It look like Spotify might be making changes to their artists pages by removing the “monthly listeners” stats.

UK labels body the BPI, marketing agency Blackstar and research firm Lemontank have been asking young fans about their listening habits for a new report on Gen-Z music consumption.

The study involved 500 18-25 year-olds in the UK talking about how they listen to and discover music, as well as how they connect with artists.

The “Jonas20: Living the Dream Tour” will now be living the downgrade, at least in a half-dozen cities.

Jonas Brothers concerts set for stadiums in six U.S. locales this summer have been outrightly canceled, and new shows in arenas or amphitheaters will take their place. Fans were informed of the news Friday in email messages sent from Ticketmaster and on the Brothers’ Instagram account.

illy Jones, the owner and music director of the the Brooklyn concert venue Baby’s All Right and a longtime fixture of New York’s music scene, died on June 5th. He was 45.

Brooklyn Vegan reported that Jones died after he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer.

A new survey from research firm EY has offered encouragement to festivals and other live events that are investing in sustainability.

Its first ‘Media & Entertainment Pulse Poll’ asked more than 4,000 people in the US, UK, western Europe and Asia-Pacific about their attitudes.

Donald Trump’s Solicitor General recently urged the US Supreme Court to intervene in the major labels’ legal battle with ISP Cox, expressing concerns that precedent set in the case could lead to millions of internet disconnections. The majors now say that intervention is “bewildering” and wrong

Sony Group has been holding its annual ‘business segment presentation and fireside chat’ online event this morning, and one of the executives nattering over the burning logs was Sony Music boss Rob Stringer.

He highlighted the fact that Sony’s music business has broken its annual revenue record “for the ninth year in a row” while flagging up the company’s aggressive investments strategy.

The Recording Academy has revealed the key dates, deadlines and rule amendments for the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, taking place on Sun, Feb. 1, 2026, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, with nominations set to be announced on Fri, Nov. 7, 2025. 

Following its annual board meeting, it has also announced several new awards and changes to the awards process, effective immediately. The full Grammy rulebook can be accessed here.

Reddit is introducing some new features for comments, including the ability to share comments as posts, a comment insights tool to track things like upvotes and views, and comment drafts, according to a post from the Reddit product team. The features are rolling out today on Reddit’s native apps and on the web, and the rollout will continue “over the next few weeks.”

As we prepare for the upcoming Phonorecords V rate-setting proceeding, one thing is clear: there are long-standing but largely unexamined flaws in the streaming mechanical royalty calculation. Chief among them are bundling rates (currently being litigated) and the so-called “long song” formula for streaming—both embedded in the regulatory framework for years, yet only now drawing focused scrutiny. The recent Spotify bundling debacle, which delivered a substantial royalty haircut to songwriters and publishers, ensures that bundling will be a front-and-center issue going forward. (This stuff adds up: See Kristin Robinson’s excellent reporting on the $230 million cost of the little bundling mishap.) Assuming the case is ongoing when Phonorecords V starts next year, this active dispute will be vaguely reminiscent of Phonorecords III hangover which did exactly not make for a smooth negotiation in Phonorecords IV.

Streaming, merch, ticketing, and superfan platform OpenWav has officially set sail with an eye on “redefining the future of independent music.”

The self-described “next-generation music platform built for indie artists” formally debuted at A2IM Indie Week in New York. Established and led by 88 Rising co-founder Jaeson Ma – fellow OpenWav co-founder Eric Tu serves as COO – OpenWav launched as OP3N some years back.

Indian firm Zee Music Company has been awarded a ‘Red Diamond Play Button’ by YouTube to celebrate its main channel reaching 100 million subscribers on the platform. “Being only the second music label globally to receive the prestigious Red Diamond Play Button from YouTube makes this milestone even more special,” said its chief business officer Umesh Kumar Bansal. The first label being another Indian firm, T-Series, which received the award in 2019.

Just a day after it started, Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival 2025 has been entirely canceled due to extreme weather.

The four-day event, which drew 70,000 attendees last year, began yesterday in Manchester, TN, with artists including Tyler, the Creator, Olivia Rodrigo and Vampire Weekend booked for headlining spots through Sunday night. But organizers nixed the rest of the event after “significant” precipitation produced deteriorating conditions.

A group of major record labels has fired back at an amicus brief from the U.S. Solicitor General, which urges the Supreme Court to accept Cox Communications' petition in a landmark piracy liability lawsuit. The labels characterize the Solicitor General's recommendation to back Cox's petition while denying their own as 'bewildering'.

One of the stylish visual changes to the iPhone on iOS 26 is a new layout for the lock screen when music is playing. Artwork can now be animated and shown full-screen on the iPhone display, with playback controls resting on a platter of a liquid glass.

You can try this out right now with Apple Music. Play a song that has animated album art, and lock the phone. But users of third-party music streaming apps like Spotify will also be pleased to know that Apple is opening up this capability as an API, so third-party developers can also adopt it.

The already dramatic legal battle between agency CAA and rival company Range - set up in 2020 by a team of former CAA agents - ramped up this week. CAA says it has new evidence that shows Range’s founders employed spy-novel type tactics to steal confidential information from their former employer

In 2018, Spotify launched Heart & Soul, a mental health initiative developed to provide support and promote deep knowledge about emotional well-being. As conversations around mental health take center stage in the music industry, Spotify is deepening its commitment to artist well-being through our Heart & Soul, Mental Health for Creators initiative. In partnership with leading nonprofits, this global effort aims to provide meaningful support, challenge cultural norms, and ensure that artists, songwriters, and their teams can access the help they need—when they need it.

A late-night curfew in the downtown area implemented by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has forced businesses to cancel events, including shows at Walt Disney Concert Hall and Peacock Theater.

Bass issued a curfew June 10 covering one square mile of downtown L.A. after the mostly peaceful protests against recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, raids turned violent, with some businesses looted and damaged since the demonstrations began on June 6.

Instagram is making it easier for users to express themselves through music, reels, and says it’s “exploring” ways to support posts that can appear on your profile without being pushed to followers’ feeds. A feature rolling out today allows users to automatically share the name and artist of the Spotify song they’re currently listening to in their Instagram Notes — the temporary status updates that appear above profile pictures in Instagram DMs.

Meta spokesperson Christine Pai confirmed that starting next week, Instagram is rolling out the ability for users to rearrange the order of posts in their profile grids. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri had previously teased these capabilities in January.

An in-depth investigation into large scale ticket touting in the UK by the BBC has seen claims come to light that now-convicted fraudsters received inside help when buying and selling large quantities of tickets for inflated prices.

Prolific touts Peter Hunter and David Smith were jailed in 2020 for fraudulently trading tickets between 2010 and 2017, while Maria Chenery-Woods (the so-called Ticket Queen), Paul Douglas, Mark Woods and Lynda Chenery were convicted of fraudulent trading offences in 2024. They all utilised resale sites StubHub, Viagogo and the now-defunct Ticketmaster-owned GetMeIn! and Seatwave, which were closed in 2018.

It’s not just Instagram shouting about its new features and tools for creators. Snap had some new things to share this week for its Snapchat app too.

They include a tool to create a video from their saved ‘Memories’ (snaps and stories that they have marked as not for deletion), and one to automatically save their public stories to their profiles.

Snap will also soon launch a ‘Timeline Editor’ to make it easier to edit videos, although for now this will be for US creators only.

While it is technically an annual conference for a trade organization, the National Music Publishers’ Association’s membership meeting has become more like a TV network’s upfront presentation: a major show in the music business with performances from top artists, strong visuals, updates on policies and ongoing battles, and fiery speeches primarily from the organization’s president-CEO of 20 years, David Israelite.