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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 […]