Although both are sold out, you can still buy the trading card game sets from retailers across the web.

Billboard 13m ago

The annual celebration returns with a stacked lineup of honorees, performances and cultural icons.

Billboard 14m ago

Nobody loves Halloween more than the Houston Hottie.

Billboard 20m ago

SRG/ILS Group is still locked in a separate legal fight over money with R&B singer Kenny Lattimore.

Billboard 27m ago

This is part of a series where we talk to some of the amazing editors that have cracked one million MusicBrainz edits and qualified for super special (lousy) shirt plan.* These users have donated substantial amounts of their time to improve open music data, enriching open-source knowledge and...

MetaBrainz Blog 31m ago

The singer was unequivocal about her thoughts on the case that has shocked the nation.

Billboard 1h ago

After a decade of false starts, Swift is showing backend appeal

The Register 1h ago

The global K-pop juggernaut declined to submit itself to Recording Academy voters, leaving a wide open race in their wake.

Billboard 1h ago

Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!

The Register 1h ago

Billboard's Makin' Tracks looks at the writing and recording behind Mitchell Tenpenny's new single "Ain't My Problem."

Billboard 1h ago

Best Buy has the speaker on sale for $80 off, with lights that synch to your music and karaoke-ready inputs.

Billboard 1h ago

Faith No More's frontman made his debut at the iconic cultural venue with his Mondo Cane project.

Billboard 1h ago

Latin music's biggest event returns to the Faena Forum Oct. 19 through 22.

Billboard 2h ago

Rob Thomas and Paul Doucette talk band tensions, solo careers, Kyle Cook’s exit, and finding their way back to good

Rolling Stone 2h ago

Tune in Saturday October 3rd to Faction Talk, channel 137, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. Phone #: 844-686-5863 If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

Lefsetz Letter 2h ago

At her Los Angeles home, Victoria Monét sits perched on the edge of her off-white couch, enjoying the stillness in the moments leading up to her sophomore album, “Frequency of Love,” dropping in less than 48 hours.

Variety 2h ago

Two a month per submitter, starting now, and you can thank science slop for the change

The Register 3h ago

John Torra has basically lived out the plot of the 2001 Mark Wahlberg movie Rock Star by landing a role as the lead singer of one his favorite bands, and nailing it on the first night

Rolling Stone 3h ago

A Freddie Mercury notebook with handwritten lyrics and a Michael Jackson jacket also drew big bucks at the first day of Propstore’s Music Live Auction

Rolling Stone 3h ago

Mostly 'routine research tasks,' and 'some involved government websites, which our models often use,' AI giant tells The Reg

The Register 3h ago

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

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

The plaintiff says its representatives came to what they considered to be the "obvious and inescapable conclusion" that Dean's song copied the Withers track. Source

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

Tyler Brown, founder of London-based Funfair, on hits, loyalty, and why songwriters should be taking a share of master income Source

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

Shulman also set out what WMG and BMG get from their deals, and who should be setting AI's rules. Source

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

Ahead of Tuesday's sentencing in the first US criminal streaming fraud case, MBW breaks down the pro-rata arithmetic behind Michael Smith's bot scheme. Source

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

She reports to Tomas Rodríguez, President of Warner Music Mexico and Música Mexicana. Source

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

Eminem will release a limited-edition merch collection with streetwear and pop culture brand NERDS Clothing during New York Comic Con next week, including the launch of an original video game.

Variety 5h ago

Prosecutors claim Greg Lui helped China procure advanced hardware to develop, ahem, 'super intelligence’

The Register 5h ago

Universal Music Group has promoted Frank Briegmann to Chairman & CEO, Universal Music Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada & Deutsche Grammophon. He will continue to report to Lucian Grainge, Chairman & CEO of Universal Music Group.

Variety 6h ago

Stan Twitter judges an album by its first 24 hours. But Zara Larsson's Midnight Sun, Tame Impala's Deadbeat, and Audrey Hobert's debut all proved the opposite — breaking out months, even a year, after release.

How Music Charts 6h ago

The group previously sidestepped questions about the introduction of the Best Asian Pop Performance category, which will proceed as planned at next year’s Grammys

Rolling Stone 6h ago

PARTNER CONTENT: VergeIO says an exit is also an opportunity

The Register 6h ago

Plus: Attorneys-general say investigators should have direct access to AI companies' records when things go wrong

The Register 6h ago

Last year I attended the Radio Academy Festival, and while I was there, the organisation announced it would become the Audio Academy. Returning to the first festival under the new name felt significant. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 7h ago

The 21-year-old singer-songwriter performed an hour-long set including songs from her debut album, Visitor, that have shaped her breakout year

Rolling Stone 7h ago

Charli XCX called it “anti-marketing.” MBW columnist Diana Umana argues it’s a structural shift that the biggest artists have already caught on to… Source

Music Business Worldwide 7h ago

Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk

The Register 7h ago

AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit — “The Third Circuit rejected an artificial intelligence company’s fair use defense after it trained its AI on a competitor’s product, finding the training constituted copyright infringement — and potentially setting a landmark...

Copyhype 7h ago

On the first night of its Life Burns Faster residency, the band made full use of the Las Vegas venue’s stunning visuals

Rolling Stone 7h ago

Popular K-pop group Stray Kids let the submission window for the 69th Grammy Awards close without entering any music, their agency JYP Entertainment confirmed on Friday, joining BTS in sitting out the ceremony. The agency confirmed to local media that the group filed no entry before the Aug.

Variety 8h ago

Two safety researchers and a program manager dismissed, company denies retaliation for raising concerns

The Register 8h ago

This week, Spotify brought together parents, kids, creators, and friends in New York City for a song-filled afternoon built around music and family. Guests posed on a stoop decked out with musical instruments, flipped through record stacks, and made their own merch at a DIY T-shirt station.

Spotify 8h ago

Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price

The Register 8h ago

Live Nation’s latest corporate move isn’t about music: it’s about the creatorsphere. The company has announced a new firm called Creator Nation, for which it is a “capital partner and strategic backer”. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 8h ago

The latest research into the climate emergency’s impact on live music comes from the Canadian Live Music Association with its ‘Sound Check: Climate Risk and Resilience in Canada’s Live Music Sector’ report. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 8h ago

The Recording Academy has been fighting a fire in recent weeks after BTS declined to submit their latest music to the Grammy Awards in protest at the event’s new ‘Asian Pop’ category. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 8h ago

A Santa-hat tip this morning to music-streamers in the Philippines, who are famously early to popping on their holiday playlists. 2026 is no exception. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 8h ago

Who would pay $285,000 for a CD album? Billionaires, that’s who! Well, that’s the hope for Chicago band The Empty Pockets, with a special edition of their new album ‘Dear Billionaires’. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 8h ago

The ‘our algorithm is now recommending less unoriginal slop’ seems to have become a rite of passage for every big social or video platform. Even if boasting about this begs the question of why they didn’t adopt that policy earlier. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 8h ago

Reports about how brilliant you are for the economy have long been a standard part of the lobbying process. YouTube does it, music industry bodies do it… and TikTok isn’t shirking the tactic either. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 8h ago

Copilot builds charts and metrics from spreadsheet data, with automatic refreshes when the numbers change

The Register 8h ago

If you’re a regular Music Ally reader, you know that it’s the time of the year where many music marketing teams around the world submit their proudest work of the year to us for our annual Music Ally Best’s Marketing Campaigns of the Year report (the deadline is on October 5, 2026!).

Music Ally 9h ago

Instagram has rolled out a new option this week that lets artist teams boost Instagram Live broadcasts directly from the app. It joins the existing boost options for posts, Stories and Reels. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 9h ago

Operation KillSwitch takes over leak site holding at least 110 TB of stolen data

The Register 9h ago

TikTok frequently partners with artists on in-app experiences, helping to promote albums across its platform. It’s no surprise that they are giving Taylor Swift’s newly released The Life Of A Showgirl: The Encore such a treatment, but we’re much more interested in what the campaign does...

Music Ally 9h ago

Meta has officially launched Forum, a standalone home for Facebook Groups that it has been testing since May. Rather than digging through the main Facebook app, users get every group they belong to in a single feed, plus a way to find new communities that match their interests.

Music Ally 9h ago

It’s been a little while since AI-music firm Suno announced its user and revenue stats. We’re not getting new figures just yet, but CEO Mikey Shulman provided an update of sorts in an interview with Bloomberg. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 9h ago

Pi 5 also gets a $12.50 bump as customers urged to consider older models or less RAM

The Register 9h ago

No login required, exploitation underway, and some admins are still waiting for patches

The Register 10h ago

Outsourcer admits service remains below expectations after missed recovery deadline

The Register 11h ago

Scotland Yard hits pause after US prosecutors trace supposedly American tech back to Moscow

The Register 11h ago

A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantarí International Airport

The Register 12h ago

Sales calls can be even nastier than support calls

The Register 13h ago

To maintain minimalism, a new harness layer has been folded into a separate component

The Register 14h ago

The track comes off the rock band’s latest album, Foreign Tongues

Rolling Stone 14h ago

The slow rolling piano echo through the hall like a rhapsody from the deep. The sound is rich, lustrous, bottom-heavy, grand. And that voice! Winter sings in a low baritone (and occasionally a high one) of astonishing power, the notes hanging there in a suspended quaver so bold it’s hypnotic.

Variety 15h ago

Possesses powers equivalent to an 'experienced architect' and will happily make cost-saving suggestions

The Register 16h ago

“Draw You Out” will appear on the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

Rolling Stone 16h ago

Duff said she hoped “CATastrophe” would be “something you’d turn all the way up in the car.” Mission accomplished

Rolling Stone 17h ago

It is a controversy actually worthy of an exclamation point. When was the last time the internet lost its collective stuff over a single song the way it did this past week with Taylor Swift’s “Cleveland!”? And they say there’s no such thing as a monoculture anymore.

Variety 22h ago

“I love AI. There are very amazing things with AI that I am obsessed with,” the singer said in a recent interview

Rolling Stone 22h ago

Conrad “Cronos” Lant, the frontman for the legendary Northern British heavy metal band Venom, has died, according to a post on the band’s social media sites and the Guardian. No cause of death was cited; he was 63.

Variety 23h ago

Kelly Clarkson has shared her admittedly “controversial” opinion on artificial intelligence, saying she thinks it can do “amazing things” but shouldn’t be able to create anything that competes with humans, particularly on music charts.

Variety 1d ago

Charlie Worsham, a Country Music Association Musician of the Year, has a new solo album, “Once Upon a Second Time Around.” Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/charlie-worsham/id1316200737?i=1000792547627...

Lefsetz Letter 1d ago

Ex-Lazard banker Stephen Langer and former SSE Ventures CEO Isabel Keulen join the Kobalt founder's new firm. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

“The Social Reckoning” soundtrack, featuring music by composer Alexandre Desplat, is set to be released on Oct. 9. Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, the film stars Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Bill Burr and Jeremy Strong.

Variety 1d ago

ElevenLabs completed a USD $300 million employee tender offer at a valuation of $22 billion. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

The appointment expands the remit of Briegmann, who will continue to report to Sir Lucian Grainge, Chairman & CEO of Universal Music Group. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Searchlight Pictures will officially submit “Your God Is Sleeping” from “Behemoth!,” a new drama film by Tony Gilroy, for consideration in the original song category at the Oscars, Variety has learned exclusively.

Variety 1d ago

K-pop is known as a genre built around fandom-focused live experiences, whether that’s concerts or fan-run events, and it’s been a busy few months for K-pop fans in the US. In August, I attended CJ ENM’s three-day K-pop convention KCON LA, as well as two dates on BTS’s massive ARIRANG world ...

MIDiA Research Blog 1d ago

The calendar may say it’s fall, but on Spotify, the holiday season has begun. This year, we’re getting into the spirit early with Holidays on Spotify, a season-long celebration packed with surprise data drops, new releases, and plenty of festive moments to soundtrack the months ahead.

Spotify 1d ago

In the time-honoured tradition of three things making a trend, Spotify is very much up to something with K-Pop podcasts in 2026. This week, the company has announced a new video show featuring boy-band KickFlip called ‘Flip the Language’. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

When the Brit Awards moved out of London for the first time in their history this year, it was a big deal for the UK music industry (not to mention hoteliers in the new host city, Manchester). The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

With shonky metadata and unagreed splits an enduring problem for the music industry, attention has turned in recent times to recording information from the earliest parts of the songwriting and recording processes. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

This year has shown a clear audience appetite for live, shared viewing experiences. The finale of the UK’s The Traitors attracted a live audience of 9.4 million viewers in January. An international audience flooded to watch sporting events like the Super Bowl and World Cup, with both events...

MIDiA Research Blog 2d ago

An expression may be easy to use in one language, but nearly impossible to explain in another. That’s the challenge at the heart of Flip the Language, a new video podcast on Spotify.

Spotify 3d ago

Silona Bonewald, our new Executive Director, will be hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on our forums at: 5th October 202617:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST)In this forum thread Please respect the code of conduct, as you always do!

MetaBrainz Blog 3d ago

A new Chartmetric/Splice report finds afro house's biggest market has shifted from the US to Germany, echoing how Berlin once absorbed and reinvented Detroit techno decades ago. Now, shifting policy and a Gen Z techno revival may be converging at the same moment.

How Music Charts 4d ago

Hi everyone, I’m Sreehari, also known online as owlpharoah (op3kay on Matrix). I’m a second year student at IIIT Jabalpur. This summer I worked on the foundations of a GraphQL server in Rust that sits over the MusicBrainz PostgreSQL database, under the guidance of @bitmap and @jadedblueeyes.

MetaBrainz Blog 4d ago

Gwen Seale and Chris Castle discuss the streaming mechanicals panel at Artist Rights Symposium 5.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 4d ago

Catalogue is becoming a key revenue stream, while streaming's share of publishing income is set to rise further through 2033 London, UK – Music publishing revenue grew 9.6% in 2025 to reach $12.2 billion, with major publishers outgrowing independents, according to MIDiA Research's 2026–2033 glob...

MIDiA Research Blog 4d ago

Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn't Suno in a box, though.

The Verge 5d ago

I thought this book was going to be about the Vail fire. After all, there’s a picture of Two Elk lodge burning right on the cover! But that’s not what it’s about, not really. I thought this was a niche book, for a narrow audience, those who remember this 1998 fire. But then I saw […]

Lefsetz Letter 5d ago

https://ai.meta.com/muse/ The AI platform, not the band. Mark Zuckerberg gives piss-poor presentation. It’s funny, Steve Jobs created the paradigm. You write it and you rehearse it, to the point where even Tim Cook could keep the audience’s attention… But Zuck?

Lefsetz Letter 5d ago

Drums on film. | Image: Decap I don't think I'm going to hurt anyone's feelings by pointing out that Decap doesn't have the name recognition of Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo, or Charli XCX.

The Verge 6d ago

Artists including Tinie Tempah and the Smiths’ drummer Mike Joyce ramp up pressure on government to keep its pledge to outlaw for-profit resales The government has stepped up work on new laws to stop ticket touts fleecing fans, as the prime minister came under pressure from artists including the...

The Guardian 6d ago