Ticketmaster is refunding fans who bought touted tickets at hiked up prices for Olivia Dean’s shows on its US platform, after she protested last week. Dean has urged other artists to challenge their ...

Budweiser, the king of carbonated disappointment in a can, is proud that it’s found an apparent loophole that means it doesn’t need to pay for “music right$” when harnessing “the most iconic songs in ...

French collecting society SACEM has signed up to Deezer’s ‘artist-centric’ approach to paying royalties, which disadvantages tracks released by artists who fail to meet certain thresholds. That system ...

Barry White's estate has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit over the song 'Like That' by Future and Metro Boomin. The legal action, lodged in Manhattan federal court, targets Rodney-O & Joe Cooley ...

Broadcaster Nation will stop broadcasting on four of its FM frequencies. It’s a sign that - although the UK government has said radio stations will continue to broadcast on FM until at least 2030 - an ...

In a wide ranging interview on the 20VC podcast, Suno.ai boss Mikey Shulman has outlined his vision for music in the age of AI, saying that AI generated music is an opportunity to drive greater ...

CMU takes a look back at some of the funniest, most ridiculous, or downright strange stories from 2023's music business. Each day in our email newsletter CMU Daily we round off our news summary with ...

GEMA has sued another AI company for copyright infringement. Having sued OpenAI last year, it has now filed a lawsuit against music AI platform Suno. While Suno has already been sued by the major ...

Drew Hill has announced that Proper Music Distribution will be acquired by Artone, the Dutch physical music specialists, in a triumph for the future of independent physical music in the UK Today’s ...

Last year the UK’s competition regulator closed an investigation into the Apple App Store rules that Spotify hates, but only so it could figure out how to use new powers it had been granted by ...

The Napster streaming service could lose access to portions of its catalogue as some labels and distributors threaten to pull the plug over late royalty payments. More than half a dozen labels have ...

Jorja Smith’s label FAMM has entered the AI debate after a dance track went viral with vocals that had been manipulated by Suno to sound like it was Smith singing. FAMM criticises the artist behind ...