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RSS Mar 30, 2026 7:00pm · Music Business WorldWide
‘We must continue evolving how K-pop is made.’
With concert revenues up 53% in Q4 2025, a new boy group set for 2026, and plans to ramp up acquisitions, SM Entertainment is betting big on its next chapter. In this exclusive interview, Co-CEOs Daniel Jang and Dmitry YJ Tak take us inside a K-pop powerhouse... Source
RSS Mar 30, 2026 12:50pm · Musically
Argos sees social spike from Kurupt FM-soundtracked campaign
UK retailer Argos may not seem like it has an obvious link to rave culture. However, its social-media ‘Stockroom’ campaign late last year was an amusing take on Boiler Room-style DJ sets. Stats now suggest that it performed well. The retailer worked with agency Billion Dollar Boy and music-licensing firm Lickd on the campaign, which featured the […] The post is from Music Ally.
RSS Mar 30, 2026 12:50pm · Musically
Tech firm FiEE says it will spend $3m to expand into AI music
The debate about whether AI-generated music is unfairly sluicing royalties away from human artists and songwriters is in full swing. But where there’s money, there’ll be more companies looking to take a share of it. FiEE is the latest, announcing plans to invest around $3m to get into the AI-music game. $51k of that is being […] The post is from Music Ally.
RSS Mar 30, 2026 12:45pm · Musically
Music-merch survey: ‘Younger fans want more than a t-shirt’
Midia Research has been quizzing 1,000 US music-merch buyers about their habits, with some encouraging findings for artists and their teams – but also some warnings. “Younger fans want more than a t-shirt,” is one of the lessons, with Midia noting that 16-24 year-olds are “over-indexing for listing merch options like posters, keychains, and jewellery as their […] The post is from Music Ally.
RSS Mar 30, 2026 12:45pm · Musically
UMG hits back at Drake’s appeal in ‘Not Like Us’ lawsuit
Drake’s lawsuit against Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar’s diss-track ‘Not Like Us’ was dismissed by a judge in October 2025, but he launched an appeal against the decision in January. Drake’s attorneys argued that the ruling “created a dangerous categorical rule that rap diss tracks can never be actionable” while slamming UMG for having “waged […] The post is from Music Ally.
RSS Mar 30, 2026 12:30pm · Musically
Major labels to challenge recent copyright-termination ruling
In January we reported on a significant ruling by a US federal appeals court that seemed to pave the way for songwriters to terminate copyright deals and regain their rights globally, not just in the US. The ruling followed a court case involving 1963 song ‘Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love) by Cyril Vetter, and the small […] The post is from Music Ally.
RSS Mar 30, 2026 11:30am · Musically
Slop Tracker website aims to track ‘the AI streaming drain’
In the time it took to write this news story, $256 was “drained” from human artists by tracks from just 50 AI-generated artists on Spotify. At least, that’s according to a site called Slop Tracker that’s been set up to highlight the issue. The site claims that the 50 artists in its list have earned just under […] The post is from Music Ally.
RSS Mar 27, 2026 1:57pm · Musically
The Hidden Jams wants to be the Wikipedia of music deep-cuts
Deep cuts are the lifeblood of music fandom, and now The Hidden Jams wants to become the platform where people come together to curate and discover underlooked tracks from artists’ back catalogues. “The Hidden Jams is specifically tackling artist catalog rankings and discovery by becoming a Wikipedia-like platform that crowdsources fan opinions, giving music lovers traditional label-like […] The post is from Music Ally.