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A new report in Australia details years of workplace abuse from ousted Sony Australia CEO Denis Handlin

Producer says that teaching aspiring musicians via his new Splice course ‘is way more impactful than putting out another couple big records’

Cash App has launched Cash App Studios, a program allowing the mobile payment service to invest in creators’ projects

Hartwig Masuch discusses finding greater equality for artists, the chances of an IPO and why the company’s landmark deal with Tina Turner is only the beginning

The company calls the Turner deal — which includes her name, image and likeness — its single largest artist acquisition ever

For many artists, concert merchandise is an essential lifeline. Now, live music is finally coming back — but thanks to the pandemic, merch is more rare and expensive than ever

Following years of scrutiny and a recent firestorm of much-needed change at the Academy, the 2022 showrunners must get this one right. Here’s how they plan to do it

The announcement comes months after the music company ended debts on advances for a selection of its artists

TikTok’s “Top Moments” will be sold as digital collectibles on the Ethereum blockchain, starting with a collection curated by the “Montero” star

The company is partnering with a medical startup in what it calls the first-ever prescription music license

New ‘Soundwave’ series will feature five global acts as the game expands reach for its virtual concerts

Just in time for the second pandemic winter, a new iOS feature is helping sad souls add rain noises to breakup songs

The DJ and crypto enthusiast is gearing up to launch Royal, an NFT marketplace for music fans who want to — literally — invest in artists

A behind-the-scenes look at how the musicians behind Alter Ego’s CGI avatars will compete to wow judges Grimes, willi.i.am, Alanis Morissette, and Nick Lachey

The arrival of Universal Music Group on the stock market on Tuesday (September 21st) is going to be a big-money affair — for the record company as well as its rivals

“This is a band that demands a physical purchase. These are albums the audience wants to own, not just stream,” a BMG executive says of 17th album Senjutsu, which charted just behind Donda and Certified Lover Boy

The blockchain-powered streaming startup Audius is about to announce a multimillion-dollar investment round funded by a dizzying number of superstar artists and top-of-the-food-chain music executives

Kalshi, an online trading platform, opened a market on Tuesday allowing users trade on whether or not Governor’s Ball will be canceled amid Covid-19’s delta spread

Strange Fruits, which has a distribution deal with Warner Music Group’s ADA, is racking up massive play-counts with 30-second rain recordings. Onlookers in the music industry are not pleased

Lil Yachty and Tierra Whack join the likes of Post Malone and Katy Perry on the upcoming celebrity-studded compilation album

The Dutch DJ opens up about his new album and forthcoming crypto art, which will come with a high-tech, spaceship-like pod that weighs “tons” and cost as much as a house to build

The supermogul and record chief Clive Davis has forged an empire of music’s top-billing artists. At nearly 90, why can’t he retire — or let the past go?

The band is the latest to develop its own immersive video game concert

Planet Doja tokens will house 26,000 limited-edition collectibles, and a variety of VIP concert packages

Interpolation-loving artists like Olivia Rodrigo, Ava Max, and Doja Cat are leading a radical shift in the way the music industry thinks about catalog usage. How far can the trend go?

There is no obvious party in the music industry who is willing to play judge and jury when it comes to the catalogs of individuals accused of, or even convicted of, criminal behavior

Pentakill, a fictional heavy metal band that Riot Games created, will premiere a concert with the help of virtual-show startup Wave, whose investors include Scooter Braun and The Weeknd

“In the music industry, two plus two doesn’t equal four,” says Tedder, whose band, OneRepublic, just released its first album in five years. “It equals banana.”

Inside the pain, sacrifice, and ultimate triumph of motherhood in music, a relentlessly male industry that discourages time off and asks female artists to tour while 38 weeks pregnant

Four criminal defense attorneys explain why they think the now-grown baby on the 1991 album cover doesn’t have a case

In the latest big wave of a rising tide, distributor and payment platform Stem will reveal new software that helps artists recoup loans and track earnings with more ease

Indie artists with legitimate fans seem to be the collateral damage in Spotify’s war against music-streaming bots and artificial listeners

Artists and showrunners are adopting vaccine requirements amid a surge in cases from Covid’s Delta variant, but live music’s 2021 return looks shaky regardless: “It’s been in the back of everybody’s mind watching the numbers”

Universal will take on Aerosmith’s entire recorded music catalog in 2022 — even the chunk that’s currently released via Sony and Columbia

Fave is creating a safe space for fans to do things like share videos, compete in prize-unlocking contests, and go into business with their beloved stars via an “Etsy for user-generated merch” marketplace

D minor plays on our rawest emotion — but in contemporary music, even the most somber of artists tend to avoid it

Qualifying artists on the independent distributor can now request cash advances and access royalty earnings in real time

It’s the blockchain-powered Audius, rather than Spotify or Apple Music, that will let artists upload songs into TikTok’s Sound Kit in one click

The German capital has been hosting thumping raves to incentivize young people, whose infection rates are higher than average, to get their Covid-19 jabs

The massive concert company will require concertgoers and staff at all events to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination: “At the end of the day, we will be on the right side of history,” says Jay Marciano, CEO of AEG Presents

Celebrity snaps used to result from hostile stalking. Now, thanks to Instagram and a pandemic, Hollywood’s paparazzi industry is flourishing off pre-planned “candids” organized by stars themselves

To compete with the likes of TikTok and Snapchat, parts of the sketch comedy show’s new season will be digitally interactive — letting fans influence episodes’ outcomes in choose-your-adventure fashion

The music-streaming service didn’t delight investors with its latest quarterly financial results — but still has a chance to return to its roots of innovation and originality before it’s too late

Concert giant’s employees also required to get vaccinated, CEO says in email

The world’s three major label groups — Universal, Sony, and Warner — are finally partnering with a new streaming service to ensure artists are paid when DJ edits are played

The firm has secured the stake in the late artist’s masters, publishing rights, name and likeness and Paisley Park

The round-the-clock livestream competition Song House Live — basically the twisted love child of The Real World and Songland — will offer a Capitol Records label contract to one winner

It’s a bird — it’s a plane — it’s a pre-save link for a rapper’s next single

The wild boom and bust of art NFTs made many onlookers wary of blockchain-based technology — but new developments in gaming, ticketing, and music royalties reveal NFTs’ true power

Lil Baby, the Jonas Brothers, The Black Crowes, Maroon 5, Kiss, Alice Cooper and the Zac Brown Band are among the artists offering tickets for $20 across the U.S.

Platforms of the so-called “passion economy” tell us everyone can make bank. The reality of this scam is nowhere more evident than in the numbers out of the music industry

CircoLoco Records, the new label from the GTA maker and party brand CircoLoco, is launching a remix of its first album inside the popular video game

Billionaire Bill Ackman will buy a stake in Universal via his hedge fund, Pershing Square Holdings, rather than via blank-check company, after hearing concerns from investors and the SEC

A rather scientifically tenuous investigation into whether U.S. sales of butter crested upward due to BTS’s summer anthem “Butter”

Through a partnership with video game platform Core, Deadmau5 has made a contest for fans to create virtual worlds for an upcoming music video

The first-of-its-kind report offers major recommendations to ensure those who make music get paid more for it

The custom song-request startup Songfinch has won The Weeknd, manager Wasim “Sal” Slaiby, and Atlantic Records CEO Craig Kallman as investors in its latest round

The walking succès de scandale, who has become the best-selling artist of the year while being shunned by every supposed authority in music, is a sour, familiar American lesson

Deezer’s new initiative lets stars record themselves whispering to their own hit songs, from ‘Fallin” to ‘You’re Beautiful’

British act’s 2016 cover of “SOS” becomes a test case for a new approach intended to level the playing field for artists

The home of Miley Cyrus, Tyler, The Creator and Doja Cat hopes to bring more artists to one of the most popular video games for children

In the post-quarantine rush back to concerts and live music, venue calendars are filling up with superstars and baby bands are falling to the wayside: “It’s a lot of chasing dead ends”

In a major leadership shakeup, HYBE — formerly known as Big Hit Entertainment — announces the departure of its longtime chief executive and the promotions of several other leaders

Alongside Drake’s investment in the company, Aspiration will aim to reduce the environmental footprint of Drake’s personal life — and eventually also his professional life as a globally touring musician

Tina Turner, Depeche Mode, Pearl Jam, Twenty One Pilots, Doja Cat, Demi Lovato, Migos, Rosalía, and 17 others will soundtrack this weekend’s event

The company, which has made avatars for the likes of Shawn Mendes and J Balvin, previously secured a partnership with Warner Music Group

Companies like Audio Up, which wrote a fictional origin story for Lava Records’ Hero the Band, want to take music podcasts and turn them into intellectual-property empires

The world’s biggest music rightsholder will soon be owned by a panoply of players. One of them wants to keep its costs in check

The reggaeton star is releasing “Juntos Imparables” as part of UPS’s Proudly Unstoppable campaign in support of Latinx-owned small businesses

“We’re up to our necks in water waiting for help. And they just don’t see it,” says a Montana venue owner who’s waiting for aid from the federal government

The NHL — which will soon announce live concerts around its final game — will work with the superproducer’s startup to create exclusive custom soundtracks for high-profile hockey games

The inaugural report grades dozens of music companies, from AEG and Amazon to WME and YouTube, on how well they have kept their theatrical promises from Blackout Tuesday

The deal hits at a new trend in the red-hot market for music rights — as large music companies step in to compete against startups for so-called “shallow catalogs”

Live-music professionals who work with Green Day, James Taylor, and others share their thoughts as Covid restrictions ease and the concert business gets back into gear

The exec scaled up Peloton’s cult-favorite “Artist Series,” and is now looking to bring celebs into the fitness company as guest instructors

“I want the weird side projects and meandering pieces,” says the wellness app’s music executive, who recently turned major pop hits into hourlong sleep remixes

Superstars like Kanye West and Taylor Swift have bashed lopsided label deals — and a new generation of artists is vying to recalibrate music’s balance of power

Meet our special project delving into the next era of the global hitmaking business, featuring over three dozen interviews with music’s brightest artists and entrepreneurs

Malik, who’s been busy in quarantine designing holograms for musicians like Lil Nas X, believes AR is the next frontier of music

The in-demand songwriter has had no shortage of “holy-shit moments” in her career: ““It didn’t feel real and still doesn’t feel real”

“Saweetie the mogul will be noticed worldwide,” promises the singer, actor, CEO, activist, gamer, fashionista, and branding expert

Onwusa, the first black person to ever curate Cleveland’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, is making the case for Public Enemy, Aretha Franklin, and N.W.A. as rock icons

The Indian-American music executive, who grew up on Led Zeppelin and Van Halen, is beating major streaming services at their own game

“On a good day, I’m speaking to every single corner of the world, making sure that everybody understands that [Africa] is not a trend for us”

“If there’s human beings on this Earth, they’ll be coming to see music in the Caverns 10,000 years from now,” pledges the Tennessee venue owner

Buying a concert ticket — an experience filled with bots and hidden fees — can be nightmarish. Ant Taylor has a plan to wipe the entire thing and start anew

The young producer, who’s behind hundreds of tracks for the likes of Drake and Travis Scott, is an outlier in the music industry in every way

“I don’t think people have realized how much the tech community has deconstructed the creation of music,” says the music salesman, who is now gearing up to acquire entire music companies

The duo made the Record Deal Simulator, a deceptively simple, Pandora’s-box-opening website that lets artists predict their leverage with record labels

“The frozen pizza industry has just skyrocketed through Covid!” muses the branding star, who orchestrates wildly inventive partnerships for everyone from Billie Eilish to Post Malone

An entertainment attorney has put forth a bold new proposal of a government-run streaming service. The music industry — reeling from the embattled pandemic year — may just be on board

“I don’t want anybody to die feeling like they’re forgotten and that they don’t matter,” says the Apple Music host, who spotlights overlooked artists of color in country music

The efforts to combat the music industry’s “unfortunate blight” of streaming manipulation have fallen to a woman unafraid of battle

The rapper once crowned “King of the Teens” is now building an empire out of Twitch, Discord, and crypto

The tech-obsessed RAC went from making mixtapes out of radio broadcasts to becoming the music industry’s go-to crypto expert

The smash-hit writer conceived a four-times-platinum song while still a student at NYU, “typing back and forth with the writers during my physics class”

“I really miss watching an artist and their albums shift and change with each one,” says the filmmaker, who will seek out artists with rich personal stories in her new role heading a record label

David Geffen’s legacy label has a new chief, who’s got a nose for hugely promising rap and R&B records

The blockchain expert went from fetching tuna sandwiches for Clive Davis to designing NFTs for stars like Kings of Leon

“We’re back at a place where we have to create the new generation of superstars,” says the newly promoted label chief