Tributes poured in from Questlove, Beck and other artists.

Billboard 42m ago

Jack Black hosts and Jack White performs as musical guest on Saturday, April 4.

Billboard 1h ago

Murphy Campbell is at the center of a brewing storm around AI and a broken copyright system. | Image: Murphy Campbell In January, folk artist Murphy Campbell discovered several songs on her Spotify profile that did not belong there.

The Verge 1h ago

Other guest appearances at the April 3 SoFi Stadium concert included North West and CeeLo Green.

Billboard 2h ago

The guest artist sat in the confessional on April 3 during Rosalía's third night at Madrid's Movistar Arena.

Billboard 4h ago

Plus, Ela Taubert and Guaynaa inspire budding stars through industry panels.

Billboard 5h ago

Trio of Romy, Oliver Sim and Jamie xx perform first full gig together since 2018 ahead of summer festival run

Rolling Stone 6h ago

SNL UK has Riz Ahmed as host and Kasabian as musical guest.

Billboard 6h ago

Two amicus briefs filed on Friday (April 3) in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit have backed UMG Recordings in its defense against Drake’s defamation appeal over Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us.

Music Business Worldwide 7h ago

Arriving April 3, the full-length project introduces a more expansive body of work from the singer-songwriter.

Billboard 11h ago

North West, CeeLo Green, André Troutman, Zion Marley, and YG Marley also performed during Ye's sold-out concert at SoFi stadium

Rolling Stone 11h ago

The news was revealed during bows at the Hollywood Bowl, where the two stars surprised audiences by confirming the project from the stage.

Billboard 12h ago

Here’s a recap of recent music industry hires and in-house promotions as of April 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.

Digital Music News 16h ago

Fans online are urging the group to make "Come Over" widely available. The track is currently only available on the album's deluxe vinyl

Rolling Stone 17h ago

The records that were hits at the same time as the British Invasion. Tune in Saturday April 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

Lefsetz Letter 19h ago

Billboard is summing up the key testimony and takeaways from the fourth week of the blockbuster antitrust trial.

Billboard 19h ago

1 To tell you the truth, I finished this book almost a week ago, and I forgot most of what I wanted to say about it. Primarily the business insights. Not that I don’t remember the facts. Not that I haven’t internalized the messages. In any event, this book is not for casual fans, casual […]

Lefsetz Letter 19h ago

Leonard Cohen’s manager has been exonerated of claims of financial wrongdoing following a 10-day trial in probate court. Cohen, the Canadian songwriter and poet, died in 2016 at the age of 82.

Variety 19h ago

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

Music Business Worldwide 20h ago

After eight years at the streaming giant, the executive announced he was "stepping into my next chapter."

Billboard 20h ago

Zach Bryan has canceled tonight’s show in Tulsa, OK, due to “extreme and dangerous weather,” stating that he’s being “forced” to call off the performance and that he doesn’t “have a choice in the matter.” The show was slated to take place at the H.A.

Variety 20h ago

Congress will likely reject the White House's NASA cuts, just as it did last year.

Ars Technica 20h ago

The singer-songwriter is currently on tour in support of his chart-topping album, With Heaven on Top

Rolling Stone 20h ago

Ice Age hunter-gatherer "were intentionally relying on random outcomes in repeatable, rule-based ways."

Ars Technica 20h ago

17 months later, Universal Music Group (UMG) and Believe have officially resolved their $500 million copyright infringement dispute. Both parties confirmed their lawsuit-ending agreement today, after the presiding judge stayed the case back in late December.

Digital Music News 20h ago

The cabin was colder on Thursday, but the crew has been able to adjust the temperature.

Ars Technica 21h ago

Some banks "agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot," NYT reports.

Ars Technica 22h ago

Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

Ars Technica 22h ago

Nearly 50% of data center projects delayed as China holds key to power infrastructure.

Ars Technica 22h ago

The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.

Ars Technica 23h ago

"When a woman has boundaries, I think people freak out," artist says

Rolling Stone 23h ago

"This decision has been made to ensure that Steve can return to the stage in full health and deliver the performances that fans deserve," reads a statement from the band

Rolling Stone 1d ago

Major music publishers’ long-running copyright infringement lawsuit against X is now on hard pause following the Supreme Court’s Cox v. Sony Music decision.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Songs from Norman Feels’ original catalog are now available across DSPs, after being available only through samples in others’ songs for decades. Three songs blending R&B, funk, and soul from Norman Feels’ original catalog are now available across all major digital streaming platforms for the first...

Digital Music News 1d ago

Consumer group says it will sue if Netflix doesn't reduce current prices.

Ars Technica 1d ago

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

Rolling Stone 1d ago

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

Rolling Stone 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

Ars Technica 1d 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 1d ago

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

Ars Technica 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

Ars Technica 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

Ars Technica 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

Ars Technica 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

Ars Technica 1d ago

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

Ars Technica 1d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d ago

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

Ars Technica 2d 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 2d ago

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

Music Business Worldwide 2d ago

GDDRHammer, GeForge and GPUBreach hammer GPU memory in ways that hijack the CPU.

Ars Technica 2d ago

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

Ars Technica 2d 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 2d 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 2d ago

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

Ars Technica 2d ago

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

Ars Technica 2d 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 2d ago

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

Music Business Worldwide 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d ago

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

Music Business Worldwide 2d 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 2d ago

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

Music Business Worldwide 2d 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 2d 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 2d ago

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

Music Ally 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 4d 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 4d 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 5d 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 5d ago