandom.
Our apologies if you are experiencing outages or slowness on ListenBrainz currently. First it was AI scrapers, now it’s K-pop fans… In short, we are experiencing massive server load from an unexpected and massive increase in listen submissions.
Today, we’re making available the fifth beta version for the upcoming MusicBrainz Picard 3. This new versions brings some important changes: Download links and a detailed list of changes since Picard 3 beta 4 are available below.
Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to "protect artists" and "inform listeners." Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal will label tracks it has identified as being 100 percent AI-generated with an icon.
In France, there’s one day a year where instead of going to the show, the show comes to you, wherever you are. It’s the Fête de la Musique (World Music Day), a 40-year-old tradition where music takes over every city, town, and village across the country. This year, Spotify put a new spin on the...
In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI-generated music that attempts to impersonate an artist or a group, the company said.