AI audio startup ElevenLabs has launched a new platform called Music Marketplace, which lets musicians and creators publish tracks made with the company’s AI music generator and monetize those tracks each time a paid subscriber remixes or licenses them.

roduction Resource Group (PRG) announced the appointment of Lawrence Burian as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective April 13.

Additionally, Burian, whose resume includes leadership roles across entertainment, venue operation, and sports, will also join PRG’s Board of Directors.

After making her stage return singing Edith Piaf’s “Hymne A L’Amour” by the Eiffel Tower at the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony, Celine Dion is now poised to make a big concert comeback in France, Variety has confirmed.

Primary Wave Music has announced a “definitive” agreement to acquire Kobalt, one of the world’s largest independent music publishing and technology platforms, from Francisco Partners, creating a company valued at approximately $7 billion. The transaction, announced Monday morning, includes an investment from Brookfield; Variety sources estimate the value of the deal at around $1.5 billion.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported TKO Executive Chairman Ari Emanuel’s influence on the Ticketmaster/Live Nation antitrust case.

Dana Mattioli, Rebecca Ballhaus, and Josh Dawsey reported on Mike Davis’ influence on the Department of Justice on antitrust cases. Davis denied the claims to the Journal, but a WSJ found that Davis “pushed antitrust officials at the Justice Department to approve his deals — and he went over their heads when they wouldn’t comply.”

Senators pitch legislation to strengthen antitrust settlement procedures after finding the DOJ’s settlement with Live Nation to be lacking.

Not only do the state attorneys general find the Department of Justice’s recent settlement with Live Nation lacking, so do senators. Now, they’re pitching legislation to strengthen proceedings for antitrust-related settlements altogether to avoid the same thing happening in the future.

Calling the DOJ’s Live Nation settlement “weak,” Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Antitrust Accountability and Transparency Act last week alongside fellow Democratic Senators Dick Durbin, Cory Booker, Mazie Hirono, Richard Blumenthal, Peter Welch, Sheldon Whitehouse, Elizabeth Warren, and Chris Murphy. Together, the senators argue that the Trump-led DOJ has eroded the antitrust process with “backroom deals” that benefit major corporations and special interests.

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Michael Smith, 52, charged after flooding platforms with thousands of AI songs and boosting them with bots

Spotify is celebrating the fifth birthday of its ‘Equal’ initiative promoting women artists, songwriters and producers with a new podcast and some stats.

‘Spotify Equal: The Podcast’ is a five-episode video show featuring artists Juliana, Zolita, Angela Torres, Silvana Estrada and Orla Gartland, hosted by music journalist Kim Taylor Bennett.

Warner Music Group and Netflix have formed a creative partnership under an exclusive multi-year first-look deal that will see the streamer make documentary series and films on the long-running music company’s artists and songwriters.

he National Independent Talent Organization (NITO), representing U.S. independent managers and agents, has released an official response to the Department of Justice’s settlement with Live Nation.

While acknowledging that the settlement represents progress, the trade group raises significant concerns over what they view as “undefined terms” and “critical gaps” in the settlement that threaten the interests of independent artists and their millions of fans.

For-profit ticket touting, or scalping, is set to be outlawed in the Canadian province of Ontario. The government there reviewed the regulation of ticket resale after touted tickets for World Series games in Toronto last year topped $21,000. Plans for a ticket scalping ban were announced last week

In today’s edition of the Weekly Insights feature from Edison Research, we learn how four different age categories spend time listening to AM/FM radio and podcasts.  The most apparent takeaway shows the 13-24 cohort preferring podcast listening by more than two to one. A reverse trend belongs to the 55+…

Shares of Kpop agency ​HYBE (352820.KS), opens new tab fell 14.5% ‌to a four-month low on Monday after ​a weaker-than-expected turnout ​at its boyband BTS' ⁠comeback concert.
Shares ​traded down 14.5% at ​294,000 won as of 0210 GMT, their lowest ​since December ​16, 2025. They will post ‌the ⁠biggest percentage fall since June 15, 2022, if the ​loss ​holds.

In October of 2025, Saving Country Music reported on the impending construction and opening of Live Nation’s newest venue in Nashville called “The Truth.” The real “truth” behind the new venue is that it’s opening is a predatory move by the Live Nation monopoly to rival and undercut other local venues like The Ryman Auditorium, also known as the Mother Church of Country Music.

The Truth will be located only about 1 1/2 miles away from The Ryman, and the venue’s architecture also looks very similar to The Ryman. Also, the President of Nashville Music & Business Strategy for Live Nation who announced the new venue, Sally Williams, is the previous General Manager of The Ryman.

A Chicago jury sided with Chance the Rapper in his long-running legal dispute with former manager Pat Corcoran, rejecting the latter’s $3.8 million claim against Chance.

However, jurors awarded Chance (aka Chancelor Bennett) just $35 in his countersuit out of the $1 million that he had sought.

The court is gearing up to hear oral arguments in a landmark case about the Trump administration's attempts to rewrite the 14th Amendment of the Constitution

A debate in the Talking Tickets Slack channel between a broker defender and a primary market critic. Plus one former broker who isn't sure where he lands anymore.

The vocoder was never supposed to be a revolution in music. It wasn’t supposed to be anything in music, really. Its development began a century ago, when an engineer at Bell Labs was looking for a simpler way to send phone calls across copper telephone lines. The engineer, Homer Dudley, built some pretty neat technology that could both capture and synthesize the human voice.

The move offers some relief to the estimated 10,000 ticket holders left out of pocket after Bluesfest went into liquidation on March 13.

Anyone who’s read a few 70s rock biographies would be forgiven for blinking at Airbnb’s claim that “groupie getaways fuel concert tourism this summer”. Fortunately, this is about fans travelling to concerts in groups with their friends.

The company’s blog post is a celebration of “show hopping” – defined as fans “traveling far and wide to catch their favourite acts live”. It has some stats to back that up.