Hybe is liquidating artificial intelligence startup Supertone after a disastrous $32 million acquisition just a few short years ago.

The judge who oversaw the big antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation in the US has more than enough information to decide if the settlement deal it agreed with the US Department Of Justice is in the public interest. Or so says Live Nation. 

After all, although that deal settled the federal lawsuit against Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary, 33 US states proceeded with their own antitrust lawsuits against the live music giant. Which means Judge Arun Subramanian has “a six week jury trial” plus various “post-trial motions” to rely on. 

We last wrote about Google’s Flow Music suite in May when it announced a partnership with Believe to make the AI tool available to the company’s artists.

Now that tool is getting better with a group of new features added to ‘Spaces’, which Google describes as a “vibe coding tool for building any custom instrument or music app”.

Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens, one of the leading artists in the roots and Americana realm, has signed with WME for representation in music worldwide, she and the agency announced Tuesday.

Spotify has introduced new sharing features across Snapchat, LinkedIn and Threads, making it easier for listeners to discover music and share what they’re playing.

The rapper has tacked on a second date at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where he will perform on September 4 and 5, as well as Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, with shows set for October 23 and 24. He also has a concert scheduled in between at Paris’ Stade de France on September 10.

Additional artists have been revealed for AMERICANAFEST 2026, which will take place in Nashville Sept. 15-19.

Abigail Rose, Ashley Monroe, Meg McRee, Sam Stoane, The Band Loula, Clover County and more have joined the previously announced performers including Ana Cristina Cash, Amy Grant, Wynonna Judd, Franklin Jonas & The Byzantines, and more. A full list of performers can be found here.

The Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC), in partnership with Live Nation, welcomed its third cohort to the BMAC LIVE Accelerator Program, building on two successful years that have already supported 40 emerging music business professionals with direct access to careers in live music.

Spotify users were hit by another frustrating service disruption on Monday, with the music streaming platform suffering two separate outages in the space of a few hours before service was restored.

One day, two announcements from Spotify and Snapchat. Spotify is adding more ways to share music from its app to social-media platforms, including Snapchat, while the latter is turning its famous Snap Map into a music-discovery property, starting with Spotify.

How big of a fan are you of your favorite musical act? Have you recommended your favorite songs to friends and strangers alike? Have you forever memorialized their work on your body with a tattoo? Did your fandom, in some mystical twist of fate, lead to you meeting your significant other? 

JP Saxe is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter. Last year, he made headlines after scheduling an ambitious headlining tour that he ended up canceling. Instead of making excuses, like many musicians in the same position have, Saxe got brutally honest about why he scrapped the dates, posting a TikTok and writing a guest column for Variety explaining how low ticket sales were to blame. Somehow, in a situation where his pride could have been irreparably harmed, Saxe felt empowered to soldier on, using the experience as a launching pad into the next phase of his career.

Where do fans go when they don’t want to pay for premium audio? AM/FM radio, which, far from dying off, currently boasts a U.S. audience share in excess of 10 times larger than that attributable to Spotify’s ad-supported tier.

HBO Max is the latest streaming service to add a TikTok-like short-form video feed to its platform to help users find something to watch. The service is also launching an experimental AI-powered conversational search experience, Warner Bros. announced on Tuesday.

HBO Max, like other streaming platforms, is rethinking content discovery as large libraries are making it hard for viewers to find something to watch and as audiences become accustomed to short-form content on platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels.

Festival Republic has signed a 20-year lease with the owners of Latitude Festival’s Suffolk site.

The home to the festival since it was launched 20 years ago, the Henham Park estate is set to host the 40,000-capacity event for a further two decades.

Roughly four months and 26.7 million shares later, Universal Music Group (UMG) has officially completed its €500 million (currently $568.5 million) stock buyback program.

But here we are in 2026, and Facebook may be preparing a video pivot of its own for its mobile app. You’ll need to read down quite a way in its latest blog post to find it though.

“Michael,” the musical biopic that follows Michael Jackson’s career, will begin streaming on Starz on Aug. 10. Released on April 24, “Michael” grossed more than $1 billion worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of 2026. Directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by John Logan, “Michael” chronicles Jackson’s rise to fame, covering his involvement in the Jackson 5 band with his brothers in the 1960s to his “Bad” tour in the late 1980s. Jackson is played by his nephew,

The nominees have been revealed for the 2026 IBMA Industry & Momentum Awards, set to take place on Oct. 22 at the Chattanooga Convention Center.

The Industry Awards recognize outstanding work in non-performing industry categories and honor the individuals who help advance bluegrass music and support its artists. The 2026 IBMA Industry Award nominees for Writer of the Year include Paul Burch, John Curtis Goad, Derek Halsey, Garret K. Woodward, and Gary Reid. The Songwriter of the Year nominees are Mark “Brink” Brinkman, Chris Jones, Rick Lang and Tim Stafford.

Live Nation has launched a five-day “Christmas in July” sale offering discounted tickets, limited ticket releases and special offers across a range of concerts and live entertainment events in Australia and New Zealand.

orchetta Entertainment Group, the full-service management division launched by Scott Borchetta earlier this year, has tapped Kevin Spellman and Henley Halem to lead as Co-Vice Presidents.

Sally Washtell-Blaise, Festival Samaritans deputy director of comms and fundraising, speaks on how the Samaritans Festival Branch is providing crucial support for field revellers.