News US musicians’ union files amended lawsuit against Universal and Warner over Suno and Udio AI deals The union alleges that Universal and Warner licensed recordings made by its members to the two AI companies "without compensation or credit."
News Ariana Grande sues unnamed hackers over theft of unreleased music sold on the dark web The complaint does not name any defendants, instead identifying them as "John Doe" parties.
News US consumers are ‘more wary than willing’ to engage with AI in entertainment content, Luminate study finds Finding comes from AI & Media: Audience Attitudes, a report from Luminate Intelligence
News States cite new appeals-court ruling to defend Live Nation monopoly verdict – Live Nation says it backs throwing the verdict out Live Nation argued that a tying claim requires proof of harm to competition in the tied market, and that its rivals had not been shown to suffer such harm.
News Bad Bunny grossed $467.5M on Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour (report) The total fell 2.5% short of the highest-grossing Latin tour ever regardless of gender: Shakira's Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour.
News BTS powers HYBE to record Q2 as ARIRANG world tour drives concert revenue boom for K-pop giant Recorded music revenue grew 43.0% YoY to KRW 326.8 billion ($218m), also led by ARIRANG.
News Too Lost partners with Roblox to bring catalog of independent music to games and virtual spaces Tracks from The All-American Rejects, A$AP Ferg, Teddy Swims, and Alex Warren will be available to Roblox creators to use in games and virtual spaces.
News Universal Music Group completes €500 million share buyback program The company has repurchased 26,707,529 of its own shares under the program, UMG said on Monday (July 27)
News Ari Gelaw promoted to SVP, Creative A&R at Sony Music Publishing Gelaw will remain based in the company's Los Angeles office, reporting to SMP President, Head of US A&R Katie Welle.
News Snapchat now lets users share and save Spotify songs via Snap Map, used by 450m people a month Social media platform Snap has launched Now Playing on Snap Map, a feature that lets Snapchat users share the music they are listening to
News Patreon lays off 20% of its staff in biggest round of cuts in its history CEO Jack Conte said Patreon's core business was "healthy and strong", but that the platform was restructuring to adapt faster to a shifting market.
News UK recorded music exports hit record $1.05B in 2025, up just 0.8% YoY 2025 was the first time the annual total had surpassed £800M, which converts to USD $1.05B
News Indonesia scraps song and music copyright registration fee to build a national music database The change applies only to songs and music, while registration fees for other categories of creative work are unchanged.
News Qobuz rolls out real-time synced lyrics to all subscribers Qobuz's redesigned player carries visuals that shift with a track's album artwork and keeps a mini-player on screen while users navigate the app.
News As GEMA awaits its Suno copyright verdict, the German collecting society launches ‘PLAI’ – a fully licensed dataset for training AI music tools AI music transcription company Klangio is the dataset's first customer.