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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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Pitchfork Music Festival CDMX has begun its 2026 run in Mexico City, opening with an official Robyn afterparty before five main festival nights move among venues across the capital. The third Mexico City edition runs through September 27th, with American Football, Perfume Genius, Lido Pimienta, Safety Trance and Wendy Eisenberg…
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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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Chad Gilbert, the founding New Found Glory guitarist and songwriter who helped connect pop-punk hooks with hardcore weight, died Sunday, September 20th. He was 45. Gilbert died peacefully in his sleep surrounded by friends and family, with his wife, Lisa Cimorelli, and his mother, Jackie, beside him. New Found Glory…
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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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Stagecoach has put its 2027 festival passes on sale behind a lineup that stretches from Garth Brooks and Willie Nelson to Pitbull and Journey, while giving Florida Georgia Line its first officially announced festival performance since reuniting. Riley Green, Zach Top and Brooks will headline the three nights of the…
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Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour reached Philadelphia Saturday night without an announced opening act and with protesters gathering outside Lincoln Financial Field, turning the first concert since Macklemore’s removal into an immediate test of how the stadium run moves forward after losing its support lineup. Dozens of demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags…
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Kareen Lomax has spent years writing songs that ended up in other artists’ catalogs and lending her voice to records by Diplo and others. On NAJI, released September 18th, she gives that accumulated experience the scale of a full album built entirely around her own story. The 13-track debut arrives…
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Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” has reached 22 total weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, tying Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” for the longest cumulative run at the top in the chart’s history. The country crossover reaches the milestone on the chart dated September…
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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…
