The new pact is the latest AI music development for the world's largest music company after settling a lawsuit with Udio in ...

The Weeknd partnered with Lyric Capital Group on a catalog venture while retaining creative control and shareholder rights ...

The value of global music copyright has doubled in a decade, reaching an all-time high of $47.2 billion in 2024, according to economist Will Page.

Universal Music India expects India to emerge as a major paid music market within five years, citing low subscription costs, ...

If 2025 was the year that artificial intelligence came to the forefront both technologically and culturally, 2026 will be the ...

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Universal Music Group has proposed solutions to the European Commission's objections to the Downtown acquisition.

A new study has put the spotlight on the 1000 stream royalty payment threshold introduced by Spotify last year, concluding ...

“We’ve seen a wave of exciting new British artists come through: Sam Fender, Lola Young, Olivia Dean, Myles Smith and Raye to ...

Spotify Wrapped has come and gone, so we all know what we listened to the most this year — but which albums were actually the ...

A representative for The Weeknd confirmed to Variety that the artist and his team will remain shareholders with “creative ...

In 2025, AI music was not just the big story for the music industry: it was a host of trends, deals, questions, anxieties and controversies.