The Sanremo Music Festival is a veritable institution in Italy: an annual music contest and TV broadcast that’s often had a secondary purpose of choosing Italy’s entry for the next Eurovision Song ...

We reported yesterday on Universal Music Group and Sony Music’s new legal complaint against Suno, with a filing that attacked its latest v6 models as “the fruit of the same poisoned tree”.

Earlier this year, we wrote about the ‘text-to-song’ craze on TikTok, where people were feeding their message-threads into Suno to generate songs – some of which went viral.

That’s right: a 600-capacity venue, built right under the noses of shoppers riding the escalators in London’s Battersea Power Station. And nothing about the project leaked out. Apple Music Hall has ...

The show goes on for Ed Sheeran’s US stadium tour, but without any support artists or backing band. They all pulled out last week following the decision to remove Macklemore from the tour following ...

We reported on startup Unit1 Studio when it launched in October 2025 with technology that could help artists turn themselves into digital avatars for concerts.

There’s plenty going on in the UK this week, starting with the upcoming National Album Day, which takes place on 17 October. The organisers have published the list of albums that are getting ...

Just under a year ago, US duo Sylvain Esso removed their music from Spotify in protest at then-CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in military-tech company Helsing.

Earlier this summer, South Korean collecting society Komca announced that it would be allowing ‘AI-assisted’ music to be registered as works, as long as a human had made a creative contribution to the ...

In our recent report on Suno’s new v6 models, we explained that they were trained on a fresh dataset including music licensed from WMG and BMG, plus “user data”.

The recorded music business in Argentina grew around 70% in 2025 following an almost 200% increase in 2024, but inflation - which was 31.5% in 2025 and 117.8% the previous year - means "there was no ...

In the past, the British Royal Mail has already honoured AC/DC, The Who and Spice Girls with special stamp issues - now Duran Duran becomes the latest act to get this special treatment.