Photo Credit: Mackenzie Marco With more than a month remaining in 2025, fourth-quarter music industry funding has already blown past the $1 billion mark – a massive sum that actually represents a double-digit decrease from […]
Photo Credit: Jonathan Borba Not a bad month at all: October 2025 delivered nearly $40 million in music industry funding thanks largely to a pair of sizable rounds from AudioShake and Jukebox Ventures. That data […]
Photo Credit: BMI The Songview platform—a joint initiative initially launched by ASCAP and BMI—has announced a significant expansion to now include musical works information from Global Music Rights (GMR) and SESAC. For the first time, […]
The streaming music market is becoming increasingly concentrated, with just five streaming music giants now controlling nearly the entire US-based subscription market. Here’s a look at the ever-tightening streaming music market share breakdown for H1 […]
Barnett Klane, VP of Product at Trolley, hashing it out with team members (Photo: Trolley) If you’re managing a music catalog, you’re also probably managing fraud, duplicated data, and missing info. But why, in 2025, […]
Photo Credit: Philip Strong Apple Music is “losing ground to Spotify” – at least according to a new Wall Street Journal report. But do the hard numbers actually illustrate slipping subscribership for the Apple-owned DSP? When […]
It’s time for the music industry to shift from endless data clean-up to a strategy of quality at the source, and transform data from a liability into a reliable asset. The following comes from Natalie […]
Spotify’s subscriber totals are growing worldwide, but its US-based numbers continue to plateau. Here’s a look at the latest subscriber totals for Q2 and H1 2025, according to data shared with DMN Pro. . . […]
CSU/CIRA, NOAA Audio By Carbonatix Hurricane Erin, the first hurricane of 2025 in the Atlantic, sprung up over the weekend and quickly raced to Category 5 status with maximum sustained winds of 160 mile per […]
TeaOnHer, a dating review app where men can post anonymous accounts of women they have dated, has suffered a major security breach that exposed sensitive user information. The leak reportedly included driver’s licenses, selfies, email […]
The Tea app is now the subject of 10 class-action lawsuits in both federal and state courts after a major security flaw resulted in users’ photo IDs, names, and locations being leaked. The Tea app […]
Tea, an app that was made exclusively for women, requires the user to prove their identity as a woman by presenting ID. However, it’s been discovered by a group of 4chan users that every woman’s […]
Cybernews, the platform that originally uncovered the 26 billion record breach that still stands as the biggest in human history, has discovered yet another big breach: 16 billion sets of login credentials have been leaked. […]
OpenPlay cofounder and Chief Client Officer Edward Ginis. Is it time for the music industry to radically reconsider its approach to AI? Edward Ginis, cofounder and Chief Client Officer of OpenPlay, is already focused on […]
Photo Credit: iHeartMedia A recent class action lawsuit filed in New York’s Southern District Court has put iHeartMedia under scrutiny after a cyberattack in December 2024. The data breach allowed hackers to exfiltrate sensitive information […]
Photo Credit: Ashley King / YouTube The landscape of late night television has long served as a critical launchpad for artists seeking mainstream exposure. But the golden era of musical bookings moving the discovery needle […]
Photo: Joshua Sortino As someone who has spent years navigating the complexities of digital music, I’ve seen firsthand how crucial it is for rightsholders to take control of their content and data. The ability to […]
iStockphoto A recent post on a prominent hacking message board reportedly contained more than 201 million entries of data belonging to X (Twitter) users. A Safety Detectives’ cybersecurity team discovered the post and verified a […]
iStockphoto If you were ever told or ever thought that giving your genetic data to a company like 23andMe is a bad idea, the company recently filing for bankruptcy is one of the main reasons […]
On Sunday, the once-popular genetic testing service 23andMe with over 15 million customers announced that it has voluntarily declared for bankruptcy. While a press release from the company states that there will be “no changes […]