Having won an initial ruling against Suno in Germany, collecting society GEMA is considering its future moves in AI music, both in terms of lawsuits and policy lobbying. In an interview for our Music ...

Fortnite’s latest mini-season is called 'Treasure Hunters' and four music artists – two human and two virtual – are at the heart of it. The promo started yesterday (1 November) and runs for four weeks ...

A year ago we reported on the ‘Ausify Your Algo’ campaign launched in Australia to encourage listeners to play local artists’ music in order to nudge their streaming services’ algorithms to recommend ...

Here’s a new angle on local fan-service. The Weeknd just celebrated finishing his four-concert run in Hong Kong by releasing a brand new track – ‘Hong Kong (feat. 王菲季候風)’ that is already making waves ...

Gaming is really, really different than anything else that’s out there. It’s not like film and TV synchronisation licensing.

YouTube's parent company Alphabet published its latest quarterly financial results yesterday. While that's usually a spur for us to report on the growth of YouTube's advertising revenues, the Q3 ...

BigXthaPlug releases his fourth studio album Better Over Time on 30 October, and the rollout has included one of the more ...

Spotify is closing in on the milestone of 800 million active users this side of Christmas, based on its Q3 2026 financial results.

Harry Styles plays the last of his 30 nights at Madison Square Garden on 31 October, and Spotify is marking the occasion with ...

The last 24 hours has seen a new flurry of dealmaking between music companies, starting with the news that Create Music Group (CMG) has bought a minority stake in distributor DistroKid, making it a co ...

In November 2025, rapper RBX sued Spotify, accusing it of having “turned a blind eye” to “billions of fraudulent streams” of Drake’s music on its service. Whatever happened to that case? It’s just ...

In May, Spotify announced its plans to launch an AI tool “allowing fans to create covers and remixes” but – sensibly having learned from past missed-deadlines for its hi-res music debut – didn’t tie ...