We reported on startup Unit1 Studio when it launched in October 2025 with technology that could help artists turn themselves into digital avatars for concerts.

The show goes on for Ed Sheeran’s US stadium tour, but without any support artists or backing band. They all pulled out last week following the decision to remove Macklemore from the tour following ...

In our recent report on Suno’s new v6 models, we explained that they were trained on a fresh dataset including music licensed from WMG and BMG, plus “user data”.

Just under a year ago, US duo Sylvain Esso removed their music from Spotify in protest at then-CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in military-tech company Helsing.

There’s plenty going on in the UK this week, starting with the upcoming National Album Day, which takes place on 17 October. The organisers have published the list of albums that are getting ...

Earlier this summer, South Korean collecting society Komca announced that it would be allowing ‘AI-assisted’ music to be registered as works, as long as a human had made a creative contribution to the ...

YouTube has named 16 additional independent artists to its ‘Foundry’ class of 2026 – the latest iteration of its accelerator program for artists.

Fever is the live-entertainment tech company that acquired ticketing firm Dice in June 2025, shortly after raising $100m of funding. Now it’s turning to investors again with an even bigger raise.

Today is a big day for Suno: it is launching its latest AI-music models. Suno v6 is the first generation developed with music rightsholders.

Another day, another AI-music deal for Universal Music Group. This time it’s ElevenLabs signing on the dotted line – its first agreement with a major following Kobalt and Merlin.

The recorded music business in Argentina grew around 70% in 2025 following an almost 200% increase in 2024, but inflation - which was 31.5% in 2025 and 117.8% the previous year - means "there was no ...

Sound the legal klaxons! The world’s biggest major label wants to take down the world’s biggest independent distributor... And the lawsuit filed by Universal Music Group against DistroKid this week ...