Universal Music Group has been making south-east Asia a strategic priority for some time now. The company’s AMEA CEO Adam Granite has been talking about trends in the region at the Music Matters 2026 ...

TikTok has been making a splash with some announcements at Advertising Week New York 2026, and while they’re not directly music-related, they’re worth taking in if you’re doing marketing on the ...

Whatever you do, don't snort at Peppa Pig's music clout. The popular children's character has more than 1bn lifetime music streams.

Australia is one of the countries where the music industry is slugging it out with some tech companies to win the ears of politicians, as the latter mull what rules to put in place covering AI ...

Back-office admin – from distribution and DSP analytics to neighbouring rights and D2C sales – remains a massive operational drain for indie labels, publishers, and self-releasing artists. In the ...

AEG Presents had a new number to trumpet this weekend: country star Zach Bryan broke the attendance record for the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, with 73,538 fans attending his second night there.

Square Nine Capital. Announced last week, it has refinanced an “existing credit facility” of the company, providing “additional capital to support Beatport’s strategic priorities”.

We did not expect to be writing a story about the Pope in 2026, let alone two, but here we are. Pope Leo XIV has been sounding off again about artificial intelligence and art – this time in a post on ...

We recently reported on the latest devices from children’s speakers maker Yoto. Now the company has published its financial ...

Ticketing-tech firm SeatGeek has launched a new product that’s for promoters and venues rather than music fans. TourIQ is a predictive-intelligence tool.

In March 2025, Sony Music said that it had successfully gotten more than 75k AI-generated deepfakes of its artists from various online platforms. A year later, in March 2026, the company said that it ...

Indian music licensing company Novex has launched Velvet Labs, a company that designs and builds music technology products.