LyricFind sued rival Musixmatch in 2025, accusing them of anti-competitive behaviour, zeroing in on a licensing deal with Warner Chappell.

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Chart’ for K-Pop music using data from Tencent Music in China, Line in Japan and Melon in South Korea. That’s a lot of collective streams, but it turns out they won’t be the only metric filtering into ...

European indies body Impala has announced the winner of its 2026 ‘Changemaker’ award: Swedish youth-music organisation Popkollo.

Today, Last·fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not” ...

It’s just over two years since Universal Music Group and TikTok renewed their licensing deal after a damaging (and public) fall-out over terms, as well as UMG’s claim that TikTok was “flooded with ...

Streaming has eroded the value of b-sides for single releases, but Charli XCX is doing her bit to bring the idea back ahead of her upcoming album.

Live Nation could soon be facing another policy headache across the Atlantic due to calls for a new competition investigation in the UK.

Overtune will now include a feature to publish tracks directly to SoundCloud, as well as joining the latter company’s benefits program.

It’s SXSW London this week, with all manner of talks and events focusing on music and tech in the UK’s capital. But a report released as it kicks off has some warnings about funding for the UK’s music ...

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Meta has been dabbling in the idea of paid tiers for its key services for a while now, albeit sometimes as a response to regulation rather than a wholehearted push into the subscriptions economy. That ...