Warner says the union brought the lawsuit "in an improper attempt to place a judicial thumb on the negotiation scales." Source
Rancho sued the band in 2025 over what it called unauthorized performances, and Fuerza Regida countersued, alleging the label withheld royalties. Source
Nevin will lead Merlin's engagement with independent trade associations and strategic partners worldwide. Source
The song comes off the British singer's recent debut LP, Visitor
Global non-profit organisation Change The Beat has announced a broadened support programme for women and gender-expansive artists.
Taylor was among the A-list guests that the rap legend brought during his three anniversary concerts
The trade association representing music streamers issued a response to the recorded music industry’s announcement of a new AI labeling program. Trade organization Digital Media Association (DIMA), which represents music streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, Qobuz, Feed.fm,...
Warner Music Group (WMG) is officially looking to toss the breach of contract lawsuit filed against it by the AFM, maintaining, among other things, that the agreement at the case’s center “does not cover AI licenses.” WMG recently shed light on its dismissal arguments when requesting a related...
The track featured on the White Stripes' debut album
Clarkson has been a double nominee in the two talk show categories for all seven seasons of her eponymous show.
A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.
The icon responded to her new album opening at Number One on the Billboard 200
A fan claims that Eric Baker's involvement with a reselling fund, while disclosed in a regulatory filing, was not publicized to consumers.
Ashley Nicole Black is set to host the Sept. 9 ceremony honoring film and TV writers across 10 categories.
Drake, who previously covered up his LeBron James tattoo with ink of SGA's Oklahoma City Thunder jersey, is close friends with the NBA player.
Ulvaeus, the opening keynote speaker at the UN's AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, started his speech with a simple question: "Good for whom?"
Mamdani was not in attendance for any of Hov's three shows in the Bronx.
CONFESSIONS II brings the Queen of Pop back to the top.
These artists stand at the pinnacle of chart success with both albums and songs.
Daughter Amy Helm claims “disturbing circumstances” led to her ouster from Levon Helm Studio after her stepmother, Sandra, backed a leadership change
From Sony to LG, Shop Billboard rounded up the best 4K TVs for watching live music performances and live sports.
Meta pulls its controversial Instagram AI image tool, which automatically opted in photos from all public accounts, just days after its launch. Following intense backlash over privacy concerns, Meta has already pulled the plug on its new Instagram AI image feature, less than a week after launching...
TikTok and iHeartRadio set a new viewing record for the biggest TikTok Live on July 2, with over 2.16 million unique viewers tuning in for Madonna. Madonna’s iHeartRadio and TikTok Live received over 5.75 million likes and 139,000 comments, setting a record for the biggest TikTok Live artist event...
BMG acquires the remaining interests in the landmark songwriting works of the publishing catalogs of Hal David, John Lee Hooker, and ARC Music. BMG has announced its acquisition of the remaining interests in the songwriting works of the legendary publishing catalogs of Hal David, John Lee Hooker,...
Tye Blue, director and co-creator of the Tony-nominated “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.
Fans waited over three hours for the finale of Jay-Z’s three-night stand at Yankee Stadium on Sunday. Now, the rapper has addressed the delay. On Sunday, fans gathered at Yankee Stadium for the third and final show in Jay-Z’s three-night stand in his hometown.
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
Major League Soccer is smartly capitalizing on FIFA World Cup excitement to launch a post-Cup ad campaign, the largest of its kind in MLS’ 33-year history. Amazon Music is directing the soundtrack with a clever refresh of A Tribe Called Quest classic.
Rapper taps YSL Records artists Tezzus, 1300saint, Iyrus, Yume, Biggs, Unky, and Diamond* for the run
She’s a rainbow… and with a slew of carefully chosen guest artists on her new album, she might also be 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 titled...
After launching a GoFundMe Finch will miss the upcoming North American leg of L7’s Last Hurrah Tour after undergoing multiple surgeries
As it awaits the appointment of a new prime minister, the UK’s government has announced ‘Turn It Up: Our Plan for Music’.
Company releases a fresh firmware update. Go on, install it, we dare you...
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.
What was supposed to be a 9 p.m. start time on Sunday night was pushed back past midnight after the security incident
BMG says deal gives it full ownership of landmark publishing catalogs spanning Blues, Rock & Roll, Soul, Pop, and classic American songwriting Source
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
The panel examined how AI is changing music from discovery to fan engagement Source
During our recent Artist Ally event, British-Asian singer/songwriter Saloni won our Artist Ally Emerging Artist award, having seen impressive growth over the two years of her career so far.
Grammy-winning rock band will release Marrow Deep, its ninth studio album, next month
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
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.
Two weeks later, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has officially made the proposed Phonorecords V “Subpart B” settlement available for comment, and the opposing parties now have until August 10th to weigh in.
The labels use visual icons, supported by metadata and delivery systems, to show fans whether and how AI was used in a recording Source
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.
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).
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.
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.
“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...
Jay-Z promised a celebration of the anniversaries of two of his most iconic albums, and fans turned out for him at Yankee Stadium in record numbers. Jay-Z is celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Blueprint plus the 30th anniversary of his debut, Reasonable Doubt, and he’s pulled out all the stops...
The Super Bowl took the concept of a halftime show to extreme heights. Now, FIFA is adopting the concept for a jam-packed, star-studded 11-minute halftime show in New York.
An band’s music was stolen, pitch-shifted, and re-uploaded under a fake name with AI-generated artwork, snatching up over 90% of their Spotify royalties.
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...
Michael beats the odds, becoming the first biopic in history to surpass $1 billion in ticket sales at the global box office: $629.8 million overseas and $371.8 million domestically, according to stats confirmed over the weekend.
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.
Singer scores her 10th chart-topping album and becomes first artist of the 2020s to land Number Ones in four different decades
Lorde performing at the 2026 Governors Ball. | Photo: Siegfried Anthony/Billboard via Getty Images Lorde was performing at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses.
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...
“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.
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.
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.
Across multiple countries and generations, music – and especially music videos – is the “ultimate driving force of nostalgia,” outranking film, television, gaming, and more, according to a new study of media-consumption attitudes.
The seemingly mundane deliberations over future mechanical 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.
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 […]
“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.
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
Here’s a recap of recent music industry hires and in-house promotions as of July 10th, 2026. If you have a job shuffle to share, we’re all ears. Send us a note to news@digitalmusicnews.com. If you’d like to post a job on our Job Board, just send us a request to noah@digitalmusicnews.com.
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.
A new SEC filing reveals that StubHub’s “marketplace for fans” is run by a CEO who also owns and manages a fund that scalps tickets on the platform. An investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has found that StubHub’s claims of being a “marketplace for fans to buy and sell...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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,...
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
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...
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.
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...
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.