Sam Fender and Olivia Dean are making U.K. chart history. Their collaborative single, “Rein Me In,” has officially become the country’s longest-running No. 1 single of all time. With 19 weeks at the top of the U.K. Official Singles chart, it has officially surpassed the record set by Frankie Laine’s “I Believe,” which held the […]

German music collection society GEMA notched another major legal victory in its campaign to rein in AI companies’ use of copyrighted material on Friday, winning the case it brought against the generative music platform Suno. The Munich Regional Court has ruled that Suno is in breach of German and U.S. copyright law by training its […]

The global live music business is chugging along through its busy summer season as strong as ever, defying even what has long been its biggest challenge: ticket-price sensitivity. Consumers consistently cite cost as the biggest barrier to attending concerts. But the percentage of respondents on Luminate’s U.S. Music 360 survey who cite ticket prices as […]

Ado, Japan’s most globally streamed artist, brings her powerhouse vocals to Lollapalooza for the first time. And while she’s had a number of projects come out this year none have pulled back the curtain on the elusive star like her biographic novel “Vivarium: Ado and I” and its companion single,…

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The guitarist was recently accused of sending inappropriate messages to an underage fan

The black-and-white visual for her new album’s title track gets stamped with a parental advisory warning

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On the surface, Ariana Grande’s “Petal” is a sister album to its predecessor, 2024’s “Eternal Sunshine” — it was made with the same two collaborators, Ilya Salmanzadeh and Max Martin, and it also was entirely written, performed and produced by the three of them. Usually, that formula means a chapter two: more of the same but […]

Boy George has been pulled from his role in a London production of Jesus Christ Superstar days before his debut and only a short time after releasing a controversial pro-Israel song. Boy George’s manager, Paul Kemsley, announced in a Thursday social media post that he had canceled the Culture Club…

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