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RSS Mar 20, 2026 1:30pm · Musically
Michael Smith pleads guilty in $10m streaming-fraud case
It’s now 18 months since US music producer Michael Smith was arrested and charged with multiple felonies relating to a streaming-fraud scheme. He was accused of uploading hundreds of thousands of tracks to DSPs and using bots to inflate their streams to the tune of more than $10m in royalties. Now, an update: Smith has pleaded guilty to […] The post is from Music Ally.
RSS Mar 20, 2026 1:00pm · Musically
How Breathe. doubled their monthly listeners on Spotify
Music Ally chatted to Group Speed, the agency who worked with Australian electronic duo Breathe. on their debut album rollout.  By treating five-year-old catalogue tracks as growth levers and repositioning the duo within Spotify’s algorithm, they doubled their monthly listeners to 1 million. Here are the campaign highlights: The team first reactivated older tracks, vivifying […] The post is from Music Ally.
RSS Mar 20, 2026 1:00pm · Musically
Drake’s newest teaser in year-long ‘Iceman’ album rollout
For close to a year, Drake has been teasing a project widely expected to be titled ‘Iceman’. Far from a standard release cycle, the campaign has used Toronto-based stunts and cryptic digital clues to build a narrative and conversation, with no confirmed release date as of yet. The rollout began in July 2025 with a […] The post is from Music Ally.
RSS Mar 20, 2026 1:00pm · Musically
Instagram tests clickable links in captions for creators
Instagram is now testing a feature it has resisted for a long time – clickable links in post captions. Historically, Instagram’s CEO Adam Mosseri has expressed concern this feature may change Instagram’s dynamic, moving it away from a visual platform to something more like a news outlet. It now seems the platform is seeking to […] The post is from Music Ally.
RSS Mar 20, 2026 12:30pm · Musically
AI-music roundup: ElevenLabs Marketplace, Flowtonik, Reply contest
There’s a cluster of stories today around the topic of… we’ll call it AI music-making. People who are using GenAI models to make music at a more serious level, with the ambition of earning an income – a non-fraudulent one! – from their work. We’ll start with ElevenLabs, which launched its Eleven Music tool last August. […] The post is from Music Ally.
RSS Mar 19, 2026 1:30pm · Musically
Native Instruments CEO says ‘active M&A process is progressing well’
Music hardware-and-software firm Native Instruments entered preliminary insolvency proceedings earlier this year, with an administrator appointed in Germany to oversee a restructuring and possible-sale process. Now CEO Nick Williams has provided an update on what’s happening, in a blog post that promised “business continues as usual” at NI and its iZotope, Plugin Alliance and Brainworx subsidiaries.…
RSS Mar 19, 2026 1:30pm · Musically
BMG joins the lyrical lawsuits against AI company Anthropic
Music lawsuits may not be Anthropic’s biggest legal headache at the moment, given its escalating battle with the US administration. However, it has now picked up an additional adversary on the music front: BMG. The company has sued Anthropic for “pervasive infringement of copyrighted musical compositions” in its use of lyrics to train its Claude AI […] The post is from Music Ally.