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.

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.

Ariana Grande has filed a lawsuit against anonymous hackers, claiming that they gained backdoor access to devices that led to the leak of unreleased songs and footage from recording sessions and music videos.

Patreon is laying off 20% of its workforce, or 93 people, CEO Jack Conte told employees on Thursday. In a memo to staff that was shared online by the company, Conte said Patreon’s core business is strong but that the platform has to respond to market changes and adjust its cost structure to remain stable, which is why it needs to make the “painful” but necessary cuts.

We’re launching Facebook Verified, a free badge that verifies there’s a real person behind a profile using a simple selfie-based verification process. The badge appears where it matters most on Facebook, with no subscription fee.

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.

A stage adaptation of “Purple Rain,” the 1984 cult classic film starring Prince, will debut on Broadway in 2027.

Spotify’s new Reserved ticketing program is generating debate across the live music industry, with booking agents questioning whether the feature could shift control of valuable fan relationships away from artists and their teams and toward the streaming platform. Launched in May, Spotify Reserved gives select “top fans” early access to purchase up to two tickets for participating tours before they go on sale to the general public. 

Casey Wasserman may soon be no longer on The Team.

After being pressured to set up an auction for his Westwood-based firm that drew interest from United Talent Agency, Patrick Whitesell’s upstart shingle WIN and other suitors, the sale of his company may not go to any outside party.

Facebook is planning some big changes to try and keep its users from jumping to rival social platforms like TikTok — changes that sound dubiously similar to becoming a TikTok clone. Facebook head Tom Alison announced today that the platform will begin testing a “reimagined experience” later this year that will put a subset of users into a “full-screen video the moment they open the app.”

Indian AI video-generation platform Atlabs•ai has launched three new music video agents that have specifically been trained for indie artists, kids’ rhymes, and faith music. The Gurugram-headquartered startup was founded in 2024 by former Indian Institute of Technology batch-mates Archit Rathi and Tushar Tuteja.