Fancy a drink? Forget picking your poison though: today you can pick your pop star depending on whether you’re more interested in vodka or, er, mango coconut sticky rice beverages.

It’s a busy day for news from the UK music industry, with four stories from various parts of the ecosystem. Starting with a campaign from industry body UK Music to support public broadcaster the BBC.

Spotify is rolling out the ‘Memberships’ subscriptions that it trailed earlier this year at its Investor Day event. However, as announced, they are just for podcasters... for now, at least.

If you’re part of the western music industry, you might not have heard of Jeff Satur... but Universal Music Southeast Asia wants to change that.

Australasian collecting society APRA Amcos had some good news in its annual financials report this week, but also a new warning about the declining stream-share for local artists.

Earlier this month, a report from the Duke Sanford Tech Policy Program poked at Spotify's policies around AI-generated music.

The three major labels and BMG have failed in their bid to get the US Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that artists can exert their ‘termination rights’ to regain their copyrights globally, not just ...

Distributor and tech firm Too Lost's ambitions in the APAC region continue. It acquired Australian distributor and artist-services company Gyro·Group in July, and now it has announced a partnership ...

The latest round of layoffs and reorganisation at Universal Music Group – together with similar recent cuts at its rival majors – has sparked a warning from the US-based Black Music Action Coalition ...

One of the unexpected bonuses (for nosy journalists at least) of Europe's Digital Markets Act is that big tech companies have to publicly disclose some of their acquisitions, with the details ...

Your interest level in Just 4 Kicks will depend on how much use you have for kick-drum samples. But even if that's not your ...

Riot Games, the publisher of esports hit League of Legends, has a long history of spinning virtual artists out of its powerhouse franchise. K/DA, True Damage, Pentakill and Heartsteel have been used ...