Despite overall revenue growth and strong demand in the live music industry in 2025, benefits are not being felt across the board.The aftershock of the pandemic has continued to reverberate, […] ...

In the first half of this year, a mere two tracks from Bollywood films released in 2025 reached the top ten of Spotify India’s Top Songs chart. In the first four weeks of July, six more such tunes ...

Streaming has led to a boom in local music consumption in Germany, where glocalisation rules.

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Last week, the European Commission started its investigation into UMG's planned acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings. A number of independent music companies and others in the space have raised ...

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This week has seen two high-profile rulings in legal cases involving AI training and copyright. Both went the way of the AI companies – Anthropic and Meta respectively – in lawsuits filed by groups of ...

In Germany, a wholly AI-generated song is making significant headway into the pop charts. “ Verknallt in einen Talahon ” (“In Love With A Talahon”) was created by German producer Butterbro, who used ...

In mid-2018, YouTube said that more than one billion people visited it every month to consume music. Two and a half years later, that total has doubled.

Spotify has been running the data on ‘super listeners’ – the superest of superfans on its platform. “On average, they make up just 2% of an artist’s monthly listeners but drive over 18% of monthly ...