This year is our fifth edition since launching SI:X in 2022, and as ever the entries were an exciting spread of ideas, ...

X in 2022, and as ever the entries were an exciting spread of ideas, innovation and iteration. The finalists operate in areas ranging from sync licensing and fan-data aggregation to curation-driven ...

Spotify Wrapped is just around the corner. It’s a global celebration where listeners look back on the music, artists, and moments that defined their year — and where artists see […] ...

It’s been a little while since we wrote about creativity-software maker Adobe doing a music deal: its agreement with TikTok’s Commercial Music Library.

European distributor Zebralution has taken quite the winding path since being founded in Germany in 2004. Three years later, Warner Music Group bought a significant stake in the company, before ...

Plenty of artists and labels are using Shopify for their online storefronts, so the company’s latest financial earnings call provides some useful pointers on the platform’s future.

Remember when Puerto Rican star Daddy Yankee retired from music in 2023? Well, he’s very much unretired now, returning last week with an album – ‘La Postal’ – featuring the likes of Cardi B, Diljit ...

Streaming service Qobuz has chosen Warp Records as its latest label partner, with plans to promote the latter’s catalogue across its app, downloads store and editorial/marketing channels over the ...

Collecting societies body Cisac has published its annual ‘Global Collections Report’ covering 2025, and it comes with a big headline figure: €15.5bn of global royalty collections. That’s up 11.3% year ...

In September, Spotify launched ‘Fresh Finds Forward’ as a 12-month support program for artists who’ve featured in its ‘Fresh Finds’ family of discovery playlists. Now the initiative has spawned its ...

Apple’s latest quarterly financials saw the company report $114.6bn of revenues in Q3 (its fiscal Q4) – a 12% rise year-on-year, despite its already-goliath size.

While Hybe enjoyed record revenues from its human artists last quarter, a stat in a headline from Korea JoongAng Daily caught our eye this morning: ‘One in four K-Pop acts now virtual’. This came from ...