She revealed that Drizzy buying her mom a house is currently "in the works."

Billboard 11m ago

The "No Broke Boys" talked to Call her Daddy host Alex Cooper about situationships, opening for Justin Bieber and the fallout from her "Crash Out" promo.

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The Gen Z star referred to his mentor as "the legend" and "the amazing pop star."

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Billboard 36m ago

Shenseea, Kes, Joé Dwèt Filé and Moliy each took home multiple awards at the Trinidad-set ceremony.

Billboard 43m ago

1 I’m not usually up at this hour. So I’m cruising down Sunset after a hike in the mountains last night, I’m going about forty, listening to the radio, feeling good because the shop got new liners for my ski boots, and the battery light comes on. Even weirder, the car seems to die. Or […]

Lefsetz Letter 50m ago

Other honorees included Blake Pendergrass, songwriter and music exec Paul Williams and the late songwriting legend Don Schlitz.

Billboard 50m ago

"I started making businesses when I was a kid," the Colombian artist said on Celebrity Substitute.

Billboard 53m ago

IFPI says the operation brings together authorities from Peru, Paraguay, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and Ecuador Source

Music Business Worldwide 55m ago

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

Billboard 59m ago

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Billboard 1h ago

Even the biggest artists on earth started somewhere small—at home. That’s the idea behind Hometown, Spotify’s latest concert series. Designed to celebrate the places that have shaped U.K.

Spotify 1h ago

The track, featuring Kurtis Wells, leads the Dance Airplay chart.

Billboard 1h ago

The one-off star-studded show will hit the Roundhouse in October

Rolling Stone 1h ago

Track the artists and songs making an impact across streaming and social media with the Chartmetric Top 50, a new public chart updated daily.

How Music Charts 1h ago

Netflix has postponed the release of a documentary about former pop star and convicted sexual abuser Gary Glitter just three weeks before its release, citing “new legal information.” “Hunting Gary Glitter,” a three-part docuseries directed by Sebastian Smith, was due to drop on the streaming...

Variety 1h ago

New dock and app launcher arrive while soaring memory prices revive scrutiny of a two-year-old firmware restriction

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Customers got crime crew's calling card instead of access to journals

The Register 2h ago

Palmer recorded 14 studio albums and three live albums Source

Music Business Worldwide 2h ago

SPONSORED FEATURE: Why AI-driven operations need a data-rich view of the network

The Register 2h ago

For people with disabilities, accessibility is not simply a convenience. It is a fundamental civil right, and at its most basic, a measure of freedom: the freedom to work, travel, attend events, and enter a building.

Rolling Stone 3h ago

Alphabet-owned platform and festival promoter Goldenvoice have renewed their exclusive livestream and content partnership Source

Music Business Worldwide 3h ago

YouTube’s staying in the Coachella desert for a few more years. The streamer will remain the exclusive free streaming home of Coachella through 2030, continuing its nearly 15-year partnership with the festival’s parent company Goldenvoice.

Variety 3h ago

As anyone reading this probably knows, the Bad Brains were one of the most important punk-rock bands of all time, Washington D.C.-bred pioneers of the sound that became hardcore.

Variety 3h ago

Pew finds growing concern over their effects on energy bills, the environment, and nearby communities

The Register 3h ago

NCT’s JOHNNY was born and raised in Chicago, but moved to South Korea as a teenager to train as an artist. Years later, he’s still discovering new things about his adopted home every day.

Spotify 3h ago

The extended version of her 12th studio album features four new songs: "Patient Zero," "Cleveland!," "Pink Clouding," and "Babylon"

Rolling Stone 4h ago

No surprise here: “Patient Zero,” the song Taylor Swift announced Tuesday, is not an orphan or a one-off. The pop superstar followed news of the single a day later with her Wednesday morning reveal for a release that includes four new tracks and will also be out this Friday — “The Life of a...

Variety 4h ago

Oasis has added four more dates to their Live ’27 tour. Due to phenomenal demand, the resurrected Britpop band will now play at Munich’s Allianz Arena on July 6, Rome’s Olympic Stadium on July 26 and Knebworth in the U.K. on Sept. 25 and 26. The dates of Oasis’ two Paris shows have also been […]

Variety 4h ago

Hilary Duff has announced the extension of “The Lucky Me Tour,” with 32 new dates added for the United States, Europe and Latin America. The pop singer initially staged her first global headlining trek in nearly two decades with a string of dates across the U.S. beginning this past June.

Variety 4h ago

Kakao Corp. founder Kim Beom-su has denied the allegations Source

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

Spotify has always been built around your taste, and now we’re bringing our latest advances in personalization to more listeners. Following initial testing in New Zealand earlier this year, we’re rolling out Taste Profile (Beta) to Premium listeners ages 18 and older in the U.S.

Spotify 4h ago

It is the first music company to join the group, which launched in June 2026 with members drawn from film, TV, journalism and more. Source

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

Figures come from Global Music Pulse, a new report from Chartmetric, which tracks 14m artists across streaming and social services Source

Music Business Worldwide 4h ago

The expanded Lucky Me Tour will have Dashboard Confessional and Tegan and Sara opening select U.S. dates

Rolling Stone 4h ago

Sony Music Group has joined the Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts & Media (ARIAM), becoming the first music company to join the group advocating for the responsible adoption of AI throughout the creative industry.

Variety 4h ago

In January, Spotify launched its dedicated Haryanvi music hub in response to the strong growth of the language on the platform, the listenership of which grew almost 7x between February […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 5h ago

Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?

The Register 5h ago

EarthPercent and Sounds Right’s ‘Give Nature A Split’ is the initiative where artists can use sounds from nature in their music, and list ‘Nature’ as a featured artist to donate a portion of their royalties to conservation work. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 5h ago

In August we wrote about a startup called Grai becoming one of the first two companies – the other was Udio – to license a group of AI patents registered by UMG-backed Music IP Holdings. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 5h ago

Snoop Dogg has been in the children’s-music game since 2022 when he launched his ‘Doggyland’ channel on YouTube. A live tie-up with Kidz Bop followed in 2025, and now he’s partnering with another big kids-music brand: Moonbug. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 5h ago

Soundtrack (formerly Soundtrack Your Brand) is one of the companies licensing music for business use: restaurants, hotels, bars, retailers, gyms and more. But it seems many of those businesses still don’t see the need for specific licences. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 5h ago

K-Pop films have been a lucrative affair for cinema-distribution firm Trafalgar Releasing: back in 2024 it said it had already grossed more than $120m from them in box-offices worldwide. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 5h ago

Creatives of all stripes, from musicians to YouTubers, have been fretting about how AI might put them out of work. Yet plenty have also been exploring how AI can help them to do that work better. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 5h ago

Regulator wants to know whether parent Aylo did its homework before reopening the door to UK iPhone users

The Register 5h ago

Back in 2016, a team at Sony CSL Research Lab released ‘Daddy’s Car’ – a track “in the style of the Beatles” created using their Flow Machines AI-music system. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 6h ago

Another utility sees the light in putting existing telecoms infrastructure to work

The Register 6h ago

Silas Wilson allegedly agreed to abandon the Ovrkast name by July 15, 2026, and rebrand as OVERKXST. Source

Music Business Worldwide 7h ago

HYBE CINE FEST 2026 will run in theaters from October 24 through October 31. Source

Music Business Worldwide 7h ago

The campaign follows a highly profitable year for crooks targeting the over-60s

The Register 7h ago

The hearing will be the last stage of the appeal before the panel rules on whether to revive the case, docketed as Graham v. UMG Recordings, Inc. Source

Music Business Worldwide 7h ago

Attackers had four days to drink in names, addresses, emails and phone numbers

The Register 7h ago

MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored

The Register 8h ago

The power dynamic between media personalities and media distributors is shifting – a change that has picked up pace over the last few years. Traditional media companies are cautiously opening their doors to creator talent, recognising them for the lucrative opportunity that they represent. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 8h ago

XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests

The Register 9h ago

SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Merging security into the network makes enterprise protection more agile

The Register 9h ago

Developers test what they can build with TypeSafe's fast, typed decision model

The Register 10h ago

The Glasgow band’s last album, Screen Violence, arrived in 2021

Rolling Stone 10h ago

The Killers frontman recently released a country-inspired solo album, Thrasher

Rolling Stone 11h ago

Kids can learn why BGP matters in a semester, but that won’t leave them ready to implement it

The Register 11h ago

Calvin Harris earns a Guinness World Record after playing to a crowd of 1.6 million in Brazil—the largest attendance for a DJ set by a single artist. Scottish DJ Calvin Harris drew a crowd of approximately 1.6 million people to his free pre-Carnival performance in São Paulo, Brazil, setting a...

Digital Music News 12h ago

As NIL protections become a critical focus for IP, hip-hop duo Outkast sue rapper Ovrkast for allegedly using a “nearly identical” name on purpose. Hip-hop duo Outkast has filed a lawsuit against rapper and producer Ovrkast for trademark infringement, alleging his “nearly identical” name was chosen...

Digital Music News 12h ago

In a new court filing, Bryan Seaver is accused of launching an “escalating campaign of threats” to extract money from the Parton estate

Rolling Stone 12h ago

Meet ‘superintelligence’ and the ‘globalist scheme’ – probably a polite diplomatic letter – to control it

The Register 13h ago

Dolly Parton’s longtime manager has filed for a restraining order against her nephew, who until being fired a week ago was her head of security, alleging that the family member is engaged in a campaign of coercion, extortion and violent threats that has terrified employees and associates of her...

Variety 14h ago

The benefit concert takes place at Hollywood Palladium on Oct. 17

Rolling Stone 15h ago

The Atlanta hip-hop duo says rapper agreed to adopt a new name but later backed out of the deal

Rolling Stone 16h ago

The LP arrives Oct. 30 and its next single "dream" will be released on Friday

Rolling Stone 17h ago

Anthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna

The Register 17h ago

One week ago, a federal court granted StubHub’s motion to compel arbitration in a proposed class action centering on CEO Eric Baker’s alleged ticket-broker ties. Now, the presiding judge has explained the ruling in a 21-page opinion.

Digital Music News 18h ago

https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0TNSFR0EEK92QB9GUIJXFHVLOZ I can’t even find a YouTube trailer, not one in English anyway. There is no heavy lifting here, this series is on Prime Video, and everybody has Amazon Prime (don’t e-mail me if you don’t, keep making those calls on your flip...

Lefsetz Letter 18h ago

Recently, fans of the German podcast Gemischtes Hack received a mysterious invitation to an event simply called “HACKTAG,” taking place September 22 at the Berliner Ensemble in Berlin. Without knowing anything else, an audience of 600 gathered, anxious to see what the evening might have in store.

Spotify 19h ago

“What was the song of the summer? Here are nine candidates” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2026-09-21/song-of-the-summer-olivia-rodrigo-karol-g Doesn’t that prove the point, that there is no song of the summer if there are nine possibilities?

Lefsetz Letter 19h ago

'first' publicly documented Windows implant to use LLMs for C2

The Register 20h ago

Italy’s Sanremo Music Festival has implemented strict rules concerning the use of AI, and organizers have reserved the right to utilize “any available technology to check” competitors’ songs for machine contributions.

Digital Music News 20h ago

ValuePunks, the catalog valuation platform built by Swiss music technology company Tribe Music Group AG, is extending its offering into publishing this week. This free valuation gives songwriters, composers, and publishers a quick, transparent way to value their catalogs.

Digital Music News 20h ago

Not that there's anything wrong with it

The Register 21h ago

DANNII Minogue returned to the music world last week with a gloriously catchy slice of disco-pop featuring fellow Antipodean music act Rogue Traders, ...

Medium 21h ago

Pan-African developer The Zaria Group announces plans for a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Nairobi to help kit out the city’s infrastructure. Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, will be the home of a proposed $294 million, 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena at the Nairobi Railway City precinct.

Digital Music News 21h ago

Apple announces the opening of Apple Music Hall in London, designed to connect artists and fans through bespoke, intimate performances. Apple has announced the opening of Apple Music Hall, a brand-new state-of-the-art live music venue in London’s Battersea Power Station, designed to connect artists...

Digital Music News 21h ago

Ahead of its quick-approaching launch, AI-powered music startup GRAI has officially acquired social streaming platform Hangout. Warsaw-headquartered GRAI reached out with word of the purchase today, about one month after licensing some two dozen AI patents from Universal Music.

Digital Music News 22h ago

Moonbug Entertainment, the company behind CoComelon, launches Big Feelings Music, with Snoop Dogg’s Doggyland among its initial partnerships. Moonbug Entertainment, the company behind the kids’ entertainment YouTube channel CoComelon, has announced the launch of Big Feelings Music, a new music...

Digital Music News 22h ago

Streaming won the listening war. Physical media found another job: making money. Apparently physical media is back, which is wonderful news for anyone who has spent the past twenty years wondering what to do with all those shelves.

Digital Music News 22h ago

It may be some time before cameras begin to roll on Jon M. Chu’s Britney Spears movie biopic, but the “Wicked” filmmaker has read some of the script from writer Liz Meriwether.

Variety 22h ago

Ozzy Osbourne’s Ozzfest is due to return to the United States next year after a decade-long hiatus and a reemergence in Ozzy’s UK hometown. Though Ozzy Osbourne died last year, his legacy lives on with a cornucopia of creative projects headed by his family.

Digital Music News 23h ago

Taylor Swift’s big news, at least for the moment, has turned out to be a new single, “Patient Zero,” coming out on digital services Friday, with few other details announced. “I’ve been impatiently waiting to tell you that my brand new single ‘Patient Zero’ will be out on September 25 (!!!!!!!!!!!!)...

Variety 23h ago

How do you know which recommender system is actually best? The standard approach of holding out some user... The post From IR to RecSys: Evaluating LLM-based Judges in Cranfield-style Recommendation Collections appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

Spotify Research 1d ago

TL;DR: We investigate whether personalised shelf concepts can be generated from listener profiles and... The post Hypothesis-Driven Shelf Generation for Personalised Recommendation appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

Spotify Research 1d ago

TL;DR: Recommender systems have always assumed a human recipient butAI agents break that assumption. In our... The post Who Are We Recommending To? Recommender Systems in the Agentic Web appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

Spotify Research 1d ago

This time it's personal

The Register 1d ago

FineParser runs in a CPU-powered container, preserving tables and layout before handing documents to an LLM

The Register 1d ago

It's been intertwined with different styles of music like jazz, rock, punk, soul, R&B and metal while also having a noticeable effect on pop music.

Medium 1d ago

'Podium is poised to take full advantage of the changing landscape for audio around the globe,' said Goldstuck Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

UMG and Sony file another copyright lawsuit against Suno, and the AI company claps back with a statement that the suit is “fundamentally flawed.” Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment continue to heat things up in their ongoing legal battle against the AI music platform Suno.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Dolly Parton’s estate recently fired her nephew, who announced her passing and served as head of her security for 20 years, alleging he made violent threats against others associated with the estate.

Digital Music News 1d ago

We reported yesterday on Universal Music Group and Sony Music’s new legal complaint against Suno, with a filing that attacked its latest v6 models as “the fruit of the same poisoned tree”. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

The Sanremo Music Festival is a veritable institution in Italy: an annual music contest and TV broadcast that’s often had a secondary purpose of choosing Italy’s entry for the next Eurovision Song Contest. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

Earlier this year, we wrote about the ‘text-to-song’ craze on TikTok, where people were feeding their message-threads into Suno to generate songs – some of which went viral. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

It’s not often we get to write about the launch of a new print magazine focused on music: the recent past has seen plenty of them shut down or go online-only (then shut down or dwindle). The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

In a September interview with Sources , Mark Zuckerberg dropped the finding that Threads is as big – or at least closing in on – X, the platform it was designed to compete with. The platforms’ respective monthly active user reported numbers are 550 million for X, as of May 2026, and 500 millio...

MIDiA Research Blog 1d ago

We received good feedback on the previous release candidate 3, which resulted in several bugfixes and small improvements. The Picard team hence decided to release a fourth release candidate in preparation for the final release of Picard 3.0.

MetaBrainz Blog 1d ago

Apple Music Hall is being unveiled this morning: a 600-cap venue in the Battersea Power Station complex. Apple plans to host a range of artists for concerts, up to superstar level, with the venue fully hardwired for livestreams and spatial audio.

Music Ally 1d ago

The venue is opening below Battersea Power Station, also well recognized for featuring on the cover of Pink Floyd’s Animals album. | Image: Apple Apple is preparing to open a new "state-of-the-art" live music venue in the UK, a 600-capacity space for hosting performances, recording sessions, and...

The Verge 1d ago

We are very pleased to announce that the MetaBrainz Foundation has appointed Silona Bonewald as Executive Director, following the unfortunate passing of our Rob at the beginning of the year.

MetaBrainz Blog 1d ago

Snapchat announces a suite of new AI-powered tools for Lens+ subscribers, including creating songs out of your chats. Since the launch of Snapchat’s Lens+ premium subscription model last year, the company has stepped it up with even more exclusive Lenses and other immersive AR experiences to keep...

Digital Music News 1d ago

Shein files a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Selena’s estate, arguing it should be shielded from liability as an e-commerce platform that isn’t manufacturing the allegedly infringing items.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Mixed-reality concert firm Unit 1 Studio raises $26.7 million in a new funding round to expand its technology and grow its roster of avatar-based concerts. UK-based mixed-reality concert production firm Unit1 Studio has announced securing £20 million ($26.7 million) in its latest round of funding...

Digital Music News 1d ago

My music is staying. My money and attention are leaving. I canceled my Spotify subscription. Yes, my music is still there, and if that is where you listen to me, please enjoy it.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Hi! It’s been a while since our last release since we have been working on stability improvements for both website and search to better cope with all the load we are handling recently.

MetaBrainz Blog 1d ago

Warner Chappell is streamlining its leadership structure, and as part of a new C-suite shakeup, co-chair and COO Carianne Marshall is exiting the company.

Digital Music News 1d ago

Electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso pulled their music from Spotify a year ago but are now reluctantly putting it back on the streaming platform due to financial struggles.

Digital Music News 1d ago

A scientific review of 57 studies finds that music may do more than distract from pain; it might change the way the brain interprets pain signals. Scientists reviewing 57 individual studies found that music may do more for your mind and body than just distract from pain—it might actually change how...

Digital Music News 1d ago

The Justice Department opposes certain aspects of Judge Chhabria's opinion in Kadrey v. Meta, specifically regarding the transformation and market impact of AI training on copyrighted works.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 2d ago

Last week, Spotify turned up the volume in Seoul once again. From September 10 through 13, Spotify House Seoul returned to Anderson C in Seongsu for its biggest edition yet.

Spotify 2d ago

Creators of Post Script, made with vocals by the late Mark E Smith, defend it as ‘a great, positive record’, but fiancee describes it as ‘ethically wrong’ The fiancee and last manager of the late Mark E Smith, frontman of the Fall, has hit out against the release of an album being marketed as the...

The Guardian 2d ago

The show goes on for Ed Sheeran’s US stadium tour, but without any support artists or backing band. They all pulled out last week following the decision to remove Macklemore from the tour following his ‘Free Palestine’ on-stage speeches. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 2d ago

Just under a year ago, US duo Sylvain Esso removed their music from Spotify in protest at then-CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in military-tech company Helsing. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 2d ago

You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t posted nearly as much here lately as I used to. Some of that is the fact that I’m a lot busier now than I was, but a big part is the fact the blog traffic for everyone has been falling for a long time now.

Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog 2d ago

Some admit to spending thousands of dollars for barricade spots and other VIP perks at concerts, which is becoming more common When Harry Styles announced a fall residency at Madison Square Garden, 43-year-old Tara Bess knew she had to be there.

The Guardian 2d ago

In August, I wrote about my love of the music history podcast No Dogs in Space, but mourned the fact that there hadn't been a new episode in over two years. Little did I know that hosts Carolina Hidalgo and Marcus Parks were gearing up to announce the show's return with season four, Punk 2.0.

The Verge 2d ago

Unit1 hopes to offer lower cost version of shows such as Abba Voyage, showcasing living and dead artists in any venue The former chief executive of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s entertainment group has obtained a near-£15m investment for his UK music tech startup that hopes to recreate classic concerts by...

The Guardian 3d ago

1 I was reading the new issue of “Mojo” in Apple News+. Yes, it’s available there, but usually I don’t bother, the old acts are still old and over thirty-odd years they’ve written about them already and now all we have is people who weren’t there commenting, and I was. But even worse is the […]

Lefsetz Letter 3d ago

Band members Luke Silas, Ary Warnaar, Peter Burkman, and James DeVito (left to right). Maybe their next album will be recorded entirely in a windmill? | Image: Joshua Tarn Anamanaguchi, the band consisting of Peter Berkman, James DeVito, Luke Silas, and Ary Warnaar, are most known for their...

The Verge 4d ago

Twenty years ago, even Madonna faced radio blacklisting for being overtly political. But in our age of streaming, there’s less excuse for not speaking out It must have come as a surprise to Ed Sheeran when all of his support acts withdrew from the remainder of the US leg of his tour.

The Guardian 4d ago

The Copyright Royalty Judges are asking exactly the right questions about Phonorecords V: rates, inflation, overlapping ownership, arm's-length bargaining and independent participation.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 4d ago

MIDiA Research has previously documented the phenomena that is live podcasting. We’re all aware a podcast can fill an auditorium. What hasn’t yet been tested is where the pull comes from (the format, the host, or the producer?) because until now, most live podcast events have tested only one for...

MIDiA Research Blog 5d ago

At Spotify, we have long believed that great recommendations are about more than predicting the next track.... The post Contexts, Conversations & Connections: Spotify Research at RecSys 2026 appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

Spotify Research 5d ago

MIDiA Research finds that 42% of live radio listeners aged 20 to 34 tune in for music discovery, highlighting demand for human curation London, UK – Radio offers qualities that more modern consumption methods (streaming services) often struggle to replicate. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 5d ago

Corey Kent’s sound brings together his Oklahoma roots with country soul and a rocker’s edge. Earlier this month, he brought that mix to Bloomington, Indiana, for the latest iteration of Spotify Homegrown Live, presented by Hilton, ahead of the release of his new album Heartland Rock and Roll, out...

Spotify 6d ago

Discover Chartmetric Flow, an AI agent built for the music industry that turns complex questions into simple answers, data-driven analysis, research, and strategy in minutes.

How Music Charts 6d ago

The most successful creators are not just creative storytellers – they’re commercially minded entrepreneurs. The most sophisticated operators in this field recognise that launching their own product lines can be a lucrative and reliable revenue stream. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 6d ago

The interface of the Nova plug-in for browsing and loading Nova plug-ins inside your DAW. | Screenshot: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge Lunacy, purveyor of fine VST plug-ins like Cube, a synth that you control by moving a ball around a 3D space, has just launched Nova, a platform where creators can...

The Verge 6d ago

Today, Spotify is launching Fresh Finds Forward, a new program that will give approximately 10,000 emerging independent artists each year the resources, community, and support to turn early momentum into long-term growth.

Spotify 6d ago

After teasing a music-related reveal a few days ago, Rockstar has officially announced the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto VI. Called Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, the soundtrack will feature 34 songs, which Rockstar describes as "brand-new, original tracks." Based on the first six singles, which...

The Verge 6d ago

The Spotify Partner Program is bigger than ever. This fall, we’re bringing the program to more than 35 new markets, opening the door for eligible creators in Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and beyond to earn more from their work. Following the Spotify Partner Program’s success across the...

Spotify 6d ago

On this week’s episode, On this week’s episode, Nick Peck shows how a veteran audio director builds iconic effects from field recording to final mix. Nick has worked on hundreds of Star Wars projects since 1998, including serving as Audio Director on Star Wars Battlefront, and in this conversation...

Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog 6d ago

On a Sunday in August 2025, I approached the O2 Forum Kentish Town to see an act I had heard plenty about. On this warm August afternoon, the main attraction was flamboyant, distinctive, petite in size and, by all accounts, electric. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 6d ago