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BusinessSeptember 21

Busta Rhymes says streaming pays rappers in a currency that does not exist
He made the argument while promoting Dillagence II, which he has pressed to vinyl, CD and cassette to get around the problem.
BusinessSeptember 21

Country singer Garth Brooks ends his three-year radio partnership with TuneIn
The Garth Channel and Tailgate Radio sign off on 22 September, and The BIG 615 stays on without him until the end of the year.
BusinessSeptember 21

Beach Fossils singer Dustin Payseur says indie rock no longer means anything
In a long interview before a Buenos Aires show, the founder traces his records from a laptop microphone to an album he says is nearly finished.
BusinessSeptember 21

Modern English joke that the Strokes took their song I Melt With You
A video captioned as a beef points at Bad Decisions, the 2020 single fans had already matched to the 1982 original.
BusinessSeptember 21

The Crew books a 17th CMA Awards viewing party for Musicians On Call
The Nashville industry group raised more than $24,000 at last year's benefit and returns to Tin Roof on 18 November.
BusinessSeptember 21

Jay-Z says he nearly quit rap in the documentary series Jay-Z in 8
The first two HBO episodes have him telling Rick Rubin that signing a record deal once looked like a step down from what he was already earning.
BusinessSeptember 21

Cuco, NEZZA and Fuerza Regida play CHIRLA's 40th anniversary awards night
The immigrant rights group handed out its Immigrant Champion Awards at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles on 18 September.
BusinessSeptember 21

Country singer Randall King says he is six and a half months sober
He cancelled a tour in March, checked himself into treatment, and came back through the Grand Ole Opry circle in August.
BusinessSeptember 21

StubHub fined $20,000 under Ontario's face-value cap on concert ticket resale
The province has penalised two marketplaces in a month, and both say they cannot see what a ticket first sold for.
BusinessSeptember 21

Piracy bill would order US internet providers to cut off sites hosting stolen music
Darrell Issa's draft would let a rights holder win a blocking order against broadband firms, DNS resolvers and VPNs.
BusinessSeptember 21

Taylor Swift takes the first MTV VMA Artist Director honour for her music videos
MTV built a new category around a performer who directs her own clips, and handed it over five days before the ceremony.
BusinessSeptember 21

Roc Nation signs the Hong Kong pop star Jackson Wang to a global management deal
The singer marked it with a new song, Thank You, filmed on a phone with 30 fans picked from 80 countries.
BusinessSeptember 21

The Capitol Theatre turns 100 and the Port Chester venue answers with a five-hour concert
Pink Talking Fish became the Centennial Band for a night, playing only acts that had stood on that stage since 1970.
BusinessSeptember 21

US ticket buyers meet more fraud and steeper fees than concert fans abroad
A survey of 5,107 people across three countries was run by a resale marketplace that wants the rules changed.
BusinessSeptember 21

Cameron Whitcomb takes three awards at the 44th CCMA Awards in Saskatoon
The James Barker Band hosted and won twice, and Karen Kosowski became the first solo woman named record producer of the year.
BusinessSeptember 21

Congress passes the American Music Tourism Act to sell US venues and festivals abroad
A bipartisan bill now awaiting signature tells the Commerce Department to put studios, clubs and festivals on travel itineraries.
BusinessSeptember 21

Ireland plans a 100 euro culture voucher teenagers can spend at music venues
Sixteen-year-olds would get a digital card for gigs, cinemas and theatres, at a cost to the state of up to eight million.
BusinessSeptember 21

Afroman answers his cancelled Riot Fest set: the rapper once played through a hurricane
Storms over Chicago cut into the weekend's schedule, and the rapper says the festival kept him paid anyway.
BusinessSeptember 21

Muse say a meeting with Mark Zuckerberg settled who gets the band's name
Matt Bellamy gave the @Muse handles to Meta's assistant and kept the music and the merchandise.
BusinessSeptember 21

Universal and Warner move to dismiss the American Federation of Musicians AI suit
The labels argue that a union concession in open court about a missing rate agreement ends the case before discovery.
BusinessSeptember 21

CD revenue jumps almost 60 percent as vinyl growth slows in the US
The RIAA mid-year report puts the format at $171 million, up from about $108 million.
BusinessSeptember 21

Spotify lets parents keep kids' music out of their Wrapped and recommendations
A global setting stops nursery rhymes and cartoon soundtracks feeding the algorithm, and it works backwards as well as forwards.
BusinessSeptember 20

Quavo says a Migos album is nearly finished and points at a January anniversary
The rapper told Baller Alert he and Offset are close to turning it in, and that it will not be another Culture record.
BusinessSeptember 20

Ed Sheeran breaks his silence on Gaza at the first concert since Macklemore's exit
He took the B stage out over safety fears, played with no support acts at all, and told a Philadelphia crowd he had thought about giving up music.
BusinessSeptember 20

Amanda Somerville, the singer behind two decades of symphonic metal, has a brain tumour
Her husband Sander Gommans says the diagnosis is malignant and aggressive, and asked the scene to hold her in mind.
BusinessSeptember 20

The Soul Train Awards return to BET on 27 November after two years off air
Don Cornelius's son Tony helped bring the ceremony back, and it goes home to Chicago with it.
BusinessSeptember 19

ABC sets a two-hour Dolly Parton tribute concert special for 21 October
The live show comes from Belmont University's Fisher Center in Nashville, with a share of proceeds going to the Imagination Library.
BusinessSeptember 19

Lizzy McAlpine says a song on her album Angel copies Nick Drake by accident
She raised the resemblance herself rather than answering an accusation, at a moment when songwriting theft is a live argument.
BusinessSeptember 19

Rapper AZ Chike posts the Kendrick Lamar advice behind No Rest For The Wicked
There is no guest verse on the album, but the producer Sounwave stayed across it, and the studio photos that started the rumours are now footage.
BusinessSeptember 19

Dolly Parton accepts an Americana lifetime award in a video taped before her death
Emmylou Harris introduced the clip at the Ryman, and Brandi Carlile and I'm With Her led a performance of Coat of Many Colors.
BusinessSeptember 19

Steve Rubie marks 50 years running the 606 Club, London's basement jazz room
A two-week anniversary festival at the Chelsea venue runs from 12 to 25 October, with Jamie Cullum and Liane Carroll among those returning.
BusinessSeptember 19

Tom Watson leaves the industry body UK Music to become a Palantir vice president
The former Labour deputy leader chaired the body for six years; a Green MP called the move a revolving door between politics and lobbying.
BusinessSeptember 18

Roc Nation struggles to book the Super Bowl LXI halftime show, a report says
Artists are said to be weighing political fallout against a slot that carries no real fee, and the announcement could slip to November.
BusinessSeptember 18

FLVCKKA is the standout artist in YouTube's Foundry class of 2026
The Chihuahua-born singer calls their own style hypercorridos, and Remezcla reads the pick as a signal about where Mexican music is going.
BusinessSeptember 18

Metal band Metallica run a Red Cross blood drive at their Las Vegas residency
A themed donation centre opens on the Strip on 28 September, with a replica of Lars Ulrich's kit to sit behind and his real one to win.
BusinessSeptember 18

Country Radio Broadcasters names a 2027 board drawn from labels, radio and streaming
Kurt Johnson stays on as president, four new directors join, and the next Country Radio Seminar is set for March in Nashville.
BusinessSeptember 18

Luke Bryan marks his album Signs with a Live From Roku City set
The taped performance goes up on 19 September and includes a cover of the Cheers theme alongside two of his own songs.
BusinessSeptember 18

Kenny Chesney says three years of time went into the album Silver Sands Marina
Two years at the Sphere and a book kept him off the usual release treadmill, and eleven songs came out of it.
BusinessSeptember 18

The Weeknd rules out retirement and calls the break a hibernation
Abel Tesfaye told GQ Hong Kong he had a glimpse of retirement and did not like it, after five years of albums, a TV show and a film.
BusinessSeptember 18

Rapper turned country singer Chanel West Coast refuses to apologise for the switch
She says the criticism followed her out of hip-hop and into country, and that it has never changed what she records.
BusinessSeptember 18

Drew Baldridge answers a label executive who told the singer he was not cool enough
His first major-label album runs 16 tracks in three parts, and one of them is a song about being told to be somebody else.
BusinessSeptember 18

Universal Music Group and Sony sue Suno again over its v6 AI models
The second complaint covers 60,202 recordings and argues a model trained on an infringing model's output is still infringing.
BusinessSeptember 18

Rush pay belated tribute to drummer Neil Peart in No One's Disciple
The CBC documentary premieres at Toronto on September 16, with Stewart Copeland, Chad Smith and Danny Carey jamming alongside Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson.
BusinessSeptember 18

DJ James Hype teases a 16-deck setup and says we have been thinking too small
The producer behind Ferrari has posted a rig that would surround him with CDJs, without saying whether it ever leaves the studio.
BusinessSeptember 18

Pulp film What Do You Do For An Encore? reaches cinemas and MUBI
Garth Jennings cut 90 minutes from two sold-out O2 nights, with a stripped-back Something Changed for Steve Mackey.
BusinessSeptember 18

Italo disco duo Mind Enterprises release a mini-documentary about the band
Andrea Tirone and Roberto Conigliaro went from kitchen videos to Coachella, and the film follows them on the road.
BusinessSeptember 18

Fat Joe says veteran rappers are too scared of first-week sales to record
He made the remark on Shade 45 while promoting his own album, and said he has no idea what it sold.
BusinessSeptember 18

Chubby Checker and Gil Cunningham enter the IEBA Hall of Fame on 6 October
The singer behind The Twist goes in alongside a talent buyer whose company books more than 900 shows a year.
BusinessSeptember 18

Universal Music Group and Warner say the AFM clause misses their AI deals
The musicians' union says session rates already supply a measure of what its members are owed from the Udio and Suno licences.
BusinessSeptember 18

Sylvan Esso put their music back on Spotify and say they still hate it
Amelia Meath says the duo cannot keep paying the people who work for them while staying off the platform. Their politics have not changed.
BusinessSeptember 18

Billy Strings plays his first full-band set since breaking his leg on Austin City Limits
The Season 52 hour was taped on 2 July and runs seven songs, ending in a Hendrix quote.
BusinessSeptember 18

Spin, the music magazine, makes Liza Lentini its editor-in-chief
She is the first person to hold the title outright under Jimmy Hutcheson's ownership, after six years on the masthead.
BusinessSeptember 18

Chuck Brown and E.U. feature in a Tiny Desk Radio episode on go-go music
Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre pull office concerts by Chuck Brown, Trouble Funk, Rare Essence and E.U. into one broadcast.
BusinessSeptember 18

Cameron Winter takes the Live at Carnegie Hall concert film to Canada
Paul Thomas Anderson shot it on 35 mm, and Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal get dates across December and January.
BusinessSeptember 18

SoundExchange and MusicNation will pay artists for music played in each other's markets
SoundExchange affiliates start collecting for UAE broadcasts, and Emirati creators for US airplay, under a reciprocal neighbouring rights deal.
BusinessSeptember 18

Symphonic wires MassiveMusic audio delivery into its label migration tool
A label switching distributor no longer has to upload its own audio files if the catalogue already sits in MassiveMusic's systems.
BusinessSeptember 18

Metro Boomin, Fred again.. and Travis Scott fill the GTA 6 soundtrack album
Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album carries 34 original tracks and lands on 19 November, the same day as the game.
BusinessSeptember 18

Singer Billy Joel is alive, his publicist says, after a Google death listing
Claire Mercuri told Newsday she had just been emailing him. The search engine had put his date of death at 17 September.
BusinessSeptember 18

Ms. Rachel dates her first album I'm So Happy for 25 September
Twenty-three songs played on real instruments, made with her husband Aron Accurso, the Broadway composer behind Songs for Littles.
BusinessSeptember 18

Kelela says her album New Avatar is built to take apart sonic racism
Oscar Scheller produced almost all of the guitar-heavy third record. She plays two nights at the Wiltern on 21 and 22 September.
BusinessSeptember 18

Firefly, the first feature documentary on guitarist Emily Remler, opens its Kickstarter
Al Naffah has a 75-minute rough cut and needs up to $85,000 to clear the archive and music rights behind it.
BusinessSeptember 18

MPs will review how the UK picks its Eurovision song as Ireland sits out
A DCMS committee wants to know who chooses the entrant and on what basis, after a third straight nul points from the public vote.
BusinessSeptember 17

Spotify offers 10,000 independent artists a year studio time and therapy
Fresh Finds Forward gives each participant a 12-month package, though the free studio days are limited to artists based in the United States.
BusinessSeptember 17

Barbra Streisand attacks the closure of the Kennedy Center concert hall
A Trump-appointed board voted to shut the building after a judge blocked his name going on the facade. The board cites a looming bankruptcy.
BusinessSeptember 17

Classic Hits Radio pulls Ed Sheeran's records over the Macklemore tour row
Bay Broadcasting's Dave Kelly says listener feeling settled it, and that the station is standing with the Irish acts who walked off the bill.
BusinessSeptember 17

Ms. Rachel matches the rapper Macklemore's $1 million Palestine donation
The children's educator asked every wealthy white celebrity to do the same. Robert Kraft has separately pledged $2 million at Ed Sheeran's request.
BusinessSeptember 17

Jennifer Lopez turns her Las Vegas residency into a two-hour CBS concert film
The JLo Show: Live in Las Vegas premieres on 26 November, filmed on the closing night of a twelve-show run in March.
BusinessSeptember 17

AFM Local 257 sets 24 September for the concert For Those We Lost IV
Seven Nashville players who died in the past two years are remembered at 3rd and Lindsley, with an auction raising money for the union's funeral fund.
BusinessSeptember 17

Roger Waters says Ed Sheeran was wrong to drop Macklemore from the tour
The Pink Floyd co-founder posted the video on Tuesday night, over a clip of himself singing We Shall Overcome.
BusinessSeptember 17

Jake Owen, the country singer, marks five years without a drink
He filmed the update on the way to Canada and told anyone weighing the same decision that life only gets better afterwards.
BusinessSeptember 17

Travis Scott and Keith Richards open the Grand Theft Auto 6 soundtrack
Six songs from a 34-track album landed on 17 September, with the full record and the game both due on 19 November.
BusinessSeptember 17

The Voice coaches sing The Weight, with Kelly Clarkson closing the song
Riley Green opens on acoustic guitar and Adam Levine takes the drums, in a clip released ahead of the season 30 premiere on NBC.
BusinessSeptember 17

Warren Haynes says Matt Abts' medical leave is holding the Gov't Mule album
The drummer has not played with the band since January 2025. Terence Higgins is covering, and Haynes wants the next record made with bassist Kevin Scott.
BusinessSeptember 17

Nirvana, Pixies and The Smiths sit in a 10,000-concert Chicago tape archive
Aadam Jacobs taped clubs across the city from 1984 until the pandemic. Brian Emerick and about 15 volunteers are putting roughly 200 shows a month online.
BusinessSeptember 17

Singer Zara Larsson calls a White House ICE video using her song dehumanising
The Swedish pop star answered on TikTok after immigration arrest footage was cut to Midnight Sun.
BusinessSeptember 17

The first AI Music Awards set a Los Angeles ceremony with 25 award categories
SIQA will stage the show at The Mayan on 13 November, with generated acts billed to perform.
BusinessSeptember 17

Songwriter Gregg Alexander names the second New Radicals album
Maybe You've Been Brainwashed TWO is due early next year on Universal, with Danielle Brisebois back alongside him.
BusinessSeptember 17

Lee Adams, Adrian Michaels and Ken Tucker all leave the label BMG this month
Three promotion chiefs at Broken Bow, Stoney Creek and Wheelhouse go at once, and the reporting line is redrawn.
BusinessSeptember 17

Mitchell Tenpenny takes his 10Penny Fund benefit show to the Grand Ole Opry stage
Chris Young, Lee Brice and Jo Dee Messina join the 6 October bill, with five dollars a ticket going to the fund.
BusinessSeptember 17

The GMA Dove Awards add a second round of performers for 6 October
A Richard Smallwood tribute joins the Bridgestone Arena bill, with the broadcast held back to 9 October.
BusinessSeptember 17

Alif Hilal, the artist formerly known as Lyra Pramuk, records a FADER DJ mix
The set is the middle hour of a three-hour Venice gig played in an unventilated room in June.
BusinessSeptember 17

The T.J. Martell Foundation's New York Honors Gala raised $3.2m for cancer research
Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio and Chris Stapleton played for Coran Capshaw at a sold-out Cipriani.
BusinessSeptember 17

Apollo puts $1.25bn into the BMG arm holding bonds on a million songs
The investment lets the newly merged BMG pay down debt raised against Concord's royalties without diluting Bertelsmann's stake.
BusinessSeptember 17

Talking Heads regroup to talk about their music on a SiriusXM channel
All four members sit down with Este Haim on 28 September, and Talking Heads Radio launches on Channel 145 three days later.
BusinessSeptember 17

Suno's paying users turn on the v6 model built from licensed music
The first Suno model trained on deals with Warner, BMG and Believe drew complaints about muffled audio on the company's own forums.
BusinessSeptember 17

Zach Bryan and Benny Blanco back a $5m raise for the artist platform Notes.fm
The royalty collection company says the round was funded almost entirely by musicians, managers and industry figures, with no lead investor named.
BusinessSeptember 17

CBGB owners hunt for a New York room, twenty years after the club closed
Brand owner Phil Sandhaus says rents pushed the search to Brooklyn and Queens, and the name is running as a festival in the meantime.
BusinessSeptember 17

The Peruvian cumbia band Los Mirlos play a Tiny Desk Concert
Fifty years after Jorge Rodriguez Grandez founded the group in Moyobamba, seven of them play five songs for NPR during its Latin Music Month takeover.
BusinessSeptember 17

Les Claypool records a new theme song for the renamed South Park
The Primus bassist revisits the 30-second piece he wrote in 1997, now that the show has become South America for its 29th season.
BusinessSeptember 17

La Roux says a breakdown cost the singer a decade away from music
Elly Jackson posted the account to TikTok over a remix of Bulletproof, weeks before the fourth album Old Flames arrives on 6 November.
BusinessSeptember 17

Concert ticket bot bill clears a House committee as Live Nation fights the same law
The MAIN Event Ticketing Act passed 36-0 and would toughen the 2016 statute the FTC is using to sue Ticketmaster's parent.
BusinessSeptember 17

Spotify puts Taylor Swift's whole music video catalogue behind Premium
Fifty-eight clips, from Tim McGraw in 2006 to this year's Toy Story 5 song, arrived for paying subscribers on 16 September.
BusinessSeptember 16

Jack Osbourne says the Ozzy Osbourne film will not be an art house biopic
The script is finished, the team is approaching directors, and someone is already in mind to play the singer.
BusinessSeptember 14

Jay-Z talks through his albums with Rick Rubin in a documentary series
HBO premieres the first two episodes of Jay-Z in 8 on September 18, and MUBI has been confirmed to carry it too.
BusinessSeptember 13

Nashville airport set to be renamed for country singer Dolly Parton
A Change.org campaign sat at about 50,000 names before her death and has since climbed past 160,000.
BusinessSeptember 9

George Michael concert film The Faith Tour gets its first trailer
Two restored 1988 nights at the Palais Omnisports in Paris reach cinemas on December 11.
BusinessSeptember 9

Snoop Dogg biopic casts Algee Smith as Warren G and Tre Hale as Suge Knight
Craig Brewer directs the Universal film, with production due around Los Angeles in mid-September and a 2027 release.
BusinessSeptember 7

Oasis put out the full trailer for their Live '25 reunion documentary
The two-hour film reaches cinemas and IMAX on September 11, with Disney+ and Hulu to follow later in the year.
BusinessSeptember 7

Cameron Winter's Carnegie Hall concert film opens in theaters November 20
The Paul Thomas Anderson-directed, Benny Safdie-produced film runs a 35mm North American tour this fall.
BusinessSeptember 5

Singer Beyonce gives $1 million to Colombia after the Choco earthquake
The singer's personal donation follows a 7.4-magnitude quake that killed at least 312 people, with Parkwood pointing donors to Food for the Poor and World Central Kitchen.
BusinessSeptember 4

Country singer Vince Gill breaks down during a Dolly Parton tribute in Kansas City
He tried I Will Always Love You alone at the Midland Theatre, and the crowd finished the parts he could not manage.
BusinessSeptember 3

Netflix sets a Fito Páez documentary for September 3
Matías Gueilburt directed the Netflix-produced film, and its trailer is out now.
BusinessSeptember 3

Brazil's Taylor Swift Law sets free water and ticket rules for concerts
Two decrees signed on 31 August require free drinking water at events above 1,000 people and force ticket sellers to show fees upfront.
BusinessSeptember 3

David Byrne builds an Oscar-qualifying song from Elon Musk's own words
"Let Me Sell You a Dream" runs in Alex Gibney's documentary Musk and could put Byrne back in the Academy Awards race after nearly 40 years.
BusinessSeptember 2

First trailer arrives for the Neil Peart documentary No One's Disciple
Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Stewart Copeland and Chad Smith remember the Rush drummer.
BusinessSeptember 2

Kyle Schuesler signs with the label HEY NOW Records
The West Coast guitarist and writer arrives from Liz Rose Music with new songs due.
BusinessSeptember 2

Dollywood plans new attractions honouring the singer Dolly Parton
A Dream Maker character, memory kiosks and a walking tour are in development.
BusinessSeptember 2

Zhoumi will run STE, the Beijing label venture from SM and Tencent Music
The company plans to debut a Chinese idol group within two to three years.
BusinessSeptember 2

Warner Music makes Mateusz Smółka managing director for Eastern Europe
He arrives from Spotify to run Poland, the Czech Republic, South Eastern Europe and Ukraine.
BusinessSeptember 2

Police to refer Bang Si-hyuk, chairman of K-pop label HYBE, to prosecutors
The step would close a 21-month inquiry into the company's 2020 stock market listing.
BusinessSeptember 2

Stevie Nicks and Olivia Rodrigo appear on the Practical Magic 2 soundtrack
Landslide plays in one scene and Rodrigo's The Cure in another, Rolling Stone reports.
BusinessSeptember 2

Reliant Talent Agency picks up country comedian Cledus T. Judd for bookings
Agency president Steve Lassiter calls the booking deal a return for a former client.
BusinessSeptember 2

SOCAN sues AI music company Suno over 150 copied songs
The Canadian society wants damages and an injunction covering its whole repertoire.
BusinessSeptember 2

Armin van Buuren and Laidback Luke advise the AI music app Moises
The company says its models train only on licensed material, and has hired Charlie Puth.
BusinessSeptember 2

Rapper Doja Cat says she struggled with cocaine and alcohol in TikTok videos
She revisited the Planet Her track I Don't Do Drugs and said it did not reflect where she was at the time.
BusinessSeptember 2

Country duo Muscadine Bloodline sign with Trenches Records and Republic
Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton put out Escatawpa Hollow through the deal on September 18.
BusinessSeptember 2

Blackpink's Lisa gets a documentary, Always Lalisa, in October
Sue Kim's film follows the singer through the year she made her first solo album, and reaches theatres on October 12 before YouTube Premium.
BusinessSeptember 2

The Songwriters returns for a fourth season with songwriter Kent Blazy
The PBS-distributed Nashville series is back from September 5, with two episodes each on Jimmy Webb and John Prine.
BusinessSeptember 2

SOCAN sues the AI music platform Suno over Canadian songs
The rights body says it found 150 Suno tracks drawing on works in its catalogue, including songs by Joni Mitchell and Avril Lavigne.
BusinessSeptember 2

Nashville park dedicates a historic bench in memory of the singer Dolly Parton
Centennial Park marked the spot where a 1975 photo session caught her in the Sunken Garden, and tied the plaque to her literacy work.
BusinessSeptember 2

Music rights group SESAC promotes Abbey Watson to creative services manager
The Belmont University graduate joined the organisation in 2021 and has worked as a link between its internal teams and outside partners.
BusinessSeptember 2

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters joins the documentary Freedom Theatre
Rishi Pelham's five-year shoot follows Ahmed Tobasi keeping a theatre open in the Jenin refugee camp.
BusinessSeptember 2

Musixmatch launches Pro for Labels, a lyrics hub for record companies
The Bologna company is pitching AI transcription, curation and analytics at rosters of every size.
BusinessSeptember 2

The 100 Club marks 50 years of its punk festival with Sprints and Maruja
Tickets cost 1.50 pounds, the 1976 price, for two Soho nights on September 20 and 21.
BusinessSeptember 2

Lady A singer Charles Kelley marks his sobriety with a before-and-after photo
Ruston Kelly, Shane McAnally and Russell Dickerson answered the Instagram post with support.
BusinessSeptember 1

Singer Ariana Grande plays her final London shows in flat shoes after a foot injury
She says the cut is not a sprain or a muscle problem and she has no plans to cancel.
BusinessSeptember 1

RIAA says US recorded music revenue hit $6 billion in the first half of 2026
Streaming brought in $4.9 billion, with paid subscriptions at $3.4 billion and free tiers at $900 million.
BusinessSeptember 1

Country singer Chase Wright signs a worldwide booking deal with North Loop Agency
The Indiana native behind 405 million streams joins a Nashville and Minneapolis roster.
BusinessSeptember 1

Songwriter Dan Alley renews his publishing deal with River House Artists and Sony
The Nashville writer behind Luke Combs' Be By You stays put after four and a half years.
BusinessSeptember 1

Six crew hurt in a forklift accident after an Ed Sheeran concert in Detroit
The workers were breaking down the stage at Ford Field when equipment lost control.
BusinessSeptember 1

Levon Helm Studios struggles to refund shows the Woodstock venue cancelled
The owners' dispute reached federal court last month, and ticket money has not come back.
BusinessSeptember 1

Brittani Johnson joins MCA as streaming VP as Chris Schuler exits the label
Johnson arrives from The Core Entertainment after promotion roles at Big Loud.
BusinessSeptember 1

Paley Center for Media brings Nashville country songwriting to New York
James Otto, Kevin MaC and D. Vincent Williams open the Southern Rounds series on September 24.
BusinessSeptember 1

Director Mary Bronstein teases a film of Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields
The one-off Irvine benefit raised $10 million, then Melinda French Gates matched it.
BusinessSeptember 1

Debbie Linn will retire as executive director of Leadership Music
She stays in the Nashville role through 2027 while a search committee finds her successor.
BusinessSeptember 1

Warner Music launches a Berlin label led by Lea Londa
Warner Records Germany opens with Udo Lindenberg, Provinz, LINA and Yasola on its roster.
BusinessSeptember 1

Country Music Association names its 2026 CMA Broadcast Awards finalists
Radio personalities and stations were judged on aircheck, ratings and community work.
BusinessSeptember 1

Oso Oso will open Mark Quinlan's Feral Twin label with a new album
An Exchange of Information arrives on November 6 as the imprint's first release.
BusinessSeptember 1

Music publishers Sony and Warner sue Anthropic, naming Dario Amodei and Ben Mann
The complaint says the two founders personally directed the downloading of pirated books.
BusinessSeptember 1

Drummer Jay Weinberg says he sought therapy after Slipknot fired him
He told a mental health nonprofit he still sees the same therapist once a week.
BusinessSeptember 1

Maggie Antone signs a record deal with Island Records after going it alone
Her independent album Rhinestoned carried Johnny Moonshine past 12 million Spotify streams.
BusinessSeptember 1

LeAnn Phelan lines up a songwriting workshop with Nicolle Galyon and Tim DuBois
The Whole Songwriter runs online from 8 to 11 September and covers career, craft and burnout.
BusinessSeptember 1

Richard Busch sues Suno for the Regional Mexican music label Gerencia 360
The complaint puts alleged infringement of 444 registered works at 66.6 million dollars.
BusinessSeptember 1

A shooting at the Aarauer Rave dance music event kills a woman of 22
Swiss police have arrested a 43-year-old man after gunfire wounded five more people near Zurich.
BusinessSeptember 1

BMG and Concord close their deal and name the new music company's leaders
An 18-member Strategic Leadership Council sits under Bob Valentine's executive team.
BusinessSeptember 1

Bob Valentine becomes chief executive as the BMG and Concord music merger closes
Bertelsmann holds about 67 per cent, with Great Mountain Partners affiliates taking a 1.16 billion dollar payment.
BusinessSeptember 1

Rapper Jay-Z opens a Trafalgar Square pop-up before his Tottenham stadium shows
The installation screens period television from 2001, the year The Blueprint arrived.
BusinessSeptember 1

London's 100 Club marks 50 years of punk with 1976 ticket prices
Sprints and Maruja headline the two nights, half a century after the venue's Sex Pistols festival.
BusinessAugust 31

Mary J. Blige draws criticism for fronting a Suno AI music campaign
The advertisement shows her in the studio reacting to generated tracks she says she could not place at first.
BusinessAugust 31

Lionel Richie is taken to a St. Louis ICU after his concert at the Muny
The 77-year-old singer had told the crowd his doctor blamed dehydration, and finished All Night Long sitting down.
BusinessAugust 31

The NSAI Song Contest opens for entries with cash prizes up to 5,000 dollars
Nashville's songwriter association takes submissions from noon on Sept. 1 until the end of October, at 35 dollars a song for members.
BusinessAugust 31

Mary J. Blige fronts a Suno ad as the fight over AI music widens
SZA found 238 of her songs in AI training datasets, Dr. Dre backed the tools, and Australia barred machine-made tracks from its charts.
BusinessAugust 31

Rapper Trippie Redd calls his 6ix9ine song Poles 1469 his worst
The two recorded it months before a 2017 feud that has never ended, and he says the track means nothing to him now.
BusinessAugust 31

Singer-songwriter Bridey Costello signs a publishing deal with Blue Harbor Music
The Chicago native put out a new single, Knew What I Wanted, on the same day the agreement was announced.
BusinessAugust 31

Rapper Kendrick Lamar keeps a birthday promise to a seven-year-old fan
Romell Frazier Jr. lost both arms in a dog attack in March. A July phone call turned into a Los Angeles weekend in August.
BusinessAugust 31

Breanne Miller launches Wayfinders, a Nashville firm for artists and songwriters
She leaves Martin, Allbee, Miller, Bryan & Associates after 25 years in music financial management, taking a colleague with her.
BusinessAugust 31

Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way backs a Shifty Shellshock documentary film
Soleil Moon Frye's portrait of the late Crazy Town singer adds two executive producers after a festival run.
BusinessAugust 31

Jeff Tobias becomes vice president of sales at the music royalty firm Mogul
He arrives from Tone, and before that Stem and ONErpm, to sell into business managers and catalogue owners.
BusinessAugust 31

Basement, the Queens club, bans smart glasses from its dancefloor
The venue extends a long standing no photo policy to wearable cameras, with a permanent ban for anyone who brings a pair.
BusinessAugust 31

The 60th annual CMA Awards will reveal its nominees on September 10
Lara Spencer names some categories on Good Morning America, with the rest going out on a livestream from Nashville.
BusinessAugust 31

Singer Olivia Dean asks why one-hit wonder is used as an insult
Man I Need passed a billion Spotify streams and topped US pop radio. She thinks a song everybody loves is a strange thing to sneer at.
BusinessAugust 30

Red Clay Strays explain the Dolly Parton line in their song Stone's Throw
The bridge in the lyric is a real one on I-65 outside Mobile, and for the band it meant the drive was nearly over.
BusinessAugust 30

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over song lyrics
The complaint calls it one of the largest ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.
BusinessAugust 30

Country singer Alan Jackson opens a distillery and museum in Nashville
The Silverbelly site at 121 3rd Avenue South opened in June, and almost nobody noticed.
BusinessAugust 30

Drone metal guitarist Dionysios Tabakis answers fascism and homophobia claims
The Greek Orthodox priest addressed 2024 blog posts and a 2013 video of a Golden Dawn office blessing, then pulled out of a Philadelphia festival.
BusinessAugust 30

Quality Control label boss Pierre "P" Thomas is recovering from a heart attack
His daughter Journey posted a family photo and thanked God, weeks after false reports of his death circulated.
BusinessAugust 29

Rapper Juicy J on the letter Dolly Parton sent after Three 6 Mafia beat her to an Oscar
She lost Best Original Song to the Memphis group in 2006, cheered from the crowd, and wrote to them a week later.
BusinessAugust 29

Tennessee moves to name Nashville's airport for the country singer Dolly Parton
Governor Bill Lee and the airport authority take the renaming proposal to a board meeting on September 17.
BusinessAugust 29

Warner Chappell and Sony Music Publishing sue Anthropic over song copyrights
The complaint names chief executive Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann, and seeks up to $150,000 for each work.
BusinessAugust 29

Perrie Edwards reported to have left the label Sony Music and Modest Management
The Sun says she turned down a second solo album at Columbia and has signed with Various Artists Management.
BusinessAugust 29

Singer Taylor Swift gives $50,000 to a mother hurt helping at a crash site
Ashley Taunton pushed someone clear of a hydroplaning car in a rainstorm and was hit herself. The singer left a note in the fundraiser comments.
BusinessAugust 28

Gladys Knight will cut back her concerts after health concerns from fans
The 82-year-old singer says she is transitioning, following reports of missed cues at some shows.
BusinessAugust 28

Country singer Kane Brown pushes his next album back to spring 2027
He told Bobby Bones he stopped feeling the music, then decided the record does not have to be cohesive because none of his have been.
BusinessAugust 28

Country singer ERNEST steps off the road to work on his health
He was opening for Ella Langley through September 12 and had Thomas Rhett dates lined up from October 1.
BusinessAugust 28

BEAUZ member Johan Yang needs nine staples after fainting on a flight
The DJ hit his head on the cabin floor eight hours into an overnight flight, and his brother is playing their next show alone.
BusinessAugust 28

Goodwill's Rewind record store opens in North Carolina on September 4
The Matthews shop stocks vinyl, CDs, cassettes and DVDs, and puts a listening room and retro arcade games on the floor.
BusinessAugust 28

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore score the ski documentary Threshold
Three pieces are out ahead of the November 20 release of the full soundtrack.
BusinessAugust 28

Spotify promotes Joe Hadley to lead its music content and partnerships
J.J. Italiano takes over editorial and reports to him under the new structure.
BusinessAugust 28

Halsey releases her first concert film, The Girl in the Tower
The 75-minute set was shot across a European festival run and premiered on YouTube.
BusinessAugust 28

Anna Rae signs with Joan Of Arc Music for management
Cindy Mabe's company takes on the singer as her debut single arrives.
BusinessAugust 28

Guitarist John Mayer says he has not sworn off Dead and Company for good
A USA Today quote about going back to his corner read as a goodbye. He told Andy Cohen that hanging it up is part of grieving Bob Weir.
BusinessAugust 28

Universal Music and Sony add stream-ripping claims to their Suno suit
A judge let the allegation in but refused to expand the list of infringed tracks.
BusinessAugust 28

UK report puts Brexit touring losses for musicians at 208 million pounds
British performances in the EU fell 21% between 2019 and 2024, with 2,490 jobs gone.
BusinessAugust 28

Trey Anastasio, Dave Matthews and Chris Stapleton to play a cancer research gala
The three Red Light Management artists will perform at the T.J. Martell Foundation's 51st New York Honors Gala, which honours the company's founder.
BusinessAugust 28

CMA sets the Music Teachers of Excellence ceremony lineup for October 7
Sierra Hull, Marcus King and Preservation Hall Jazz Band play the tenth edition in Nashville.
BusinessAugust 28

Avicii's full final DJ set is released ten years after the Ibiza show
A single GoPro take from Ushuaia, published by his estate and Pophouse, that never leaves the decks.
BusinessAugust 28

Sub Focus gives a pound a ticket to Save Our Scene and the grassroots venue levy
Two arena shows in March 2027 will route money back to the rooms the drum and bass producer came up in.
BusinessAugust 28

The music company BMG says organic revenue grew 8.1% in the first half
Its merger with Concord is now expected to close in the third quarter.
BusinessAugust 28

Warner Music Austria strikes a distribution deal with Tonherd
ADA Central Europe is part of the arrangement, and the Vienna label's studio opens up to Warner's local roster.
BusinessAugust 28

SoundCloud acquires independent music platform Nina Protocol
Nina Protocol will migrate to SoundCloud after announcing in May that it could not find a sustainable path forward.
BusinessAugust 28

Josh Homme says arena rules are really about controlling fun
The Queens Of The Stone Age frontman expanded on his complaint after lighting a cigarette on stage in defiance of a Ford Field smoking ban.
BusinessAugust 28

Brady Corbet to film David Byrne's Baltimore concerts in 70mm
The Brutalist director shot the run on 8 perf and 15 perf stock, and the singer says he had not grasped what that would do.
BusinessAugust 28

The Latin Rock House, San Francisco, is now a protected music landmark
Owner Richard Segovia has kept a mural of more than 87 musicians going as the Mission District priced out the people it honours.
BusinessAugust 28

Reservoir's PopIndia buys the Vincey Productions catalog
The deal adds YouTube channels with 10 million subscribers between them, and comes with a publishing signing for the producer 30KEY!
BusinessAugust 28

Ramones documentary gets a 4K restoration and a digital release
Magnolia Pictures brings End of the Century back to cinemas later this year.
BusinessAugust 28

Country singer Jelly Roll answers for the Trump jokes he told hosting Kimmel
Four nights in the chair, about ten minutes of material at the president's expense, and a closing monologue that finally addressed the question he ducked at the Grammys.
BusinessAugust 28

Aemia sign to the label Artist House with the single Nowhere To Hide
JT Daly produced the Persian-Canadian duo's first song for the label, and singer Mia Ravangar directed its video.
BusinessAugust 28

Ian McCulloch says the band Echo and the Bunnymen are in their pomp again
The singer talks up Apples For Isaac, a Brussels love song, a Bosch obsession and the late Clem Burke's drumming, and warns the critics are already sharpening up.
BusinessAugust 27

Singer Zara Larsson rejects a Best New Artist push after 13 years of records
Her old label wanted to try for the category. She told Perfect Magazine the label was welcome to try without her blessing.
BusinessAugust 27

Zara Larsson is not eligible for a Best New Artist Grammy nomination in 2027
The pop singer said she would not want the category anyway. A nomination she already holds settles the question before her opinion has to.
BusinessAugust 27

Judge lets UMG and Sony accuse Suno of stream ripping their records
The same August 18 order refused the labels' bid to add 61,026 recordings to the 560 already in suit.
BusinessAugust 27

Authentic Brands takes a majority stake in the IP of rapper Drake's OVO
Vince Holding Corp. picks up the operating business and will run design, product and the 12 flagship stores.
BusinessAugust 27

WAMCon 2026 brings producers and engineers to Nashville's Ocean Way Studios
The one-day Women's Audio Mission conference lands October 30 with Grammy winners Gena Johnson and Shani Gandhi mentoring.
BusinessAugust 27

Sony Music Publishing takes Publisher of the Year at the BMI R&B awards
It represented 27 of the year's most-performed songs, up from 23, as Kendrick Lamar took songwriter of the year.
BusinessAugust 27

Diane Pearson elected president of the Leadership Music board for 2026-27
The City National Bank Nashville executive returns to a role she has held before, with four new directors joining.
BusinessAugust 27

Elderbrook, Bob Moses, Aluna and Jayda G supply music for a GTA 6 trailer
Rockstar closed its 26-minute Netflix preview of Vice City with two house tracks, Mine O' Mine and Inner Light.
BusinessAugust 27

Warner Music's social justice fund puts nearly $6M behind 17 groups
Eight grantees work in music, four of them new, and the fund has now committed more than $52 million since 2020.
BusinessAugust 27

ElevenLabs adds section editing to its ElevenMusic song tool
The feature, called Composer, arrived 12 days after Suno upgraded its studio and a month after Google shipped its own editor.
BusinessAugust 27

Country singer Dolly Parton offered herself for cancer drug trials
Stella Parton says the singer would have taken experimental treatment to help future patients, as AMC schedules tribute screenings.
BusinessAugust 27

WMOT Roots Radio marks ten years as an Americana music station
The Middle Tennessee State University signal flipped format in September 2016 and now reaches about a million listeners online.
BusinessAugust 27

Maynard James Keenan had hip replacement surgery, says shows stay on
He has roughly 27 performances booked in 18 countries with three bands between September and Christmas.
BusinessAugust 27

David Byrne turns his latest live show into a concert film
Who Is The Sky? was shot at the Hippodrome in Baltimore, and it follows Stop Making Sense and American Utopia in his catalogue.
BusinessAugust 27

Snoop Dogg biopic casts Camron Jones as Tupac Shakur
Lauren London also joins the cast as Snoop's late mother, ahead of the film's August 2027 release.
BusinessAugust 27

Authentic Brands Group buys 51% of rapper Drake's OVO label
He keeps a 44% holding and creative control, while Vince Holding Corp. takes over design, merchandising and retail.
BusinessAugust 27

Chris Stapleton rebuilt Dolly Parton's signature song for guitar at Jones Beach
Parton wrote it in 1973 as a farewell to her mentor Porter Wagoner, and it has been a hit four separate times since.
BusinessAugust 27

Rapper Lefty Gunplay says a call to Kendrick Lamar came before nine months in rehab
He phoned Top Dawg in the same stretch, and says people around him warned that walking away would cost him the moment he had waited for.
BusinessAugust 27

Kehlani cancels two tour dates after a hospital visit
The Camden and Washington area stops are off, and the run picks back up on August 29 in Richmond, Virginia.
BusinessAugust 27

Dolly Parton's team says unreleased records will carry her personal stamp
Danny Nozell said she picked the people handling her legacy, and asked fans to trust only official channels.
BusinessAugust 27

Singer Olivia Rodrigo lines up Taco Bell and Grammy Museum album tie-ins
A pink lemonade Baja Blast arrives first, then a museum show built from the handmade sets used in the cure video.
BusinessAugust 27

Sting will narrate a documentary about composer Nino Rota
Walter Fasano's film gets a special screening at the Venice Film Festival, and skips the usual cradle to grave structure.
BusinessAugust 27

WME promotes Sara Williams to head of music marketing
The Nashville executive reports to Kirk Sommer and takes over from Levi Jackson, who moves to brand strategy.
BusinessAugust 27

Lambchop star in Joke Country, a ten-minute comedy film about a radio interview
Kurt Wagner directed it and Henry Phillips plays him, opposite Steve Marsh as the host.
BusinessAugust 27

Maple's Pet Dinosaur signs a global deal with Warner Music Australia
The 15-year-old rock singer leads with Child's Play, the title track of a debut EP built on alt-metal.
BusinessAugust 27

Olivia Rodrigo built the Daisy Chain Fields festival around abortion rights
The all-women bill at Great Park in Irvine played for free, and Rodrigo said at a news conference that $10 million goes to ten advocacy groups.
BusinessAugust 27

Kennedy Center, the Washington arts venue, votes to shut its doors for two years
The same vote puts Trump's name back on the building, and AP says it goes against a judge's order.
BusinessAugust 27

Go-go band E.U. played a Tiny Desk concert for the style's 50th year
Gregory Elliott's Washington group ran eight songs at NPR and closed with Da Butt, completing the set of go-go's founding four behind that desk.
BusinessAugust 27

Phoebe Bridgers cut two songs at BBC Radio 1 hours before appendicitis hit
The Live Lounge set paired Nirvana's Lithium with Bobby, from her album Lost Weekend.
BusinessAugust 27

Apple Music to add a tag for AI-generated tracks
The platform says it demonetized two billion fraudulent streams last year.
BusinessAugust 27

Australia's ARIA bans wholly AI-generated tracks from its official charts
The updated Code of Practice takes effect August 28, though AI-assisted songs stay eligible.
BusinessAugust 27

Salford venue The White Hotel will reopen under the name BASTION in 2027
New owners behind The Bag Factory will relaunch the building under a new name after the club's January closure.
BusinessAugust 27

New Bristol club with 5am licence to open inside former cinema
The space will become a music and arts venue after its licence was granted this week.
BusinessAugust 27

Paisley's long-running Club 69 nightclub is shutting down this autumn
The Paisley nightclub shuts on October 10 after a run of final parties.
BusinessAugust 27

New film Club Kid, with a Shygirl cameo, heads to cinemas this fall
The comedy-drama features cameos from musicians including Shygirl and River Moon.
BusinessAugust 27

Bristol's Noods Radio joins DAB+ to broadcast its music across the city
The station will now broadcast across radio channels in Bristol.
BusinessAugust 27

Petition launched as Rotterdam festivals face funding cuts
The city council has proposed a 656,000-euro annual cut to cultural event funding.
BusinessAugust 27

New app Seen Live lets fans rate DJ sets after a night out
The app is built for documenting gigs, festivals and club nights.
BusinessAugust 27

New film Skintown, soundtracked by Carl Cox, revisits Irish rave culture
The soundtrack features Carl Cox, Happy Mondays and Jeff Mills, among others.
BusinessAugust 27

LIVE Trust doubles UK touring grants for small venue tours to 8,000 pounds
The Featured Artists Coalition reopened applications on August 26 after a 300,000-pound injection from the ticket levy.
BusinessAugust 26

Ignacia Fernández sang death metal on the Miss World stage
The Chilean contestant performed The Hollow Descent, an original by her own band Decessus.
BusinessAugust 26

Gene Simmons says Kiss needs Pophouse's permission to tour again
The band reportedly requires approval from Pophouse to return to the stage.
BusinessAugust 26

Dolly Parton left a queue of records, shows and products for after her death
The list runs from a Broadway musical previewing in December to a coffee brand, a museum, a hotel and a song locked at Dollywood until 2045.
BusinessAugust 26

SoundCloud lets artists sell music directly from their profiles
The new buy button sends zero percent back to SoundCloud, launching this fall.
BusinessAugust 26

SiriusXM gives Dolly Parton a full-time channel of her own music
Channel 105 carries her catalogue and her collaborators, with extra programming across The Highway, Outlaw Country and Bluegrass Junction.
BusinessAugust 26

Jay-Z sets September 18 premiere for HBO series Jay-Z In 8
He and Rick Rubin turn years of recorded conversations into an eight-part series examining his music, life and process.
BusinessAugust 26

Luminate introduces global framework to track AI-generated music
The tool will flag AI-made songs and artists worldwide, with labels reaching CONNECT later this year.
BusinessAugust 26

Freddie Mercury's final filmed concert with Queen heads to IMAX
Queen Budapest, filmed in 1986 and restored in 4K, opens in over 2,000 cinemas this October.
BusinessAugust 26

Concert promoter Live Nation hired Trump's personal lawyer amid DOJ case
A Wall Street Journal report details White House pressure on the Justice Department to settle the litigation.
BusinessAugust 26

Becky G says the industry rolled its eyes at her música mexicana albums
The singer told will.i.am that Esquinas and Encuentros met doubt, and that música mexicana started bubbling eight months after she began.
BusinessAugust 26

Rapper Young Miko says Kany García coming out was important to her
Asked by ELLE México about being a role model herself, the singer named García, and described a fan who came to a show with her two mothers.
BusinessAugust 26

Trump administration warns the Kennedy Center venue could face demolition
Justice Department lawyers raised the prospect in a court filing, saying an outdoor amphitheater could be built on the site instead.
BusinessAugust 26

YouTube Premium raises streaming prices across Europe and Singapore
Individual plan increases run from around 10% to as much as 17% across affected markets.
BusinessAugust 26

Billboard to identify AI-generated music on its charts
The organization is adopting new detection and tagging tools as AI tracks flood streaming.
BusinessAugust 26

UK Artist Touring Fund opens second round of grants
The Featured Artists Coalition is offering grants of up to 8,000 pounds to support touring artists.
BusinessAugust 26

Harry Styles says the stage puts a singer in a godlike position
He told W that he showers straight after a show to wash the persona off, and had two words for reading comments.
BusinessAugust 26

Dolly Parton built her book charity to outlast the singer herself
The count reaches 336,004,951 books in September, and the Dollywood Foundation's president says the mission has not changed.
BusinessAugust 25

Kennedy Center name change reportedly cost venue $100 million in lost revenue
A new report ties the rebrand under the Trump administration to the shortfall.
BusinessAugust 25

Rapper Trae Tha Truth takes food and supplies into Gary, Indiana
His Relief Gang has been clearing fallen trees and handing out necessities after 100mph storms left thousands without power for a fortnight.
BusinessAugust 25

Red Hot Chili Peppers sold their recordings to Warner for over $300 million
Luminate's data puts 66 percent of the band's streams outside the United States and 91 percent of US plays on paid tiers.
BusinessAugust 25

Paul Thomas Anderson's Cameron Winter concert film due in November
The buzzed-about Carnegie Hall performance is getting a cinematic release.
BusinessAugust 25

Universal, Sony and Warner back music AI firm Stability AI with $76 million
The three majors join Stability AI's Series B round days after its Stable Audio 3.0 launch.
BusinessAugust 25

Spotify takes real playlist names from its streaming app to the streets
The 'Playlist It' campaign posts users' actual playlist titles on billboards, adapted city by city.
BusinessAugust 25

Afternoon Bike Ride warn touring musicians after Stripe froze their merch sales
The Montreal trio says the payments company refunded card sales from four US tour stops without warning.
BusinessAugust 25

The Isley Brothers share new movie theme song
The legendary group, now down to two members, contributes a haunting new track.
BusinessAugust 25

Isaiah Rashad plays a 13-song Tiny Desk set with a nine-piece band
The Chattanooga rapper built the performance around everything since The Sun's Tirade, with horns, keys and two background vocalists behind him.
BusinessAugust 25

New documentary revisits Wham!'s 1985 China tour
Mike Christie's film uses footage from George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley's tour to explore its political weight.
BusinessAugust 24

Taylor Swift revisits Tim McGraw, the single that started her career
In a 20-year retrospective she admits the Georgia stars line was invented, and credits Nashville with making her a writer.
BusinessAugust 24

Round Hill Music sues Suno and Anthropic for up to $1 billion apiece
The independent publisher says it won't settle and intends to take both AI companies to trial.
BusinessAugust 24

Sony Music sues Kroger over alleged copyright infringement in ads
The suit spans 19 Kroger banners including Ralphs, Mariano's and Harris Teeter, and cites nearly 400 unauthorized posts.
BusinessAugust 24

Rapper Ice-T says no one else holds a Grammy in both metal and rap
The Body Count frontman told METALSHOP the band lost to Mastodon in New York and found its dressing room locked, then won on a night he watched at home.
BusinessAugust 24

Dr. Dre says AI is a threat to less-skilled music creators
In a joint New York Times interview, the producer and Jimmy Iovine weighed in on AI's growing role in the studio.
BusinessAugust 24

Television guitarist Richard Lloyd diagnosed with cancer
The guitarist says the diagnosis has been financially difficult to manage.
BusinessAugust 24

Twickenham Jazz Club booked 12 Wednesday nights from September to January
Alan Barnes, Alex Garnett and a Chet Baker programme lead the bill at the Cabbage Patch, where Lesley Christiane has promoted jazz for more than two decades.
BusinessAugust 22

Metal band Worm made their KEXP studio session look like a 1991 VHS tape
The Florida group's taping for the Seattle station lands while their album Necropalace pushes them onto bigger tours.
BusinessAugust 21

Quality Control label cofounder Pierre 'P' Thomas hospitalized
A representative confirmed he remains hospitalized after reportedly suffering a heart attack.
BusinessAugust 21

Glasgow begins search for a nighttime economy manager for its venue sector
The new role is meant to support the city's late-night venues and hospitality sector.
BusinessAugust 21

Study finds the American South still favors soul music most
New research on Google search interest ranks genre preference by US state.
BusinessAugust 20

Lil Yachty and Denzel Curry revisit the 2016 XXL Freshman Class in new documentary
The film looks back at one of the outlet's most talked-about covers, a decade later.
BusinessAugust 20

Afropunk founder James Spooner rereleases his Afro-Punk documentary
The filmmaker remastered his 2003 film and paired it with a new memoir.
BusinessAugust 20

Weird Al Yankovic takes a nine-piece band to the NPR Tiny Desk
Sixteen years after his first visit he played Skipper Dan, eBay, Now You Know and The Saga Begins.
BusinessAugust 19

AI music generator Suno brings its voice-cloning tool to phones
The company also tightened download limits and lost a copyright case to Germany's GEMA this month.
BusinessAugust 19

Sadiq Khan objects to Westminster's new Soho venue rule
Under the plan, new pubs, bars and venues in the West End would normally be refused a licence.
BusinessAugust 19

Beatport bans all AI-generated tracks from its platform
The marketplace has prohibited tracks made entirely or mostly using AI.
BusinessAugust 19

Police make 10 arrests breaking up an illegal Suffolk forest music rave
Soundsystems were seized at the unlicensed 300-person gathering near Capel St Andrew.
BusinessAugust 19

The London Museum wants 12 DJs for a new after-hours music series
The selected acts will join the museum's Sound of London collective at its new Smithfield space.
BusinessAugust 19

Dance music record store 3 Phase Records launches in Birmingham
The shop has opened in a Grade II-listed building in the Gun Quarter.
BusinessAugust 19

Business rates cut for nightclubs and music venues across England
Andy Burnham announced a 20% reduction for nightlife venues and pubs, taking effect next year.
BusinessAugust 19

Save Bristol Nightlife pushes back against a crowd-limiting music venue policy
The campaign urges the city council to scrap rules restricting gatherings at clubs, bars and pubs.
BusinessAugust 19

Record labels propose new chart rules to govern AI-made music
The suggested principles would require chart-eligible tracks to be "substantially human-made."
BusinessAugust 19

Grassroots venues, promoters and artists can apply for the Liveline Fund
Launched by MVT, SOS and AIP, the fund supports live shows, touring musicians and venue programmes.
BusinessAugust 19

Massachusetts lawmakers move to lift happy hour ban to boost nightlife and music venues
Senators also voted for permanent outdoor drinking districts.
BusinessAugust 19

Ibiza weighs a ban on new dance music nightclub licenses
The Consell d'Eivissa's draft measure would stop the island from issuing any more club licenses.
BusinessAugust 19

BBC Radio 6 debuts "Rave Forever," a new Black British music show
The Friday-night programme runs throughout August as part of The Music is Black season.
BusinessAugust 19

Black Coffee and Skepta confirmed for Hi Ibiza club's 2026 closing party
The Playa d'en Bossa club hosts its last party of the year on October 9.
BusinessAugust 19

DJ Carl Cox contributes music to a new "Animal Farm" film
He previously worked with the adaptation's director, Andy Serkis, on 2021's Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
BusinessAugust 19

Several Birmingham clubs, including Club Colette, threatened by railway expansion
Club Colette, XOYO and Mama Roux's could be demolished under new Midlands Rail Hub Alliance proposals.
BusinessAugust 19

Delta Festival cuts ties with co-founder over abuse allegations
Organisers barred Olivier Ledot as the Marseille event went ahead despite several artist withdrawals.
BusinessAugust 19

Spybar club co-owner sentenced to jail for ketamine smuggling
Dino Gardiakos was jailed for six years following his 2024 arrest.
BusinessAugust 19

[UNVRS] club shares details of its Ibiza 2026 season closing party
The hyperclub wraps its second season with East End Dubs, The Martinez Brothers, Mochakk and Mella Dee.
BusinessAugust 19

Fatboy Slim invests in Brighton venue The Pipeline
The venue was brought under community ownership via the Music Venue Trust's Own Our Venues scheme.
BusinessAugust 19

fabric club shares lineup for 30-hour 27th birthday celebration
The Farringdon club's marathon bill includes Girls Don't Sync, DJ Nobu and Beatrice M.
BusinessAugust 19

North Shields grassroots music project rolls out support for new promoters
Are You Affiliated offers free venue hire and mentorship at King Street Social Club.
BusinessAugust 19

Live Nation plans the Sao Paulo Arena, a 21,000-capacity venue
Brazil's first purpose-built arena is expected to host about 200 shows a year after opening in 2028.
BusinessAugust 19

New York music station The Lot Radio raises funds for Lola Evans' cancer treatment
The five-year staffer is stepping away from work as the station and its listeners collect donations toward her medical bills.
BusinessAugust 19

New documentary traces the history of Berlin's Love Parade, the electronic music event
Love Is Stronger follows Love Parade's rise and its revival as Rave The Planet, twenty years after Berlin's last edition.
BusinessAugust 19

London club Ministry of Sound plans a weekend-long 35th anniversary party
The October 2-3 event brings back Andy C for his first Ministry set in a decade, alongside Kerri Chandler, Moodymann and Loco Dice.
BusinessAugust 19

Melbourne music venue Misfits to close after two years
The Footscray bar says a run of farewell parties is still to come before its final night.
BusinessAugust 19

Snoop Dogg biopic 'Snoop' set for August 2027 release
Universal Studios has set August 6, 2027 for the film starring Outer Banks actor Johnathan Daviss.
BusinessAugust 19

Sony Music sues AI startup Udio again over 30,000 tracks
The label says it has now identified more than 30,000 recordings copied without permission to train the AI company's models.
BusinessAugust 19

SubmitHub study finds AI signs in 40% of July's new music
The company's detector flagged 23% of releases as fully AI-generated and another 15% as AI audio edited by humans.
BusinessAugust 19

Sheffield music venue Tank closes its doors after 12 years
The Sheffield city-centre venue says spiralling monthly costs made it impossible to carry on.
BusinessAugust 19

Leeds venue TESTBED unveils major renovations ahead of September reopening
The 10,000 sq ft warehouse space is more than doubling in size, with a new mezzanine and a custom L-Acoustics sound system.
BusinessAugust 19

Ushuaia Ibiza, the open-air club, reveals its 2026 closing party lineup
The October 10 marathon event features a 'world-first' back-to-back between East End Dubs and Hot Since 82.
BusinessAugust 19

A new intimate club, XTC Bushwick, opens its doors in New York
Founder Sheezy Kebab says the 74-capacity Brooklyn space draws on the energy of Ibiza's Es Paradis.
BusinessAugust 19

The MTV Video Music Awards cut the Best Rock category for 2026
Best Alternative is the only rock-adjacent field left on the ballot, and the network has said nothing about why the older award went.
BusinessAugust 19

New Orleans punk band Twisted Teens sign to the label Sub Pop
Caspian Halliwell and RJ Santos take Florida Water Blues worldwide and open for the Breeders and Kurt Vile.
BusinessAugust 19

Soulidified, the quartet from Building the Band, signed a deal with Atlantic Records
Shade Jenifer, Malik Heard, Bradley Rittmann and Landon Boyce met on the Netflix show a year ago and have two singles and a fall tour lined up behind them.
BusinessAugust 19

Universal Music Group starts a second share buyback worth 250 million euros
The label is funding the repurchases in part with proceeds from selling half its Spotify stake.
BusinessAugust 19

A Jimmy Buffett exhibit opens in Mobile with the singer's 12-string Martin guitar
The National Maritime Museum of the Gulf gives 6,000 square feet to a permanent Buffett installation from 12 September.
BusinessAugust 19

Singer Phoebe Bridgers got appendicitis on her 32nd birthday
She posted from a hospital bed days after playing two London shows for her album Lost Weekend, and her UK dates this week will move.
BusinessAugust 19

The Beatles' Apple Corps hands the band's wider business to Universal
Rolling Stone reported that the company running the group's affairs since 1968 aligns with UMG as it opens 3 Savile Row to the public in 2027.
BusinessAugust 19

Virgin Music Group signs the Bhojpuri label Sur Music World for global distribution
The Mumbai company, founded in 2019, moved from South Indian film titles into music and now has Universal's independent services arm behind it.
BusinessAugust 19

SubmitHub study finds AI in 38.5 per cent of July's music releases
The platform's own detector read more than a million tracks and flagged 23.2 per cent as fully machine-made, with its founder calling for disclosure.
BusinessAugust 19

The Disciple documentary tells the story of the one-copy Wu-Tang Clan album
Joanna Natasegara's film, on Netflix from 16 October, follows Cilvaringz from teenage fan to maker of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.
BusinessAugust 19

The Residency hands musicians the keys to a hotel for a weekend
Marcus Damas, a former professional basketball player, built the program with Fueled by Culture and opened it with Wyclef Jean at Gurney's Montauk.
BusinessAugust 19

The Grand Ole Opry's Royal Albert Hall show becomes a two-part TV special
Luke Combs, Ashley McBryde, Carly Pearce, Darius Rucker and Marty Stuart played the London night, which goes out on 22 and 29 August.
BusinessAugust 19

Rockabilly trio The Stray Cats return to late night television after 36 years
Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom played Jimmy Fallon's show, the band's first booking of the kind in more than three decades.
BusinessAugust 19

The singer Jimmy Buffett gets a permanent home at a Mobile maritime museum
The National Maritime Museum of the Gulf opens a 6,000-square-foot show of more than 130 artifacts on September 12.
BusinessAugust 19

Boston hardcore band Haywire sign to Roadrunner Records
The group marked the deal by throwing 5,000 dollars into the crowd at Sound and Fury, and set their first album for the label for 2 October.
BusinessAugust 19

Singer Olivia Rodrigo paid a fan's last semester of college tuition
Jamie Causey said $5,000 arrived by Venmo after she posted about her costs at the University of Alabama, and she kept it to herself until she graduated.
BusinessAugust 19

Spotify will flag AI artists and hold them back from recommendations
A badge will tell listeners when the identity behind an artist may not be a real person.
BusinessAugust 19

The Beatles hand Universal a worldwide merchandise and licensing deal
Apple Corps signed a long-term partnership with UMG, whose Bravado arm has run the group's merchandise in North America since 2022.
BusinessAugust 18

XS Nightclub sets a four-night reopening with DJ sets at Wynn Las Vegas
The club returns on November 5 after a renovation, with RÜFÜS DU SOL, The Chainsmokers, Calvin Harris and a Diplo b2b Hugel set.
BusinessAugust 18

Singer Jorja Smith headlines Spotify's new "Hometown" series with Nemzzz and Beabadoobee
The three artists return to Walsall, Manchester and London for one-off shows tied to new album campaigns.
BusinessAugust 18

Gina Prince-Bythewood taps Tems, Burna Boy and Ayra Starr for new film's soundtrack
Tems will curate the Children of Blood and Bone soundtrack after her song "Try Me" played on repeat during the script's writing.
BusinessAugust 18

Country singer Jaid Joice signs with talent agency WME
Joice, who began playing guitar at age nine, will support Muscadine Bloodline and Avery Anna on select tour dates.
BusinessAugust 18

Singer Celine Dion opens up about her health battle with Stiff-Person Syndrome
She undergoes 90-minute Pilates sessions three times a week ahead of her Paris concert comeback.
BusinessAugust 18

The Neal Agency partners with WIN Artists to expand into film and television
The move gives TNA's roster, which spans generational music acts, a launchpad beyond the concert business.
BusinessAugust 18

Mitchell Douglas and Hagan Edge ink publishing deal with Universal Music Nashville
The Kentucky duo has already toured with Dylan Gossett, 49 Winchester and Shane Smith & The Saints.
BusinessAugust 18

Miranda Lambert to open Nashville venue The Truth on October 1
The disco-tinged country album Crisco, which she'll begin previewing at the show, arrives via MCA the very next day.
BusinessAugust 18

Courtney Love reveals she nearly died, confirms new solo album is finished
The record, her first solo album since 2004's America's Sweetheart, was finished while she was in and out of hospitals.
BusinessAugust 18

London duo Lover1k sign to Underplay Recordings
Their first release for the label is the new single "On My Own," produced with Big Softy.
BusinessAugust 18

MUSEXPO 2027 names Lucas Keller and Marty Diamond for its industry awards
Keller of Milk & Honey gets the Global Talent Manager award, while Diamond of THE-TEAM receives International Music Person of the Year.
BusinessAugust 18

Warner Music Group names Mahesh Rao to lead new Bengaluru tech hub
The facility opens in September and will focus on distribution and data infrastructure across WMG's India operations.
BusinessAugust 18

Alibaba debuts a beta version of its AI song generator, HappyShrimp
Chinese label Taihe Music has signed on to use the tool for artist co-creation.
BusinessAugust 18

Miranda Lambert will open Nashville's newest venue, The Truth
The October 1 show doubles as an early preview of her new album Crisco, arriving the following day.
BusinessAugust 18

Aberdeen jazz promoter "Jazz at the Blue Lamp" announces a name change
The volunteer-run promotion moved from the shuttered Blue Lamp to the Rusty Nail on Rosemount Viaduct and is now called Jazz in the Granite City.
BusinessAugust 18

Music publisher Round Hill sues Suno and Anthropic for up to $1 billion each
The suits cite songs by James Brown and the Goo Goo Dolls and say Round Hill is not looking to settle.
BusinessAugust 18

Live Nation settles lawsuit over a fan's brain injury at a Luke Bryan concert
A judge had already ruled the security question should go to a jury before the two sides settled instead.
BusinessAugust 18

Rock singer Yungblud breaks leg in a motorbike accident, vows to still play festival dates
He confirmed the injury happened at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota.
BusinessAugust 17

Columbia House, the old mail-order music club, is finally shutting down
The company will stop taking new orders after September 15, ending a 71-year run that outlasted the CD era.
BusinessAugust 17

Jamen Capital and the label group Merlin finalize their purchase of Curve Royalty Systems
The deal for the royalty platform closed after European regulators required Universal Music Group to sell it off.
BusinessAugust 17

Carly Rae Jepsen teams with Dunham on a stage musical of "10 Things I Hate About You"
First previews are set for exactly one year out, with Tony winners Christopher Wheeldon and Tom Kitt attached.
BusinessAugust 17

Diddy documentary lands an Emmy nomination, director credits its timeline
The director said in a new AP interview that the show's detailed timeline keeps it feeling fresh.
BusinessAugust 17

Warner Music CEO Robert Kyncl defends label's Suno deal as UMG and Sony press lawsuit
On a podcast, he compared the AI fight to the music industry's early battles with YouTube over user-generated content.
BusinessAugust 17

Music magazine SPIN and creative studio The Wild Honey Pie form a media partnership
The deal grew out of a SPIN staffer's night at a Wild Honey Pie pizza party featuring the band STRFKR.
BusinessAugust 17

SH Labs study finds 1 in 3 artists misrepresent their AI use in music tracks
SH Labs' analysis of more than 1 million tracks found nearly 40 percent showed signs of AI involvement.
BusinessAugust 17

Suno's new licensing deal with the music label BMG adds download caps and watermarks
The rights deal settles Suno's past use of BMG's catalog, while separate caps and watermarks aim to curb mass distribution.
BusinessAugust 17

New Nashville label Echo House Collective names Emma Kiefer its A&R lead
She joins as Senior Director of A&R after stints with Dave Cobb and two other publishing companies.
BusinessAugust 17

Jamendo drops its copyright lawsuit against AI music company Suno
The case is withdrawn without prejudice six weeks after it was filed, with no reason given and no mention of a settlement.
BusinessAugust 17

Pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen and Lena Dunham's "10 Things" musical sets a Broadway date
The countdown is on for their musical reimagining of 10 Things I Hate About You.
BusinessAugust 17

BTS, the K-pop group, pulls out of the Grammys over new Asian Pop category
The band's boycott pushed Recording Academy chief Harvey Mason Jr. to defend, then reconsider, the award two weeks later.
BusinessAugust 17

Megan Thee Stallion signs Interscope distribution deal for her label
The rapper keeps ownership of her masters and creative control, with the pact tied to Roc Nation and her Hot Girl Productions.
BusinessAugust 17

Jeannie Seely's "Pennsyltucky" home becomes a songwriting hub
The Cumberland River cottage is being repurposed a year after her passing.
BusinessAugust 17

Stick To Your Guns launches fundraiser for guitarist Josh James' family
The band is raising money after a family member of the guitarist was placed on life support.
BusinessAugust 17

Luce Mawdsley scores three-track EP for a Catherine Opie documentary
"Dream, Baby Butch" arrives September 4, with proceeds benefiting Liverpool LGBTQ+ charity Sahir.
BusinessAugust 17

Darius Brubeck documentary gets a screening at London's Phoenix Cinema
Mark Kermode will host a live Q and A with Brubeck and director Michiel ten Kleij after the film.
BusinessAugust 17

Totnes venue Jamming Station launches £50,000 appeal to save youth music hub
The 'do-or-die' campaign funds fire safety work, new sound equipment and soundproofing.
BusinessAugust 16

Wembley Stadium criticised over a fireworks display hours after a wildfire alert
The display ran at a show by The Weeknd at the stadium, NME reported.
BusinessAugust 16

Musician Ty Segall scores "The Wrong Girls," featuring Mannequin Pussy and Sheer Mag
The new comedy from director Dylan Meyer also features music from Tacocat.
BusinessAugust 16

Miami is set to decide the future of a stadium where Jimmy Buffett played
Speedboat racing is part of the site's history too. The decision now sits with the city.
BusinessAugust 16

Courtney Love says her next album is done, reveals a 2019 health scare
She said in an Instagram video that she nearly died from a mystery illness and lost her hair, and that the follow-up to 2010's Nobody's Daughter is finished.
BusinessAugust 16

Nipsey Hussle turned down Rick Ross' label offer to join MMG
His brother Blacc Sam explained on a podcast why Nipsey chose independence instead.
BusinessAugust 16

Phil Collins speaks about recent alcoholism and his health after three years of sobriety
He says organ failure nearly killed him in 2024, and he now needs a 24-hour nurse to manage his medication.
BusinessAugust 15

Earth, Wind & Fire drummer John Paris is in an induced coma after a health emergency
The band postponed a San Francisco show with Lionel Richie when he was hospitalized, and his family says his fight is far from over.
BusinessAugust 15

Thomas Rhett, country singer, shares that his sister-in-law is now cancer free
He shared the update from the stage at a show in Bethel, New York.
BusinessAugust 15

Grammys may rethink new Best Asian Pop Music category after BTS pushback
The Recording Academy said it is weighing the criticism after BTS chose not to enter next year's awards.
BusinessAugust 15

House duo Prospa launch new label Prophecy with a SAPIAN single
The debut release, "Reason Why," comes from a 22-year-old producer already backed by Solomun and Chris Lake's labels.
BusinessAugust 14

V of BTS gives a health update, saying he has lost hearing in his right ear
He says it has been building for two and a half years and grew worse during his military service.
BusinessAugust 14

Dolly Parton misses a Dollywood appearance over health problems
Her doctor told her not to travel this week, so she joined the theme park's new coaster opening virtually from Nashville instead.
BusinessAugust 14

Blacc Sam says the Nipsey Hussle documentary series is close to done
The team has been self-financing the project to keep creative control, with another five to six months of work left.
BusinessAugust 14

Colombia earthquake relief effort draws help from music festivals
The Spanish-language edition of Rolling Stone says the industry is pulling together over the damage.
BusinessAugust 14

Alex G scores Jane Schoenbrun's Cannes-winning slasher Camp Miasma
He shared the first song, 'Pain Is the Heart of Love,' with Paul Buchanan of the Blue Nile, for their third film collaboration.
BusinessAugust 14

Bogota Music Market opens its 15th edition to international projects
The gathering runs September 8 to 11 and brings artists and industry professionals together in the city.
BusinessAugust 14

Colt Ford postpones shows to recover after a tour bus crash
The country artist broke his shoulder when his bus crashed in Germany and needed surgery.
BusinessAugust 14

Rapper Tyga answers Pitchfork's 0.0 review of $TARFACE with a devil joke
It is the site's lowest score in 19 years. He phoned TMZ to say he does not know what Pitchfork is, and that Gen Z cannot read.
BusinessAugust 14

California bill to cap concert ticket resale prices dies in Senate committee
A companion ticketing bill against scalper bots and fake sites survived and can still reach a vote.
BusinessAugust 14

Scrybe pushes artists to look past stream counts
Version 3 adds direct fan subscriptions, tips and fan mail, betting that a smaller superfan base beats a big stream count.
BusinessAugust 14

Rapper Tyga says AI helped produce parts of his album $TARFACE
He compared the backlash to the skepticism Auto-Tune faced in the 2000s.
BusinessAugust 14

Joey Bada$$ talks burnout and fatherhood in new documentary series Time Will Tell
The docuseries also covers his canceled tour and the making of his Lonely at the Top mixtape.
BusinessAugust 14

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square buys six new stocks and skips music entirely
Ackman used to praise Universal Music as among the best companies his firm ever held.
BusinessAugust 14

Brian Bell says the Weezer movie is due in 2027
Weezer guitarist Brian Bell confirmed the long-teased film is finished and set for next year.
BusinessAugust 14

Pop star Robbie Williams says he has been diagnosed with autism
He recently topped The Beatles' record for the most UK number one albums.
BusinessAugust 14

Este Haim scored the film Sunny Dancer, and a new Haim record is coming
She drew on her own Type 1 diabetes diagnosis to score the Bella Ramsey film.
BusinessAugust 14

Green Day move into film with Nimrods, opening August 14
The trio also launched a 24/7 YouTube channel called GDTV and played a surprise afterparty set at the film's LA premiere.
BusinessAugust 13

Alex G and Paul Buchanan have a song on a new film soundtrack
It is Alex G's third film collaboration with the director Jane Schoenbrun.
BusinessAugust 13

Heat Latin Music Awards move to the Puerto Vallarta International Convention Center
The 2026 ceremony coincides with Day of the Dead, and nominees have not been named yet.
BusinessAugust 13

Brandy sings the theme for Netflix's A Different World sequel
She follows Phoebe Snow, Aretha Franklin and Boyz II Men, who each sang earlier versions.
BusinessAugust 13

Dottie Oelhafen starts a fan mail company called The Artist Desk
MusicRow's brief report did not say when the company launches or which artists it will serve.
BusinessAugust 13

Jon Batiste cancels a Connecticut festival appearance and other concerts
He cited undisclosed "personal circumstances" in a statement shared by the Westville Music Bowl.
BusinessAugust 13

StubHub is spending millions to fight a US concert ticket resale price cap
The lobbying targets a California bill that would cap resale markups at 10 percent over face value.
BusinessAugust 13

Austin City Limits Season 52 gives every artist a full-hour episode
The show is expanding to 18 episodes, the first time each featured artist gets an uninterrupted hour.
BusinessAugust 13

Dummy signs to Polyvinyl, reveals album do you love the color, then of the sky
Pitchfork says the record moves through dream pop, breakbeat and trip-hop.
BusinessAugust 13

Carly Pearce gives a health update, says her pericarditis has held steady
She told Taste of Country Nights she is finally running paces she has not managed since her 2023 diagnosis.
BusinessAugust 13

Ticketmaster puts a connected concert-search app inside Google's Gemini
The launch lands alongside a separate expansion into Uruguay through its RED UTS acquisition.
BusinessAugust 13

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum promotes two staff members
MusicRow's brief report did not name the second staff member who was promoted alongside her.
BusinessAugust 13

Spotify licenses Merlin's independent record labels for its new AI cover tool
The tool lets fans build covers and remixes from songs by artists at Merlin members that take part.
BusinessAugust 13

Syaheed MSBI takes a vice president job at Virgin Music Group
He arrives from Believe, where he built the company's artist-services business across Southeast Asia.
BusinessAugust 13

Warner Records Nashville reworks its marketing team
MusicRow's brief item did not name who is leaving or joining the team.
BusinessAugust 13

Rapper Vic Mensa turns his Orange Tree talks into a 24-episode podcast
The Vic Mensa Show premieres on 26 August with Chance The Rapper, and launches alongside a production company called ORANJ.
BusinessAugust 13

Bohemian National Cemetery keeps its indie concert series despite remains allegations
The Beyond The Gate series keeps booking the Chicago cemetery even as it faces the accusations.
BusinessAugust 13

Ethan Burdick has a new deal with UTA
MusicRow's brief report did not specify what kind of representation UTA will provide him.
BusinessAugust 13

Metal writer Dom Lawson survives a heart attack at Bloodstock festival
A friend has launched a GoFundMe to help cover his medical bills while he recovers.
BusinessAugust 13

Caroline Hodson takes a vice president role at label Tape Room Music
MusicRow's report did not detail her prior role or what prompted the promotion.
BusinessAugust 13

Composer Wilbert Roget II's expanded Helldivers 2 soundtrack hits streaming
The new music, Tracks Of Tyranny, covers each enemy faction in the game's Second Galactic War.
BusinessAugust 13

Singer Audrey Hobert played five songs at the Tiny Desk
She dropped the ladders and trampolines she uses on tour and let the writing carry it, a week after Sue me entered the Hot 100.
BusinessAugust 12

Genital Shame signs to The Flenser and details second album Wellness Plan
Erin Dawson says the record is about finding acceptance through images of disappearing.
BusinessAugust 12

NBA YoungBoy says heart trouble is pulling him back from music
He told Funny Marco a doctor found the left side of his heart swollen, in an interview set to air August 11.
BusinessAugust 12

Brian May of Queen used a botched AI album cover to argue against the tools
Meta AI's version of The Game sleeve came back with a fifth member of the band on it, which is roughly the point he was making.
BusinessAugust 12

Queen guitarist Brian May attacked AI after Meta redid a Queen album cover
He asked Meta AI to show him the sleeve of The Game, posted the result, and used it to argue against data centres being built in the UK.
BusinessAugust 12

Kid Cudi invites fans to rap on his beat for a shot at his label
The best submissions could be signed to his Mad Solar imprint as a new group.
BusinessAugust 12

A Yamaha CS-80 linked to the composer Vangelis sold for a record £401,465
The seller offered a cigarette burn on an A key as evidence and no authentication document, and listed the prototype on Reverb from Athens.
BusinessAugust 12

Rod Stewart cancels tour dates after a heart procedure
He had a coronary stent fitted and is stepping back from his One Last Time tour to recover.
BusinessAugust 12

Make Wake Artists forms a partnership with One Twenty One Management
MusicRow reported the new alliance between the two companies on August 12.
BusinessAugust 12

K-LOVE hires Brian Sipe to run its concerts and live events
MusicRow first reported the appointment on August 12.
BusinessAugust 12

Hampton Hall signs a record deal with Creative Nation
MusicRow points to Keith Urban and Eric Church as reference points for the new signee.
BusinessAugust 12

The Strokes deny hiring the influencer campaign behind their Fantano diss song
A PR firm offered a creator $500 for a video about the line, on condition it carried zero bias toward the critic and nothing bad about the band.
BusinessAugust 12

Documentary follows producer James Ellis Ford's album made on a cancer ward
He wrote, played, sang and recorded all of it during hospital isolation.
BusinessAugust 12

Ryan Hemsworth signs to Topshelf for his first album in eight years
Numbskull arrives October 21 and pulls in Tegan and Sara, Illuminati Hotties and MSpaint.
BusinessAugust 12

Eddy Maroun launches IPNation, an investment platform for Arabic music catalogs
The venture is targeting $100 million, with Influence Media Partners backing it.
BusinessAugust 12

JYP Entertainment revenue falls 15.1% in the gap between Stray Kids tours
Net profit dropped 40.3% year on year, against a quarter that had a world tour running in 2025.
BusinessAugust 12

BMG label signs a global licensing deal with AI music company Suno
It is the first deal Suno has landed with a rightsholder of note since Warner Music Group.
BusinessAugust 12

Spotify plans labels to flag AI artists and AI content
Spotify said the point is to let listeners tell quickly what a machine made.
BusinessAugust 12

NBA 2K27 lines up A$AP Rocky, Sombr and EsDeeKid for its soundtrack
NME named three of the acts on the launch roster and said there are more.
BusinessAugust 11

AEG Presents partners with Summer Sonic promoter Creativeman
The two companies announced the deal on August 11, and it widens AEG Presents' reach in Japan.
BusinessAugust 11

The rapper Nipsey Hussle's lowrider from the Higher video heads to auction
The baby blue 1959 Chevrolet Impala is listed at Mecum's Monterey Car Week sale with an estimate between $175,000 and $225,000.
BusinessAugust 11

ZZ Top cancels Hollywood Bowl show over drummer Frank Beard's health
Michael Monahan steps in for the rest of the blues rock band's Big One tour.
BusinessAugust 11

Two AI country acts turn millions of streams into big money
Both acts are generated with AI, and Taste of Country called what they have earned exorbitant.
BusinessAugust 11

Reach Records partners with Exceleration Music on global distribution
Exceleration's Redeye Worldwide will handle physical and digital releases for the Christian hip-hop label.
BusinessAugust 11

Death Cab for Cutie played four songs acoustic at the Tiny Desk
Ben Gibbard worked out on camera that his early records are now as far away as the Beatles were when he was a kid.
BusinessAugust 11

Ben Farber moves full-time to the label and management company VERSION III
Farber co-founded the Nashville outfit, which operates as both an independent label and an artist management business.
BusinessAugust 11

Songwriters' group Global Music Rights settles a 95-song copyright case with Music Choice
The suit accused the streaming and cable service of playing catalog songs, including Bruce Springsteen and Billie Eilish tracks, after their license lapsed.
BusinessAugust 11

YouTube doubles the watch-hour bar for new creators as its cheap plan drops YouTube Music
The change lands alongside an expansion of a cheaper Premium Lite tier that pays labels less because it excludes YouTube Music altogether.
BusinessAugust 11

Chinese streaming company Tencent Music reports $1.32 billion in second-quarter revenue
The company credits concert growth and its new integration of audio platform Ximalaya for an 11% rise in its core music services division.
BusinessAugust 10

Jon Glass joins independent label group Merlin as general counsel
He moves from Warner Music Group, where he spent close to two decades in legal and business affairs roles.
BusinessAugust 10

Singer Shakira and rapper J Balvin turned to Colombia earthquake relief
A 7.4 quake centred near San Jose del Palmar killed at least 111 people. Musicians shared donation links and helped families search for the missing.
BusinessAugust 10

First images surface from Perfume, a documentary about guitarist Maria Gabriela Epumer
The film premiered privately on what would have been her 63rd birthday, built from 50 hours of footage she shot herself between 1995 and 2003.
BusinessAugust 10

Rapper Tyga says he does not care how fans feel about his AI use
He confirmed AI shaped the synths and a guitar solo on $TARFACE, and compared the backlash to the way Auto-Tune was received in the 2000s.
BusinessAugust 10

Taylor Swift's song August pulled from a Donald Trump campaign video
Two more of her tracks have also gone quiet on posts from the president's team, NME reports.
BusinessAugust 10

Sony Music Publishing Nashville signs singer-songwriter Kinsley
The deal is worldwide and exclusive, MusicRow reported.
BusinessAugust 10

HEY NOW Records brings in Dilan Hef Ames and Alyssa Ramsey
Ames arrives as a vice president and is based in Los Angeles.
BusinessAugust 10

UnitedMasters, the independent label, hires four executives across marketing and brand
The hires include a former Warner Records marketing chief and come amid record years for Brent Faiyaz, BigXthaPlug and FloyyMenor.
BusinessAugust 10

Apple asks a court to protect its streaming service from a Boomcloud 360 patent fight
Boomcloud has already sued AT&T, T-Mobile, Walmart, Target and Best Buy over the same patents.
BusinessAugust 10

Travis Barker documentary Louder Than Fear gets a trailer
The film traces the 2008 plane crash that killed people close to him and the addiction that followed, ahead of its Friday release.
BusinessAugust 10

Kanye West's Tampa stadium concerts leave the local sports authority in profit
The two nights drew more than 119,000 fans combined despite a push from a state senator to cancel them.
BusinessAugust 10

Nashville music company By Design signs its first five songwriters
MusicRow, Nashville's country trade paper, named Josh Thompson as a co-founder too.
BusinessAugust 10

Ice Nine Kills will score the Terror Tram at Halloween Horror Nights
Frontman Spencer Charnas called it a natural step after years of collaborating with Terrifier's creators.
BusinessAugust 10

Lucas Ball signs a publishing deal with Warner Chappell Nashville
MusicRow, Nashville's country trade paper, filed the deal as global publishing with Twelve6 Entertainment also on board.
BusinessAugust 10

Blue Note opens its first UK jazz club in London on 23 September
Robert Glasper headlines the Covent Garden opening, on the centenary of John Coltrane's birth.
BusinessAugust 10

Andie Aronow's Women That Rock plays its first tour, spotlighting women in music
Aronow says the industry still leaves women a small share of the roles that aren't onstage.
BusinessAugust 10

John Carpenter's Cathedral is a soundtrack for a graphic novel
The idea came from a nightmare about a cathedral, a hidden elevator and a hellish underworld full of monsters.
BusinessAugust 10

Tobacco's High On Life 2 score arrives as a 4LP set
The 66-track score gets its first vinyl pressing, sold for $66 in the US.
BusinessAugust 10

Veeps cuts editorial staff at music sites BrooklynVegan and Revolver
The cuts land the same week Live Nation, Veeps's majority owner, reported record quarterly numbers.
BusinessAugust 10

Sony Music promotes Stephanie Yu as a shoe retailer's suit against the label is narrowed
A federal judge dismissed the part of DSW's declaratory judgment case that named two Sony companies.
BusinessAugust 10

Oasis fans release unseen footage from the band's 1994 Glasgow gig
Fans paid nearly £3,000 at auction last year to buy the video and release it to the public.
BusinessAugust 10

Live Nation buys into Prague's O2 arena, O2 Universum and Forum Karlin
The deal with Czech group PPF is Live Nation's largest investment in Central and Eastern Europe yet.
BusinessAugust 10

Shawn Holiday's Giant Music, the Azoff label, expands into the UK
Co-founder Nate Albert says the traditional record business is ending, and they built Giant to replace it.
BusinessAugust 10

Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker says he almost died
He gave the interview to the Associated Press the same week trailers arrived for his own documentary, Louder Than Fear.
BusinessAugust 9

TESTBED, a revamped Leeds music venue, prepares to reopen next month
The overhaul triples its floor space and adds a 360-degree DJ setup, NME reports.
BusinessAugust 9

Rap group Goodie Mob become executive producers on the film Thomasville
The project tells the story of a demolished Atlanta housing project, AllHipHop reports.
BusinessAugust 9

Rapper Special Ed mentors nine Brooklyn teens in a new hip-hop and STEAM program
The Hip-Hop Education Center pairs MCing and beatmaking with clean energy careers, AllHipHop reports.
BusinessAugust 9

The Spitz, a former East London jazz venue, returns for its 30th anniversary
Two free sessions in August and September mark three decades since it opened.
BusinessAugust 9

Bluegrass musician Billy Strings wears a helmet on stage after being hit by an object
He questioned coming back to the venue after a fan threw a lighter at him, per NME.
BusinessAugust 8

Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter calls his Tron: Legacy score depressing and limiting
The producer told Dev Hynes he kept losing arguments with dialogue over frequency space.
BusinessAugust 8

Joe Jonas says weak sales on his first solo album sent him to therapy
The 2011 record Fastlife peaked at only Number 15 on the US chart, NME reports.
BusinessAugust 8

Ye's two Tampa concerts earned the city's sports authority $3.44 million
AllHipHop says the June shows outpaced comparable concerts by other major touring artists.
BusinessAugust 8

Lionsgate targets late 2027 for its Michael Jackson biopic sequel
The plan follows the first film's billion-dollar box office run, AllHipHop reported.
BusinessAugust 8

Olivia Rodrigo plays a surprise Brooklyn gig and launches her own Bandcamp page
Tickets to the intimate Warsaw show sold out in two hours after being announced same-day.
BusinessAugust 7

Quavo clarifies he isn't signing to Young Thug's YSL label
He told TMZ the two are teaming up to find and support new talent instead.
BusinessAugust 7

Charlamagne Tha God wants to buy the life rights tied to Dame Dash's Roc-A-Fella era
More than 100 hours of unreleased Roc-A-Fella Movie footage is part of what caught his attention.
BusinessAugust 7

The CMA Women's Leadership Academy names its fifth class of country music leaders
The 16 woman cohort begins a 12 week program built on group coaching.
BusinessAugust 7

Shoalsville Music Publishing signs three new songwriters
MusicRow reported the three separate deals together on August 7.
BusinessAugust 7

WSM launches a new music show hosted by Kelly Sutton
Country Now says the new show honors Bill Cody, the longtime WSM and Grand Ole Opry host who died recently.
BusinessAugust 7

Sam Mendes' four-film Beatles project heads to Abbey Road Studios
SPIN says the shoot involves roughly 80 extras and vintage cars outside the famed studio this summer.
BusinessAugust 7

Nine Inch Nails mark 30 years of the Quake soundtrack with a merch collection
Trent Reznor said scoring the game let him warp sound the way he does with music.
BusinessAugust 7

Earth, Wind & Fire postpones San Francisco concert with Lionel Richie
San Francisco firefighters responded to a medical emergency at Chase Center; the joint tour with Lionel Richie continues this weekend in Inglewood.
BusinessAugust 7

John Rich says rising property taxes put Nashville's live music venues at risk
He wants leaders to step in. Country Now says the squeeze on venues comes from climbing property taxes.
BusinessAugust 7

Country rock trio DELTONA sign with The Core Entertainment and WME
WME will handle their bookings alongside new management, MusicRow reported.
BusinessAugust 7

A Metallica song lands on the soundtrack for the video game Gears of War: E-Day
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" also scores the game's new multiplayer trailer and appears separately on the Madden NFL 2027 soundtrack.
BusinessAugust 7

K-pop label SM Entertainment posts a 15.4% revenue rise for the second quarter
Music Business Worldwide puts the figure at $233M and points to concerts and merchandise.
BusinessAugust 7

Sony Music and Universal take Musi to court in Canada
IFPI, the trade body for the recorded music industry, is coordinating the action.
BusinessAugust 7

Paramore, Avicii and the White Stripes turn up on the soundtrack to Madden NFL 27
Yungblud is on the list too, in a full track rundown published by NME.
BusinessAugust 7

Music journalism layoffs land hours before a Good Charlotte concert with Hilary Duff
Joel and Benji Madden's company cut staff at BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver and Goldmine hours before their band joined Duff on stage.
BusinessAugust 6

J-pop label ASOBISYSTEM opens a US base in California
The move follows, on a smaller scale, HYBE's $1.05 billion Ithaca Holdings deal for BTS.
BusinessAugust 6

Rapper Soulja Boy says the empty campus in his Rapper University clip was scouting
DDG had predicted nobody would show up for the online school.
BusinessAugust 6

Warner Music Group posts an 11 percent Q2 streaming gain under CEO Robert Kyncl
The figures landed days after the company's CFO left in a surprise exit.
BusinessAugust 6

Dave Turnbull signs a publishing deal with WinSongs Music
The agreement with WinSongs Music is exclusive, MusicRow reported.
BusinessAugust 6

Surge turns festival fans into a ticket sales team
Dancing Astronaut profiles the company as festivals deal with higher costs and harder ticket sales.
BusinessAugust 6

A Neil Peart documentary honoring the late Rush drummer arrives this fall
An all-star drum tribute featuring Danny Carey, Chad Smith and Stewart Copeland is part of the film.
BusinessAugust 6

Sugar look back on their reunion in a new mini-doc
The 20 minute film cuts fresh interviews against rare archive clips.
BusinessAugust 6

Rapper Kurupt says Eminem paid for his time in rehab
He says the stay followed multiple seizures and a three week medically induced coma.
BusinessAugust 6

Suno opens a waitlist to cut AI songs to 12-inch vinyl
Records cost about $45 plus shipping and press up to 46 minutes of audio.
BusinessAugust 6

Alex Rehberg's Rust score gets its first vinyl pressing
Laced Records is pressing 29 remastered tracks, with an alternate splatter-effect edition available.
BusinessAugust 6

Madness restore their film Take It Or Leave It for cinema rerelease
The 4K restoration reaches UK and Irish cinemas on October 2, with a Blu-ray debut October 19.
BusinessAugust 6

Music platform Musixmatch signs up AI company Suno for its Sentinel copyright tool
Sentinel screens AI prompts and outputs for copyrighted lyrics, compositions and music.
BusinessAugust 6

Concert promoter Triangle raises $15M and brings in Roger Field
Field was Live Nation's APAC president before joining the Singapore touring company.
BusinessAugust 6

TikTok shuts its Music Row office and cuts Nashville staff
The company confirmed it to the Nashville station FOX 17 News, two years on from signing the lease.
BusinessAugust 6

The Cure and Radiohead join Bad Omens on the Stage Tour video game soundtrack
Bad Omens, Paramore and Slipknot were named alongside them.
BusinessAugust 6

Anthropic seeks dismissal in Concord Music Group's $3B lyrics lawsuit
Anthropic's CEO separately asked to be dropped from the direct infringement claim against him personally.
BusinessAugust 6

Knebworth licence goes to the promoter behind the Oasis Live '25 tour
NME says the decision makes talk of an Oasis return in 2027 look more likely.
BusinessAugust 6

Green Day's comedy Nimrods heads to cinemas with its own soundtrack
The film draws on Green Day's early club-touring years and features the band as producers.
BusinessAugust 6

Symphonic gives its artists ArtyShield tools against unapproved AI use
The tools sit inside SymphonicMS, the distributor's client platform, through a partnership announced August 6.
BusinessAugust 6

Singer Alfie Templeman postpones shows to get help for substance abuse and depression
The dates he pushed back included shows with Bastille and at 110 Above Festival.
BusinessAugust 5

Your Shot DJ academy returns to the US for 2026, adding Denver and Miami
The no-experience-necessary program doubles in size for its second American season.
BusinessAugust 5

Andrew Kautz opens a music industry consulting firm called Kautz and Associates
He calls it a bespoke operation, MusicRow reported, without detailing which clients it will serve.
BusinessAugust 5

Linkin Park take their comeback to cinemas in a film called Unshatter
NME says it reaches cinemas worldwide in September.
BusinessAugust 5

Jack White's Third Man Records sets a run of UK and Ireland pop-up shops
The five stops each pair with a date on his Frozen Charlotte tour and sell hand-screen-printed 'bootleg' editions of his records.
BusinessAugust 5

Universal Music asks a federal court to toss the musicians union lawsuit
UMG says its contract with the American Federation of Musicians sets no rate for AI training use.
BusinessAugust 5

Rapper Flee Lord says doctors cleared a blocked artery with a stent
He says he beat a heart attack Sunday and avoided the open heart surgery he feared as a teenager.
BusinessAugust 5

Singer Phil Collins says he nearly died in 2024 while fighting alcoholism
He says his kidneys and organs were shutting down as his family gathered at his bedside.
BusinessAugust 5

Rich Harris signs with Prescription Songs in a deal tied to Pray For My Haters
The move pairs him with Pray For My Haters, MusicRow reported, without detailing the terms.
BusinessAugust 5

Hit-Boy is out from under his Universal Music contract
The Grammy winning producer signed the publishing deal as a teenager and says he did not realize how bad it was until years later.
BusinessAugust 5

Producer Jay Versace hospitalized following three seizures
He says the seizures cost him a few hours of memory, and that he has deleted his social media accounts to focus on recovery.
BusinessAugust 5

Luminate survey finds most people want AI disclosed in music, TV and games
The finding lands the same week two other stories broke about AI and music rights.
BusinessAugust 5

Copyright case against AI music firm Udio moves to New York
A federal judge in Illinois declined to dismiss independent artists' claims, but sent the case to New York instead.
BusinessAugust 5

Saregama uses AI to make videos for songs in its catalog
The India label says AI can now produce visuals it never owned for songs going back to the 1960s, for about $740 each.
BusinessAugust 5

Voting opens for the 38th MusicRow Awards, a music industry honor
MusicRow's report did not say when the ballot closes.
BusinessAugust 5

Music industry group CCMA names its board directors for 2026 and 2027
MusicRow's report did not name the incoming directors.
BusinessAugust 5

FAM and Back Blocks Music start a grant for postnatal care
MusicRow did not detail who can apply or how much the grant is worth.
BusinessAugust 5

Reservoir Media posts $41.5M in publishing and label revenue for the June quarter
Recorded music revenue jumped 35% as the company also signs songwriter T.I.
BusinessAugust 5

Layoffs sweep music outlets BrooklynVegan, Alt Press, Revolver and Goldmine
Pitchfork names Veeps, now part of Live Nation, as the owner behind the cuts.
BusinessAugust 5

Country singer Brantley Gilbert credits a health scare with 14 years of sobriety
Country Now marks his sobriety at 14 years.
BusinessAugust 5

Boy George attacks Bandcamp for pulling his pro-Israel song
He said the platform gave in to pressure from people he called antisemites.
BusinessAugust 5

KOMCA now allows songs made with AI help in South Korea
A false filing can now bring a royalty hold or a terminated contract under the amended rules.
BusinessAugust 5

Patti Scialfa marks eight years of cancer recovery, Bruce Springsteen says
He shared the update at a fundraiser for the Boston cancer center that treated her.
BusinessAugust 5

Former Nike licensing staffer and consultant charged in $1M kickback case
Prosecutors say the alleged scheme ran for more than two and a half years.
BusinessAugust 5

Venu takes on $25M of debt to finish its Regent Bank Amphitheater venue
The financing lands five months after the CEO told investors the company was 'done' raising money.
BusinessAugust 5

Spotify overtakes Melon in South Korea's music streaming market
A rival tracker instead still puts the homegrown platform Melon ahead.
BusinessAugust 5

Las Vegas Sphere venue drives Sphere Entertainment's revenue up 11% to $314M
The company swung to a net loss even as the venue posted its strongest quarter yet.
BusinessAugust 5

Pepper Keenan says Dave Grohl paid for the rehab of C.O.C. drummer Reed Mullin
Mullin drummed for Corrosion of Conformity until his death in January 2020.
BusinessAugust 4

Singer-songwriter Sam Burton signs with Captured Tracks and lines up a third album
Fairweather Friend follows a car accident that split his band, and the lead single is I'm A Stranger.
BusinessAugust 4

Rapper Young Thug says he wants Quavo signed to his label, YSL Records
It follows a similar public pitch Thug made to Kodak Black in June, which went nowhere.
BusinessAugust 4

Rapper and singer T-Pain gives his reasons for a catalog sale reported at $100 million
He says streaming had devalued his songs and he wanted to protect his family's future.
BusinessAugust 4

A documentary on country singer Randy Owen is set for Alabama Public Television
My Home's In Alabama premieres August 8 and traces his path from Fort Payne to fronting the band Alabama.
BusinessAugust 4

Camilo Sanabria talks through the music of Cien anos de soledad season two
The composer says Catholic, Afro-Colombian and Caribbean sounds collide as the show's magic gives way to harder reality.
BusinessAugust 4

New EU rules requiring AI content labels take effect for the music business
The bloc's AI Act also gives regulators new power to enforce rules on how AI models train on copyrighted work.
BusinessAugust 4

Members of HEALTH, Periphery and Ice Nine Kills soundtrack the game Crimson Moon
Metal YouTuber Jared Dines also contributes to the RPG's four boss-fight tracks, out September 1.
BusinessAugust 4

Josh Rouse signs to New West and sets an album for October
The label debut is called Museums and Women, out on October 23.
BusinessAugust 4

Record labels offer to drop the Grande piracy case, then fight over bond costs
The labels and the internet provider are still arguing over 4 million dollars in bond costs.
BusinessAugust 4

Allen Mitchell starts a company called Reverie Ranch Music Group
MusicRow describes the new venture as a full-service entertainment company.
BusinessAugust 4

Range Music adds Niklas Juritsch to its roster
The Austrian singer-songwriter has racked up millions of streams and is moving to Nashville to write.
BusinessAugust 4

Robert's Western World is opening an outpost in Nashville's new stadium
The outpost sits on the 300 level of a stadium set to open in February 2027.
BusinessAugust 4

Carrie Underwood sings the NFL theme on NBC for a 14th season
Her new open reworks Joan Jett's I Hate Myself for Loving You into a rock star fever dream.
BusinessAugust 4

The Irish band Fontaines D.C. play the BBC's last live session at Maida Vale
It was the band's first show since their manager, Trevor Dietz, died unexpectedly.
BusinessAugust 4

Charlie Puth turned the Tiny Desk into a jazz club for four songs
He reharmonised We Don't Talk Anymore into what he called the version he wishes had come out, and rebuilt See You Again as gospel.
BusinessAugust 4

Amyl and the Sniffers line up a concert film and live album, both Truth Or Consequence
The one-off show reworked their catalog into stripped-back country versions.
BusinessAugust 4

Eurythmics musician Dave Stewart's venture RARE Entity adds Vicky Dowdall as a partner
The artist manager takes a partner role covering business development at the venture group.
BusinessAugust 3

Jagjaguwar signs singer-songwriter June McDoom, who has a first album on the way
The single Without You leads her debut record, Follow The Light, due in October.
BusinessAugust 3

BMG buys the publishing and recorded rights of Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale
The company has published Stockdale worldwide since 2016 and now adds his recording royalties too.
BusinessAugust 3

Caryl Atwood leaves Sony Music Entertainment after 26 years at the label
She is leaving the industry to pursue clinical mental health counseling and life coaching.
BusinessAugust 3

Nashville guitarist Kevin Monahan signs with Eclipse Music Publishing
The touring guitarist and songwriter's deal comes in partnership with Ebach Entertainment, adding to credits with Anna Vaus and Colin Stough.
BusinessAugust 3

Singer Tyrese asks fans for prayers as pressure mounts
The singer and actor says he's reached "an emotional breaking point" but is not asking for money, only prayer and support.
BusinessAugust 3

Bogota is getting a new 6,000 capacity venue called Vive Claro Music Hall
Rolling Stone en Espanol broke the plan on August 3, without a stated opening date.
BusinessAugust 3

JJ Farrell leaves the managing director job at music community Jump.global
He helped launch and scale the company's flagship Nashville conference, Hits Home, before his exit takes effect August 7.
BusinessAugust 3

Singer Shantaia signs a management deal with Walk Off Entertainment
The Nashville-based, Saskatchewan-raised singer also has an eight-track album, "One Trick Pony," due October 16.
BusinessAugust 3

The Queen Budapest concert film opens in cinemas worldwide on October 7
Peter Jackson's team restored the band's 1986 Iron Curtain-breaking show in 4K from the original 35mm footage.
BusinessAugust 3

Clique Apps gives each artist a standalone superfan app in the App Store
Founders Cody Blake, Matthew Esposito and Peter Bunetta say each app takes about a week to build and belongs to the artist, not a shared platform.
BusinessAugust 3

TREBEL buys the superfan platform Sesh to build out artist services
The free, ad-supported music app gains tools that Sesh says can identify a listener as a fan in under a minute.
BusinessAugust 3

Live Nation joins a developer to build the Sao Paulo Arena in Brazil
The 21,000-capacity venue, billed as South America's largest indoor arena, is set to open in 2028.
BusinessJuly 31

GEMA beats Suno in German copyright ruling over AI music training
The Munich court found the AI company infringed copyright by training on and reproducing GEMA-controlled songs without a license.
BusinessJuly 31

Country singer Tanya Tucker sang to a Texas Senate hearing on power lines
The state wants to run 765kV transmission lines across her ranch. She testified against it, then closed with an a cappella Texas (When I Die).
BusinessJuly 30

Canada's SOCAN buys CMRRA to unify music rights licensing
The deal folds Canadian mechanical rights back under the same roof as performing rights for the first time in years.
BusinessJuly 30

Major record labels float new rules for AI music on the charts
The proposal would let AI-assisted songs compete but keep tracks built entirely by AI off official tallies.
BusinessJuly 30

Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck sang old Appalachian songs at the Tiny Desk
The soprano and the banjo player brought bluegrass players with them, including a fiddler NPR called the third singer in the band.
BusinessJuly 29

Major and indie record labels propose rules for AI tracks on the music charts
The plan would let AI-assisted songs chart while blocking fully AI-generated tracks, and could extend to gold and platinum certifications.
BusinessJuly 29

AI music company Suno hit with two class action lawsuits over data breach
Personal data tied to 55.3 million users was accessed last November, but Suno never formally notified those affected.
BusinessJuly 29

South LA teens booked the Beehive Block Party through a Live Nation music program
A cohort of 19 people aged 16 to 22 curated the artists, branding and production, and Live Nation holds ten internship places for graduates.
BusinessJuly 28

Luminate midyear report: global music streaming grew 10 percent
Dance and electronic was the fastest growing US genre, English-language listening hit a record low, and CD sales outran vinyl seven to one.
BusinessJuly 28

Concert promoter Live Nation resists sharing more on its DOJ settlement
21 states that already won an antitrust monopoly verdict against the concert giant now want the DOJ deal opened up to more scrutiny.
BusinessJuly 28

Rap duo Armand Hammer played the Tiny Desk with a full band
Kenny Segal assembled a jazz trio and a guitarist to carry six songs, including solo cuts from ELUCID and billy woods.
BusinessJuly 27

Singer Carly Simon reveals Parkinson's diagnosis: "I am still very much here"
The 83-year-old also underwent skin cancer surgery and says the illness brought "anxiety, depression, exhaustion, an apathy."
BusinessJuly 27

Indian judge lets AI training stand, and music rights holders are watching
Judge Amit Bansal read the private research exception in Indian copyright law as covering OpenAI's use of news agency material, and refused an injunction.
BusinessJuly 24

Jon Bon Jovi cuts "Forever" tour stop short, tells fans "I've got to cool it"
The 64-year-old singer, touring for the first time since 2022 vocal cord surgery, blamed a sinus infection for ending the Madison Square Garden show early.
BusinessJuly 24

Luminate measured how US audiences feel about AI in music and film
Teenagers aged 13 to 17 were net positive on AI-assisted content across every medium. The 18 to 24 group was 58 points behind them on some of it.
BusinessJuly 23

R&B singer Nivea reveals leukemia diagnosis, says she's "grateful for life"
The "Don't Mess With My Man" singer says treatment is going well and she's now studying audio engineering.
BusinessJuly 23

The War and Treaty played the Tiny Desk with an 11-piece soul band
Michael Trotter taught himself piano in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces, and the song that came out of what followed sat at the centre of the set.
BusinessJuly 21

Sony Music label files new lawsuit against AI startup Udio
The suit accuses Udio of ripping more than 30,000 recordings from YouTube to train its song-generating software.
BusinessJuly 21

Composer Rock Burwell's Obsession score drew early Oscar talk
The horror film took more than $400 million on a budget under $1 million, and the score has already burned through a couple of vinyl pressings.
BusinessJuly 21

Rapper Vince Staples played Cry Baby songs at the Tiny Desk
He stopped the set to ask who in the room knew the names of Black Panther Party members killed by police, and got no hands.
BusinessJuly 15

Michael Jackson biopic "Michael" tops $1 billion at the box office
Luminate data shows Jackson's US on-demand streams jumped nearly 144% the week the film opened, echoing the climb Queen saw after Bohemian Rhapsody.
BusinessJuly 15

Grindcore band Napalm Death opened a circle pit at the Tiny Desk
Battle jackets filled the NPR office for eight songs, bookended by two 1987 tracks that still define the genre.
BusinessJuly 14

L7 bassist Jennifer Finch diagnosed with brain cancer, will miss the band's farewell tour
The band said she's had multiple surgeries and now needs full-time care, and set up a GoFundMe to help cover it.
BusinessJuly 13

Bassist Flea played a jazz Tiny Desk set with the Honora Band
Four decades into Red Hot Chili Peppers, he turned up on trumpet, bass and spoken word alongside Jeff Parker and Anna Butterss.
BusinessJuly 10

Singer Huey Lewis says hearing loss ended his relationship with music
A cochlear implant restores his speech, but he says it can't recreate the pitch of a song, eight years after his Meniere's diagnosis.
BusinessJuly 9

Rapper redveil rebuilt his beats for a live band at the Tiny Desk
The Prince George's County producer treated the NPR office as a homecoming, closing with a letter to his brother.
BusinessJuly 8

Origin, a new downtown LA dance venue, bets on a rave revival
Two veteran promoters are rebuilding the old Lot 613 into a 1,000-capacity club with a modular patio, hoping clubbers come back to the Arts District.
BusinessJuly 6

Singer Lionel Richie says he's "doing well" after health scare paused his tour
He canceled shows in St. Paul and Chicago after feeling dizzy onstage, before returning for a run across the Midwest and Canada.
BusinessJuly 6

Hollywood Bowl venue debuts its biggest sound upgrade in a generation
A machine-learning tool called Source Intelligence strips stray noise from vocal mics in real time, part of a new L-Acoustics speaker and surround overhaul.
BusinessJune 26

L.A. City Hall honors Boleros de Noche concert series on 10th anniversary
Los Angeles declared Aug. 1 Dia del Bolero, honoring a decade of concerts curated by musician Roberto Carlos.
BusinessJune 10

Sen Dog of Cypress Hill made a documentary about his Cuban family
Mi Familia: Sen Dog and the American Dream follows the rapper and his brother Mellow Man Ace between Los Angeles and Pinar del Rio.
BusinessMay 21

Queen Latifah hosted the 52nd American Music Awards on Memorial Day
The show ran live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, with BTS making a first awards appearance in four years.
BusinessMay 19

Rosie Perez narrates a podcast history of salsa music in New York
Our Thing: The Birth of Salsa in Nueva York opened on 26 May 2026 with the rise of Fania Records, the label often called the Motown of salsa.
BusinessMarch 23

The 52nd American Music Awards published a 50-category slate
Song of the Summer, Best Afrobeats Artist and two K-pop categories sat on a list built around what fans were actually streaming.

Busta Rhymes says streaming pays rappers in a currency that does not exist

Country singer Garth Brooks ends his three-year radio partnership with TuneIn

Beach Fossils singer Dustin Payseur says indie rock no longer means anything

Modern English joke that the Strokes took their song I Melt With You

The Crew books a 17th CMA Awards viewing party for Musicians On Call

Jay-Z says he nearly quit rap in the documentary series Jay-Z in 8

Cuco, NEZZA and Fuerza Regida play CHIRLA's 40th anniversary awards night

Country singer Randall King says he is six and a half months sober

StubHub fined $20,000 under Ontario's face-value cap on concert ticket resale

Piracy bill would order US internet providers to cut off sites hosting stolen music

Taylor Swift takes the first MTV VMA Artist Director honour for her music videos

Roc Nation signs the Hong Kong pop star Jackson Wang to a global management deal

The Capitol Theatre turns 100 and the Port Chester venue answers with a five-hour concert

US ticket buyers meet more fraud and steeper fees than concert fans abroad

Cameron Whitcomb takes three awards at the 44th CCMA Awards in Saskatoon

Congress passes the American Music Tourism Act to sell US venues and festivals abroad

Ireland plans a 100 euro culture voucher teenagers can spend at music venues

Afroman answers his cancelled Riot Fest set: the rapper once played through a hurricane

Muse say a meeting with Mark Zuckerberg settled who gets the band's name

Universal and Warner move to dismiss the American Federation of Musicians AI suit

CD revenue jumps almost 60 percent as vinyl growth slows in the US

Spotify lets parents keep kids' music out of their Wrapped and recommendations

Quavo says a Migos album is nearly finished and points at a January anniversary

Ed Sheeran breaks his silence on Gaza at the first concert since Macklemore's exit

Amanda Somerville, the singer behind two decades of symphonic metal, has a brain tumour

The Soul Train Awards return to BET on 27 November after two years off air

ABC sets a two-hour Dolly Parton tribute concert special for 21 October

Lizzy McAlpine says a song on her album Angel copies Nick Drake by accident

Rapper AZ Chike posts the Kendrick Lamar advice behind No Rest For The Wicked

Dolly Parton accepts an Americana lifetime award in a video taped before her death

Steve Rubie marks 50 years running the 606 Club, London's basement jazz room

Tom Watson leaves the industry body UK Music to become a Palantir vice president

Roc Nation struggles to book the Super Bowl LXI halftime show, a report says

FLVCKKA is the standout artist in YouTube's Foundry class of 2026

Metal band Metallica run a Red Cross blood drive at their Las Vegas residency

Country Radio Broadcasters names a 2027 board drawn from labels, radio and streaming

Luke Bryan marks his album Signs with a Live From Roku City set

Kenny Chesney says three years of time went into the album Silver Sands Marina

The Weeknd rules out retirement and calls the break a hibernation

Rapper turned country singer Chanel West Coast refuses to apologise for the switch

Drew Baldridge answers a label executive who told the singer he was not cool enough

Universal Music Group and Sony sue Suno again over its v6 AI models

Rush pay belated tribute to drummer Neil Peart in No One's Disciple

DJ James Hype teases a 16-deck setup and says we have been thinking too small

Pulp film What Do You Do For An Encore? reaches cinemas and MUBI

Italo disco duo Mind Enterprises release a mini-documentary about the band

Fat Joe says veteran rappers are too scared of first-week sales to record

Chubby Checker and Gil Cunningham enter the IEBA Hall of Fame on 6 October

Universal Music Group and Warner say the AFM clause misses their AI deals

Sylvan Esso put their music back on Spotify and say they still hate it

Billy Strings plays his first full-band set since breaking his leg on Austin City Limits

Spin, the music magazine, makes Liza Lentini its editor-in-chief

Chuck Brown and E.U. feature in a Tiny Desk Radio episode on go-go music

Cameron Winter takes the Live at Carnegie Hall concert film to Canada

SoundExchange and MusicNation will pay artists for music played in each other's markets

Symphonic wires MassiveMusic audio delivery into its label migration tool

Metro Boomin, Fred again.. and Travis Scott fill the GTA 6 soundtrack album

Singer Billy Joel is alive, his publicist says, after a Google death listing

Ms. Rachel dates her first album I'm So Happy for 25 September

Kelela says her album New Avatar is built to take apart sonic racism

Firefly, the first feature documentary on guitarist Emily Remler, opens its Kickstarter

MPs will review how the UK picks its Eurovision song as Ireland sits out

Spotify offers 10,000 independent artists a year studio time and therapy

Barbra Streisand attacks the closure of the Kennedy Center concert hall

Classic Hits Radio pulls Ed Sheeran's records over the Macklemore tour row

Ms. Rachel matches the rapper Macklemore's $1 million Palestine donation

Jennifer Lopez turns her Las Vegas residency into a two-hour CBS concert film

AFM Local 257 sets 24 September for the concert For Those We Lost IV

Roger Waters says Ed Sheeran was wrong to drop Macklemore from the tour

Jake Owen, the country singer, marks five years without a drink

Travis Scott and Keith Richards open the Grand Theft Auto 6 soundtrack

The Voice coaches sing The Weight, with Kelly Clarkson closing the song

Warren Haynes says Matt Abts' medical leave is holding the Gov't Mule album

Nirvana, Pixies and The Smiths sit in a 10,000-concert Chicago tape archive

Singer Zara Larsson calls a White House ICE video using her song dehumanising

The first AI Music Awards set a Los Angeles ceremony with 25 award categories

Songwriter Gregg Alexander names the second New Radicals album

Lee Adams, Adrian Michaels and Ken Tucker all leave the label BMG this month

Mitchell Tenpenny takes his 10Penny Fund benefit show to the Grand Ole Opry stage

The GMA Dove Awards add a second round of performers for 6 October