How far down the Billboard 200 did Miley Cyrus’ “Bass Persuades” album fall in its second week? Curiosity about that grew over the last few days, particularly as Billboard announced the top 10 of its album chart on Sunday, and Cyrus’ album was not in it, after having debuted at No.
They haven't played a public show since July, but the group did perform earlier this week at a private event at a California luxury hotel
The hitmaker scored 10 R&B No. 1s and 19 top 10s in his career.
During the two-day shopping event, Amazon has deep discounts on headphones, earbuds, speakers, turntables & other gear, sitewide.
Flau’jae Johnson, Joaquina and Nezza play “What Would You Queue” presented by E.L.F. Brasko Ooh, that’s a great one. Hello Sister It’s a bop. It’s so good. Flau’jae Johnson My my list is gas. Nezza Hey guys, it’s Nezza. Brasko My name is Brasko. Hello Sister It’s Hello Sister.
FKA twigs settles her long-running legal battle against actor Shia LaBeouf over ugly sexual battery allegations, enabling her to discuss the matter. FKA twigs is finally free to speak about the alleged abuse she suffered from actor Shia LaBeouf after resolving a long-running dispute over their...
Dolly Parton’s estate claims that her nephew and former head of security is using barbed wire and a “no trespassing” sign to evade a lawsuit. The estate of Dolly Parton alleges that Bryan Seaver, the late singer’s “beloved” nephew and former head of security, is attempting to evade getting served a...
The R&B superstar's other three baby mothers all came forward praising Brown as a father.
Google secures a major win against Penske Media as a federal judge dismisses claims that the tech giant unlawfully used their content in its AI-generated summaries.
The pop star explained the meaning behind her alias on her late night debut with Seth Meyers.
This week's Five Burning Questions looks at Swift inching ever-closer to the Beatles' benchmark of 20 Hot 100-toppers with this week's "Patient Zero."
Ahead of the holiday season, here's how to score AirPods Pro at a deep discount — shop online.
Usually $165, the Japanese beauty brand’s bestselling serum is down to $115 during Amazon’s two-day savings event.
"We don't need the participation of know-nothing morons who've been auto-tuned into fame," she said.
The court showdown, originally scheduled for Friday (Oct. 9), has been pushed to Oct. 20.
Cole Bennett directs the visual for the single from the rapper’s The Real Me
Is it time to put overly complex (and easily exploitable) mechanical rate formulas in the rearview? Organizations including the Songwriters Guild of America (SGA) believe so, and they’re now backing a Phonorecords V proposal that would swap convoluted calculations for a flat per-stream rate as well...
The annual event is slated for Oct. 23 at Los Angeles’ United Theater on Broadway, hosted by Saturday Night Live’s James Austin Johnson. Tickets go on sale Oct. 8
Saudi Arabia’s Soundstorm festival will not be taking place this year, the organizer MDLBEAST announced, but promises it will return in 2027. Saudi Arabia’s Soundstorm festival, which was due to take place in Riyadh in December, has been canceled this year.
GoDigital Music expands into Asia with a partnership with Japanese entertainment company Pony Canyon and a new president for the APAC market. GoDigital Music has announced a significant expansion in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) market, appointing executive Sebastian Mair as President of APAC and...
More than 100 startups taking part, from 17 countries, were selected from over 2,000 applications, according to Google Source
“He was a kind, generous soul who loved his fans, his family, his friends, and his music with everything he had,” family says
Busta Rhymes discussed the fundamentals of his new album “Dillagence II” last night at Los Angeles’ Grammy Museum, breaking down a handful of key tracks during a Q&A with musician Anderson .Paak and performing a string of his greatest hits along with a guest appearance from Common.
“This victory frees her to discuss her experience, advocate for other women who might be less privileged, and support the charitable causes of her choice,” the singer’s lawyer said
Another Black Friday, another Record Store Day Black Friday… that also happens to be pink Friday, yellow Friday, silver Friday, crystal clear Friday, “red and yellow splatter” Friday, “organic earth brown” Friday, “sky blue” Friday, “black-and-white galaxy” Friday and… well, you get the picture.
There’s perhaps a good reason why the long-awaited reunion of Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher after more than a decade apart wasn’t filled with emotion or, indeed, a whole lot of conversation, and it’s not simply due to the nature of the individuals.
Mair's background includes roles at Creativeman Productions, Fujipacific Music, Live Nation Japan, AEG Presents, and Ubisoft. Source
Rapper Yung Sammy, singer-songwriter Arma and electronic music producer Sixth Ocean are the newest set of acts to sign exclusive global management deals with The Hello Group (THG) India, the […] The post is from Music Ally.
In January, when Arijit Singh announced that he would no longer be accepting playback singing assignments — a declaration that was incorrectly interpreted as his retirement — we speculated that […] The post is from Music Ally.
But he can’t promise he won’t do it again
When it rains, it pours and, in Suno’s case, keeps on pouring: Besides facing a number of stateside lawsuits as well as international copyright claims, the AI music generator is now grappling with a formal investigation in Italy over its allegedly “unfair terms.” The Italian Competition Authority...
Blue Highway describes Fifty-One/Forty-Nine as an artist-led record company "built around long-term ownership, creative independence and artist development." Source
Country star Thomas Rhett and Hybe Americas’ Nashville-based label Blue Highway Records have announced a new partnership, Fifty-One/Forty-Nine Records. Described as “artist-led,” the partnership offers “an innovative approach to the artist-label relationship,” according to the announcement.
Earlier this year, we gave ARMY the chance to put their BTS knowledge to the test with Spotify’s first Music Quiz. Now, we’re bringing the experience to even more fans.
Rapper-actor and May 2025 Variety cover star A$AP Rocky has announced a four-year full-tuition scholarship for a student to attend the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment at Long Island University.
Universal Music Group has been making south-east Asia a strategic priority for some time now. The company’s AMEA CEO Adam Granite has been talking about trends in the region at the Music Matters 2026 conference in Singapore. The post is from Music Ally.
Fender has been more than just a maker of instruments for some time now. In the last decade we’ve written about its moves in music education, its Fender Studio music-making app and its Fender Next artist-development program for example. The post is from Music Ally.
TikTok has been making a splash with some announcements at Advertising Week New York 2026, and while they’re not directly music-related, they’re worth taking in if you’re doing marketing on the platform. The post is from Music Ally.
Exec most recently served as SVP & Global Head of Artist & Market Development at WMG's ADA Source
Nashville-headquartered org confirmed the figure at its Annual Membership Meeting last Tuesday (September 29) Source
Australia is one of the countries where the music industry is slugging it out with some tech companies to win the ears of politicians, as the latter mull what rules to put in place covering AI technology. The post is from Music Ally.
The watchdog's concerns include price changes, account terminations, US-based arbitration, and a content license that it says requires users to waive their moral rights Source
Sound Distribution's in-house studio produces music videos, visualizers, editorial monologues, cover shoots, and live DJ set integrations. Source
Whatever you do, don’t snort at Peppa Pig’s music clout. The popular children’s character has more than 1bn lifetime music streams across a catalogue of more than 1,300 original songs. The post is from Music Ally.
Back-office admin – from distribution and DSP analytics to neighbouring rights and D2C sales – remains a massive operational drain for indie labels, publishers, and self-releasing artists. In the latest episode […] The post is from Music Ally.
The song comes off the group’s most recent album, Prizefighter
The partnership aims to expand the reach of El Reino Infantil across new audiences, formats, and markets, the companies said. Source
Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music are all covered by New York City's new "Click to Cancel" rule, which took effect on October 1. Source
Nureni reports to Guillermo Gonzalez, President, Warner Music EMEA Source
San Diego’s SSBD Festival claims it cut 99% of ticketing fees with its self-made Shopify platform, lowering the price of one of its tiers by $60. San Diego’s Same Same But Different Festival (SSBD) says it has lowered the price of one of its ticketing tiers by $60, slashing ticketing fees by an...
Warner Music Group expands its regional leadership in the Middle East and North Africa after seismic shifts across the United States and beyond. Warner Music Group (WMG) has announced a strategic expansion of its Middle East and North Africa (MENA) leadership team as the company continues to poise...
The Music Impact Coalition will kick off its new initiative starting in North Carolina with a combined $3 million grant for music and arts education. A coalition of more than 20 of the nation’s top music and arts foundations and organizations has joined forces on an initiative to ensure that every...
No one has heard it, despite the song being number one for 23 weeks, how can this be? Well, “Rolling Stone” posited that it’s hatred of country music: “WHAT SOME FOLKS REALLY MEAN WHEN THEY CLAIM TO HAVE NEVER HEARD ‘CHOOSIN’ TEXAS’ Proclaiming you’re unfamiliar with Ella Langley’s record-setting...
The Joy Awards, Saudi Arabia’s answer to the Grammy Awards, have been canceled amid financial strain on the country’s entertainment sector. Saudi Arabia’s Joy Awards, its annual Grammy-like event held in January, has been canceled this year amid financial strain and the Iran war impacting the...
You can spend three weeks getting a melody right and three minutes clicking through the music publishing agreement that determines who gets paid for it. That imbalance should bother everyone who writes music.
In a headache-inducing weekend for concertgoers, fans across the US couldn’t access or transfer tickets due to a systemwide Ticketmaster outage. As a result, some would-be attendees found themselves outside venues with tickets they had paid for.
Data quality in the music business is no longer just an administrative concern — it’s a revenue issue. When repertoire and rights information is incomplete, inconsistent, or poorly reconciled across the ecosystem, royalties get delayed, misallocated, or missed altogether.
“Mr. Seaver attempted to evade service of process, and this court should not reward that behavior,” the estate’s lawyers wrote
It’s high time the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) judges approved the proposed Phonorecords V settlement – at least according to the major labels, the NMPA, and the other signatories, which are defending the “reasonable” deal in response to questions centering on different participants’ objections.
During a recent show in California, the singer yelled “Fuck ICE” and “Free Palestine”
Meekah, best friend of children’s entertainment and education character Blippi, has teamed up with Dove on a new music video promoting body confidence. Moonbug Entertainment and the Dove Self-Esteem Project (DSEP) have partnered with Meekah for “My Body Is Amazing,” a music video celebrating...
It isn’t the first time the rapper has declined to submit for awards consideration
Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford raised $7.65 million on Sunday night in Los Angeles for Children in Conflict, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting, educating and providing mental health support to children living in war zones and high-conflict areas.
Spotify’s stock is down nearly 30% year-over-year, with UBS dropping its price target due to cost pressures despite a generally bullish mood. Spotify’s stock (SPOT) has been lackluster this year, down nearly 30% year-over-year, despite the broader sentiment remaining bullish as the company pushes...
With an eye on spearheading further expansion initiatives, Beatport has scored an investment from Square Nine Capital. Denver-headquartered Beatport and Peter Ma-founded Square Nine recently announced the underlying agreement – albeit without divulging the hard numbers at hand.
Slayyyter has announced that “Wor$t Man in America,” the “brother” album to “Wor$t Girl in America,” is slated for release on December 4 via RECORDS/Columbia Records.
Erica Campbell’s label has quickly settled its lawsuit against distributor SRG over alleged royalty non-payment just two weeks after filing the case. Gospel singer-songwriter Erica Campbell’s label My Block has voluntarily dismissed its royalty-related lawsuit against distributor SRG only two weeks...
At least for one week, America finally chose differently when it came to the nation’s most consumed song. Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” took a breather from its record-breaking run atop the Billboard Hot 100 to make room for Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero,” which claims the No.
I spend most of my time thinking about a fairly narrow question: what does an independent artist actually need from a distribution platform once “upload and wait” stops being enough?
Sony Music’s AI deepfakes crackdown is intensifying: As of September’s end, the major label had fired off north of 250,000 cumulative soundalike-track takedown demands.
Silona Bonewald, our new Executive Director, is NOW hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) in this forum thread. Please respect the code of conduct, as you always do! You are welcome to post questions in the thread later, and Silona will do her best to answer them when she has the time.
When AI comes for your dreams: Artist Rights Symposium V connects the fight over data centers, eminent domain and community resources with artists’ fight to protect their work from unauthorized AI exploitation.
AEG Presents had a new number to trumpet this weekend: country star Zach Bryan broke the attendance record for the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, with 73,538 fans attending his second night there. The post is from Music Ally.
We did not expect to be writing a story about the Pope in 2026, let alone two, but here we are. Pope Leo XIV has been sounding off again about artificial intelligence and art – this time in a post on X. The post is from Music Ally.
Electronic-music firm Beatport has a new investor: Square Nine Capital. Announced last week, it has refinanced an “existing credit facility” of the company, providing “additional capital to support Beatport’s strategic priorities”. The post is from Music Ally.
Ticketing-tech firm SeatGeek has launched a new product that’s for promoters and venues rather than music fans. TourIQ is a predictive-intelligence tool. The post is from Music Ally.
In March 2025, Sony Music said that it had successfully gotten more than 75k AI-generated deepfakes of its artists from various online platforms. A year later, in March 2026, the company said that it had now filed more than 135k of these takedown notices. The post is from Music Ally.
We recently reported on the latest devices from children’s speakers maker Yoto. Now the company has published its financial results. The post is from Music Ally.
“Roll the Calls: A Memoir”: https://bit.ly/4dl125e I read this whole damn book and I still don’t know who Ari Emanuel is. What we’ve got here is a package deal, as in Ari agented his own book. In other words, he hired J.R. Moehringer to write it.
While deep in the recording process for The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor lent some of his production talents to old friend Kevin McMahon, from the new wave band Lucky Pierre (which Reznor was briefly a member of).
The Picard team is happy to announce the new major version 3.0 of MusicBrainz Picard, now available to download. MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with data from MusicBrainz.
Ghost tickets, predatory resale, and the battle over who controls the live-music experience take center stage at Artist Rights Symposium V with Randy Nichols, Jay Gilbert, and moderator Mala Sharma.
Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from the service have found their way into massive hits like Lisa's "Money" and "Espresso" by Sabrina Carpenter.
Nothing is guaranteed but there are ways to boost your chances of experiencing such in-demand events Whether your passion is the battle of the bands or the Battle of Hastings, what are probably Britain’s hottest cultural tickets are about to go on sale – and to be in with a shout of going, there...
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...
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
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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...
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 ...
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.
A room of thousands of humans wrestling with what comes after it all.
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...