Cadillac Partners with Warner Music Australia; Bandsintown Reaches 100M Registered Users
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Cadillac Partners with Warner Music Australia
Iconic automotive brand Cadillac is “turning up the volume” on its long-standing connection to music through a new partnership with Warner Music Australia, as it makes its debut Down Under. Now aiming to deepen its ties to music culture further, the collaboration will see Warner Music artists put their latest tracks to the ultimate “car test” in the all-electric Cadillac LYRIQ, which sports a AKG 19-speaker sound system.
Could AI music be the industry’s next Napster moment?
“Have Everything. Own Nothing,” Napster once claimed. Today’s generative AI models seem to say, “Scrape Everything. Credit Nothing.” Still, fairer frameworks may yet emerge, says Professor María L. Vázquez. Working for Virgin Music in the 1990s, the Harvard-educated lawyer saw early file-sharing give rise to legitimate streaming platforms.
Live music discovery platform Bandsintown reaches 100m registered users
The company says it now has a network of over 700,000 registered artists and 65,000 venues and promoters.
KPop Demon Hunters and David Bowie make their Yoto debuts
We recently reported on how children’s speakers startup Yoto saw its sales spike by 86% in 2024. That’s making it an increasingly appealing platform for labels and artists – whether their fanbases cross over neatly with its young userbase, or are heritage artists finding a new generation of listeners.
How the album outplayed the algorithm and survived playlist culture
The album as a cohesive body of work has made a comeback in recent times, as reported recently by Billboard and the many press pieces on the return of vinyl (17 years consecutively and counting).
Dance music veteran Simon Dunmore teams with Armada on NBT Records
Industry veteran Simon Dunmore has partnered with Armada Music to launch NBT Records. According to the announcement, the label will be dedicated to “soulful, dancefloor-driven records”.
Avatar concerts producer Unit1 Studio launches to realise ‘immense potential’ for virtual events
The new venture has pioneered new developments in VFX and AI-enhanced CGI that allow it to create avatars of human artists with a high level of realism at an affordable price.
Beatoven.ai Expands Maestro to Generative Sound Effects, Bringing Licensed AI Audio to Film, Games, and Beyond
The footsteps, howls, splashes, and zips that make media come alive are the secret to a successful game, film, or video. Now sound designers, post-production audio experts, and creators can make any sound they can imagine using Beatoven.ai’s newly released expansion for its Maestro foundation model.
KiTbetter and Duran Duran Deliver First-Ever Dolby Atmos Upgrade to a Physical Album
KiTbetter, the company reshaping physical music for the digital era, today announced a world first: the upgrade of a previously released physical album to Dolby Atmos® immersive audio.
Splash Music transforms music generation using AWS Trainium and Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping the music industry, empowering creators—regardless of skill—to create studio-quality tracks with foundation models (FMs) that personalize compositions in real time.
Napster’s next move is… holographic AI companions on your desk?
Yes. Holographic AI companions on your desk. Having been acquired by metaverse and drone-racing corporation Infinite Reality in March, and facing legal action from Sony Music over unpaid royalties, Napster’s latest iteration is increasingly esoteric.
US Latin music revenues neared $500m in H1 2025, growing 6X faster than overall US market
Revenue growth for Latin music was six times as fast as it was for recorded music overall.
50 Cent Defends Using AI To Remix His Own Music: ‘I Really Like Those Songs!’
The G-Unit boss recently dabbled in the artificial intelligence trend by posting computer-generated renditions of “21 Questions”and “God Gave Me Style” that reimagined them as 1960s Motown-inspired anthems.
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Thanks for writing this, it clarifies a lot, especially the critical perspective on AI music's ethical challenges. The Napster parallel for AI's 'Scrape Everything. Credit Nothing' really hitt home; it's a vital discusion for the future of creativity.