Music Business
News Orgs Dispute Trump DoJ on AI Fair Use
Many of the music industry’s AI legal battles swing on whether or not AI training is ‘fair use’ under US copyright law. Donald Trump’s DoJ recently intervened in a dispute between newspapers and OpenA
Pandora Faces MLC Royalties Lawsuit Trial
A judge was given 7,000 pages of documents to decide if Pandora's free tier qualifies for higher mechanical royalties. He skipped the task and called in a jury.
Pandora’s MLC Royalties Lawsuit Heads to Trial as Judge Declines to Sift Through ‘Corpulent’ Case File
A judge was given 7,000 pages of documents to decide if Pandora's free tier qualifies for higher mechanical royalties. He skipped the task and called in a jury.
News Orgs Dispute Trump’s DoJ Stance on ‘Fair Use’ in OpenAI Case
Many of the music industry’s AI legal battles swing on whether or not AI training is ‘fair use’ under US copyright law. Donald Trump’s DoJ recently intervened in a dispute between newspapers and OpenA
New York AG Sues Evolutions Festival Over Unrefunded Tickets
The lawsuit says 521 customers were left without refunds after the electronic music festival was canceled just days before opening. New York AG Sues Evolutions Festival Over Unrefunded Tickets Alex Kr
How Big a Deal Is Miley Cyrus’ ‘Bass Persuades’ Scoring Her First No. 1 Album Since 2013?
This week's Five Burning Questions looks at Cyrus' first album on her new label becoming her first Billboard 200-topper in over a decade.
How Big a Deal Is Miley Cyrus’ ‘Bass Persuades’ Scoring Her First No. 1 Album Since 2013?
This week's Five Burning Questions looks at Cyrus' first album on her new label becoming her first Billboard 200-topper in over a decade.
New York AG Sues Evolutions Festival Over Unrefunded Tickets
The lawsuit says 521 customers were left without refunds after the electronic music festival was canceled just days before opening. New York AG Sues Evolutions Festival Over Unrefunded Tickets Alex Krinsky
News organizations dispute DoJ's 'fair use' stance on AI training data
Many of the music industry’s AI legal battles swing on whether or not AI training is ‘fair use’ under US copyright law. Donald Trump’s DoJ recently intervened in a dispute between newspapers and OpenA
Ryley Walker's New Music and Record Deal
“I was thinking of people in my hometown of Rockford, Illinois. Wearing SpongeBob pajama pants to a funeral-type heads.”
Billboard’s Music Industry Events Calendar
A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.
Billboard Publishes Comprehensive Music Industry Events Calendar
A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.
Latin Music’s Vinyl Revenue in the US Has Already Surpassed the Entire 2025 Total
Vinyl revenue more than tripled as Latin music continued to outpace the overall US market. Latin Music’s Vinyl Revenue in the US Has Already Surpassed the Entire 2025 Total Pedro Camacho
New Label 7cult Is on a Mission to Use Data to Achieve ‘100% Certainty’ in its Impact for Artists
Indie label 7cult is on a mission to use data and advertising dollars to build stars. With oskar med k, the executives think they found their early blueprint.
IMPF and IMPEL publish AI licensing principles, insisting songs and recordings must be valued equally
As the music industry enters into ever more deals with AI platforms, the indie publisher community has again insisted that - with AI - song rights and recording rights must be valued equally, unlike in streaming. A new AI framework from IMPF and IMPEL says that key principle is “non-negotiable”
Member Feature: Sounds Market
Sounds Market has refurbished and resold more than 1,800 DJ devices since 2023, making the circular economy a working alternative to buying new. In this Member Feature, Pau Agustí explains why discont
IFPI sees X as ‘a significant concern for the music industry’
Global recorded-music body the IFPI has made its latest submission to the EU Counterfeit and Piracy Watchlist consultation: a document listing the biggest sources of infringement it sees in 2026. Published by TorrentFreak, the filing ranges across stream-ripping services, cyberlockers and torrent se
Impel and IMPF want AI licensing to value songs and recordings equally
Independent-publishing bodies Impel and IMPF are the latest music-industry orgs to set out some principles for how AI-music licensing should work. One of the key points is aimed as much at labels as at AI companies. “One principle is non-negotiable: the song must be properly valued and, absent other
Best Music: ‘The Ukrainian music industry has not put itself on pause’
Independent label Best Music’s CEO Mariana Voronina has been talking about the challenges facing Ukraine’s music industry since the country was invaded by Russia. “It affects literally every part of our work. We work through daily shelling and power cuts. We rebuild teams when our colleagues leave t
Absolute Label Services opens AI-powered Anthology business management ‘Music OS’ to indie sector: ‘Infrastructure is the next logical thing to democratize’
White label business management platform launches with Cherry Red Records and Blue Raincoat Music as its first named customers. Source