Spotify Hits 293M Subs, Partners With Peloton; Can Radio be That 'Third Space?'
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Spotify Q1 2026 Earnings: Revenue Rises 8%, Premium Subs Decline in North America
Total monthly active users (including both free and paid) climbed 12% year over year to 761 million, slightly ahead of its prior guidance of 759 million.
How SingFit Turns Active Singing into Full-Brain Workouts
By harnessing the power of active singing, California-based SingFit has created a therapeutic music platform that addresses the challenges of memory and dementia and reduces caregiver stress.
Spotify Partners With Peloton in a Big Push Into Fitness
Peloton classes on the app will include outdoors runs, strength, cardio, yoga and more.
This Anti-AI Platform Wants to Help Artists Prove They Made Their Music First
As AI-generated music floods streaming and social media, a new problem is becoming painfully real for independent artists: proving authorship.
Can Radio Be That “Third Space?”
New data in Techsurvey 2026 suggest there are “speed bumps” on the radio road ahead, driven largely by the sheer amount of competition accessible in connected cars. The ability to pair a phone, combined with embedded apps in the dashboard give consumers the opportunity to have considerable content at their fingertips while on the road.
LALAL.AI Expands Its VST Plugin to Six-Stem Separation: Fully Offline, Directly Inside Your DAW
With this release, professionals can now split a mixed track into vocals and instrumentals, bass, drums, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and piano, without leaving their DAW, without uploading files to the cloud, and without an internet connection.
Gen Z Uses AI Music — But They Decide Where It Belongs
When AI music moves from joke to craft, from tool to identity, the tone and the stance shifts fast. Context is key. What we’re watching is a tool that entered culture through play, now trying to move into meaning. And Gen Z culture isn’t ready to grant it that promotion yet.
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New Elvis Costello Boxset To Feature A Wealth Of Never Before Heard Punk Era Recordings
Speaking in the latest issue of MOJO, on sale now, Elvis Costello has revealed details of an upcoming boxset focused on his 1977 debut album My Aim Is True. Due this autumn, the 5-disc set will reflect, says Costello, “the curious nature and the compression of events between ’76 and the middle of ’78”. Alongside a remaster of the album nestle a bounty of unheard demos from 1975 that he stresses “nobody’s ever heard”.
Imagine Dragons’ ‘Demons’ And ‘Thunder’ Surpass Three Billion Streams At Spotify
The generation-defining rock band continues to thrive on the world’s biggest streaming platform.
Nelly’s ‘Just A Dream’ Reaches One Billion YouTube Views
‘Just A Dream’ was the lead single from the rapper’s 2010 album ‘5.0.’
YouTube extends deepfake detection tool access to celebrities and talent agencies
The expansion comes six months after YouTube started rolling out the tool in October, which was limited to a specific set of creators with YouTube channels.
Concord Acquisition Streak Continues With Mothership Music Publishing Purchase — Including ‘More Than 5,000 Copyrights’
Nashville-based Concord and Mothership reached out with word of the transaction today. The selling operation set sail 13 years ago as a partnership between Epitaph founder Brett Gurewitz, longtime exec Lionel Conway, and Pythagoras Music Fund partner Hein van der ree (formerly Epitaph’s Europe MD).
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