We reported on the first-half-of-2026 figures for Spain and France’s recorded-music markets yesterday, showing 11.6% and 3.5% growth respectively. There are also some recent stats for Italy, with its ...

Spotify’s latest move into live music is happening on 1 November in Dallas. It’s putting on a one-day festival called ‘RNB X Live’ using the brand of its ‘RNB X’ playlist.

Hybe’s superfan platform Weverse has been growing well in recent years as more artists have joined. However, this week it’s ...

South Korean music firm JYP Entertainment is turning detective to uncover the anonymous bootlegger who uploaded a new track by a member of Stray Kids to streaming services under a different name.

In July, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked up its work developing “new personal agents that will be the foundation for our next wave of products and revenue lines” which he hoped would be used by ...

Pasoori’, the impassioned break-up ballad by Ali Sethi and Shae Gill from season 14 of music video series Coke Studio ...

Today is a big day for Suno: it is launching its latest AI-music models. Suno v6 is the first generation developed with music rightsholders.

For Londoners, the most common sound associated with Lime bikes is the ‘Hackney birdsong’ of the rentable cycles beeping when they’ve been hacked and unlocked for free. But this week there’s some ...

How do you popularise an American sport in a country where the average person has little knowledge of it? If the country is ...

Label bodies in Spain and France have published their figures for recorded-music in the first half of 2026. It’s an interesting contrast for two of Europe’s key markets.

Why are millions of musicians around the world still practising alone?” That’s the question posed by cellist Amit Peled, who is also professor of cello at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins ...

US deathcore band All Shall Perish released their last album in 2011, but having reunited in 2024 are now crowdfunding their next album on Kickstarter.