Primary Wave’s thirst for partnerships and catalogue deals shows no sign of being slaked. Its latest announcement is with Mary J. Blige, and (thankfully for her) it has nothing to do with Suno.

And we’re not joking about the ‘many’. The Risk Factors section of Anthropic’s S-1 filing starts on page 27 and ends on page 119.

How long will Universal Music Group remain a publicly-listed company? It’s a question that reared up in April when hedge-fund Pershing Square tried to buy the major label for $63.5bn, before ...

Offline. Outdoors. Out Loud’ a report that contains the findings of a survey conducted among 1,700 Indian concert-goers above ...

Imagine someone founding a record label devoted to releasing AI-generated music, then raising tens of millions of dollars in funding at a ‘unicorn’ valuation of $1bn. It’s a push, right? Yet that’s ...

Planning to see Sam Fender at London’s Wembley Stadium next year? You can expect to pay £130.75 for a ‘front standing’ ticket; £98.85 for a regular standing ticket; or between £64.75 and £130.75 for ...

Few of us had ‘Financial Times hailing the importance of iTunes Store downloads’ on our 2026 bingo cards, but here we are.

What if you could get paid a bonus just for keeping your Shorts schedule consistent?” asks YouTube’s Rene Ritchie in one of his latest ‘Creator Insider’ videos. And no, he’s not talking about ...

As you’ll know if you’ve heard it, ‘Movin’ to the Sun’ is a stone-cold dancefloor banger, chopped-up vocals from dance legend Ultra Naté. It’s also a track that started life as a song generated using ...

In November 2025, Icelandic music startup Overtune told us that it was building a “virtual music studio” for Roblox. That work evolved into a game called Beat Battle, which has just launched a new ...

Spotify is closing in on the milestone of 800 million active users this side of Christmas, based on its Q3 2026 financial results.

We’ve been following the burst of launches of personal agents – Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots and Anthropic’s Claude Duet – with keen interest recently. Unsurprisingly, so has Spotify.