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Operation LUMEN targets 317 music piracy sites reaching 5.4 million visitors across Latin America

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

YouTube extends exclusive Coachella livestream deal with Goldenvoice through 2030

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

The US and UK’s share of the world’s ‘Superstar’ artists has fallen from 55.7% to 40.7% since 2021, shows Chartmetric data

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

Outkast’s trademark company sues rapper Ovrkast, claiming he reneged on deal to drop ‘nearly identical’ name

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

Snoop Dogg’s Doggyland joins Big Feelings Music, a new children’s music company from CoComelon owner Moonbug Entertainment

Initial partners include Snoop Dogg's Doggyland, Baby Bandstand, Badanamu, Bob Zoom, English Tree TV, Lotty Friends, Mooseclumps, and Skyvibe.

Suno confirms V6 model was trained on ‘creations’ from users, as it blasts latest Sony and Universal lawsuit

The company set out that description in a statement responding to a second copyright lawsuit filed by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment.

Universal and Sony sue Suno for a second time, claiming platform’s v6 models are ‘the fruit of the same poisoned tree’

US copyright law sets damages for willful infringement at up to USD $150,000 per work. At that ceiling, the 60,202 recordings would carry a theoretical maximum of just over $9 billion.

All 58 Taylor Swift music videos land on Spotify, seven months after ‘Opalite’ skipped YouTube for two days

The catalog runs from "Tim McGraw," released in 2006, to "I Knew It, I Knew You," released in June.