Music Industry
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Suno is facing another proposed class action over its 2025 data breach, adding a consumer-privacy fight to the legal pressure surrounding one of generative music’s largest platforms. Michael Beckham, a Suno user from South Dakota, filed the complaint September 3rd in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.…
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RÜFÜS DU SOL’s Inhale/Exhale World Tour has become the highest-grossing electronic tour in Billboard Boxscore history, closing an 18-month run with $158 million in reported ticket revenue and 1.7 million tickets sold. The Australian trio wrapped the tour September 5th at Toronto’s Rogers Centre, where 43,500 people attended the final…
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Believe and TuneCore will require artists to give explicit consent before their music can be supplied for AI model training, putting two separate approval steps between an independent artist’s catalog and companies such as Suno. The policy became clearer September 16th, when Believe founder and CEO Denis Ladegaillerie detailed how…
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DICE owner Fever has raised $250 million in new equity financing, giving the live-entertainment technology company fresh capital to expand its global ticketing and event-discovery business. EQT led the round, with participation from Baillie Gifford, Point72 Private Investments and other existing shareholders. Fever announced the financing September 17th and called…
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U.S. CD shipments jumped 45.7% to 17.5 million units during the first half of 2026, adding another chapter to a physical-music revival that is no longer being driven by vinyl alone. CD wholesale revenue climbed even faster, rising 58.6% to $171.1 million from $107.9 million during the same period last…
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The T.J. Martell Foundation raised more than $3.2 million for cancer research at its 51st annual New York Honors Gala, turning an industry tribute to Red Light Management founder Coran Capshaw into the event’s biggest fundraising night in more than two decades. Held September 15th at Cipriani 42nd Street in…
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Radio is finding an unexpected new role with younger music listeners: helping them escape the predictability of their own algorithms. A new MIDiA Research study finds that 42% of live-radio listeners ages 20 to 34 use the medium for music discovery, compared with 32% of live-radio listeners overall. Human DJs,…
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Notes.fm has raised $5 million as the music-fintech startup expands from finding missing artist royalties into distributing new releases itself. The move puts Notes earlier in the life of a song, before incomplete credits, registrations or ownership information have a chance to turn into missing money. Zach Bryan, Benny Blanco…
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San Francisco Opera and its orchestra musicians have reached a tentative four-year contract agreement, ending a strike that wiped out opening night and left one of the country’s leading opera companies without an orchestra at the start of its 104th season. Negotiators reached the deal September 17th after nearly a…
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Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment are suing Suno again, targeting the AI music company’s newly released v6 models and alleging that information derived from its earlier technology helped shape the new generation. Filed September 18th in federal court in Massachusetts, the second lawsuit alleges infringement involving 60,202 sound…
