AI Music Music Headlines & Industry News
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DistroKid delivered nearly 12 million tracks to a single major streaming service in six months, accounting for more than half of everything delivered to that platform during the period, according to allegations contained in Universal Music Group’s new copyright lawsuit against the DIY distributor. The streaming service is not identified.…
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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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South Korea is moving toward new copyright and royalty standards for AI-assisted music just as songs made with generative tools are beginning to reach the country’s mainstream streaming charts. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced September 21st that it will convene a public forum at the National Assembly…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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Universal Music Group is suing digital music distributor DistroKid, accusing the company of enabling copyright infringement and distributing large volumes of AI-generated material that UMG says competes with legitimate artists for listeners and royalties. UMG Recordings, Capitol Records and Capitol CMG filed the lawsuit September 15 in the U.S. District…
