Gaming is really, really different than anything else that’s out there. It’s not like film and TV synchronisation licensing.

Harry Styles plays the last of his 30 nights at Madison Square Garden on 31 October, and Spotify is marking the occasion with ...

In May, Spotify announced its plans to launch an AI tool “allowing fans to create covers and remixes” but – sensibly having learned from past missed-deadlines for its hi-res music debut – didn’t tie ...

BigXthaPlug releases his fourth studio album Better Over Time on 30 October, and the rollout has included one of the more ...

Universal Music Group’s quarterly financial earnings-call yesterday saw boss Sir Lucian Grainge sounding the latest alarm around AI music. He cited Deezer’s latest figures showing more than 90,000 ...

Well, not just music startups, as we'll explain. Securing deals with music rightsholders is a huge part of any music startup’s workload, but so is attracting investors and advisors. A new platform ...

At first glance, some of the numbers in Roblox’s quarterly financials don’t look good at all when you compare them to Q3 a year ago.

The last 24 hours has seen a new flurry of dealmaking between music companies, starting with the news that Create Music Group (CMG) has bought a minority stake in distributor DistroKid, making it a co ...

In November 2025, Icelandic music startup Overtune told us that it was building a “virtual music studio” for Roblox. That work evolved into a game called Beat Battle, which has just launched a new ...

Reddit is the latest platform to lean further into recommendations. Its homepage is being split into two feeds: “For You”, which will be the default and will show posts from communities people don’t ...

Pop veterans Backstreet Boys are very much not quitting playing games: they're recruiting professional gamers as part of a move into the esports industry.

This week saw the annual Youth Music Awards, where the UK-based charity celebrated emerging musicians as well as projects that work with young people and music around the country.