We’ve been keeping tabs on sync-licensing startup Maia Universe since the Swedish/UK firm was one of the winners of our 2024 Music Ally SI:X startups contest.

Beyond the AI-music debates that have been gripping our industry, there’s a lot to think about in terms of the other ways AI will affect our jobs and wider society. Several studies published in recent ...

We’re used to writing about multi-million pound funding rounds for tech startups. Music marketing agencies... less so. Congratulations are thus due to Round Group, which works across music and ...

Lyrics firm Musixmatch was founded 16 years ago, but has never bought another company... until now. It has announced the acquisition of Music Reports, the US firm that owns the Songdex copyright ...

British charity Youth Music has a new fund, and it has a clear aim: tackling racial inequity in the arts. The £2.4m fund will offer grants of up to £120k to organisations working on that challenge.

US union United Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) has launched its latest campaign, targeting “the worst practices at music venues across North America”.

In Türkiye, Arabesk music has been popular since the 1960s: a genre that wears its heart firmly on its sleeve with themes of yearning, grief and unrequited love. Which, as it turns out, is striking a ...

In June, the Indian edition of global electronic music festival DGTL announced that it would be returning in 2026. The sixth ...

It’s a busy week in the US ticketing sector. And by that we mean it’s a very busy week for lawyers in the US ticketing sector. Today alone brings three stories of a legal nature.

While Bollywood remains the biggest segment in India, its growth is slowing down, revealed Luminate last week. According to the entertainment data company, in the first half of 2026, streams […] ...

It’s been a while since Warner Music India announced a strategic partnership — the last was in June with Bengali-language ...

After testing the water on Instagram, Meta is bringing its ‘Your Algorithm’ tool to Facebook, which means users can now tell ...