News Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ is already a record breaker, as album becomes first to surpass 5m pre-saves on Spotify Spotify is celebrating the album’s release with a three-day pop-up event in New York City from September 30 through October 2.
News YouTube tests AI music host feature to challenge Spotify’s AI DJ YouTube's AI host shares relevant stories, fan trivia and commentary about the music that’s playing on the YouTube Music app.
News After ‘stream ripping’ allegations added to Suno lawsuit, labels seek to beef up Udio complaint with claims of ‘illegal scraping’ from YouTube The new filing adds a third cause of action, claiming Udio “circumvented technological measures” to obtain copyrighted material.
News Cora Lam named Head of Legal and Business Affairs at Universal Music Greater China; Mark Gao joins as SVP of Brand Partnerships Both will be based in Hong Kong and report directly to Timothy Xu, chairman and CEO of Universal Music Greater China.
News Zach Bryan just played the biggest ticketed show in US history – including $5m in merch sales 112,408 fans watched country singer Zach Bryan perform on Saturday (September 27)
News Suno just launched its own DAW, after introducing its ‘most powerful’ AI music model yet Suno Studio's launch builds on Suno's acquisition of WavTool in June.
News AWAL expands to Middle East, led by Issa Outa Issa Outa will continue reporting to Sony Music Middle East Managing Director Rami Mohsen while also working with Ben Akinbola, AWAL's Head of Growth
News FIVE Holdings, parent of electronic music experiences firm Pacha Group, secures $460m credit facility for global expansion The financing arrangement was struck with Commercial Bank of Dubai, AAIB, and Santander.
News Universal Music UK revives Fontana label led by Tom Lewis; Laura Monks named President at Decca Records Fontana to serve as dedicated home for jazz, folk, blues and soul artists
News Suno faces another allegation of ‘stream-ripping’ from YouTube… This time in class action led by indie artist The latest allegation follows similar stream-ripping accusations from major record labels filed just three days earlier .
News HYBE sells $27m stake in rival YG Entertainment’s YG Plus subsidiary HYBE sold its 7.67% stake in YG Plus via after-hours block trade transactions.
News Taylor Swift’s release party film for new album generated $15m in first-day presales The 89-minute film is forecast to rake in between $30 million and $50 million.
News HYBE expands into India, opening fifth global HQ in Mumbai Company says the launch of HYBE INDIA is a key part of its ‘multi-home, multi-genre’ strategy
News Zebralution inks distribution deals with indie labels 8 Head, Casa Nueve, Folded Music and artist, Bawo The signings come about two months after Zebralution promoted William Hallström to Head of International Business Developments.
News Trump-backed TikTok deal to see Oracle ‘retrain’ and ‘monitor’ recommendation algorithm for US users (report) Oracle will oversee how the algorithm operates in the US to “ensure improper manipulation is prevented,” Bloomberg reported, citing a White House official.