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Tim McGraw has launched Down Home, a new entertainment, media and marketing company headquartered in Nashville.

Halsey and Capitol Records are going their separate ways, spokesperson for both the artist and the label confirmed to Variety Saturday.

On Friday (April 14) Drake took to Instagram to voice his opinion on an AI-generated cover of him rapping Bronx princess Ice Spice's "Munch."

Less than a year after Spotify acquired Heardle, the audio streamer is mothballing the music game. “Heardle is going away on May 5th.

Blink and you might miss it, at least if you were planning to take the weekend off from watching concerts. The first reunion gig by the classic lineup of Blink-182 will not be waiting till the offi…

Three Swedish unions have written to Spotify requesting formal collective bargaining negotiations on behalf of its employees there.

(CelebrityAccess) -- The Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame announced the lineup for the inaugural edition of WasFest, a new, multi-day music festival curated and hosted by the legendary producer, and President of Blue Note

A growing number of AI-generated songs are being uploaded to Apple Music and Spotify, and music label Universal Music

Find the Mix report finds inequality remains entrenched in music production and engineering, with less than 5% of credits going to women and non-binary people

Latin music revenue in the United States reached an all-time high of $1.1 billion in 2022, marking the industry’s second year of double-digit growth for an annual increase of 24%.  

The T Effect's co-founders Tshiamo Letshwene and Nhlanhla ‘Nivo’ Ndimande tell us about the company'

The last time powerhouse Korean girl group Blackpink played Coachella, during a much-hyped mid-day set in 2019 on the Sahara stage, it was a different band and the world was a different place. 

WME has announced the acquisition of Nashville-based music agency Red 11 Music. As part of the transaction [...]

It’s not at all surprising why tons of people, including journalists, are sticking around Twitter even if they shouldn’t. Part of it is inertia. People were settled into what worked before, and change is difficult. Partly because of that, people are loathe to switch. Even those who have switched over to alternatives like Mastodon in…

Snap has signed a deal with multiple music labels to expand its Sounds library, which lets people use song clips in Snaps and Stories.

Latin music revenue in the United States reached an all-time high of $1.1 billion in 2022, marking the industry’s second year of double-digit growth for an annual increase of 24%. 

Music industry economist Will Page has been ruffling feathers with his latest report: an examination of equitable remuneration (ER) models.

A Hollywood writers strike will hit music supervisors hard if it goes through, since they have no union to help protect them.

NPR will no longer update its 52 Twitter accounts, including the primary @NPR handle, which has nearly 9 million followers.

We Invented the Weekend, a brand new festival, based in Salford, with a bold claim within its name and, as co-founder Wayne Hemingway MBE points out “If you're going to claim that a place invented the weekend, you better get it right”

Record label Universal urges Spotify and Apple Music to stop copycats scraping song data