Music Industry
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Winamp is preparing to launch its own premium music subscription service with Deezer providing the streaming technology and licensed catalog behind a new player expected in the first half of 2027. The partnership gives Winamp a route into subscription streaming without turning the product into a simple Deezer app with…
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The company behind the UK’s official music charts has launched a professional analytics platform that opens far more of the sales and streaming data sitting underneath the weekly rankings. Official Charts PRO went live September 21st for UK and Irish music data, giving record labels, managers, distributors, publishers, artists and…
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Kakao Entertainment and Walt Disney Company Korea are planning approximately 10 projects that will combine K-pop intellectual property with Disney stories and characters, creating a long-term partnership designed to extend Korean music and entertainment IP across content, commerce and live experiences. The companies announced the agreement September 16th in Seoul,…
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Laufey has signed her first conventional major-label recording deal with Interscope Records and Verve Records after building a career that already spans more than seven billion global streams, two Grammy wins and arena-headlining tours. The deal was announced September 16th, only days after Laufey completed her 70-date A Matter of…
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Luminate will begin tracking Smart Media Albums as a distinct physical music format in the U.S. and Canada on October 2nd, bringing qualifying connected albums into Billboard’s chart ecosystem for the first time. The format will appear inside CONNECT, Luminate’s industry analytics platform, as well as its API and Data…
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John Summit’s Experts Only Festival returned to Randall’s Island this weekend with three stages, more than 25 electronic acts and another crowd expected to top 50,000 across two days, turning the DJ’s record-label identity into one of New York’s largest dance-music events. The second edition runs September 19th and 20th…
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Warner Music Group’s settlement with Suno has moved from legal truce to working product. Suno launched its v6 generation of AI music models September 9th using licensed music supplied through partnerships with Warner, BMG and Believe, introducing a model family built separately from the systems at the center of earlier…
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Migu Music and Huawei Software have won an IDC China Artificial Intelligence Innovation Award for an AI operations system already running inside the Chinese streaming platform’s production environment, putting artificial intelligence to work far below the layer listeners normally see. The companies received the Best Agent Practice Award for their…
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Spotify is bringing independent labels into its upcoming fan-made covers and remixes product through a new licensing agreement with Merlin, expanding a generative AI project that had initially been announced with Universal Music Group. The agreement, announced August 4th, gives artists on labels covered by Merlin’s Spotify deal the option…
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Federal ticketing reform moved another step toward the House floor September 16th when the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 36-0 to advance the MAIN Event Ticketing Act, legislation designed to strengthen federal enforcement against ticket bots and attempts to evade online purchase limits. H.R. 2713, formally the Mitigating Automated…
