Christmas music driving you nuts? Why holiday playlists are everywhere

Brenda Lee sings onstage in front of a Christmas tree.

If it began to sound a lot like Christmas earlier than usual this year, it wasn’t your imagination. Halloween wasn’t even over before Spotify users began curating songs about mistletoe, snow and presents under the […]

Selah Vie’s Unique, Global-First Approach to Artist Growth

Selah Vie International

Photo Credit: Selah Vie International In today’s global music ecosystem, success is increasingly defined by global impact. For independent artists and labels, breaking through internationally has traditionally been an exercise in herding cats. But Kaleena […]

How to watch the Taylor Swift Eras tour doc: Release time, more

How to watch the Taylor Swift Eras tour doc: Release time, more

New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. It’s been a long time coming. Just over one year […]

Remix Your Ideas—Personalized Music Meets Creative Control

AIMakeSong

Photo Credit: Osarugue Igbinoba The landscape of music creation is changing as artificial intelligence evolves, making custom music more accessible to everyone. Much like clip art changed document creation, AIMakeSong is poised to change how […]

Ariana Grande and Nicole Kidman Are Trying to Keep It Together

Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande has lived life in fast forward. At 32, her time in the spotlight has been as turbulent as it’s been triumphant, testing her resolve in ways few can understand. In Wicked: For Good, […]

TikTok Launches ‘Bulletin Boards’ for Announcements

TikTok bulletin boards launch

Photo Credit: TikTok TikTok announces the launch of its bulletin boards feature, which is essentially TikTok’s version of Instagram’s broadcast channels. On Thursday, TikTok announced the launch of its “bulletin board” feature, which lets brands […]

Why did Grizzly Bear reunite after eight years? ‘We needed to see who else we were’

Grizzly Bear

Twenty years ago, Grizzly Bear emerged as unlikely torchbearers of the early-aughts indie rock boom, a moment when the genre still felt like a testing ground for young adulthood. Ed Droste, then in his early […]

Suno & Udio Face New Copyright Lawsuits from Indie Artists

Suno Udio lawsuit

Photo Credit: Revaa Suno and Udio are officially facing new lawsuits from indie artists for allegedly training on protected music without authorization, violating the DMCA, and fueling “cognizable market substitution and dilution” with their outputs. […]

Musixmatch, Major Music Publishers Ink ‘AI Innovation Deals’

Musixmatch publisher deals

Photo Credit: Musixmatch The majors’ publishing divisions have officially inked “AI innovation deals” with lyrics provider Musixmatch, which intends to leverage their catalogs while developing new services. Musixmatch reps reached out with word of the […]

Spotify Bolsters ‘AI Protections,’ Has Pulled 75M+ ‘Spammy’ Tracks

Spotify AI protections

Photo Credit: Possessed Photography Is streaming’s “AI slop” problem even worse than we thought? It sure seems that way, as Spotify says it’s nuked a staggering “75 million spammy tracks” during the past 12 months. […]

YouTube Music Launches New Fan Engagement Features

YouTube Music engagement features

Photo Credit: YouTube Music YouTube announces three new fan-engagement features coming to YouTube Music, designed to deepen the connection between artists and their superfans. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, YouTube’s Made On event this week […]

Sweden’s STIM Launches the ‘World’s First’ AI Music License

Stim AI license

Stockholm, Sweden. Photo Credit: Fredrik Andersson Against the backdrop of continued rightsholder-AI talks, Sweden’s Stim has taken things a step further by launching the “world’s first collective AI music” license. The Swedish society reached out […]