Latest Music Headlines
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The United States and United Kingdom are producing far more top-tier artists than they did five years ago, yet their combined share of the world’s biggest performers has fallen sharply as music markets elsewhere expand even faster. New data from Chartmetric shows U.S. and UK artists accounting for 40.7% of…
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Coachella will remain exclusively on YouTube through 2030, keeping the festival’s global livestream on the platform through the end of the decade. YouTube and Goldenvoice announced the renewal September 23rd, confirming that YouTube will remain the exclusive global livestream destination for both Coachella weekends. Financial terms were not disclosed. The…
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Outkast is taking Oakland rapper and producer Ovrkast to federal court over a stage name the Atlanta duo says is “nearly identical” to its own. High Schoolers LLC, the company that controls trademark rights associated with André 3000 and Big Boi, filed the lawsuit September 16th against Ovrkast, whose real…
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A temporary restraining order has been granted against Dolly Parton’s nephew and former longtime security chief Bryan Seaver as a dispute over the late country singer’s business interests moves into court. She’s Alive, LLC, an entity Parton created to protect aspects of her business and legacy, and longtime manager Danny…
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AI music company GRAI has acquired Hangout, the social listening platform built around the idea that discovering music through another person can be more interesting than letting an algorithm choose everything. The acquisition closed September 22nd and will fold Hangout’s social-listening technology and music-industry relationships into a new streaming service…
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Suno has disclosed that its new V6 AI music models were trained partly on “creations” from its own community, adding a new layer to its escalating copyright fight with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. The AI music company said September 22nd that V6 was trained using licensed content…
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Apple Music is becoming a physical place in London. Apple has opened Apple Music Hall, a purpose-built 600-capacity live venue inside Battersea Power Station that combines an intimate concert room with Spatial Audio recording, multicamera video production and global livestreaming infrastructure. The venue includes a configurable 38-foot-wide stage and a…
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Taylor Swift will release a brand-new single titled “Patient Zero” on September 25th, ending a cryptic countdown campaign with three limited-edition CDs and only three days between the song’s announcement and release. Swift revealed the single September 22nd after a countdown on her official website expired at 2 p.m. ET.…
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Ha*Ash will return to the United States and Canada in 2027 with an 18-city tour that takes the Mexican-American duo from Toronto to Miami Beach over five weeks next spring. Hanna and Ashley Pérez will launch No Me Hablen de Amor – Gira 2027 on April 20th at Meridian Hall…
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Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” has officially become the longest-running No. 1 song in Billboard Hot 100 history. The country crossover hit logs its 23rd cumulative week at No. 1 on the September 22nd chart, Billboard confirms, moving past Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which had accumulated…
