Music

How can 20-somethings afford the high cost of seeing their favorite artists’ live shows? Some save; some go into debt.

Shares were up modestly in after-hours trading....

Pop stars took advantage of the SVOG grant, using COVID relief funds for luxury spending. Lil Wayne bought Balenciaga and flew private.

632 days on from its debut, the tour that made her a billionaire finally ends next weekend after breaking records and causing at least one diplomatic row

It pays to be a tortured poet.

Annual revenues from copyrighted music hit almost $46bn last year, against $33.2bn for cinema

The ticketing giant music fans love to complain about is hoping to tune out the DoJ’s lawsuit and double down on VIP experiences....

We categorized songs in the Billboard Top 10 to see if love songs are on the decline.

We explain how your money gets from you to a streaming platform, and finally to an artist.

Ticketmaster’s maligned fees and customer service issues are again under the microscope. Will American music fans ever see anything better?

We can’t just blame Ticketmaster and scalpers.

Explore new styles of music with Suno

Meta and Universal Music Group have expanded their partnership to address unauthorized AI content

The $6 million deal also includes a Pitbull-produced anthem for the school.

Can you guess the album from the pixelated images of the cover art?

Daily musical game where you guess the song played by the band with the least musicians playing as possible

Rival Warner Music also falls amid fear that years of rapid growth are over

Master your song to a commercial reference track automatically using AI. FREE (7/week) & no registration.

Six fortnights and counting… Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” has been No. 1 on Billboard’s chart for a record-breaking 13 weeks...

More and more musicians are saying “The show must go on” doesn’t apply to them.

Thousands of Taylor Swift fans who missed out on her U.S. concert tour last year found an out-of-the-way solution: Fly to Europe.

That’s according to one of the largest agencies catering to America’s ultrahigh-net-worth jet-setters.

Artists and songwriters are cashing in on their old music catalogs. Learn what's driving the trend with Fifth Third.

The audio streamer is developing tools that would make it easier for fans to create custom versions of their favorite music.

Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow.

Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter" has been out for only a few days, yet it's already obvious that we'll be talking about it for years to come -- it's breaking

A group of 200 musicians signed an open letter calling on tech companies and developers to not undermine human creativity with AI music generation tools.

The answer involves a remarkable — and lucrative, and ridiculous — scheme to game the way we find music today.

Governor Bill Lee signed the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act, which updates the state’s right of publicity laws that dictate how a person’s likeness can be used. The ELVIS Act expands the law to protect voice, too, in the age of AI clones. In 2023 I wrote about the patchwork system of right of publicity laws in the US. Tennessee — with its significant entertainment industry — has some of the strongest laws in the country.