Stuart Dredge

Mrs. Green Apple taking 13th place in the IFPI’s global artists chart for 2025 was a wake-up call for anyone underestimating the breakout potential for Japanese acts. Now Chartmetric has some more data to reinforce the trend.

The latest startup hoping to give music-education a tech spin is SoundGate: its first product is an AI-powered guitar tutor.

Spotify’s ‘Discovery Mode’ promotional tool has been quite the talking point since launch.

Rightsholders are keen to find out if GenAI tracks can be traced back to the ‘inputs’ in order to calculate royalties.

GEMA has won its copyright-infringement lawsuit against Suno, with a Munich Regional Court ruling in its favour this morning.

Roblox remains a huge gaming platform, but in terms of daily active users (DAUs) it’s actually been getting less huge for three straight quarters now.

Quite a few of the recent feature additions by music-streaming services have been geared towards providing more context around the music – whether that’s provided by artists, in-house editors or scraped and served up (not always accurately) by AI.

Welcome to Q2 financials season, including Live Nation’s latest chance to rebut concerns about ‘Blue Dot Fever’ in the live-music market. It posted revenues of $7.7bn in the second quarter of this year, up 9% year-on-year, with its operating profits up 7% to $522m. The fan count at its concerts was up 10% to 49 million, which Live Nation hailed as its “highest 2Q concerts attendance”.

How up are you on the Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition (ECGT) directive, which comes into force across Europe this September?

Apple’s latest financial results, for the second quarter of 2026 – its fiscal Q3 – revealed the latest growth for its Services division, including Apple Music.