The Best Tech Gifts for the 2025 Holiday Season
Tech the halls! Electronics and gadgets make for the best gifts, especially for the tech savvy in your life.
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Billboard’s Music Industry Events Calendar
A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.
Robyn, Liam Benzvi, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
Our weekly playlist highlights songs that our writers, editors, and contributors are listening to on repeat
It’s Music Ally Marketing Week… Meet our speakers
Today’s the day for our new tentpole online event, Music Ally Marketing Week, to kick off. It includes four days of panel sessions. The post is from Music Ally.
Watch the Trailer for the Restored and Expanded ‘Beatles Anthology’ Docuseries
Expanded from eight to nine episodes, the series will air over three nights on Disney+ later this month
FKA twigs Shares New “Hard” Video: Watch
The Eusexua Afterglow song gets a suitably intense choreography
Watch Rosalía Discuss New Album Lux and Perform “La Perla” on Fallon
She also played a game in which Jimmy Fallon had to guess whether she is reading insults, seductions, or nonsense from Spanish-language cue cards
Amazon Music is latest music service with ‘Share to TikTok’ button
TikTok launched its ‘Share to TikTok’ feature last November with Spotify and Apple Music, as a way for people using those services to quickly share music tracks to the short-video app. Now Amazon Music is joining the party. Its ‘Share to TikTok’ feature will work on its iOS and Android apps, and is built into the ‘Insights’ […] The post is from Music Ally.
Your Morning Coffee Podcast: AI Artists Galore & a Human Artist With 1B Streams
Episode 276 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart's podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. The post Your Morning Coffee Podcast: AI Artists Galore & a Human Artist With 1B Streams appeared first on Hypebot.
On… Spotify’s billion-dollar pricing opportunity
The following article originally appeared in Tim Ingham’s latest ‘Tim’s Take’ email, issued exclusively to MBW+ subscribers. Source
Fortnite adds some outfits and songs from Tyler, The Creator
Tyler, the Creator has popped up in Fortnite as the popular game’s latest music activation. Two branded outfits have been added to Fortnite’s store: The Tyler, the Creator outfit and the Chromakopian outfit. Both are being sold as bundles for 1,500 V-Bucks (roughly $13.50, although cheaper if players buy their V-Bucks in bulk) with a bigger bundle including both outfits […] The post is from Music Ally.
Label Services Unlimited: ‘Music can not only fuel passions but feed families’
The latest label-services company hoping to help artists reach listeners and build sustainable careers is Label Services Unlimited. The post is from Music Ally.
AI-protest silent album gets vinyl release – with added Paul McCartney
Earlier this year, an album called ‘Is This What We Want?’ was released as a protest against the UK government’s potential plans to reform copyright laws to the benefit of AI companies. […] The post is from Music Ally.
Spotify says latest Korean music wave is more than just K-Pop
Spotify has opened its ‘Spotify House’ pop-up in Seoul for a second year, with three days of performances and activations showing off the streaming service’s features. Korea JoongAng Daily has more details on the event, while the Korea Herald interviewed Spotify’s general manager for Asia-Pacific, Gautam Talwar, about wider trends with South Korean music. “K-pop acts are […] The post is from Music Ally.
SOM chairwoman sets out Swedish concerns about Downtown deal
The latest opinion piece criticising UMG’s plans to buy Downtown Music comes from Eva Karman Reinhold (pictured), chairwoman of Swedish industry body SOM, and a board member of European organisation Impala. It was originally published on Swedish site Musikindustrin, with Impala providing an English translation. Reinhold runs through arguments that have been a consistent thread in the opposition […] The post is from Music Ally.
New York City Comptroller has questions for Spotify about ICE ads
Brad Lander is the New York City comptroller – essentially the city’s independently-elected chief financial officer. The city’s public pension funds are under his wing; those funds include investments in Spotify. That has now spurred Lander to write to CEO Daniel Ek with some questions about the recent controversy over Spotify running recruitment ads from the US Immigration […] The post is from Music Ally.
The Musician’s Guide to Email Marketing
If you’re serious about growing your fanbase and revenue, this musicians guide to email marketing belongs at the center of your strategy. The post The Musician’s Guide to Email Marketing appeared first on Hypebot.
Paul McCartney adds track to vinyl version of ‘silent’ album protesting UK AI copyright law proposal
Profits from sales of the album donated to the charity, Help Musicians Source
TIDAL opens direct uploads for indie artists, but tracks won’t earn royalties
TIDAL is launching a contest that will award $100,000 each for 10 artists whose work get playlisted among TIDAL Upload's headliners. Source
StubHub share-price falls after lack of Q4 guidance for analysts
Secondary-ticketing firm StubHub published its financial results for the third quarter of 2025 last week. Revenues were up. The post is from Music Ally.