YouTube, Amazon Music Launch Their Annual Music Reviews; Spotify Betting Big on Korea's New Listening Culture
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Amazon Music’s 2025 Delivered is now here to compete with Spotify Wrapped
With 2025 Delivered, users will see a recap of their listening trends, showcasing their top artists, favorite songs, and preferred genres, along with stats for audiobooks and podcasts.
YouTube introduces its own version of Spotify Wrapped for videos
The new annual insights feature lets you review your top channels, interests, and other viewing habits.
Why Spotify is betting big on Korea's new listening culture
In Korea, music streaming is no longer just about listening — it’s becoming a lifestyle. As Korean pop culture continues to expand its global influence and Gen Z turns playlists into tools of self-expression, music platforms are racing to keep up.
AudioShake Debuts Copyright Music Removal for Streaming and Live Broadcast
The SDK enables broadcasters, sports leagues, and media creators to automatically detect and remove copyrighted music from live and post-production content — helping them avoid takedowns, fines, muted audio, and distribution delays.
Bruno Mars duets top YouTube and Apple Music’s year-end charts
YouTube and Apple Music have launched their annual reviews, including charts of their most popular music and artists this year.
Merlin agrees licensing deal with karaoke technology company Singa
Through this partnership, karaoke singers at home and in Singa-powered venues worldwide are able to perform along with the original masters of songs from Merlin’s global membership.
Jorja Smith’s Label Rattles the Legal Cage After ‘I Run’ Takes Off — Might This Blow Up Suno’s Carefully-Laid Plans to Go Legit?
For those watching in disbelief as ‘I Run’ started sprinting away on TikTok, Spotify, and seemingly every other platform, perhaps there’s poetic justice in the music industry, after all. As DMN first reported just hours ago, Jorja Smith’s label, FAMM, is now demanding both credit and royalties from HAVEN’s ‘I Run,’ which was instantly mistaken for a Jorja Smith track.
What Does Warner's Deal With Suno Mean For The Future Of AI Music?
For the first time, artists are being given control over whether their music can be used to train AI models—a choice that didn’t exist when companies were initially scraping the internet for training data. It also promises compensation, addressing a central complaint from the creative community.
The algorithm failed music
Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop.
The Daily Grind Of Content Creation
The pressure to regularly perform has always been part and parcel of a creative career. Whether you make movies, produce ad campaigns, or crank out a daily morning show on the radio, the omnipresent need to make what is now universally referred to as “content” is a constant for many creative types.
US millennials may be outliers on comfort levels for GenAI music
Some new data published by research firm Luminate suggests that Americans have a “skepticism and disinterest in AI music”. But there are some interesting variances between generations in its survey.
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