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RSS May 25, 2026 10:01am · Music Business WorldWide
Has Warner Turned A Corner?
The latest 'Tim's Take' from Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham Source
RSS May 22, 2026 12:30pm · Musically
Lisa, Anitta and Rema team up for globe-spanning World Cup song
One of the big industry talking points in recent years has been about artists from the most exciting non-Anglo territories collaborating with one another – no English-language artists required to break a track globally. One of the tracks on this year’s ‘Official FIFA World Cup 2026 Album’ (yes, that’s a thing) offers the latest example, […]
RSS May 22, 2026 12:30pm · Musically
WMG-backed pilot shows unsold vinyl records can be recycled
Recycled vinyl has been A Thing for a while now… but is it really A Thing that sounds as good as non-recycled vinyl? A pilot scheme from Warner Music Group and GZ Media aims to prove that it does. The pilot involved taking 10,000 unsold records, shredding them, and then pressing new records made up […]
RSS May 22, 2026 12:30pm · Musically
Endel and Richie Hawtin’s ‘Deeper Focus’ gets ‘remastered and reduced’
Five years ago, techno titan Richie Hawtin teamed up with AI-music startup Endel to launch ‘Deeper Focus’ – an “adaptive soundscape” based on his samples and creative DNA. Since then, it has been streamed for more than 5m hours. Now it’s getting a reworking: ‘Deeper Focus: Remastered and Reduced’. Launched this week, it enables listeners to […]
RSS May 22, 2026 12:30pm · Musically
MMF shares tactics to combat fake music on artists’ profiles
The last year or two has seen a dispiriting growth in the number of artists finding AI-slop tracks uploaded to their streaming profiles pretending to be them. So much so that Spotify took action in March, launching its ‘Artist Profile Protection’ feature. Now UK managers body the MMF has launched a five-point guide for its members […]
RSS May 22, 2026 12:30pm · Musically
US Protect Working Musicians Act aims to boost indies’ agency
This appears to be ‘third-time lucky week’ for proposed US legislation relating to the music industry. We reported yesterday on the return of the deepfakes-tackling No Fakes Act after two previous attempts to get it onto the statute books. Now another bill, the Protect Working Musicians Act, is back on the Washington, DC agenda. This is the […]
RSS May 22, 2026 12:30pm · Musically
Canada’s levy on global video-streaming services has tripled to 15%
Music-streaming services have been campaigning hard in the last two years against a levy on their Canadian revenues by the country’s telecommunications regulator the CRTC, to fund local content and creators. The DSPs and their industry body DiMA were furious about what they called the ‘streaming tax’, which required them to make a “base contribution” of 5% […]
RSS May 22, 2026 12:30pm · Musically
Udio reveals details of its licensed AI-music app Starstruck
We all knew that AI-music firm Udio is working on a new service to launch later this year, based on its licensing deals with labels. We also knew that the new service would enable fans to play with the music and sound of artists who’d opted in, and that it would be a ‘walled garden’ […]
RSS May 22, 2026 12:30pm · Musically
US attorneys general seek Live Nation / Ticketmaster breakup
Live Nation settled with the US Department of Justice a few days into its antitrust trial, but a number of state attorneys general continued with their lawsuit… and won. The trial has now moved into its ‘remedies’ phase where both sides tell the judge what punishments Live Nation should or shouldn’t face. The AGs have now filed […]
RSS May 15, 2026 12:46pm · Musically
French Montana tests SoundCloud’s ‘follower exclusive releases’
French Montana has become the latest artist to drop a new track to his followers on SoundCloud ahead of its release on other streaming services. ‘Grimey’ is a song from his upcoming ‘Wave Gods 2: Cosmos Brothers’ album with Max B, and will go up on SoundCloud today (15 May) a week before the album […]
RSS May 15, 2026 12:43pm · Musically
Zara Larsson and EsDeeKid go gaming in Roblox and Fortnite
Zara Larsson was one of the first artists to enjoy success on Roblox, generating more than $1m of virtual-merch sales from her first activation there in 2021. Now she’s back. Zara Larsson’s Midnight Sun World is the latest virtual experience from Sony’s Immersive Music Studios team. It’s a virtual performance of three songs from Larsson’s ‘Midnight Sun’ album, […]
RSS May 15, 2026 12:39pm · Musically
AI music-videos startup Sondo AI says it has 10m global users
We’re new to ‘AI music video generator’ Sondo AI, but it seems plenty of other people aren’t. The startups say that it has “surpassed 10 million global users” already. There’s another metric in its announcement that provides some context for that: its community has “generated more than 15 million music videos on the platform over the past year”. […]
RSS May 15, 2026 12:31pm · Musically
Apple Music goes live from Las Vegas with new EDM series
Well, it’s starting in Las Vegas, but Apple Music’s ‘Club Live’ will be broadcasting from dancefloors and festivals around the world in the coming months too. It’s a new series for the service’s Apple Music Club radio station, kicking off today (15 May) with a livestream from the EDC Las Vegas festival, with rebroadcasts of […]
RSS May 15, 2026 12:31pm · Musically
WMG and GMM Music to help Asian artists ‘Gliide’ to success
Warner Music Group and Thailand’s GMM Music have been working together since 2024 on their GMM Global joint venture. Now the partnership is expanding with something called ‘Gliide’. Described as an “artist development platform” the new project aims to help Asian pop artists reach “a global audience from their very first release” – rather than “building […]