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TWS’ ‘SODA SODA’ Tops Japan Hot 100 as Aimyon’s ‘Ai Wo Tsutaetaidatoka’ Returns After Nearly Four Years

ME:I's “Flower Road” enters at No. 2.

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Suno AI partners with BMG

The agreement arrives ahead of Suno's launch of its first generative AI model "developed in partnership with the music industry"

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Beatport Draws a Line on AI Music

Electronic music has always moved fast because producers keep finding new machines to bend. That history is part of why the AI conversation in dance music gets complicated so quickly. Drum machines, samplers, synths, DAWs, plug-ins, and generative processes have all changed what “making a tra

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AI's ties to major labels deepen as Suno strikes licensing deal with BMG

The agreement arrives ahead of Suno's launch of its first generative AI model "developed in partnership with the music industry"

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Amy Helm Accused of Causing $2 Million in Damages to Levon Helm Studio

Drummer and singer of The Band, Levon Helm died in 2012, aged 71

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Pitbull Announces 14th Studio Album ‘Pitcoin’

The Miami-born artist, currently on his I'm Back Tour, will take the stage at Billboard Latin Music Week in October.

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Amy Helm accused of causing $2million in damages to Levon Helm Studio in new lawsuit

Drummer and singer of The Band, Levon Helm died in 2012, aged 71

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Spotify to start labelling “AI personas”

Spotify will start labelling “AI personas” next month, so artists that don’t really exist but which have a profile on the streaming service with an AI-generated identity. It hopes anyone releasing music in that way will self-declare that fact, but will also be monitoring for undeclared AI personas

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Brian May Warns of AI Dangers

“I believe the price we are about to pay for this ‘inevitable’ development is way too high"

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Pitbull Announces 14th Studio Album ‘Pitcoin’

The Miami-born artist, currently on his I'm Back Tour, will take the stage at Billboard Latin Music Week in October.

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Startup Riffle launches its ‘multiplayer music studio’ web-app

Riffle is the latest startup hoping to help people make music together online. Its browser-based “multiplayer music studio” has officially launched after a three-month early-access period with 7,000 musicians.

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Google’s Gemini app now has more than 1bn monthly active users

If you use any Google services, it’s hard to avoid its Gemini AI assistant. Now there’s a new hard metric to quantify the impact of that push.

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Tony Visconti: AI-generated music is 'amateur' and 'clogs the arteries of the music business'

Bowie’s chief collaborator told MusicRadar in no uncertain terms his position on the AI debate

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“Artists who use AI should step to the side and let real artists do their thing. There is too much amateur music being released that clogs the arteries of the music business”: Tony Visconti on why human musicians will never be replaced

Bowie’s chief collaborator told MusicRadar in no uncertain terms his position on the AI debate

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Ritchie Blackmore to play with 'the old guys' onstage for first time since ’93

Blackmore sent his “AI pigeon” to ask Ian Gillan and got the thumbs up from the band, and now it is all systems go for tonight’s show in Wantagh, NY

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BMG and Suno Announce AI Music Licensing Agreement

Under the agreement, which also settles Suno's past use of BMG works, artists and songwriters must opt in to their music being used for AI inputs and outputs.

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“Well, it is a secret, and I don’t want anybody to know, but I’m probably going up to do an encore with the band Deep Purple”: Ritchie Blackmore to play with 'the old guys' onstage for first time since ’93

Blackmore sent his “AI pigeon” to ask Ian Gillan and got the thumbs up from the band, and now it is all systems go for tonight’s show in Wantagh, NY

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Ritchie Blackmore to play with Deep Purple for the first time since ’93 tonight: “Well, it is a secret, and I don’t want anybody to know, but I’m probably going up to do an encore”

Blackmore sent his “AI pigeon” to ask Ian Gillan and got the thumbs up from the band, and now it is all systems go for tonight’s show in Wantagh, NY

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Yash Raj Films launches independent music label Raah Records

Leading Indian entertainment studio Yash Raj Films (YRF) was among the first production houses in the country to launch an in-house label to release its movie soundtracks. That was back […] The post is from Music Ally.

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Spotify Unveils AI-Generated Music Labeling

An “AI Persona” badge will be added to some profiles from next month, and music from AI personas will not be included in any editorial or algorithmic recommendations