Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult

The Register 17m ago

Starting on July 24, the Colombian singer/songwriter hits the road with tour dates across the United States.

Billboard 20m ago

The great French actor endures a brutal day on set in the latest visual for Charli’s Music, Fashion, Film

Rolling Stone 29m ago

This week's Five Burning Questions looks at the initial returns for the rap superstar's feature-less latest LP.

Billboard 38m ago

In total, UMG has repurchased 26,073,074 of its own shares since the program began in April, at a cost of EUR €487.7 million Source

Music Business Worldwide 42m ago

Don't worry - it can autonomously attack ground targets, too

The Register 47m ago

The trio tops the Alternative Airplay chart.

Billboard 51m ago

The visual for the song, from the British pop star's upcoming album, was helmed by

Billboard 57m ago

The Los Angeles-based, Canadian dancer elaborates on her full World Cup experience alongside Shakira.

Billboard 1h ago

After defeating Mary Bono’s effort to stop paying her royalties, Cher is now stuck with a hefty legal bill it took to win the case.

Billboard 1h ago

Plus, Future reaches a milestone 50 top 10s on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

Billboard 1h ago

Prosecutors began to lay out the evidence against the 21-year-old singer, who's accused of murdering and dismembering the 14-year-old girl

Rolling Stone 1h ago

Cardi's love life continues to be a tabloid favorite.

Billboard 1h ago

AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud

The Register 1h ago

The Odyssey is the fifth consecutive film that Göransson has scored that has become a certified blockbuster.

Billboard 1h ago

Composer A.R. Rahman launches ARR Immersive, an app for Apple Vision Pro (and later Meta Quest), featuring decades of his work in an immersive format. Two-time Oscar-winning Indian composer A.R. Rahman, best known in the U.S.

Digital Music News 1h ago

The 1996 Hot 100 top 10 became an unofficial anthem for the England men’s team during the tournament.

Billboard 2h ago

What happens when a familiar, everyday space becomes a stage for music, conversation, and community? That’s the idea behind Greasy Tunes, Spotify’s multi-week residency in Nairobi that brings Kenya’s listening culture off the playlist and into the real world.

Spotify 2h ago

Hybrid genres are no longer fringe experiments; they are quietly becoming the backbone of global music listening. Chartmetric’s collaboration with Splice highlights how this shift is happening with hard data rather than hype. This article was created in collaboration with DMN partner Chartmetric.

Digital Music News 2h ago

Spotify now counts nearly 100,000 artists in a beta that lets them upload full-length videos themselves. Source

Music Business Worldwide 2h ago

SOCAN will recognize Musical AI as an approved tech partner for attribution services, and the two will explore how the technology can be applied in Canada. Source

Music Business Worldwide 2h ago

The fully-rehabbed 1972 Jensen Interceptor III — which the Led Zeppelin drummer may have crashed in 1977 — will hit the block on July 25

Rolling Stone 3h ago

Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI

The Register 3h ago

The star was scheduled to perform four nights in the city, and Live Nation Brazil said Friday’s show in São Paulo will proceed as normal

Rolling Stone 3h ago

Former Spotify Global Head of Music Nick Holmstén and Avicii's former manager Ash Pournouri launched new company Source

Music Business Worldwide 3h ago

Alleged developer arrested in Indonesia after more than 200 servers slain

The Register 3h ago

An astonishing 90,000 “fully AI-generated tracks” – representing north of 50% of new uploads – are pouring onto Deezer each day. Now, the platform has confirmed plans to permanently remove certain machine-generated audio.

Digital Music News 3h ago

How do new music genres come to life? By combining Chartmetric's listener data with Splice's creator insights, this report traces the complete lifecycle of genre evolution – from the first production session to mainstream success.

How Music Charts 4h ago

Harry Styles’ concert scheduled for Tuesday night in Brazil has been canceled due to an unspecified “tour illness,” although Friday’s concert will take place as scheduled, according to the announcement.

Variety 4h ago

Alt-rock crew will bring their excellent live show to New York’s Terminal 5 on Sept. 24

Rolling Stone 5h ago

If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?

The Register 5h ago

Warner Music Group acquired Sureel in June Source

Music Business Worldwide 5h ago

The Academy of Country Music has named Andy Schuon, a media veteran whose path took him from program director at L.A.’s KROQ in its glory days to top leadership roles at MTV, Warner Records, Pressplay and many other companies, as its new CEO. His first day will be Sept. 1.

Variety 5h ago

Users asked for flexibility, but a leaner OS for older PCs might matter more as hardware prices soar

The Register 5h ago

Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend, out in September, also contains essays by Phil Lesh and Wayne Coyne

Rolling Stone 5h ago

Have I Been Pwned confirms scale for first time

The Register 6h ago

Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon

The Register 7h ago

The judge in Sony Music’s legal battle with Udio recently barred the major from adding more than 30k sound recordings to its lawsuit. Now it’s taking a different path: filing a second copyright infringement lawsuit with those extra tracks.

Music Ally 7h ago

Music-analytics firm Chartmetric and Splice have collaborated on a report focusing on ‘hybrid genres’ – combinations of existing genres that are growing their share of both Splice downloads and ‘genre assignments’ for artists on Chartmetric.

Music Ally 7h ago

Apple’s new iOS 27 software is on the way this autumn, including some improvements for Apple Music. 9 to 5 Mac has been running through some of the new additions.

Music Ally 7h ago

Canadian artist BBNO$ is the latest musician heading to Roblox for a virtual concert – and it seems plenty of players are interested in attending the event.

Music Ally 7h ago

British man-band Take That have wrapped their five-week stadium tour of the UK and Ireland, with management firm Corduroy Artists and promoter SJM Concerts revealing some figures from the jaunt.

Music Ally 7h ago

Plug in your new display and get a McAfee pitch you never asked for

The Register 7h ago

RIP DSIT: Digital transformation duties shuffle off to reborn DCMS, with GDS along for the ride

The Register 7h ago

There’s no shortage of conversation around direct-to-customer (D2C) in the music industry. Artists and labels capture fan data, sell directly to their fans, giving the independent artist or label ownership of that relationship. The more interesting question is what happens next?

Digital Music News 8h ago

Germany’s recorded music business is stable, rather than stellar, although exports could be stronger. The German music business has long trod its own path. The country was famously slow to take up on music streaming and the humble CD has never really gone out of fashion.

Music Ally 8h ago

Collabora's Holo Core port lays the groundwork for running SteamOS 3 natively on the headset

The Register 8h ago

And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't

The Register 9h ago

Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants

The Register 10h ago

SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Örebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal

The Register 10h ago

Deezer has published its latest figures on the increasing torrent of AI-generated music – and it’s a significant tipping point.

Music Ally 11h ago

Supplier stumbles and MoD staffing shortages earn the program a red delivery rating

The Register 11h ago

Deezer says it will take down AI tracks used to inflate streams fraudulently, as well as those that have not been streamed for six months or more Source

Music Business Worldwide 12h ago

The recording studio’s annual photography awards, established in 2022, will take place in London in September

Rolling Stone 12h ago

The LA-based nonprofit Music Safety Alliance (MSA) has launched as an expansion of the grassroots movement ‘No Creeps!’

Music Ally 12h ago

Biggest-ever DSA fine shows Brussels wants to bust the biz model behind China’s cheap e-commerce champs

The Register 13h ago

A.R. Rahman, the two-time Oscar-winning Indian composer behind “Slumdog Millionaire” and “127 Hours,” is launching ARR Immersive, an app bringing his decade of immersive storytelling work to Apple Vision Pro on July 22.

Variety 13h ago

Single datacenter and just three services taken down by ‘upstream’ power problem, while the rest of a zone and region kept humming

The Register 14h ago

Weeks after a federal court rejected Sony Music’s request to supersize its Udio copyright lawsuit, the major label has responded by firing off a fresh complaint alleging the infringement of over 30,000 recordings. Sony Music made that follow-up action official today, after Judge Alvin K.

Digital Music News 16h ago

French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn’t seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime

The Register 16h ago

A copyright lawsuit over a paparazzi video? Celebrity photograph business Bauer-Griffin is suing Gamma, its Vydia subsidiary, French Montana, Kanye West, and others for allegedly incorporating a caught-on-camera outburst from West into a track without authorization.

Digital Music News 17h ago

I never planned on starting a music publishing administration company. The following comes from 3 Hats Music Publishing, a partner of DMN. My name is Mateo Correa, born in the vibrant city of Medellin, Colombia.

Digital Music News 17h ago

The country star and his wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, were invited to the ceremony at Madison Square Garden

Rolling Stone 17h ago

Two years later, the Muvox v. BMG patent infringement case has drawn to an abrupt close. But Muvox isn’t finished taking legal action, as it’s fired off two more complaints – this time against Amazon and Apple – involving the same patent.

Digital Music News 18h ago

MSG’s database of celebs and other alleged fan-tracking activity catches the eye of NY legislators, who set their sights on the use of facial recognition tools.

Digital Music News 18h ago

I read with great interest your commentary on the recent Jeff Beck biography. Although I have not read it, I share your desire to get a definitive story to unlock the enigma of Jeff Beck. I say this after working as his publicist at Epic Records back in the ‘70s, and later serving as his […]

Lefsetz Letter 19h ago

The Migos rapper must also complete an anger management program, refrain from possessing firearms, and stay 100 yards away from the MedMen dispensary

Rolling Stone 19h ago

Qobuz announces a year-long partnership with WYXR 91.7 FM, a Memphis-based, non-profit, community-powered radio station. Qobuz, the independently owned music streaming platform, has announced a year-long partnership with WYXR 91.7 FM, the non-profit, community-powered radio station based in...

Digital Music News 20h ago

Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley's Hound Dog to Beyoncé's Say My Name, and Harry Styles' As It Was.

The Verge 21h ago

Amy Lee is a force of nature. She’s everything the competitors on “American Idol” and the rest of the TV competition shows want to be. But in addition to being able to sing, she can write and play too. This trifecta used to be the bedrock of the music business. And it still is, flavors […]

Lefsetz Letter 21h ago

Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain

The Register 22h ago

Indonesia prepares major changes to its laws that could make the country the first in Southeast Asia to incorporate AI into its copyright framework. Indonesia is proposing a landmark copyright bill that could make the country the first in Southeast Asia to explicitly regulate AI in its copyright...

Digital Music News 22h ago

The UK’s competition regulator is poised to investigate Live Nation and its domination of the country’s live music industry, echoing US moves. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is reportedly gearing up for a major inquiry into Live Nation and the company’s power across the country’s...

Digital Music News 22h ago

Last weekend was at the Levitate Music & Arts Festival in Marshfield, Massachusetts, which was a lot of fun. The next two are going to be at the ...

Medium 22h ago

Some people thought the track didn’t match the vibe of the championship game, but it saw a huge spike in listeners

Rolling Stone 23h ago

The 60th Montreux Jazz Festival drew in over 250,000 attendees across 16 days of music and over 700 shows and events, featuring a blend of genres. The Montreux Jazz Festival’s 60th edition has drawn to a close after welcoming more than 250,000 attendees across 16 days of music.

Digital Music News 23h ago

It started with a text: “He said, ‘It’s time,’ so that’s all I needed to hear,” says Adam Blackstone, Jay-Z’s bassist and longtime collaborator. He’s discussing the first word he received about the string of shows the legendary rapper would be staging throughout the year, starting with a grand...

Variety 1d ago

TikTok is testing an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and enables creators to report them to the company. Initial tests are limited to a few US-based creators.

Digital Music News 1d ago

The complaint was filed on July 20 in New York Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

The year’s biggest hit single, Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas,” has racked up its 14th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — and has tied a record held by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.

Variety 1d ago

Longtime Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain believes rockers should keep their politics off-stage — but in interviews, he continues to be proud to trumpet his conservative beliefs.

Variety 1d ago

As the world’s biggest soccer tournament unfolded across North America this summer, fans turned to Spotify to soundtrack every match. A record-breaking official anthem, fan-adopted favorites, and a surge in playlist creation made the 2026 tournament the most musical—and most streamed—yet.

Spotify 1d ago

The Times reports that the CMA's outreach is understood to be a precursor to a formal probe Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Variety’s annual Faith & Media Impact Report returns Dec. 2. The list recognizes a thriving segment of the entertainment industry that includes storytellers across the religious spectrum who are offering up compelling and creative experiences featuring faith and spirituality for broad audiences.

Variety 1d ago

The latest 'Tim's Take' from Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

By typing or speaking, eligible Premium users can talk to Spotify across the app's Home and Now Playing views on mobile. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

We heard last week that South Korea has now become the third biggest music-exporter in the world, overtaking Canada. Now we’ve got some new figures behind that.

Music Ally 1d ago

It shouldn’t be a surprise that Apple Music is raising the price of its subscriptions: the last time such a hike happened was four years ago in 2022.

Music Ally 1d ago

Music publishers appear to have resolved their legal battle with X (formerly Twitter) but it remains unclear whether that resolution includes licensing deals or some kind of financial settlement.

Music Ally 1d ago

UK-based non-profit Lila has launched its latest initiative, Lila Labs. It’s an extension of the organisation’s existing work supporting South Asian artists and industry professionals.

Music Ally 1d ago

Tiny Vinyl launched last year as a company selling, yes, tiny four-inch records, pitched as environmentally-friendly collectible items. Now the startup has taken the logical next step by releasing a device to play them on.

Music Ally 1d ago

If you’d told us a year ago that Oasis’s 1995 song ‘Wonderwall’ would be topping Spotify’s ‘Top 50 – Global’ chart this summer, we’d have assumed the band were playing more concerts – perhaps in Mexico, Brazil and other big-volume streaming markets.

Music Ally 1d ago

The torrent of AI-generated content is giving digital services some challenges to solve, especially as rightsholders and public figures get hotter on infringement of likeness rights.

Music Ally 1d ago

The star-studded halftime show at the FIFA World Cup was the first of its kind, featuring Madonna, BTS, Shakira, Burna Boy, Justin Bieber, and even the Muppets. Soccer purists bristled at the Super Bowl-style spectacle — though when in America, FIFA did what Americans do.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Radio broadcasters from across the US have been gathering in Washington to once again lobby Congress in support of the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, a proposed bill that would require AM radio in all new passenger vehicles.

Digital Music News 1d ago

We have seen the future of who’s moving up in the list of artists contending to have the most No. 1 albums ever, and its name is Future. The rapper debuted on top of the Billboard 200 with “The Real Me,” landing his 12th No. 1 on the chart. That means he’s now in fifth […]

Variety 1d ago

Sure is a lot of porcelein in there. | Image: Kieran Hebden Just why? ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡(̸̢̛̼̞̭͋ͅ)̸͚̰͛̔̾̀̿͒͂:̴͓̞̑̌̂̆̊͋̀:̸͎̟̯̂̓̌ ҉ ͡ ͞ ͞ ͞ ҉● ࿀ ● ࿀ ● ҉⃝ ⃝͢ ͞ ͘ ͞⃝̕ ͢ ̛ ⃝ ̸ ̡ ͢⃝̧ ͡ ͡ ̀ ̧ ̢⃝͜ ҉ ͞ ͞ ⃝͞ ͞ ͡⃝ ⃝҉҈҉҈҉҈҉҈҉҈҉ :̶̢͙͙͕̠̩͆(̷̮͍͚̫͚͂̍)̵̳̗̊( ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥ What am I supposed to do with...

The Verge 1d ago

The FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show provided an answer to the burning question of how you fit Madonna, BTS, Justin Bieber, Shakira, Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel, Chris Martin and the Muppets into a single 11-minute segment: as fleetingly as possible.

Variety 1d ago

Drake reveals he put $1.5 million on Argentina beating Spain in the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final—adding to his reputation for bad betting. Fans aren’t the least bit surprised to learn that the so-called ‘Drake Curse’—a superstition in which the rapper’s stake in or presence at a sporting event leads...

Digital Music News 2d ago

Spotify recently announced a drastic change in their API: connections to your account will now expire after 6 months, starting July 20th. If you have your Spotify account connected to ListenBrainz, this means you will have to reconnect your Spotify account every 6 months, or ListenBrainz will not...

MetaBrainz Blog 2d ago

1010Benja won’t apologize for using AI. | Image: 1010Benja / Instagram I would never go so far as to say there's no place for AI in music (I'm a fan of Holly Herndon, after all). But I generally find music made with generative AI to be offensively boring, especially the outputs of Suno.

The Verge 2d ago

Jennifer Finch, bassist, singer and songwriter for the veteran indie-rock band L7, died Saturday after a battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer, according to a statement from the band’s rep. She was 59.

Variety 2d ago

A modern tribute to electric chord organs which were basically giant harmonicas connected to a fan. | Photo: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge In 2017, I bought an old Magnus chord organ off Craigslist for $10. It's one of my favorite music gear purchases.

The Verge 2d ago

Los Angeles could be the most hated city in the country. Of course there is Houston, crippled by its lack of zoning, but L.A. is bigger, second only to New York, and it’s in California, which has been successfully vilified by the right wing. So why should anybody live here? As the story goes, L.A.

Lefsetz Letter 2d ago

I wanted the Sammy Hagar book, what I got was typical paint-by-numbers rock biography that delivered information, some of which I wanted to know, but didn’t answer the true question that motivated me to read this book in the first place… WHO EXACTLY WAS JEFF BECK!

Lefsetz Letter 2d ago

This week, global superstars BTS sent ARMY into a frenzy with the premiere of their music video, “NORMAL.” Debuting first on Spotify, it quickly made history by becoming the most-streamed K-Pop music video in a single day on the platform.

Spotify 3d ago

Two AI music platforms, two very different strategies: As Suno adds features and eyes a developer API launch, Udio is fortifying its walled garden under a new deal with BuyDRM.

Digital Music News 3d ago

Major music publishers and Elon Musk’s X have abruptly dropped their lawsuits against one another, but information about a settlement (if any) has yet to be revealed. For now, neither side is talking.

Digital Music News 3d ago

Here’s a recap of recent music industry hires and in-house promotions as of July 17th, 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 3d ago

Apple Music is more expensive now. In the US, an individual plan now costs $11.99 per month, a $1 bump up from the previous $10.99 price. A family plan now costs $19.99 per month, up from $16.99, and a student plan costs $6.99 per month, up from $5.99.

The Verge 4d ago

Bad Bunny asks judge to reconsider reggaeton ‘dembow’ copyright ruling or certify it for appeal to the Ninth Circuit — The motion comes in response to a July 1 ruling denying defendants’ motion for summary judgment on claims that over 150 artists infringed on works in which foundational reggaeton...

Copyhype 4d ago

Today, we have released MusicBrainz Picard 3 beta 7. This new versions brings several fixes over the last beta 5 (yes, we have skipped a beta number again), but also improvements and some new features.

MetaBrainz Blog 4d ago

CD sales are apparently going up, reportedly thanks to fans realizing they're an affordable way to support their favorite artists. According to a new report from research firm Luminate, 16.3 million CDs were sold in the first half of 2026 in the US, a 16 percent increase year-over-year.

The Verge 5d ago

The story of digital music has been one of expanding choice. Streaming's initial proposition was for the crate-diggers – a way of bringing the passion of music discovery into the digital age. However, the number of passive listeners on DSPs quickly outnumbered dedicated fans and the model...

MIDiA Research Blog 5d ago

Music industry professionals still betting on major labels to develop artists should know the system has structurally exited that business. On this week’s podcast episode, I break down the data showing UMG and WMG now redirect spending toward catalog acquisitions rather than new careers. . . . . .

Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog 5d ago

It’s a big week for first looks on Spotify. On Wednesday, fans of Jelly Roll were able to watch the artist’s new video for “Hands Up” first on Spotify for 48 hours.

Spotify 6d ago

So when is fair use actually just stealing? | Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Suno data obtained in a hacking incident has exposed that the AI music generator was trained by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from online audio platforms, including YouTube Music, Deezer, and...

The Verge 6d ago

Soho theatre, London Josh Radnor is a music executive whose life is upended by his wayward brother, in a play about masculinity, creativity, appropriation and trauma On paper, writer Jonathan Caren’s Hit Machine has all the makings of a chart-topping smash.

The Guardian 6d ago

At Spotify, we want to create an experience that makes time spent with us feel personal and fun for users of all ages. That’s why we’re excited to announce that managed accounts are expanding again to now allow families on any plan—free or Premium—in the U.S., U.K., Australia, France, Germany, and...

Spotify 6d ago

Album marketing rollouts are moving to centre stage as a growing number of artists and labels incorporate interactive experiences into their digital album promotions. For example, with Olivia Rodrigo’s recent release you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love , TikTok launched an in-app experience...

MIDiA Research Blog 6d ago

The growing national opposition to hyperscale AI data centers encompasses various groups united by concerns over local control, transparency, and the impact on resources, leading to significant political mobilization.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 6d ago