The song also soundtracked a truck commercial and won big at the CMA Awards.

Billboard 7m ago

"The only thing that will be going viral for them is their mugshots," Ice Spice's attorney Bradford Cohen tells Billboard.

Billboard 9m ago

Taylor Swift is famous for her “Secret Sessions,” where, for most of her albums of the pre-COVID era, she invited a few dozen select fans to sit in a living room and be the first to experience a new album and hear her stories about how she wrote and recorded each song. Paul McCartney might […]

Variety 28m ago

The biggest music biopic ever? A heavily edited version of Michael is about to hit theaters, but can it top Bohemian Rhapsody at the box office? We’re about to find out.

Digital Music News 35m ago

Grinex says needed hacking resources "available exclusively to ... unfriendly states."

Ars Technica 40m ago

The pop star, who did not reveal the reason he was hospitalized, shared the health update via Instagram with a photo of himself in a hospital bed

Rolling Stone 50m ago

"The shows will of course go on," manager Rod Smallwood says, noting band will stick to its Australia tour instead

Rolling Stone 58m ago

Rapper D4vd has been arrested for the alleged murder of Celeste Rivas by the LAPD. Keep watching for the full details of the case. Tetris Kelly: D4vd has been arrested for alleged murder of Celeste Rivas, months after body found in singer’s car.

Billboard 1h ago

The capsule dropped by Mitchell & Ness honors Miller's love of the team with inventive football apparel.

Billboard 1h ago

We'll be updating our list as musicians announce their new music, so keep checking back for the latest!

Billboard 1h ago

Here's how you can livestream basketball game online for free.

Billboard 1h ago

Which new Latin music release is your favorite? Vote below!

Billboard 1h ago

"I was in complete shock and honestly didn’t know what to feel," the singer told ARMY in the crowd.

Billboard 1h ago

Alaina Scott gave birth to her first child.

Billboard 1h ago

Also up north this week: An interview with Mile End Kicks director Chandler Levack.

Billboard 2h ago

Probation for man who used stolen logins and posted private info on social media.

Ars Technica 2h ago

She's well qualified but will need to navigate RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda.

Ars Technica 2h ago

The pop star made the revelation during an appearance on Apple Music 1’s New Music Daily with Zane Lowe

Rolling Stone 2h ago

The Texas parents learned of the arrest while still fighting grand-jury subpoenas seeking to haul them in front of a panel in Los Angeles

Rolling Stone 3h ago

NPR has received a pair of charitable donations totaling $113 million, enabling it to continue operations after federal funding cuts. Public broadcasting organization NPR has announced a pair of charitable donations that totaled $113 million, which will enable it to continue operations after...

Digital Music News 3h ago

One of the three men charged in the killing of Run-D.M.C.’s Jam Master Jay in 2002 plans to plead guilty, court records reveal. Jay Bryant, who was indicted in 2023 in connection to the 2002 killing of Run-D.M.C.’s Jam Master Jay, pleaded not guilty to murder, but his lawyer told the court that...

Digital Music News 3h ago

The Polish stadium where Kanye West was set to perform in June has cancelled his appearance, after he postponed a show in France amid public outcry. Kanye’s concert at a stadium in Chorzów, Poland, has been cancelled by stadium managers, just days after the controversial rapper postponed a show in...

Digital Music News 3h ago

Is $20,000–$25,000 a sweet spot for secondhand electric cars? We think so.

Ars Technica 3h ago

Data centers face construction delays and energy bottleneck as resistance grows.

Ars Technica 4h ago

Prosecutors are also asking the Court of Appeals to overturn the acquittal of another man accused of killing the pioneering DJ

Rolling Stone 4h ago

Months of secretive hearings and speculation culminated with the arrest of the singer in connection with the death of Celeste Rivas

Rolling Stone 4h ago

The two newest Fire Sticks block apps from outside of Amazon's store.

Ars Technica 4h ago

Universal Music Group’s betting big on jazz with a slate of reissues as well as the official debut of an Everything Jazz digital platform and online store.

Digital Music News 4h ago

"The world that was, doesn't exist. It's just us, trying to hold onto what was."

Ars Technica 4h ago

Pedro Pascal wasn’t about to sit around and wait for invitation to be a part of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime show. Instead, the “Last of Us” star reached out to the Grammy-winning superstar’s team.

Variety 4h ago

Chartmetric makes it easier for indie artists to compete, with features for playlist pitching, social strategy, and brand affinity insights. All in one place.

How Music Charts 4h ago

"In a country scarred by the history of the Holocaust, we cannot pretend that this is just entertainment," Poland culture minister said of rapper's June 19 show in Chorzow

Rolling Stone 5h ago

"I've been thinking about reentry for three straight years."

Ars Technica 5h ago

New iPhone app Gigs uses AI to turn old tickets, screenshots, and emails into a personal concert archive with stats, memories, and more.

TechCrunch 5h ago

If there were ever truth in advertising, it can be found in the poster for Raye’s sensory-overload “This Tour May Contain New Music”: “This tour may also contain: dramatic endings, a brass section, live & passion, at least on jazz cover, potential waffling (excessive unnecessary chatting), a big...

Variety 5h ago

The project features three new alt-pop tracks, two of which the singer debuted at Coachella last week

Rolling Stone 5h ago

In the complex world of music reporting and rights management, cue sheets remain the backbone of tracking song usage. They help ensure that composers, publishers, performers, and rights holders each get paid according to their split.

Digital Music News 5h ago

Prices for "critical components" are surging because of massive data center investments.

Ars Technica 5h ago

The biggest headlines from the past few days... Source

Music Business Worldwide 6h ago

Hear unearthed “Move On” from Zappa ’66: Vol. 1 – Live at TTG Studios, the first Vaulternative release since 2016

Rolling Stone 6h ago

“Elijah’s situation has become dire on multiple fronts,” the singer claims in new court filings

Rolling Stone 6h ago

Blue Origin will soon launch the third flight of its New Glenn rocket, this time with a reused booster.

Ars Technica 9h ago

Pirate site Anna’s Archive hit with $322M default judgment over music scraping — but will Spotify and record labels ever see the money? — “The judge’s ruling also requires internet service providers including Cloudflare to disable access to Anna’s Archive’s domain names and prevent websites that...

Copyhype 9h ago

Ahead of the second weekend of the Coachella festival, with the Stagecoach festival to follow later in the month, California’s governor Gavin Newsom has published a Big Number on the two events’ economic value to the state.

Music Ally 9h ago

Venerable US jam-band The Grateful Dead have one of the largest archives of live recordings, thanks to their longstanding policy of supporting fans who wanted to tape their shows. Now their vault of recordings is opening up in hi-res form, in partnership with Rhino Entertainment and Nugs.

Music Ally 9h ago

The UK parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) committee has published its ‘Fan-Led Review of Live and Electronic Music’ report after nearly a year of consultation with fans and the industry.

Music Ally 9h ago

Global advertising body the IAB and PwC have released their ‘2025 Internet Advertising Revenue Report’, which tracks a 13.9% increase in those revenue last year to $294.6bn – a record total. Within that, social advertising revenues grew by 32.6% to $117.7bn, and are now 40% of alll digital...

Music Ally 9h ago

Country sensation Ella Langley is celebrating the release of her sophomore album ‘Dandelion’ with an in-app TikTok experience. While commonplace for major artists, this highlights her rapid rise seeing as the artist released her debut album in 2024.

Music Ally 10h ago

Coachella weekend one just wrapped. Here are the highlights for artist teams: Justin Bieber leaned into millennial nostalgia, triggering his biggest streaming day since 2025 and a 24.6 million stream surge.

Music Ally 10h ago

This week lyric licensing and data company LyricFind announced Artist Unlimited, a new subscription plan which allows artists to create professional-tier videos using software courtesy of Rotor Videos.

Music Ally 10h ago

“I started my management company upstairs on the fifth floor,” Yungblud’s manager Tommas Arnby told Music Ally from the artist’s new brick and mortar shop, Beautifully Romanticised Accidentally Traumatized (B.r.a.t.) on Denmark Street in London. “There were two desks and a bunch of mice.” Arnby is...

Music Ally 10h ago

Last September, Spotify announced a series of measures relating to AI music, spam and deepfakes. They included supporting – and, indeed, revealing for the first time – a new industry standard for music credits to make it clear how and when AI is used in music tracks.

Music Ally 10h ago

Shankar, who currently leads TuneCore in the region, will expand her remit across Believe’s Artist Services business. Source

Music Business Worldwide 11h ago

Here's which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto.

Ars Technica 11h ago

Track: Justė, Jaxstyle, Jon – “Turn The Lights Off”Released: 7 Nov 2025Label: Spinnin’ Records (Warner Music Group) Metrics: Over 37m million streams on Spotify 1bn global radio plays #1 across Europe’s Shazam charts #1 in Poland for six weeks, three weeks in Sweden Featured on BBC Radio 1 Rising...

Music Ally 11h ago

New digital hub combines e-commerce and editorial content focused on jazz repertoire and culture. Source

Music Business Worldwide 11h ago

Brazilian footballing legend Ronaldinho was renowned for his silky skills on the pitch, not to mention legendary partying abilities. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 14h ago

It’s time to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster once and for all – at least according to multiple state attorneys general, who are demanding, among other things, an end to “Live Nation’s hold on the live entertainment industry.” We highlighted the earliest of these demands yesterday, when...

Digital Music News 16h ago

Singer D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of murdering the 14-year-old girl whose body was found last year in the trunk of his abandoned car. Los Angeles police have confirmed the arrest of 21-year-old singer D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke, on suspicion of killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas...

Digital Music News 16h ago

The Tennessee House Finance, Ways and Means Committee voted 11-15 to block the state’s Live Music Support Act, despite strong bipartisan support. Tennessee’s House Finance, Ways and Means Committee has blocked legislation in an 11-15 vote that would have provided funding to independent music venues...

Digital Music News 16h ago

Lana Del Rey sings the title track to the new James Bond game, years after she recorded a song for the franchise that was ultimately passed over. Fans of the James Bond franchise have long suspected that Lana Del Rey had a hand in the latest video game, “007: First Light,” since she registered a […]

Digital Music News 17h ago

Olivia Rodrigo has given a taste of her upcoming third album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” with the release of its first single “Drop Dead,” along with its music video.

Variety 17h ago

Europe's first Mars rover mission is now on its fourth rocket: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy

Ars Technica 18h ago

As Universal Music’s board considers Pershing Square’s unsolicited $64 billion takeover proposal, two Pershing entities are moving forward with plans to launch an up to $10 billion combined IPO.

Digital Music News 20h ago

Singer D4vd has been arrested for the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who was found dead in Hollywood in the trunk of his Tesla in September. According to the LAPD, D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, was arrested by the Robbery-Homicide Division for the murder of Hernandez and is...

Variety 21h ago

"The old protect the young, and then the young protect the old."

Ars Technica 22h ago

In the wake of the verdict against Live Nation Wednesday, in which a New York jury found that the company runs an unlawful monopoly in the concert industry, two questions have towered above all others: “Will ticket prices go down?” and “Will this open up the marketplace for artists and venues?” The...

Variety 23h ago

Meghan Trainor has canceled what was slated to be her “Get In Girl” tour, citing the difficulties of balancing work and family in the wake of welcoming a new baby. The pop singer shared a message on social media about the tour cancellation, apologizing to fans who were looking forward to the shows.

Variety 1d ago

For the first time in a while, the benefits of new Intel tech will trickle down.

Ars Technica 1d ago

GPT-Rosalind is an LLM trained on biology workflows, available in closed access.

Ars Technica 1d ago

"If you had given us the keys to the lander, we would have taken it down."

Ars Technica 1d ago

New tool builds on deepset’s Haystack toward a “decentralized open source AI ecosystem.”

Ars Technica 1d ago

Each year, Coachella and Stagecoach generate a staggering $700 million for California’s local economy, according to Governor Gavin Newsom. As California continues to lead the nation as a global hub for culture and live events, Governor Gavin Newsom has highlighted the significant economic impact of...

Digital Music News 1d ago

YouTube expands its time management settings to include a zero-minute time limit on Shorts, effectively letting you disable them in your app. YouTube has read the room, and now allows you to put a zero-minute time limit on Shorts from the app’s time management settings.

Digital Music News 1d ago

I’m talking about the band, not clothes. My secret cultural resource is “The Week,” that’s where I pick up left field tips about books, TV shows, podcasts and music.

Lefsetz Letter 1d ago

FTC aims to stamp out brand-safety standards that hurt Breitbart and Musk's X.

Ars Technica 1d ago

An unannounced Teenage Engineering device, the KO-Amp 35, can be found over at the FCC in a new filing. The label clearly marks it as a member of the midrange EP family instruments, which currently includes the KO-II and its spinoffs, the Riddim and the Medieval.

The Verge 1d ago

Spotify teams up with Bookshop.org to enable readers to purchase physical books through the Spotify app, pairing well with Spotify’s Page Match. In the latest move to broaden its horizons and expand into book territory, Spotify has announced a collaboration with Bookshop.org that allows readers to...

Digital Music News 1d ago

An in-app browser allows visual feedback while building websites and more.

Ars Technica 1d ago

News arrives as live music becomes an increasingly important revenue stream for K-pop's biggest companies Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Upcoming sequel wants to capture a "uniquely Ukrainian perspective" on the post-apocalypse.

Ars Technica 1d ago

Hot off her Coachella set, Laufey has been unveiled as the Fortnite Festival Season 14 headliner as the artist’s star keeps ascending. It’s been a busy year for Laufey. The Grammy-winning artist just played Coachella, and that’s on top of a major Lexus tie-up concert on Amazon Music/Twitch.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Drummer for the Tubes, Todd Rundgren and more! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prairie-prince/id1316200737?i=1000761790993 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/060400d0-3e40-4639-8431-024d360dfc55/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-prairie-prince

Lefsetz Letter 1d ago

In episode 2 of Netflix’s “Beef,” Oscar Isaac‘s character, Josh Martin, starts jamming on his Moog synthesizer. He’s not good at it. “It’s really amateurish,” Oscar and Grammy Award-winning songwriter Finneas says. In season 2, Josh is the general manager at an ultra-posh country club.

Variety 1d ago

South Asian actors are far likelier to make it to Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World than south Asian musicians, so it helps […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

Is “K-pop Coachella” on the way? Possibly, as rival agencies Hybe, SM, JYP, and YG have moved to collaborate on a global music festival showcasing their signed acts.

Digital Music News 1d ago

During her keynote address at the All About Music conference in Mumbai in August 2025, IFPI CEO Victoria Oakley said that India had “192m users on free streaming in India, […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

It might seem odd that anyone could record an album as first-rate as “Then Again” and then not only shelve it, but forget about it. But not everyone is Rodney Crowell, who has been busy enough following his muse that it hadn’t really reoccurred to him that he had an excellent “lost” album sitting...

Variety 1d ago

Live Nation antitrust verdict explained Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Over the last few years, Coachella has made substantial changes to its programming. New stages, surprise headliners, and most notably, fewer and fewer artists. Here are the numbers behind Coachella lineups post-pandemic.

How Music Charts 1d ago

It may not be the James Bond theme that fans have long pined for, but Lana Del Rey and 007 have finally teamed up: In collaboration with five-time Bond film composer David Arnold, the singer has dropped the official title song for the upcoming video game “007 First Light,” from IO Interactive and...

Variety 1d ago

TuneCore is celebrating its 20th anniversary. MBW meets up with two of its senior execs to reflect on the journey so far, the careers launched and the lessons learned – as well as a look at the current landscape and where the company might go next… Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

For most of recorded music history, quality was scarce. Recording, producing, and distributing a song that sounded “good” required significant investments of time, money, and skill, along with access to gatekeepers, who carefully filtered what entered the system. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 1d ago

At Spotify, we want your experience to feel intuitive and personal across every moment of the day. Whether you’re streaming your favorite playlist while you work or browsing new recommendations on the go, Spotify should feel familiar and easy to use.

Spotify 1d ago

The act's streaming and physical sales in Japan made them the world's 13th biggest-selling act in 2025 — without an international campaign. UMG says their global push is still to come. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Fortnite’s in-game music game Festival is into its 14th season now, having originally launched in December 2023. As ever, the season has an artist as its headliner: Laufey is the star this time round. Yes, Fortnite meets jazz-pop! With an avatar in a giant rabbit head on drums, obvs.

Music Ally 1d ago

Coldplay’s last studio album came out in October 2024. Dua Lipa’s came out in May that year. Arctic Monkeys’ last long-player was released in October 2022. And Calvin Harris’s came out in August 2024. Why are we reeling off the most-recent album release-dates for British artists?

Music Ally 1d ago

Firm says original sample creators will be compensated when their sounds are used to generate new material Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Spotify and the three major labels have won a $322 million default judgement against Anna's Archive, the open-source library and pirate activist group that planned to publicly release millions of music files scraped from Spotify's platform.

The Verge 1d ago

Musician G. Love says he lost his retirement nest egg, a smattering of Bitcoin, due to a scam app on the App Store. “I had a really tough day today I lost my retirement fund to a hack/scam when I switched my ledger [hardware wallet] over to a new computer and by accident downloaded a […]

Digital Music News 1d ago

Grammy-winning songwriter formalizes expanded partnership with WCM as company deepens ties to Latin repertoire and writer development. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Can a commercial recording studio still thrive in the age of AI, home recording, and constant industry change? In this episode of Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle, Bobby Owsinski sits down with Tom Weir, Grammy-winning engineer and owner of Studio City Sound.

Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog 1d ago

Spotify and the major labels secure a victory against Anna’s Archive to the tune of $322 million—but who’s going to pay all that, exactly? Operators of the shadow library meta-search platform Anna’s Archive failed to appear in court after Spotify and major labels like Universal, Sony, and Warner...

Digital Music News 1d ago

Senators Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and more call on the court to investigate the surprise deal between the DOJ and Live Nation. A group of senators, including Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, and Cory Booker, is urging Judge Arun Subramanian of the Southern District of New York...

Digital Music News 1d ago

Olivia Rodrigo teams up with TikTok for a sing-along promo for her latest single, featuring an in-app hub for a global karaoke experience. TikTok and Interscope Records have teamed up for a “global karaoke experience” across 24 cities, featuring Olivia Rodrigo’s newest single, “drop dead.” The...

Digital Music News 1d ago

Download here: https://luminatedata.com/reports/yearend-music-industry-report-2025/ What surprised me most in this report at first was the biggest hit per decade. When it comes to the sixties, it’s Creedence Clearwater’s “Fortunate Son.” I’m not saying that Creedence was not huge in the sixties,...

Lefsetz Letter 1d ago

So let me see… They put Richard Grenell on the board, they hire behind-the-scenes fixer Mike Davis, who put the knife in the back of Gail Slater, the chief antitrust officer, they even employ Ms. Alternative Facts herself, Kellyanne Conway, and THEY STILL LOSE?

Lefsetz Letter 2d ago

Landmark verdict could reshape the live entertainment industry. Source

Music Business Worldwide 2d ago

From gripping thrillers to poignant memoirs, the 21st century has had no shortage of unforgettable books. To celebrate the standout storytelling of our modern era, we’re launching Best of the Century So Far—a curated audiobook collection of titles released each year between 2001 and 2025,...

Spotify 2d ago

For many artists, independent venues are where music careers begin and fan communities take shape. Independent venue operators work hard every day to keep local scenes thriving as they navigate a rapidly evolving live music landscape.

Spotify 2d ago

Books have always moved with us, whether tucked in our bags or humming in our headphones. With audiobooks, Spotify is building new ways to bring our favorite stories along for the ride. Just over two years after launching, Audiobooks in Premium is now live in 22 markets.

Spotify 2d ago

Scroll around the internet and you’ll find a lot of grumbling about subscription prices. Nowadays, everything is a subscription – audio streaming, video streaming, gaming, software, plugins, workstations, AI models, and no doubt several other categories I can’t think of right now.

Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog 2d ago

The creator economy used to be an adjacent entertainment ecosystem to traditional entertainment. Those days are numbered – if not over already. Creators are now a foundational component in how traditional entertainment produces and distributes content at scale. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 2d ago

From immersive storytelling to laugh-out-loud comedies, podcasts are booming in popularity across Mexico and Latin America. That’s why we’re excited to announce that next month, Mexico’s biggest podcast celebration, the Spotify Podcast Awards, are back.

Spotify 3d ago

A lot of attention is being paid to the “rules of engagement” for podcasting: format preferences, video versus audio, and platform battles like YouTube versus Spotify. The industry is deeply focused on how and where audiences are consuming podcasts, and rightly so. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 3d ago

After failing in Congress, the White House is pressuring states to weaken AI safeguards, tying funding threats to policy outcomes and quietly reshaping laws that govern emerging technology today nationwide.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 3d ago

This is a copy of the job description at:https://join.com/companies/metabrainzorg/15986127-executive-directorPlease use the above link to apply. The MetaBrainz Foundation is seeking a new Executive Director (ED) to lead it during a time of great change for how music, data, and code are made, shared...

MetaBrainz Blog 3d ago

This past Saturday at the Coachella music festival, Justin Bieber played the first of two headlining sets in a deal reportedly worth $10 million. It was his most significant solo performance in years. But Bieber spent some of his time on stage the way many of us do on Saturday nights: on YouTube.

The Verge 4d ago

Coachella kicked off on Friday, and as usual, it's the place to be for online influencers looking to show off their memorable experiences at the festival.

The Verge 4d ago

I mean, I guess it kinda looks like the moon? | Image: Kate NV / RVNG Intl. For obvious reasons, I've had Moon on the mind all week. So I was trying to figure out what I should recommend this week that would thematically fit.

The Verge 5d ago

A month ago I wrote about building the Parachord Android app in a few days. 146 commits, a full native app, Spotify and Apple Music playback, scrobbling, AI chat, the works. I was genuinely surprised it came together that fast.

Parachord Blog 5d ago