This is not the Christmas present that Spotify would have been hoping for: a huge chunk of its metadata being released on filesharing.

As the deal to sell TikTok’s US operations enters its final weeks, ByteDance appears to be ready to celebrate an *extremely* profitable 2025.

Ready Player Me emerged during Peak Metaverse Hype a few years ago, with a focus on avatars. Now it is being acquired by Netflix.

Universal Music Group’s dealmaking team has been on a tear in 2025, and its final deal of the year appears to be with Roblox.

Here's part four of our look-back at the key talking points around AI and music in 2025, with a view to what might happen next in 2026.

Already one of the most active acquirers of music companies in recent times, Create Music Group ends 2025 with one more flash of its wallet.

AI music services Suno and Udio are being sued by labels in the US, and now we know more about how they plan to defend themselves. Both filed answers to the complaints yesterday: you can read Suno’s ...

In Germany, a wholly AI-generated song is making significant headway into the pop charts. “Verknallt in einen Talahon” (“In Love With A Talahon”) was created by German producer Butterbro, who used AI ...

For the first time since its launch in India in February 2019, Spotify has raised the prices of its premium plans. The individual plan now costs Rs139 per month, up front Rs119; the family plan—for up ...

This is an edited version of an article that appeared in Music Ally’s Q1 2020 report. In the light of the current #BrokenRecord campaign around music industry economics – see our piece last week for ...

Dutch startup Ringo raised €350k of pre-seed funding in 2023 to build a sync-licensing service infused by AI. Now the platform has gone live in its public beta. Already used by ad agencies including ...

Spotify has published its latest quarterly financial results, covering the final quarter of 2018. The music-streaming service ended the year with 207 million monthly active users (MAUs) including 96 ...