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| Aug 19, 2026 | Tinsel Magazine Publishes 'Who Keeps the Money,' Part Three of Its 'Talent First' Series | Third Installment Traces a Gifted Dollar Through App Stores, Platforms, and Agencies, and Reviews Published Revenue Splits Across the Industry
A business does not renegotiate against itself, which is why the correction is arriving from outs... |
| Aug 12, 2026 | Billboard UK Opens 40 Under 40 Nominations at Beyond The Music as PM Burnham Convenes AI Summit | By Mike Gonzales
Published: Aug 12 2026, 1:39 PM EDT
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| Jul 31, 2026 | Suno Loses Europe’s First AI Music Copyright Ruling: Training Without Licensing Is Infringement | By Mike Gonzales
Published: Jul 31 2026, 11:58 AM EDT
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| Jul 23, 2026 | SoundCloud Acquires Nina Protocol’s Artists and Archive After Blockchain Failure | By Adrian Parham
Published: Jul 23 2026, 11:56 AM EDT
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| Feb 7, 2026 | A ‘quiet revolution’: Why young people are swapping social media for lunch dates, vinyl records and brick phones | Account manager Matt Richards, 23, deleted all his social media apps from his phone last year, and was surprised to find that his life changed for the better.
Richards had been using a smartphone since he was 11 years old and grew up with t... |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Can Spotify and Lloyds and Uber and Deliveroo and Apple and everyone stop wrapping my year, please! | From Spotify to banking, data ‘wraps’ are taking over the festive period and exposing all our bad habits. Anna Moloney wants out
In the year 2025, it feels like Spotify Wrapped has reached the status of full Christmas tradition, akin to sto... |
| Oct 3, 2025 | Fan3 Secures $5M to Revolutionize Live Event Ticketing, Combat Scalpers | Fan3 secures $5 million from Improbable. The London-based tech firm aims to fix broken live event ticketing. Its platform fights rampant scalping and bots. Real fans gain fair access and priority. Digital passes, blockchain, and NFC wristba... |
| Oct 2, 2025 | fan3 raises $5M from Improbable to fix broken ticketing | fan3, an entertainment technology company building a fan-first access platform for live events, has raised $5 million in funding from Improbable.
The investment advances fan3’s mission to restore fairness to ticketing by verifying genuine f... |
| Oct 1, 2025 | London’s fan3 raises €4.2 million to address ticket reselling and scalpers | fan3, a British entertainment technology company building a fan-first access platform for live events, today announced it has raised €4.2 million in funding from Improbable – with existing partnerships with artists like Zayn and Pitbull.
“R... |
| Dec 18, 2024 | UK Government Proposes Copyright Reforms to Support AI and Creative Industries | The U.K. government has opened a consultation to explore ways to protect the rights of artists, writers, and composers when creative content is used to train AI models. The goal is to give creators control over their copyrighted material wh... |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Music Publishers Are Suing Twitter—Are They Missing Its Promotional Value? | a coalition of 17 music publishers—including Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music ... [+] and Sony Music Publishing—filed a $250 million lawsuit against Twitter for "massive copyright infringement." (Photo by Ch... |
| Nov 1, 2022 | Dice CEO Phil Hutcheon on How the Ticketing App has Gone Global | Originally published by Music Week
Ticketing and discovery app Dice has become a significant player in the live sector.
The company was only launched in 2014 but has now become a global platform to support artists, with more than 400 memb... |
| Jul 7, 2022 | Kate Bush has now made $2.3 million from her 37-year-old song featured in ‘Stranger Things,’ according to one industry estimate | Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.
A 1985 song featured in the Netflix show Stranger Things last month has become a surprise hit this year.
Such a hi... |
| Jul 4, 2022 | Dice Selected as Primary Ticketing Partner for Outernet Venues | Originally published by Music Week
Dice has been named as the primary ticketing partner for the two new entertainment venues at Outernet, HERE at Outernet and The Lower Third.
The venues are part of the new billion-pound immersive media, ... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | NFTs shaking up the music industry | by Adi Ben-Ari, CEO of Applied Blockchain |
| May 20, 2021 | Today in European Tech: Cinch raises £1 billion, Irish fintech Fenergo bought for $600 million, Trade Republic nabs $900 million | Hello!
Here's what happened today in European Tech. Deals
- The owner of Cinch, the digital used car platform, has secured £1 billion of new equity funding as it vies to capture a big slice of the growing international market for online veh... |
| Apr 20, 2021 | World's Largest Electronic Music Store to Begin Accepting Bitcoin | Beatport, the largest online store for DJs in the world, will start accepting Bitcoin this June, according to an Apr. 20 report published by Music Week.
Robb McDaniels, the CEO of Beatport, claims that the music community wants to lead the ... |
| Mar 11, 2021 | BTS Scored The Bestselling Album In The World In 2020 By More Than Two Million Copies | NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 21: K-pop boy band BTS visit the SiriusXM Studios on February 21, 2020 ... [+] in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM) Getty Images for SiriusXM |
| Sep 10, 2020 | Songtradr Partners With Jaxsta
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| Mar 13, 2019 | YouTube Music and YouTube Premium come to India | YouTube Music is coming to the next critical battlefield for streaming music services: India. The company announced this week it’s launching its ad-supported version of YouTube Music for free in the country, as well as YouTube Music Premium... |
| Jun 27, 2018 | YouTube’s Head of Music: We’re Not Discussing the Value Gap | Music piracy was traditionally viewed as an easy to identify problem, one that takes place on illegal sites or via largely uncontrollable peer-to-peer networks. In recent years, however, the lines have been blurred.
Sites like YouTube allow... |
| Apr 28, 2017 | Musical.ly reportedly partners with Apple Music for its music snippets | According to a new report from Recode, Musical.ly is about to release a new update to its mobile app with a major change. The company is switching from 7digital to Apple music for its music catalog.
Musical.ly’s video social network app has... |
| Mar 2, 2017 | Snap may get music where Facebook and others failed | Scott Keeney Contributor
Scott ("DJ Skee")Keeney, is the founder of Dash Radio.
The last social network to truly “get” music was MySpace — unfortunately, they didn’t get much else.
Today’s biggest player, Facebook, doesn’t “get” m... |
| Apr 12, 2016 | Report Finds Global Music Revenues Increased 3.2%, but Held Back by YouTube | Digital music revenues surpassed those for physical sales for the first time ever in 2015, according to research out today from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The music business organization released the 2... |
| Dec 22, 2015 | BPI Removes Anti-Piracy Bosses and Reorganizes | When it comes to music-focused anti-piracy activity in the UK, the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI) is the absolute market leader. Acting on behalf of many hundreds of recording industry members, there’s little doubt that the BPI has i... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | Spotify taps Musixmatch to bring real-time lyrics to your desktop, launches daily viral charts too | Spotify is targeting would-be karaoke stars with a new feature that encourages you to sing along to songs at your computer.
Starting from today and rolling out gradually over the coming weeks, Spotify will be introducing lyrics to its deskt... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | Spotify taps Musixmatch to bring real-time lyrics to your desktop, launches daily viral charts too | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Spotify is targeting would-be karaoke stars with ... |
| Nov 20, 2014 | Technics Revived As High-Res Music Download Service | Famed turntable brand Technics plans to launch a high-resolution music download service. For what it’s worth, the service, unlike Neil Young’s high-res service Pono, will not hit the states. Starting in January, the platform will spin (get ... |
| Jul 2, 2014 | Ticket Resale Marketplace StubHub Goes Through A Big Fat Round Of Layoffs | Online ticket marketplace StubHub recently went through a big round of layoffs, which the company confirmed to us by email today. A source tells us the cuts were made after the company failed to meet its parent company’s expectations, due t... |
| Jun 26, 2014 | ‘Failed’ Piracy Letters Should Escalate to Fines & Jail, MP Says | Proponents of the Digital Economy Act 2010 believed it had the solutions to deter consumer file-sharing, but four years on and the relevant measures remain dormant. This inactivity led to a new and recently announced solution, the so-called... |
| Jun 4, 2014 | Kobalt Raises $140M To Scale Up Its Digital Royalty Collection Business | Apple’s $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, a possible IPO from Spotify and a review of music licensing rules by the Justice Department are some of the big developments that have put the streaming music industry into the spotlight ... |
| Feb 2, 2014 | UK Government Plans to “Ensure” That Google Hinders Online Piracy | During last week’s second reading of the UK Intellectual Property Bill the Prime Minister’s Intellectual Property Adviser Mike Weatherley said something highly controversial – persistent downloaders could be put in jail. For clarity:
“My po... |
| Dec 27, 2013 | Nine Music Labels Plan To Sue Vkontakte, The Facebook Of Russia, Over 6,000 Illegal Tracks | Vkontakte, a social networking site known as the “Facebook of Russia”, is facing legal action from nine music labels including EMI, Sony and Warner over what they claim is the unlawful distribution of some 6,000 tracks of licensed music on ... |
| Dec 12, 2013 | Music Industry Paper With '50 Years' At The 'Forefront' Of The Business Details Sentencing Of 'Copyright Thief' | I’m not in any hurry to call out the average person for the abuse of IP terminology. For many people, a copyright is a trademark is a patent. It all means a way of legally stating “I made this.” But they’re certainly not interchangeable ter... |
| Dec 2, 2013 | Russell Brand: Get My New DVD From The Pirate Bay | To some, mainly those in the entertainment industries, The Pirate Bay is an evil parasite that exists on the hard work of others. It profits from content to which it has no rights and along the way disregards the wishes of artists, producer... |
| Nov 11, 2013 | Copyright Extension Goes Into Effect In The UK: More Works Stolen From The Public Domain | Even as there have been indications around the globe that perhaps we’ve had enough copyright term extension and it’s time to move back in the other direction, over in the UK, they just put in place a big new copyright extension which increa... |
| Sep 2, 2013 | Copyright Holders Want Voluntary UK Three-Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme | During the past couple of years it has become evident that attempts at bringing tough but workable anti-piracy measures into law – particularly ones that target consumers directly – have not been as straightforward as rightsholders would ha... |
| Jul 15, 2013 | Spotify Defends Against New Music Backlash, Says It Will Pay Out $1B To Rightsholders By End Of 2013 | Spotify, the music service with 24 million active users, says that it is on track to pay out $1 billion to artists that stream music on its platform by the end of 2013, and that it has already paid out $500 million so far as the “artist-fri... |
| Jun 24, 2013 | Robbie Williams’ Megaupload Coat “Doesn’t Imply Support” Says Manager | Robbie Williams got conversations going last month after wearing a “Megaupload” coat in his latest video. He did it again on live TV this weekend. But what does it mean? Williams’ manager speaks out.
UK rapper Dizzee Rascal and superstar Ro... |
| Jun 3, 2013 | Townsquare Media buys up three music sites from AOL | Radio station owner Townsquare also picks up ComicsAlliance
(Updated to reflect comment from AOL)
Twitter and Google have both recently dipped their toes into the music space, with Twitter debuting its #Music app, and Google launching a new... |
| Apr 8, 2013 | A Million DMCAs in a Week, But BPI Still Wants Google to Do More | As music industry bodies battle the unrelenting unauthorized availability of their content online, DMCA notices are being sent in ever-increasing volumes.
In the UK the BPI sends huge numbers of these takedown requests to Google pretty much... |
| Jan 23, 2013 | Semetric Scores $4.7M To Turn Up The Volume On Musicmetric, Its Big Data Analytics Service | More money for big data analytics — and a sign that, as the space matures, we will see more segmentation of what kinds of big data is getting analysed. Semetric, the UK/LA-based company behind the music data tracking service Musicmetric, ha... |
| Dec 1, 2012 | BPI requests UK Pirate Party shut down Pirate Bay proxy | reader comments 25 with 22 posters participating
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| Nov 30, 2012 | BPI To UK Pirate Party: Shut Down Your Pirate Bay Proxy | As soon as the High Court ordered several UK ISPs to block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay earlier this year, many users of the site flocked to the proxy service of the UK Pirate Party.
For millions of UK Internet users the service prov... |
| Oct 25, 2012 | The Beatles' Apple Corps Logo is now a Registered TM of Apple
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Commenting on the settlement in 2007, the late Steve Jobs stated that "We love the Beatles, and it has been painful being at odds with them over these trademarks. It feels great to resolve... |
| Jul 24, 2012 | Top Music Stars Ask UK Prime Minister For Anti-Piracy Action | Some of the biggest names in the UK music industry have written to Prime Minister David Cameron in the hope that he can do something about illicit music downloading.
Simon Cowell, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Brian May and Andrew Lloyd Webber... |
| Mar 7, 2012 | UK ISPs Lose Their Challenge To The Digital Economy Act; Entertainment Industry Responds Condescendingly | UK ISPs BT and Talktalk challenged the Digital Economy Act soon after it was passed, complaining about how the law was approved, about the implementation details and how it would put them at a competitive disadvantage. Unfortunately, the fi... |
| Feb 25, 2012 | Andrew Dubber's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week | My criteria for “favorite Techdirt blog posts of the week” are necessarily shaped by what I do for a living. As the leader of an MA in Music Industries at Birmingham City University, it’s important for me to understand the key issues shapin... |
| Nov 21, 2011 | Artists and Labels B!&$* About Spotify | “Got paid £8 for 90,000 plays. Fuck spotify,” tweeted the London-based producer Jon Hopkins last week, comparing it to radio which pays “about £50 for each play.” His sentiments were echoed by U.K. producer Four Tet, who added “Spotify owne... |
| Nov 14, 2011 | Attempts To Censor File Sharing Sites In The UK Demonstrate The Pointlessness Of SOPA's Blocks | As the UK has ramped up its own “Great Firewall” by requiring ISPs to block access to sites deemed infringing, we get a bit of a preview of what life in the US would be like under SOPA, which has provisions for similar censorship. And, than... |
| Aug 3, 2011 | BPI Using Newzbin2 Ruling To Seek Much Broader Censorship Of Sites It Doesn't Like In The UK | md1500 points us to news that will surprise absolutely no one. Apparently BPI (the UK version of the RIAA) is using the Newzbin2 ruling to seek broad censorship over a variety of websites it doesn’t like: |
| Jul 1, 2011 | Unstoppable Internet Pirates: “It’s Us Against The System” | In High Court proceedings between the MPA and ISP BT this week, the MPA made their position clear. The Hollywood group wants Usenet indexing site Newzbin2 blocked at the ISP level, but BT think that’s a step too far.
Now MusicWeek have publ... |
| Jul 1, 2011 | Music Exec Says Too Many Silly Things To Put In This Headline | If anything, Apple’s announcement of iTunes MusicMatch has made opposing sides equally uncomfortable (a sign of disruption?). Whereas some are concerned about its possible use as a tool to identify infringers, others are more concerned abou... |
| May 20, 2011 | Fair Use Doesn't Weaken Copyright Law, It Strengthens It | It’s interesting to see the reaction of some copyright maximalists to the just released Hargreaves Review of intellectual property and innovation in the UK. Apparently, many in the old line legacy businesses are actually breathing a sigh of... |
| Jan 17, 2011 | French Anti-Piracy Law Doesn’t Stop Pirates | A new survey claims that anti-piracy laws in France have had little impact on filesharing behaviour so far.
Last year, the Hadopi measures were put into effect and by October some 25,000 warnings letters a day were being sent out by ISPs to... |
| Jan 11, 2011 | Spotify who? We7 to launch first in Ireland next week | We7, the UK music streaming service, is launching in Ireland next Monday, reports MusicWeek and we can now confirm.
This is interesting not only because it’s the first time We7 has ventured beyond its native shores but also because Spotify,... |
| Aug 31, 2010 | Questionable Site Claims To Legally Offer Unlimited MP3 Downloads… Record Label Lawyers Already Springing Into Action | What is it with random companies springing up claiming to have legal download offerings that don’t pass the laugh test. Remember a year ago, we talked about a company called Bluebeat.com that claimed to be the only site where you could lega... |
| Aug 16, 2010 | Spotify SVP Paul Brown leaves for new startup | Spotify‘s SVP of strategic partnerships Paul Brown is to leave the music streaming service this week for a new startup outside of the digital music space.
Brown tells Music Week it was an opportunity he “had to take”, having been with Spoti... |
| Jul 19, 2010 | UK Music Head Set For Seat In The House of Lords | Born in 2008, UK Music is an umbrella organization which represents various elements of the music industry including musicians, songwriters and composers, labels, publishers, managers and various collecting societies. The group welcomed the... |
| Oct 16, 2009 | Senate Judiciary Committee Approves RIAA Bailout Radio Tax | Because the federal government apparently hasn’t helped the RIAA enough in the past century — despite repeatedly changing copyright laws to favor the industry again and again and again (and again) — the Senate Judiciary Committee has approv... |
| Oct 12, 2009 | Don't want to pay $10,000 to have an iTunes LP version of your album? Make your own | Update: Apparently, the original guy was in error. Somehow he was informed that there’s a $10k fee while Apple is saying there is not. They say: “There is no production fee charged by Apple . We’re releasing the open specs for iTunes LP soo... |
| Oct 12, 2009 | Apple’s $10,000 iTunes LP fee causing stir (Updated) | reader comments 30 with 24 posters participating
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As we explained in our look at the iTunes LP format, the insides are built with standard Web technologies: HTML, CSS, and J... |
| Sep 17, 2009 | UK Music Pretends That Musicians Aren't Against Kicking People Off The Internet | Recently, we noted that a bunch of big name musicians had come out against Peter Mandelson’s sudden decision that it was ok to kick music fans off the internet for file sharing, despite earlier promises that such a proposal was off the tabl... |
| Dec 11, 2008 | UK Culture Secretary Pushes Copyright Extension With Questionable Logic | SteveD points us to the full text of a speech given by UK Cultural Secretary Andy Burnham, pushing for copyright extension on performance rights. The speech itself is interesting, in that Burnham at least pays some tribute to other ideas, e... |
| Oct 31, 2008 | Datz Music Lounge: Gimmick or the Future of Digital Music? | If you live in the U.K. and you have 100 British pounds to spare, you can now subscribe to the Datz Music Lounge, where those 100 pounds can buy you unlimited access to DRM-free MP3s for one year. According to Music Week, Datz features abou... |
| Sep 4, 2008 | iTunes developing interactive albums | Apple has revolutionised the digital music industry with the development of iPods and the online music store iTunes, but it is set to make another breakthrough with the release of interactive albums.
Apple has revolutionised the digital mus... |
| Sep 2, 2008 | Snow Patrol to deliver media content via custom iPhone app | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Sep 2, 2008 | Apple to launch app that adds extra features to your iTunes music downloads | Apple will release an application for its App Store next month that taps into iTunes, and provides users with all sorts of extra content, like lyrics, exclusive artwork, yada yada. The first album to benefit from the application will be Sno... |
| Sep 1, 2008 | Apple Puts One More Nail Into the CD Coffin | Apple will release an application next month that will provide users with interactive albums, which will include lyrics, behind-the-scenes images, and exclusive artwork.
According to Music Week, Apple will make the app available to users in... |
| Jun 6, 2008 | BPI and Virgin Media Agree to Start Warning Uploaders | In 2008, the ‘three-strikes-and-you’re-out’ concept has been gathering pace around the globe. Get caught uploading three times, and the anti-piracy groups would like your Internet connection disconnected. Unsurprisingly, most people aren’t ... |
| Kobalt raises $140M to scale up its digital royalty collection business | Apple's $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, a possible IPO from Spotify and a review of music licensing rules by the Justice Department are some of the big developments that have put the streaming music industry into the spotlight ... |
| This Week in European Tech: Major rounds for Fever, Zapp and Paack; Gorillas and Glovo buy smaller peers; good news for Intel, bad news for Sigfox | Happy Friday!
This week, the Tech.eu research team tracked more than 135 tech funding deals worth over €2.9 billion, and over 25 exits, M&A transactions, and rumours, and related news stories across Europe, including Russia and Turkey.
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| Today in European Tech: Cinch raises £1 billion, Irish fintech Fenergo bought for $600 million, Trade Republic nabs $900 million | Hello!
Here's what happened today in European Tech. Deals
- The owner of Cinch, the digital used car platform, has secured £1 billion of new equity funding as it vies to capture a big slice of the growing international market for online veh... |
