Reservoir Media is the latest music company eyeing growth in Latin music through partnerships and acquisitions. In this case the latter: it is buying independent label Nacional Records, including the ...

UK independent-labels body AIM is preparing for its annual awards in September, with a raft of nominees announced this week for the respected event.

Norwegian World Cup star Erling Haaland is dominating Norway’s Spotify charts: thanks to a decade-old teenage rap track. Following Norway’s historic World Cup 2026 quarter-final run, the Manchester ...

We last wrote about royalty-management startup Mogul in February when it raised a $5m funding round. Now it has become the latest company to launch a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to play nicely ...

Keywords have always been the way for users to find content on YouTube – but that’s about to change. According to Digital Trends, YouTube has started rolling out a new […] ...

Welcome to the, ahem, 'Tok parade. Emo veterans My Chemical Romance have bitten the bullet and joined TikTok with an official account, which already has more than 425,000 followers a couple of days ...

Last month we reported on the upcoming launch of Lume – a startup helping artists to sell albums to their core fans.

Avery Cochrane is an emerging pop artist from Seattle (based in L.A), who has been releasing music since 2021. She’s been signed to Sonderview/S-Curve Records for about a year, with […] ...

The two latest music-industry acquisitions cover different areas: one an extension of AI-assisted music-making, and the other ...

The list of regulators’ child-safety investigations into TikTok has lengthened again. This time it’s the UK’s communications and media watchdog Ofcom holding the app to account.

AI-music firm Suno’s big announcement yesterday was a new integration with Apple’s iMessage app, but it was rather undercut by an investigative report claiming to answer the longstanding question of ...

Fellow stat-nerds, assemble! Luminate’s mid-year report is out, with all manner of figures on music (not to mention TV and film) in the first half of 2026.