The former prime minister hopped up and down with the pop star and friends to the silly clip.

Billboard 2m ago

Hyperpop may be taking on a new form. Artists like Slayyyter, Kim Petras, and Tiffany Day are finding success by embracing electropop and the data suggests a new era is underway.

How Music Charts 3m ago

The bombastic early-'80s classic remains both an indelible product of its time and a singular pop standard.

Billboard 6m ago

Artist is on the road, supporting Maren Morris

Rolling Stone 16m ago

The popstar appeared on the game show’s latest episode

Rolling Stone 17m ago

Standalone experiment killed after less than 12 months as model maker redirects agentic ambitions towards workplace productivity

The Register 17m ago

“The Door is Always Open” brought the mixed-gender trio its inaugural country chart-topper.

Billboard 28m ago

It is the second time Smith and the other co-defendants have tried to shut the case down before trial. Source

Music Business Worldwide 51m ago

A collection of groups representing musicians and the music industry at large — including the RIAA, IFPI, the Grammys and SAG-AFTRA — have banded together for a new labeling program that aims to provide a unified front on indicating whether a song has been produced with AI.

Variety 1h ago

Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone

The Register 1h ago

The report highlights Sabrina Carpenter's "Manchild" as an example of a new release built on borrowed nostalgia. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1h ago

The decision comes just weeks after the singer became visibly emotional and told fans he's been struggling during his set at BludFest in Czechia on June 27.

Billboard 1h ago

The deal adds 71 compositions to the specialist publisher's portfolio, including Cherish, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. Source

Music Business Worldwide 2h ago

New York Times-led group asks court to sanction OpenAI in US copyright dispute — In litigation originally filed in 2023 alleging the AI developer infringed copyright in news publishers’ works when it trained its Large Language Models, the group of newspapers this week asked the court to impose...

Copyhype 2h ago

Brussels says Meta failed to properly assess or mitigate risks posed by infinite scroll, autoplay, and more

The Register 2h ago

The Nov. 28 show is the singer's long-awaited follow-up to her 2007 show at the pyramids on her Oral Fixation tour.

Billboard 2h ago

You’d be forgiven for thinking the Venn diagram of ‘Rolling Stones fans’ and ‘Roblox players’ is two separate circles. That means the venerable band’s big new Roblox activation is either a baffling mismatch, or a genius move to bring their music and history to another new generation of potential...

Music Ally 2h ago

Outsourcer wants a commercial chinwag before agreeing to cover UK government's recovery costs

The Register 2h ago

It would be easy to assume that BTS must have had the biggest streaming track in South Korea in the first half of this year, such has been the scale of their comeback. Nope.

Music Ally 2h ago

The big stars were out in force touring the UK last year, and the country’s music-tourism revenues spiked accordingly – something quantified in the latest report by industry body UK Music. It reports 24.7 million ‘music tourists’ attending concerts and festivals in the UK last year, up 4.8% on...

Music Ally 2h ago

Have you heard of ‘Drums That Knock’? Even if not, you may well have heard sounds from this popular samples library – they’ve been used in big tracks by the likes of Bad Bunny, Charli XCX, Karol G and the Chainsmokers.

Music Ally 2h ago

Working similarly to explicit labels on records, the tags will distinguish between "AI-generated" and "AI-assisted" songs.

Billboard 2h ago

Copenhagen company ‘sorry’ after 'perpetrator' pops order management system

The Register 3h ago

The seemingly mundane deliberations over future mechanical rights royalty rates in the US are starting to feel like a Verdi opera — with colorful industry titan Irving Azoff and his Global Music Rights (GMR) playing an unexpected cameo role.

Digital Music News 3h ago

Discovery has always been a core part of the Spotify experience. Whether you’re diving into curated editorial playlists like Artists To Watch or using personalization features like DJ, there’s always something new to explore.

Spotify 3h ago

In recent months, Meta has been busy rolling out new features and apps. While not everyone is impressed by its continued expansion into AI, the company’s latest app, Pocket, could be interesting for music marketers. Pocket is a vibe coding app for mini games.

Music Ally 3h ago

Nathan Bank is a Mexican pop artist with a strong social media following (601.8k on TikTok, 363.1k on Instagram) and a developing listener base on streaming services (34k monthly listeners on Spotify).

Music Ally 3h ago

1. Artist exhibitions. Promoter Semmel Concerts recently chatted to Pollstar about the growth of this latest non-concert format, calling it “one of the most exciting developments in live”. Udoversum is the exhibition of Udo Lindenberg, one of Germany’s most iconic artists.

Music Ally 3h ago

The 2026 Music Ally NEXT conference brought together music biz people from across the industry, for a day of sessions on topics shaping the future of music marketing, culture and the business at large.

Music Ally 3h ago

The group has also released the new song "Beaches in Tennessee."

Billboard 3h ago

Four years after its debut, Psychic Fever built its second full-length album around a simple idea: none of its seven members sound, look or think alike, and that’s exactly the point.

Variety 3h ago

Broad Support from IFPI, RIAA, A2IM, WIN, IMPALA, The Grammys,SAG-AFTRA & Human Artistry Campaign Track-Level Labels to Provide Transparency for Fans AcrossDigital Music Services and Partners NOTE: Suggested Icons for “AI-Generated” and “AI-Assisted” Labels WASHINGTON / NEW YORK / LONDON (July 10,...

RIAA 3h ago

CEO Mathieu Jaton has led the festival since 2013, inheriting the role from founder Claude Nobs.

Billboard 3h ago

A group of music industry bodies have revealed plans for a system of labels for music that is wholly AI-generated or AI-assisted.

Music Ally 3h ago

Music orgs want the world's biggest streaming services to start labeling music made with artificial intelligence. Source

Music Business Worldwide 3h ago

The traveling exhibition has already taken place in Seoul, Las Vegas, Busan and London ahead of the group's shows in those cities.

Billboard 3h ago

It’s two years now since Landr launched its ‘Fair Trade AI’ program for artists using its distribution service. The ahead-of-its-time initiative asked artists if they wanted to opt in to having their music used to train AI tools, earning a share of revenues generated by the company’s AI plugins,...

Music Ally 3h ago

Backers of the round include Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma's family office VSS Investco and Paytm CFO Madhur Deora. Source

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

The FCC investigated whether iHeart broke rules by trading radio airplay for artist performances at its events. Source

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

Next version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server

The Register 5h ago

Gender inequity in creative industries is often treated as a series of one-off incidents. Individual acts of bias, isolated pay gaps, or a singular unsafe workspace. This fragmented view is, itself, part of the problem. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 5h ago

They form the organization's 2026 New Member Class, part of a membership model the Grammys rebuilt in 2019. Source

Music Business Worldwide 5h ago

NHS Forth Valley is the latest health board to bungle basic email data protection principles

The Register 5h ago

'The allegations in the lawsuit are unilateral and unsubstantiated,' Big Hit Music said Source

Music Business Worldwide 6h ago

The queen of pop now boasts 13 No. 1s on the ARIA Albums Chart, and 22 appearances in the top 10 album.

Billboard 6h ago

Some ideas need workshopping, others need a warning light

The Register 6h ago

AnArtizen, an organisation that produces and provides resources to help creative professionals build careers, has launched Unfair Advantage. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 7h ago

The Oscar-winning actor signed a record deal with Decca Classics for Life Is a Dream, which was conducted by Gustavo Dudamel

Rolling Stone 7h ago

Police wanted to call off a grudge game until tech support electrified fevered fans

The Register 8h ago

The lovelorn song was inspired by the singer’s real-life relationship coming to an end

Rolling Stone 8h ago

Warner Music India has expanded its artist services and expanded rights division, which is known as ASER in the country. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 8h ago

A coalition of US music organizations urges the US Trade Representative to oppose an EU proposal that will cost American artists over $300 million. Radio stations in the United States not having to pay royalties to the owners of recordings for their broadcasts has led to numerous complications...

Digital Music News 9h ago

Gigs by Gallagher brothers, Coldplay, Lana Del Rey and Beyonce gives £11bn boost to the economy Big name artists including Oasis with their highly anticipated reunion tour, Coldplay and Beyoncé helped to attract a record number of fans to travel to watch live music last year, helped by a surge in...

The Guardian 10h ago

Another day, another high-profile song-rights play – this time from Reservoir Media, which has scooped up T.I.’s publishing catalog and a piece of his non-Atlantic recordings. New York City-headquartered Reservoir and Atlanta-born T.I. (real name Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.) formally disclosed their...

Digital Music News 10h ago

Beware the golden screwdriver

The Register 10h ago

Anthony Hopkins isn’t just an Oscar-winning actor — for decades, he’s been composing music in addition to his acting roles. The “Silence of the Lambs” actor has signed with Decca Classics for a new recording project encompassing more than six decades of original compositions.

Variety 11h ago

Pop-punk rockers Lit, best known for the 1999 single “My Own Worst Enemy,” have settled their lawsuit against Sony Music over streaming royalties. Lit, the band behind the 1999 hits “My Own Worst Enemy” and “Miserable,” has settled its lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment over an alleged breach...

Digital Music News 13h ago

More patches mean more reasons to buy Redmond’s auto-patching tools

The Register 13h ago

Oasis, Beyonce, and Dua Lipa helped attract a record number of music tourists to events across the UK, pushing music tourism spending to a new high. Oasis, Beyonce, Dua Lipa, Coldplay, Lana Del Rey, and Kendrick Lamar helped attract a record 24.7 million music tourists to concerts and festivals in...

Digital Music News 15h ago

All mysteries aside, you could say that, this summer, together, Sarah McLachlan and Allison Russell are building a sister-y road show. McLachlan is touring behind her 2025 “Better Broken” album, as a followup to her successful “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy” 30th Anniversary Tour, with plenty of the...

Variety 15h ago

The poet whose case against Taylor Swift was just dismissed by a federal judge has already filed an appeal—following her similar defeat against Swift last year.

Digital Music News 15h ago

Leaked negotiations spill the tea

The Register 16h ago

iHeartMedia is entering into a consent decree with the FCC over the investigation into the radio giant’s alleged “showola” scheme. The FCC probe into iHeartMedia’s alleged payola scheme—or, more accurately, “showola” scheme—has concluded, with the radio giant entering into a consent decree with the...

Digital Music News 17h ago

“To all my family in Canada I apologize for not being there with you all this weekend,” the singer says after sharing vulnerable post earlier in week

Rolling Stone 17h ago

thumpN, billed as “India’s first AI-native live entertainment platform,” has officially launched in beta with a nearly $4 million pre-seed war chest at its disposal. Mumbai-headquartered thumpN announced its public rollout and its multimillion-dollar raise earlier this week.

Digital Music News 17h ago

A Madison Square Garden database allegedly tracked and categorized celebrities who have visited the venue, including labels from low to high “risk.” A new report from Wired revealed that a database allegedly kept by Madison Square Garden tracked and categorized “hundreds” of celebrities, famous...

Digital Music News 18h ago

One in four long-form social media posts appear entirely AI-generated, with nearly half of those on Microsoft's and Elon's platforms involving AI in some form

The Register 18h ago

Dynamite Songs has acquired the music catalog of Terry Kirkman, co-founder, multi-instrumentalist, and primary songwriter of The Association. Dynamite Songs, the specialist music publisher dedicated to acquiring and managing smaller catalogs with culturally significant songs, has acquired the music...

Digital Music News 18h ago

The Rolling Stones are coming to Roblox in an immersive music experience set to launch on July 10, the same day as their highly anticipated new album, Foreign Tongues.

Digital Music News 18h ago

Bonnie Tyler, known for global hits “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Holding Out for a Hero,” passed away in a hospital in Portugal, aged 75. Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, best known for her global hits “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Holding Out for a Hero,” passed away on Wednesday evening in a...

Digital Music News 20h ago

Reservoir has struck a deal with veteran Atlanta rapper T.I. across his entire publishing catalog, spanning his back catalog and future works, including his new album, “Kill the King,” which debuted in the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums charts. Over the years, T.I.

Variety 20h ago

The O-1 visa has become one of the biggest obstacles facing international artists who want to tour in the U.S. Rising application costs, processing delays, and stricter documentation requirements are changing how musicians plan their careers and connect with American audiences.

Digital Music News 20h ago

Judas Priest’s Rob Halford, Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, and Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready remember “free spirit” frontman who died in 1980

Rolling Stone 20h ago

iHeartMedia, the largest owner of radio stations in the U.S., agreed to enter into a consent decree with FCC to settle a probe the agency launched last year into iHeartMedia’s compliance with federal rules prohibiting a specific form of payola dubbed “showola” — which involves radio stations...

Variety 20h ago

Legendary agent Marsha Vlasic represents Neil Young, Elvis Costello, Norah Jones, Iggy Pop and more! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marsha-vlasic/id1316200737?i=1000776100872...

Lefsetz Letter 20h ago

The Fab Four’s Paul McCartney plays bass on one song on the Rolling Stones’ upcoming Foreign Tongues album

Rolling Stone 21h ago

Searching for work sucks; AI combs the internet and sucks it all up. Combine the two and let 'er rip with this Python project

The Register 21h ago

Linux distro accuses former contributor of deleting years of work and pushing a package that could have broken installs

The Register 22h ago

Romain Becker named Group COO, Elsa Bahamonde Bourgain to lead combined Artist Services and Label & Artist Solutions Source

Music Business Worldwide 22h ago

Javascript, like most modern programming languages, allows you to use regular expressions to parse values out of formatted strings. Here, for example, is a fairly nice regexp template to get the interesting stuff out of an Apache web-log line. /^(?.+?) - - \[(?..)\/(?...)\/(?....):(?.+?) -0400\]...

furia log 22h ago

Vendor drops reinstatement fees and caps back-maintenance charges ahead of the ECC support cliff

The Register 22h ago

Monospaced code snippets among the reported casualties

The Register 22h ago

From “Girl with the Pearl Earring” to Boy (in this case, Harry Styles) at the Met Gala, few gemstones match the enduring and transformative power of a well-placed pearl.

Rolling Stone 22h ago

When Young ran out of new tunes for his forthcoming album Second Song, he dug deep into the archives for “I’ll Love You Forever” and “Casting Me Away From You”

Rolling Stone 23h ago

Steve Cooper, Jon Sandler and Greylyn Johnson filed the complaint on July 8 Source

Music Business Worldwide 23h ago

Opponents won the count but missed the 360-seat threshold needed to stop the interim CSAM-scanning rule

The Register 23h ago

Drummer, 78, posted that he now uses a wheelchair to get around airports and long distances but that he’s doing just fine

Rolling Stone 23h ago

We are looking for a highly motivated, forward thinking digital marketing and advertising strategist to join our UK team. This role will be responsible for providing top tier marketing services […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 23h ago

6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not

The Register 1d ago

PARTNER CONTENT: Why platform teams are swapping DIY Kubeflow for Canonical's managed service

The Register 1d ago

Karol G is giving away a pair of tickets to see her on tour with a cocktail-making challenge held by 200 Copas by Casa Dragones. From July 9 to Aug. 20, U.S.-based fans of the Colombian pop star can recreate the Chellita Sunrise, the “official cocktail” of her tour, and post a video to Instagram […]

Variety 1d ago

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The Digital Edge 1d ago

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The Digital Edge 1d ago

July started off strong. Following Taylor Swift’s star-studded wedding extravaganza in New York City, the cast of “The Odyssey” dazzled at the film’s premieres in London and Paris. First reactions are only upping the excitement, with audiences movie-goers eagerly awaiting the film to hit theaters.

Variety 1d ago

The 'Coffee for Contracts' initiative involves offering pro bono legal support to creative professionals every July. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

AI is a black swan event for music, intertwining the futures of the creator economy and the music industry. The number of gen AI music monthly active users (MAUs) nearly tripled between 2023 and 2025, adding nearly nine times as many users as the global base of musicians over the same period. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 1d ago

Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh pop-rock singer behind ’80s hits like “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Holding Out for a Hero,” died on Wednesday. She was 75. “Bonnie’s family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as a result of the...

Variety 1d ago

What could be more 2026 than trying to detect whether a song is AI-generated or not… from within one of the big AI chatbots?

Music Ally 1d ago

“Why Netflix Is Suffering From a Perpetual Sophomore Slump – Analysis – Long season breaks, increased competition and confusing release schedules have led to shows seeing big ratings declines between seasons. But does Netflix care?”...

Lefsetz Letter 1d ago

Two weeks after Wiz Khalifa nixed his European tour, one of the impacted events, Clout Czechia, has pulled the plug on its 2026 edition. Organizers took to social media to reveal the unfortunate news, which arrived not long before Clout Czechia’s scheduled early July kickoff.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Albania’s prime minister defended a decision to inject over $4 million to ensure a Kanye concert would take place in the country. On Wednesday, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama defended the decision to financially support a concert by the disgraced rapper formerly known as Kanye West.

Digital Music News 1d ago

The FIFA World Cup 2026 Final Halftime Show will feature a cast of performers including headliners Justin Bieber, Madonna, Shakira, and BTS. FIFA and Global Citizen have announced that Justin Bieber has joined the roster of headliners for the FIFA World Cup 2026 Final Halftime Show, which takes...

Digital Music News 1d ago

Primary Wave has scored a partnership deal with Foreigner founder Mick Jones, who’s sold a piece of his IP and teed up a collaboration covering touring, NIL, and more.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Donald Trump’s name will stay off the Kennedy Center after the Court of Appeals ruled against the board’s motion to stay the decision to remove it. On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Meta has launched a new AI generator, available for free through the Meta AI app, as well as on Instagram Stories and WhatsApp. It’s already a problem. On Tuesday, Meta announced the launch of its new AI image generator, Muse Image, built by its dedicated AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Digital Music News 1d ago

United Musicians and Allied Workers launches the Raise the Bar campaign to improve artist treatment at music venues and put an end to worst practices. United Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) launched its “Raise the Bar” campaign to improve artist treatment at music venues everywhere.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Justin Bieber has been added as a performer to the FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show, joining the lineup as a co-headliner alongside Madonna, Shakira and BTS. FIFA and Global Citizen are staging the first Halftime Show in FIFA World Cup history on July 19 at New York New Jersey Stadium.

Variety 1d ago

The formula for success on social platforms changes regularly, much to the frustration of emerging creators and marketers alike. This is a natural consequence of content saturation.

MIDiA Research Blog 1d ago

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The Digital Edge 2d ago

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The Digital Edge 2d ago

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The Digital Edge 2d ago

Version 0.7.0 of libdiscid has been released. libdiscid is a C library that allows applications to easily calculate MusicBrainz and freedb disc IDs from audio CDs or CD TOC details. It also can extract MCN and ISRC information.

MetaBrainz Blog 2d ago

Goal-hunting strikers, ball-stopping defenders, and…Shakira? That’s right: With the world’s biggest football tournament well underway, we’re reminded that the stars lighting up the pitch this summer include some of the most talented players on the planet, along with one particular hitmaker from...

Spotify 2d ago

With hit albums, sold-out tours, and a generation of fans hanging on every lyric, Gracie Abrams and Olivia Rodrigo are two of pop’s most exciting voices.

Spotify 3d ago

“HOW LIZZO BECAME ONE OF POP CULTURE’S GREAT FLOPS – The singer is experiencing a new form of downward mobility—and she’s not alone.”...

Lefsetz Letter 3d ago

From: chris stein Subject: Re: America 250 July 4 1976 is so utterly memorable for me. We were returning from an early ‘out of town’ Blondie gig in Philly. The trip back was laborious, returning a rented beat up station wagon, hauling gear etc. A long bus ride going downtown, we saw ships in the […]

Lefsetz Letter 3d ago

With punters drinking less, running costs rising and one-third of the sector wiped out by Covid, venues and promoters are turning the business model on its head On a cold, rainy Tuesday night in Sydney’s Dulwich Hill, most of the shopfronts are dark, but one is shaking.

The Guardian 3d ago

This follow-up post covers how and why our servers are still being impacted, an explanation and examples of what we consider “botting” in ListenBrainz – and an apology, because our last post had some baaad comms!

MetaBrainz Blog 3d ago

The O-1 visa has become one of the biggest obstacles facing international artists who want to tour in the U.S. Rising application costs, processing delays, and stricter documentation requirements are changing how musicians plan their careers and connect with American audiences.

How Music Charts 4d ago

America's AI infrastructure has become a political issue as rural voters oppose extensive projects affecting electricity, land, and water. Communities demand transparency and local control, viewing these developments as interconnected with broader governance concerns.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 4d ago

First, you drop bombs, then you send aid. Totally logical. | Image: Definitive Jux There was a period in the early aughts when Definitive Jux (nee: Def Jux) seemed like it was going to be the future of hip-hop.

The Verge 4d ago

That is the face of a man who enjoys what he does. | Image: Reato Morris Erick the Architect is a founding member of, and the primary producer for, the legendary Flatbush Zombies and his solo debut was released in 2024.

The Verge 6d ago