This is the second episode in a two-part series about the evolution of CMOs – recorded as collective management organisations undergo their most significant transformation in decades. In this episode, Sacem’s […] The post is from Music Ally.
The British new wave legends return with “Free to Love,” an ode to the era of party music that exploded from the late ‘70s.
Keyboardist Nick Rhodes called the band's latest collaboration a "call to all the people out there who want peace, hope and understanding to prevail"
The electronic music act will break a lengthy drought next month with the release of Inferno, an 18-track double album that will spread across 70 minutes.
After a jury found Live Nation liable for monopolization earlier this month, 33 states plus D.C. are pushing for a breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster. Here’s the latest.
A court filing alleges Scooter Braun’s involvement with the entertainment industry’s clandestine smear-site operation, The Hollywood Reporter reveals. The entertainment industry’s emerging smear-site scandal has been heating up since The Hollywood Reporter first exposed it in February.
A California judge has refused to keep the details of Kim Kardashian’s reported $6 million settlement with musician Ray J (William Ray Norwood Jr.) under seal. That opens the door for the 2023 agreement to become public record. The ruling, issued by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Steven A.
BUMA/Stemra has become AIxchange’s marquee CMO partner as the creator-friendly attribution framework takes center stage at IMS Ibiza and Africa Rising Music Conference Johannesburg. Other early believers are also rallying around the recently formed AI music initiative.
With an eye on doing away with deepfakes, YouTube has officially made its likeness detection tool available to the music and wider entertainment industries. The video-sharing giant just recently announced the expansion in a concise release.
Musician D4vd has been quietly dropped by his label Interscope, with affiliations scrubbed from their websites and on streaming platforms, amid his murder arrest.
Post Malone is struggling to sell tickets to his Big Ass Stadium Tour with Jelly Roll and Carter Faith, with less than a month left before showtime. Post Malone’s Big Ass Stadium Tour Part 2 featuring Jelly Roll and Carter Faith kicks off on May 13 in El Paso, TX, at the Sun Bowl Stadium. […]
Valentine was a prominent recording and touring artist through the 1980s with a string of Australian acts, including Hall of Fame-inducted new wave band Models.
Chart-toppers “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” and “Provenza” return to the Hot Latin Songs chart.
This will be the Queen of Pop's first album in seven years.
The two former co-stars both took the stage during Sabrina Carpenter's headlining set.
The NFL Draft takes place in Pittsburgh, PA starting on Thursday, April 23.
Jurors heard opening statements at a trial pitting Derulo against a guitarist-producer who claims he wrote the “critical pre-hook section” of the chart-topping song
The ticket giant & Styles announced that they're working together to sell tickets to fans at face value.
Does training generative AI models on protected lyrics without permission constitute fair use? After years of debate – and a couple court rulings – the question is taking center stage in Anthropic’s new push for summary judgment in a copyright lawsuit filed by Concord and others.
Last week, the LA rapper claimed that the genre was 'down 50%' in the Toronto rapper's supposed absence.
"I feel like I just did something really fresh and so Tyla," the star previously teased to Rolling Stone
The rapper was charged with murder as well as two other charges connected Rivas' death.
This past weekend, Spotify was at the heart of the largest literary event in the U.S.: the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. As the presenting sponsor of the Audiobook and Podcast Stage on the USC campus, we spent April 18 and 19 celebrating the authors, stories, and fans that make up book...
Ship attacked by Iran after possibly falling for safe passage crypto scam.
Spotify is quietly introducing a new feature that exposes artificial intelligence contributions within track credits, making a notable step in platform-level transparency. That comes with the caveat that these labels are all self-reported, however.
Car sales are up, battery sales and emissions credits are down.
How Ars Technica uses, and doesn't use, generative AI.
Just ahead of the Friday release of the Michael Jackson biopic “Michael,” a family member has taken gleeful aim at the media in a series of posts. Taj Jackson, Michael’s nephew and the son of Jackson 5 member Tito, took to Twitter/X to jeer at the media writ large on Tuesday, saying it can no […]
Earth Day is a chance to reflect on our connection to the natural world. To mark the 57th Earth Day on April 22, Spotify’s editors have pulled together a collection of audiobooks that explore nature, climate, and the people working to protect the places they call home.
Lawsuit demands Nintendo pass Trump tariff refunds on to its customers.
Kennedy's tesimony sets up another clash over vaccines with next CDC director.
Kanye West’s upcoming concert in Italy is causing an uproar due to the rapper’s descent into antisemitism, after the UK and France already cancelled gigs. Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, is scheduled to headline the Hellwatt Festival on July 18 at the RCF Arena in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
"You just push this button, and in three hours, you're counting photons."
In the span of just a few months, Love has gone from “Geese curious” to “Geese-blossoming-appreciation,” and she's finally entered the last stage, Geese fandom
When authentication fails, things can go very, very wrong.
Bandsintown teams up with Amazon Music to offer concert listings on Amazon Music artist profiles, like previously announced deals with Apple Music and Spotify. Bandsintown has announced a global collaboration with Amazon Music to enable concert listings across the service.
A circuitous and protracted copyright infringement case first brought by German electronic-music pioneers Kraftwerk in 2004 has finally been settled — and not in the pioneering electronic group’s favor. The European Court of Justice, the principal judicial authority of the E.U., decided on April 14...
Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the 14-year-old girl allegedly killed by the singer D4vd, died of multiple stab wounds, according to an autopsy report released on Wednesday.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office finally revealed Rivas' autopsy report after the singer D4vd was charged in her murder
1 I couldn’t sleep last night because Dave Mason died. At least that’s what I figured out. Oh, I was a Dave Mason fan. “Only You Know and I Know” was the breakout track from Delaney & Bonnie’s “On Tour” album, the one with Eric Clapton, but the definitive version came months later on Dave’s […]
Untenable demand has Anthropic exploring new approaches to rationing its service.
What was Warner Bros. even thinking, shelving this film for so many years?
It’s “speak-up season” in “Noah Kahan: Out of Body,” the new Netflix documentary from director Nick Sweeney about the celebrated musician. Kahan has been frank about the ups and downs in his emotional life, which was part of the essential appeal of “Stick Season,” one of the most unexpected and...
Google's new generation of Tensor AI chips is actually two chips, one for inference and one for training.
FBI suspects foreign spies may be targeting scientists with access to government secrets.
The musician recently finished recording the album, which includes five brand-new songs in addition to the three vintage ones, at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La studio with the Chrome Hearts
An entity linked to UMG has been building a patent portfolio around AI-music infrastructure Source
On April 14, 2026, Judge Rakoff ordered Anna's Archive to pay $322 million for copyright infringement, highlighting the difficulties of enforcing penalties against anonymous online operators. Difficult, but not impossible.
Results dash hopes for a fifth force but provide very precise proof of Standard Model and QFT.
Added layers of review singling out renewable energy have little legal basis.
Mason and Winwood formed Traffic together in 1967, and they collaborated on many classic songs, but their relationship became quite strained over the past few decades
"Emily Hart" is a young, AI-created conservative woman who likes to take off her clothes.
As streaming fraud concerns grow, platforms move toward built-in detection systems Source
Country-pop crossover superstar Shania Twain will host the ACM Awards in May, the Academy of Country Music and Dick Clark Productions announced Wednesday. It will mark Twain’s first time as host.
Tour dates posted on Bandsintown for Artists will automatically show on Amazon Music profiles, with fans directed to Bandsintown to purchase tickets. Source
Alexi Cory-Smith's UK-based music rights company says it has more than $200 million in music rights under ownership and management. Source
The new design is cheaper and will even fit in convenience store parking lots.
Deal arrives amid continued global interest in India's music market Source
The following MBW op/ed comes from Monica Corton, a veteran music publisher of over three decades. Source
After canceled gigs in the U.K., France, Switzerland and Poland, Kanye West’s upcoming concert in Italy is sparking an uproar due to the rapper’s antisemitic remarks.
The joint venture will employ a 'co-release model,' pairing Create's global infrastructure with GoodTalk's 'selective, development-first approach.' Source
The New York songwriter and author of the memoir Almost Grown has also extended his Silver Manhattan stage show, inspired by Pyro, through May 10
Two of the world’s biggest music-streaming services have exclusives on Olivia Rodrigo’s new music video. How is that possible? Because this is two different variants of the video for ‘drop dead’. The official version has been on YouTube for five days, notching up more than 17.5m views so far.
Earlier this week, we reported on an open letter pushing back on calls for Israel to be kicked out of the Eurovision Song Contest. We predicted (not that riskily, let’s be honest) at the time that “as Eurovision draws nearer, criticism of Israel’s participation, as well as defences of it, will only...
Streaming fraud doesn’t just happen on the biggest services: it can happen on any DSP. In fact, there are benefits for fraudsters in running their schemes across a wider array of smaller platforms rather than just focusing on the big ones.
These are boom times for South Korean music firm Hybe, thanks to the comeback of its flagship artist BTS and the success of other groups on its roster. However, a period further back in its history is currently providing a headache for the company’s chairman Bang Si-Hyuk.
Spotify and the New York Liberty are teaming up to give music and basketball fans the ultimate game day experience. Today, we’re excited to announce a multi-year partnership that will make Spotify the Official Music Partner of the New York Liberty, our first official team partnership in the United...
Bella Figura Music has purchased the catalog of veteran songwriter and producer Paul Epworth – including interests in works popularized by Adele, Florence and the Machine, Lil Wayne, Paul McCartney, and many others.
With deepfakes on the mind of top stars in the music industry – not to mention the wider worlds of entertainment and celebrities – YouTube’s latest announcement will come as welcome news.
It’s a fine morning for fans of 337-page studies on the discoverability of diverse European cultural content in the digital environment. One has just been published by the European Commission! Stay with us: this research is interesting.
Fresh from raising another $5bn from Amazon – with potentially up to $20bn more to come – Anthropic is getting back into the details of its legal battle with music publishers. Billboard reported on the latest salvo from Anthropic in the case, in response to a filing in March by the plaintiffs.
A Bluetooth suction-cup rack and a palm-sized tow rope were among our most practical finds.
If Dems take Congress, Trump may face reckoning for “pay-to-play” memecoin galas.
AI is already learning from music. Quietly, constantly, and at a scale most people don’t fully see yet. While the industry debates hypotheticals, the real shift has already happened. The […] The post is from Music Ally.
Hu previously held senior roles at UMGC rivals Sony Music Entertainment China and Warner Music China, as well as at domestic player Taihe Music Group. Source
The new WCM India division will provide songwriters with exclusive access to the wider WMG’s studios within its Mumbai headquarters. Source
Over a thousand artists are calling for a boycott Eurovision over Israel’s inclusion, while another thousand push back. Five countries have quit the contest.
Warner Chappell Music launches in India, with Jay Mehta appointed to lead the charge in one of the world’s fastest-growing creative economies. Warner Chappell Music (WCM), the global publishing arm of Warner Music Group (WMG), has announced its launch in India in a strategic move that marks a...
Dave Mason, solo artist, founding member of the band Traffic, writer of the classic rock songs “Feelin’ Alright” and “Hole in My Shoe” and sideman to the Rolling Stones, George Harrison and Jimi Hendrix, has died, according to an announcement from his publicist.
The group is nominated in three categories this year, including New Artist of the Year
“Only You Know and I Know” singer jammed with the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, and George Harrison
Cox v. Sony Music is factoring into yet another copyright dispute: RCN has cited the unanimous Supreme Court decision in its marathon legal battle with the major labels.
Back in 2014, my friend Alastair Porter and I built a thing called Spinbin. The idea was simple and, at the time, slightly ridiculous: if a radio station’s website showed the tracks it had just played, we should be able to turn that into a subscribable playlist. The tagline we...
Let the superfan-geared vinyl releases continue: Universal Music’s catalog division has teed up the “first-ever” pressing of Audioslave’s Out of Exile – including a “liquid vinyl” variant inspired by the 2005 album’s cover art.
Drake has announced that his ninth studio album, “Iceman,” is scheduled for release on May 15. Waiting for Drake’s official “Iceman” release date was something akin to… well, watching ice melt.
It’s that time of year again for the definitive annual assessment of the global electronic music market: The IMS electronic music business report . Premiered at the annual IMS conference in Ibiza, this year’s report paints the picture of a healthy industry with thriving scenes but also a few war...
Amazon Music plans to deploy its RFID “Just Walk Out” technology for merch sales across the entire BTS North American tour, according to plans shared with Digital Music News this morning.
The proposed Pentagon drone investment rivals Ukraine’s entire military budget.
CTO says new AI model is "every bit as capable" as world's best security researchers.
Dave Mason, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer best known as the lead singer and co-founder of English rock band Traffic, has passed away. He was 79. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Mason, known as the lead singer and co-founder of English rock band Traffic, has passed away.
FCC tells Supreme Court its fines are nonbinding unless a jury upholds penalty.
New venture, led alongside executives from Sua Música Group and ASJ, plans World Cup-themed debut project. Source
I argue that the comedy helps deliver the message. So does the choice of diagetic music that the characters deliver. Apathy Kills Truffula Trees. The ...
Amazon is preparing to invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic, in addition to the $8 billion it has already injected into the AI startup in recent years.
Seoul police have officially moved to arrest Hybe chairman Bang Si-hyuk in connection with a fraudulent trading investigation centering on the K-pop company’s 2020 IPO.
The FTC's StubHub settlement offers consumer refunds but raises concerns about whether it effectively deters deceptive pricing practices.
Where in the “Michael” world is Janet Jackson? The music superstar is nowhere to be seen as a character in the new Antoine Fuqua-directed biopic about her late brother.
“My Hero Academia in Concert,” a live show pairing a 15-piece band performing Hayashi Yuki’s anime score with projected footage from the series, will tour the U.S. this fall, Toho Co., Ltd., GEA Live and RoadCo Entertainment have revealed. The U.S. run opens Sept. 12 in Farmington, N.M., with...
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Since its launch in 2020, RADAR has been our program for spotlighting emerging artists around the world. This year marks the sixth edition of RADAR Spain, our ongoing effort to help raise the profile of the country’s rising talent.
Five years ago, Spotify arrived in Pakistan, opening a new chapter in the country’s music scene. Since then, local listeners have explored across genres, generations, and languages—reshaping how music is discovered, shared, and enjoyed.
Amazon Music has inked a merch partnership with BTS for the US, Canada and Mexico legs of their comeback tour. The post is from Music Ally.
AI music startup GRAI says fans want to remix tracks, not generate songs from scratch.
Despite a damaging fallout with the White House – and ongoing lawsuits from music publishers – AI company Anthropic continues to have no problems raising huge amounts of funding from tech giants.
Yesterday was clearly a day for ‘CEO stepping down’ announcements. Rumours have been bubbling about the future plans of Apple boss Tim Cook for a few months, and his company has now confirmed the speculation – including his successor.
There is a change at the top of electronic-music brand Beatport, with its CEO Rob McDaniels [pictured] revealing he will step down on 1 July after nine years leading the company.
UK charity the Music Venue Trust has published its latest report, which sets out its stall as an organisation looking to the future, rather than just fighting fires in the grassroots live sector. “For more than a decade, much of our work has been reactive.
A curious divergence is emerging in the UK's media habits. Earlier this month, Ofcom published its latest report on adults' media use, and one finding stands out. Social media usage remains high, with 89% of UK adults using at least one platform daily. Source
He’s a product guy. Cook was an efficiency expert. Although not a total surprise, the timing of this changing of the guard was unexpected. It illustrates that everything comes to an end, and you’re better off if you prepare for it.
I loved Don – he was not only one of the most wired in promoters of his time , he was, as you say, a star in his own right…. Boy, did he know his market – when I did a show with him in Montreal , I met everyone – the building owner or […]
“Live Nation is supporting two California bills to lower prices. Can fans trust it?”: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-04-17/live-nation-is-supporting-two-california-bills-to-lower-prices-can-fans-trust-it I don’t believe in it. A. Because fans like resale. B.
Deezer says it receives nearly 75,000 AI-generated song submissions to its music streaming platform each day, accounting for about 44 percent of all daily uploads, as reported earlier by TechCrunch.
A song that captures a moment can feel like magic. But when you uncover the story behind it—who made it, what inspired it, and the meaning woven into the lyrics—it becomes something even deeper. That’s why we’ve been building new ways to help you go beyond the surface of your favorite tracks.
It’s out. Parachord for Android v0.4.0-beta.2 is the first public beta of the mobile app, and anyone with an Android phone and a taste for music that lives in too many places at once can now install it.
A $322 million default judgment against Anna’s Archive looks like a major copyright victory for Spotify and the major labels—but it also exposes a deeper problem.
Chartmetric makes it easier for indie artists to compete, with features for playlist pitching, social strategy, and brand affinity insights. All in one place.
New iPhone app Gigs uses AI to turn old tickets, screenshots, and emails into a personal concert archive with stats, memories, and more.
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...
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.