Months after Ontario declared that its new ticket resale cap would end price gouging by scalpers, the provincial government is reportedly preparing to rewrite the rules behind it after discovering that the policy is nearly impossible to enforce as enacted.

TikTok has hailed “the biggest standalone artist broadcast ever” on its platform with nearly 2.2 million unique viewers, who collectively generated nearly 5.8m likes and 139k comments during the broadcast – which was also backed by iHeartRadio.

TikTok has held bigger non-artist livestreams in the past: 74 million people watched its Tomorrowland broadcasts in July 2025, for example.

StubHub and its CEO, Eric Baker, have been hit with a proposed $5-million class-action lawsuit in the United States over the company's ties to large-scale scalpers — connections reported by CBC News last week.

The suit, filed Monday by New York ticket buyer Louis Sanquini, alleges deceptive practices and fraudulent misrepresentation over StubHub's promoting itself as a "marketplace for fans to buy and sell tickets."

Noah Kahan continues to hit new career milestones as his latest album, The Great Divide, has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. Celebrities& Entertainment News

The album, which debuted at No. 1, is now the fastest Americana/Folk album to reach Platinum status and one of only two albums released this year to achieve the milestone. Kahan also made history by becoming the first artist to headline four consecutive sold-out shows at Boston’s Fenway Park. More than 151,000 fans attended the July 7, 8, 10, and 11 concerts.

The UK government has published a plan for how it will support music and the music industry. It’s mainly a greatest hits of existing government schemes and initiatives all collated in one place, though there are some new announcements, including an extra £15 million for the Music Growth Package 

Discovery has always been a core part of the Spotify experience. Whether you’re diving into curated editorial playlists like Artists To Watch or using personalization features like DJ, there’s always something new to explore.

Limitless Live founder Tolu Farinto tells IQ about plans to continue scaling the largest free-entry music event in the UK

For You Fest turns the social feed into a live festival experience as the first large-scale festival built around creator culture. Fans can watch live podcast tapings, attend creator-led workshops, enjoy music and comedy performances, and meet the creators they follow online. The inaugural festival includes an all-star lineup including Quenlin Blackwell, Tana Mongeau, DJ Trixie Mattel, Trisha Paytas, Patrick Ta, Wisdom Kaye, Caleb Hearon, Drew Afualo, Meg Stalter, Owen Thiele, and more. For You Fest takes place November 14–15 at Great Park in Irvine, California.  The presale for all ticket types begins Friday, July 10 at 10am PT with guaranteed lowest price 2-Day GA Tickets available for one hour only at www.foryoufestival.com.

During our recent Artist Ally event, British-Asian singer/songwriter Saloni won our Artist Ally Emerging Artist award, having seen impressive growth over the two years of her career so far.

On Friday we reported on the announcement by a group of music-industry bodies of a new system for labelling wholly AI-generated music as well as ‘AI-assisted’ music. Since then, there have been some more responses from involved parties.

Big name artists including Oasis with their highly anticipated reunion tour, Coldplay and Beyoncé helped to attract a record number of fans to travel to watch live music last year, helped by a surge in overseas visitors at UK gigs.

A report from the industry body UK Music estimated that 24.7 million “music tourists” attended concerts and festivals last year, up 4.8% on 2024, leading to an unprecedented £11.2bn of spending across the UK economy.

The lawsuit targeting Eric Baker’s ties to Andro Capital arrives amid a separate World Cup ticket case, government investigations and continuing complaints from fans left outside matches.

‘Get Blue’ is a campaign run by Water·org to expand access to safe water around the world. Now it’s getting an additional splash of support from Amazon Music.

It is one of the founding partners for the initiative, and has now enlisted 18 artists to be part of it too in a ‘Stream It Forward’ campaign.

“Michael” has surpassed $1 billion in global ticket sales, becoming the first biopic to achieve the coveted box office milestone.

The crowd-pleasing film about Michael Jackson has generated $629.8 million overseas and $371.8 million domestically, bringing its global tally to $1.001 billion.

“We’re going to go until like 5 a.m., so don’t be scared,” said Jay-Z not long after he started the third and final show of his Yankee Stadium residency on Sunday night, the concluding chapter to a weekend that paid homage to the 25th and 30th anniversaries of his seminal albums “The Blueprint” and “Reasonable Doubt,” respectively. The remark was made around 1 a.m, roughly 40 minutes after he started a concert that had been plagued by hours-long delays as fans waited both inside the stadium and on the perimeter of the venue, stuck in lines that didn’t budge. Surely, the 5 a.m. comment was made in jest — it had to be, right?

Heritage Live has cancelled its 2026 summer festival programme at Englefield Estate, Audley End Estate and Sandringham Estate after efforts to secure additional investment were unsuccessful.

Among the artists due to play at Heritage Live shows this summer were Christina Aguilera and Janet Jackson, who were both due to play UK-exclusive shows at Sandringham next month.

The global alliance will bring together the premium hospitality platform and the Singapore-headquartered travel service provider

– Manufacturing. Culture. Retail. Archiving. Mastering. Careers – Making Vinyl Europe returns to the Netherlands for its fourth edition, with its most expansive program yet. From September 30 to October 2, PHIL Haarlem will once again become the meeting point for the global vinyl community, bringing together the people who manufacture, distribute, preserve, sell, and shape the future of the format.

It can focus on a specific genre, help you find new artists, and more.

Global non-profit organisation Change The Beat has announced a broadened support programme for women and gender-expansive artists in the electronic music sphere — namely with a pledge to connect 300 of its community’s artists with label opportunities by 2028.

On the back of its first distribution in January that saw £500,000 channelled into supporting 372 venues, 211 shows and 81 festivals, the LIVE Trust has announced a further £1 million is forthcoming.