Music Industry
Feels launches its video music-messaging app with major deals
If you’ve been around as long as Music Ally has, you’ll have seen a number of startups try to make ‘music messaging apps’ work, usually without success. Rithm, PingTune, La-La, Doowapp, Music Messenger, Beatshare, MuzApp, Sharebunk, Ditty and MSTY are among the examples we’ve covered over the years,
Sony Music’s latest acquisition is Nordic label One Seven Music
Another day, another acquisition of an independent label by a major. This one’s in Denmark: Copenhagen-based One Seven Music, which has built a strong reputation in the dance and electronic-music sector. Sony Music has acquired 100% of the label, including its publishing division. One Seven’s Janus
Seeker Music Group bags $267m in asset-backed securitisation
A quick definition for readers outside the music-finance world: in this context, an asset-backed securitisation is when the future income streams from music catalogues are packaged into tradable financial instruments which can be sold to investors. The latest example comes from rights-owner Seeker M
Timbaland’s AI artist TaTa Taktumi signs with Ne-Yo’s Pacific Music Group
The deal names Pacific Music as exclusive Asia manager and worldwide label for the AI project that confirmed its Filipino heritage. Source
The Secret to How a Song Goes Viral on TikTok, With Digital Marketing Agency Chaotic Good | Billboard On The Record
How do songs go viral in today’s music landscape? And why has making it as an artist never been more strategic? Jesse Coren and Andrew Spelman, co-founders of Chaotic Good, joined Billboard On The Record for a live episode at SXSW to break it all down. Speaking from their experience building one of
IVE Is Bringing <SHOW WHAT I AM> World Tour to North America & More of Asia: ‘We Can’t Wait’
"There are so many songs we’re excited to perform live, including new tracks from REVIVE+," the group tells Billboard.
Study reveals €1.06bn of private copying royalties in 2024
‘Private copying remuneration’ doesn’t make many headlines in the modern, streaming-focused music industry. A report published this morning will change that, at least for a day. It’s the work of Cisac, BIEM, Ifrro and Stichting de Thuiskopie and analyses the royalties flowing to creators from ‘priva
Beatrice M. Announces Debut Album ‘Sinking’
The London-based Parisian producer follows up December's 'Eurotrash' EP with 11 new tracks on Pinch's label
Where Does ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Rank Among Soundtracks With Most Weeks in Billboard 200 Top 10?
Here's every soundtrack with 25 or more weeks in the top 10 since 1963, when separate mono and stereo charts were combined.
Dexys Midnight Runners Announce 2026 Tour and Record Deal
They are their first shows under that name since 2003, and dates include a slot at Hackney Empire in London
The Femcels aren’t afraid to get weird with their erratic electro-twee-punk
The buzzy London duo invite NME into their idiosyncratic world as they prepare for their first headline show and reflect on their recent debut album, ‘I Have To Get Hotter’
Robyn – ‘Sexistential’ review: the pop star’s lust for life is infectious – and thoroughly idiosyncratic
Questioning everything about love, life and sex, Robyn takes us on a joyride that’s both serious and silly
Ex-Pussycat Dolls member says she was excluded from reunion tour due to her “aligning with MAGA”
“I was a liability"
0to8’s rise to 4bn streams: ‘We were giving raw material to creators’
In 2026, music can reach hundreds of millions of people while sitting almost entirely outside the traditional music business. Witness 0to8. The post is from Music Ally.
Jessica Sutta Claims MAGA Beliefs Led to Pussycat Dolls Tour Exclusion
Sutta is one of three original members of the girl group not joining reunion tour.
Original Pussycat Doll Jessica Sutta Says She Was Left Out of Reunion Tour for Being MAGA: ‘I Was a Liability’
Sutta is one of three original members of the girl group not joining reunion tour.
AFEM and Downtown Explore Women's Roles in Electronic Music
The first of a two part installment by Connie Chow from Fuga.
Unison: A Digital-First Music Publishing Rights Platform
In this Member Feature, we speak with David Serras Pereira, Licensing and International Manager at Unison about how they've built an independent, multi-territorial publishing rights management platfor
Korean Music Industry Forms Blockchain Coalition Against AI Exploitation
A new industry coalition aims to track every song's creation path before AI commercialization becomes irreversible.
North Carolina man pleads guilty to $10 million AI music royalty fraud
“Although the songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars Smith stole was real”, said US Attorney Jay Clayton