A federal court has officially entered a $3.2 million default judgment against Triller in a missing-compensation lawsuit filed by Merlin. Meanwhile, the social media company has resumed trading on NASDAQ, changed its name, and deemed 2026 “the monetization year.”

Amid double-digit streaming consumption growth for dance/electronic and world music, U.S. on-demand streams increased by about 4.8% during H1 2026, when physical sales topped 38 million units.

iPhone users with the Suno app installed can now generate songs from their iMessage app using text or voice prompts, leaning into the TikTok trend.

Twelve songwriters, representing two of the organization’s five categories, were revealed as nominees for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. The full class of inductees will be announced in the coming weeks and officially inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame later this year.

Just under a year ago, Cameron Almasi and Eddie Hermida co-founded Arson Theory, a US-based company offering distribution, publishing and royalties management to artists, songwriters and producers – with a particular focus on artists in the heavy-music world.

Spotify announced on Wednesday that it’s bringing parent-managed accounts for kids to its free tier. Families in the U.S., U.K., Australia, France, Germany, and the Netherlands can now create a “Managed Account” for their child, a feature previously available only to paid subscribers.

We last wrote about royalty-management startup Mogul in February when it raised a $5m funding round. Now it has become the latest company to launch a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to play nicely with AI assistants.

In this case, that means giving its artist and manager clients the ability to manage their royalties, distribution and publishing administration tasks from within services including Claude and ChatGPT.

Welcome to the, ahem, ‘Tok parade. Emo veterans My Chemical Romance have bitten the bullet and joined TikTok with an official account, which already has more than 425,000 followers a couple of days after it went live.

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.

Lily Allen‘s “West End Girl” tour was one of the year’s most acclaimed pop outings when it played U.S. theaters earlier this year, but there was some question about whether the intimate and highly theatrical one-woman show would translate to huge venues, when the British singer booked a tour focused mostly on arenas for the fall. North American audiences won’t get a chance to get an answer to that question, for the most part, as Allen and Live Nation revealed Monday they are canceling most of the arena gigs in favor of booking new shows in theaters and amphitheaters instead.

Research firm Omdia has published its latest predictions for the growth of the global recorded-music market. The figures cover ‘retail sales’ which Omdia defines as spending on physical and digital music plus trade revenue from advertising, performance rights and sync.

BandLab announces the acquisition of Aiode, an AI-powered music studio utilizing fully licensed audio-to-audio models developed with professional session musicians and producers.

Suno has long acknowledged that its AI music generator relied on the scraping of millions of songs available across the internet, but a new hack reveals just how the company pulled from streaming services and websites such as YouTube Music, Deezer and Genius to power its product — all while user information remained vulnerable.

The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) announced the nominees for the 2026 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards, the 2026 class of inductees into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and the recipients of this year’s IBMA Distinguished Achievement Awards.

The streaming giant is making it easier for listeners to figure out if the music they are listening to is human-made or produced using generative AI.

We’re entering an era where the biggest, sold-outest festivals use livestreams as a core part of their strategy to reach larger audiences online, and build their brands globally. Two announcements yesterday continue the trend.

Eligible Premium users will see new ways to talk to Spotify across Home and the Now Playing view on mobile. By typing or speaking directly in the app, you can have a back-and-forth conversation to choose what’s playing, learn about the music you love, revisit your listening history, and go deeper on podcasts and audiobooks, all without leaving Spotify.

By the middle of 2026, the question of whether governments would regulate ticket resale had been answered. The UK confirmed a draft Ticket Tout Ban Bill in May’s King’s Speech. Ontario began enforcing a face-value cap in the weeks before the World Cup. California’s AB 1720 has cleared two Assembly committees. In Brussels, consumer groups are pushing for a ban on dynamic pricing under the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act.

Warner Music has responded to a lawsuit filed by US musicians union AFM over its AI deals. The union says a ‘new use’ clause in its performer agreement means its members should get compensation from the deals with Suno and Udio - but Warner says AFM is interpreting that clause incorrectly 

Meta shut down a feature that let Instagram users generate AI images by tagging other public accounts just days after its launch, following pushback from Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) over consent and likeness rights.

Amazon Music Delivered is Amazon Music’s annual end-of-year experience, giving listeners a personalized recap reel that highlights their top artists, songs, podcasts, and listening habits from the past year. For fans, it’s a fun way to look back on what they loved. For artists, it’s a chance to show appreciation to the listeners who kept coming back all year long. Here’s how it works…