CONFESSIONS II brings the Queen of Pop back to the top.

Billboard 4m ago

These artists stand at the pinnacle of chart success with both albums and songs.

Billboard 18m ago

Daughter Amy Helm claims “disturbing circumstances” led to her ouster from Levon Helm Studio after her stepmother, Sandra, backed a leadership change that put Brian Parillo in charge

Rolling Stone 20m ago

From Sony to LG, Shop Billboard rounded up the best 4K TVs for watching live music performances and live sports.

Billboard 21m ago

The Mexican pop singer is named brand ambassador for the iconic fashion company.

Billboard 25m ago

Running through July 22, the DoorDash promotion offers exclusive savings for DashPass members during the final week of Summer of DashPass.

Billboard 32m ago

The rapper says a pair of MAGA lobbyists must return a huge payment he made after they were "talking like they had Trump on speed dial."

Billboard 37m ago

Defending world champ Diarmuid Early wins again despite being forced to solve puzzles outdoors

The Register 52m ago

The Korean music giant is seeking a legal injunction to seize counterfeit merch. Such lawsuits have become standard operating procedure for major U.S. tours.

Billboard 1h ago

The acquisition completes a transaction that first got underway in 2016.

Billboard 1h ago

Cheap can be expensive

The Register 1h ago

A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.

Billboard 1h ago

Tye Blue, director and co-creator of the Tony-winning “Titaníque,” has joined the creative team of “The Pyramid: An Unauthorized ‘Dance Moms’ Musical”, a new parody written by longtime “Dance Moms” fans James Stryska, Isabel Grace, Erica Molfetto and Molly Russo.

Variety 2h ago

Under the opt-out design, the public Instagram account of any adult artist could be referenced by other users to generate AI images unless the artist switched the feature off Source

Music Business Worldwide 2h ago

The track generated more than 61% of the vote in the latest Billboard New Music Latin poll.

Billboard 2h ago

Rapper taps YSL Records artists Tezzus, 1300saint, Iyrus, Yume, Biggs, Unky, and Diamond* for the run

Rolling Stone 2h ago

Lock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days

The Register 3h ago

ZEGO-TVZ says the financial fallout from a March cyberattack left shutting its doors as the only option

The Register 4h ago

She’s a rainbow… and with a slew of carefully chosen guest artists on her new album, she might also count as a rainbow farmer. The acclaimed singer-songwriter Allison Russell is back with her third solo album, “In the Hour of Chaos,” featuring her Rainbow Coalition band and leading off with a song...

Variety 4h ago

First interstellar monosaccharide suggests some of life's ingredients may be scattered across the galaxy

The Register 4h ago

After launching a GoFundMe Finch will miss the upcoming North American leg of L7’s Last Hurrah Tour after undergoing multiple surgeries

Rolling Stone 5h ago

As it awaits the appointment of a new prime minister, the UK’s government has announced ‘Turn It Up: Our Plan for Music’.

Music Ally 5h ago

Company releases a fresh firmware update. Go on, install it, we dare you...

The Register 5h ago

Sweeping sanctions and condemnation follow op that could have left half a million without power in the depths of winter

The Register 5h ago

US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley granted Meta's motion to dismiss on Friday, July 10 Source

Music Business Worldwide 5h ago

The Copyright Royalty Judges have initiated a public comment period for the proposed Phonorecords V settlement, due August 10, 2026, extending existing regulations in a new freeze.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 5h ago

SPONSORED FEATURE: 696 experts find co-pilot welcome, autopilot not so much

The Register 6h ago

What was supposed to be a 9 p.m. start time on Sunday night was pushed back past midnight after the security incident

Rolling Stone 6h ago

BMG says deal gives it full ownership of landmark publishing catalogs spanning Blues, Rock & Roll, Soul, Pop, and classic American songwriting Source

Music Business Worldwide 6h ago

The suit seeks a court order authorizing HYBE and law enforcement to seize counterfeit goods from whoever sells them in the vicinity of the venue Source

Music Business Worldwide 6h ago

This week on The Reg's Kettle podcast, we wonder whether tokenminning is going to bring the industry back down to Earth

The Register 6h ago

The panel examined how AI is changing music from discovery to fan engagement Source

Music Business Worldwide 7h ago

Hopefully, the rocket won't go in the same direction as the company's share price

The Register 7h ago

Grammy-winning rock band will release Marrow Deep, its ninth studio album, next month

Rolling Stone 7h ago

Carliz De La Cruz Hernández, who is seeking at least USD $40 million in damages, sued Bad Bunny and his label Rimas Entertainment in 2023. Source

Music Business Worldwide 7h ago

Consumer security updates now run to October 2027, and Redmond doesn't mention Windows 11 once

The Register 8h ago

The primary objective of fair use is not to confer a private benefit on those who copy the works of others, but to promote the progress of science and useful arts.1Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S.

Copyhype 8h ago

The labels use visual icons, supported by metadata and delivery systems, to show fans whether and how AI was used in a recording Source

Music Business Worldwide 8h ago

Cisac president and ABBA co-founder Björn Ulvaeus has given his latest – and most detailed – speech about AI and creators, at the United Nations’ AI for Good Summit in Geneva.

Music Ally 8h ago

The debates about AI and musicians rumble on in parliaments around the world – including Ireland this week. Tomorrow (14 July) a motion filed by politician Aengus Ó Snodaigh will be debated in the country’s Dáil (assembly).

Music Ally 8h ago

Meta unveiled its new image-generating AI tool, Muse Image, last week – complete with the ability to “reference” other people’s public Instagram accounts in prompts by @-mentioning them.

Music Ally 8h ago

Footie fans? Overreacting? There's a first time for everything

The Register 9h ago

The deal would leave the existing rate structure in place through 2032, save for annual adjustments in line with inflation. Source

Music Business Worldwide 9h ago

On Friday we reported on the announcement by a group of music-industry bodies of a new system for labelling wholly AI-generated music as well as ‘AI-assisted’ music.

Music Ally 9h ago

New verb carries request content while remaining safe, idempotent, and cacheable

The Register 9h ago

The figure comprises $371.8 million in North America sales and $629.8 million from international markets. Source

Music Business Worldwide 10h ago

The following was originally delivered as a speech at the United Nations' AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva on Wednesday (July 8) by ABBA co-founder and CISAC President Björn Ulvaeus Source

Music Business Worldwide 10h ago

Vendor insists there's no evidence of unauthorized access, but it's asking customers to take one of the most drastic precautions available

The Register 10h ago

Nagware goes large on the mean streets of Derby

The Register 11h ago

Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological

The Register 11h ago

“We’re going to go until like 5 a.m., so don’t be scared,” said Jay-Z not long after he started the third and final show of his Yankee Stadium residency on Sunday night, the concluding chapter to a weekend that paid homage to the 25th and 30th anniversaries of his seminal albums “The Blueprint” and...

Variety 12h ago

Time for the Clone Wars remake

The Register 12h ago

PARTNER CONTENT: Firms crafting internal AI must choose a permanent residence for their tech, not just rent server space by the hour.

The Register 13h ago

Lawsuit alleges job-swappers took secrets with them, helped by coaching on how to avoid scrutiny

The Register 13h ago

IT department was not pleased, but was also easily fooled

The Register 14h ago

Jay-Z’s third and most hotly anticipated concert at Yankee Stadium on Sunday night was plagued by a nearly four-hour delay due to fans rushing the venue’s gates, with Jay finally taking the stage four hours after the concert’s listed start time (and around three hours after the previous two...

Variety 17h ago

Today you’re selling streams, not physical product, and they’re doing a piss-poor job of it. There are two issues in today’s music business: attention and friction.

Lefsetz Letter 22h ago

Singer scores her 10th chart-topping album and becomes first artist of the 2020s to land Number Ones in four different decades

Rolling Stone 1d ago

Madonna’s “Confessions II,” her first new album in seven years, found an appreciative audience awaiting her return. The album bowed with 134,000 equivalent album units, more than enough to push her past the still highly successful Olivia Rodrigo record to land on top of the Billboard 200 album...

Variety 1d ago

“I already know the boys will make England proud, it’s coming home,” she wrote ahead of the game between England and Norway in Miami

Rolling Stone 1d ago

Memphis-based guitarist Jad Tariq made his debut in Dylan’s unit Friday in Cincinnati, filling in for fellow new addition Julian Lage

Rolling Stone 1d ago

“What people see is two seconds of insanity of me arching me to the lords,” singer writes of standing through a moonroof on 101 Freeway

Rolling Stone 1d ago

“Michael” has surpassed $1 billion in global ticket sales, becoming the first biopic to achieve the coveted box office milestone. The crowd-pleasing film about Michael Jackson has generated $629.8 million overseas and $371.8 million domestically, bringing its global tally to $1.001 billion.

Variety 1d ago

Rapper’s second night in the Bronx focused on his 2001 album, The Blueprint

Rolling Stone 1d ago

Jay-Z was almost entirely truthful to the source material for his 25th anniversary Yankee Stadium show on Saturday to celebrate “The Blueprint,” setting guests artists to high wattage but low frequency as he trotted out Eminem, Pharrell Williams and Slick Rick for a curtailed 90-minute set.

Variety 1d ago

The first question most Jack White fans are looking to have answered when it comes to his new album, “Frozen Charlotte”: Is it effectively a “No Name 2.0”? Nearly everyone is hoping for a “yes,” on that one.

Variety 1d ago

Jay-Z did appear to promise far in advance that his “Reasonable Doubt” 30th anniversary show would, in fact, be a celebration of the debut album that he dropped back in June 1996. That didn’t stop him from pulling out all the stops — well, most of them, at least — during the first of his […]

Variety 2d ago

“Not today, Satan”… or “Hell yeah, Beelzebub”? A split is taking place in the polarizing realm of devil-rock, as practiced by self-styled “Satanic” duo Twin Temple.

Variety 2d ago

Tune in July 11th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

Lefsetz Letter 2d ago

The number no longer makes sense. Forget lying to others about your age, can you lie to yourself? It was really our grandparents who were the last generation to get old and accept it. It was a natural stage of life. As for our parents, they were flummoxed.

Lefsetz Letter 2d ago

Spotify is giving listeners control to fine-tune what gets surfaced for them in Release Radar - one of its most popular weekly playlists. The new options allow you to narrow the playlist to a specific genre, focus on artists that are new to you, and more.

The Verge 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 4d 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 4d ago

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The Digital Edge 4d ago

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The Digital Edge 4d ago

Gopher can’t play the piano for you, but it can bury it in the mix. | Image: Image Line Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. You asked it how to do something, and it would serve up the relevant instructions.

The Verge 4d 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 4d 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 5d ago

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The Digital Edge 5d ago

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The Digital Edge 5d ago

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The Digital Edge 5d 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 5d 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 6d 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 6d ago