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UNIVERSAL MUSIC'S SUDDEN MOVE FROM QUALITY GROWTH STOCK TO FALLEN ANGEL
The Universal Music Group headquarters in Santa Monica, California, US, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. Billionaire activist Bill Ackman has proposed a bid for Universal Music Group NV to increase returns on one of his hedge fund's biggest holdings.
Spotify will label 'AI Persona' profiles and exclude their music from recommendations
Spotify will begin labeling AI-generated artists with “AI Persona” profile tags and ban their music from its editorial and algorithmic recommendations, the company announced on Tuesday. In mid-September, Spotify users will see…
The astonishing voice of Grace Cummings: 'The peace I found in music is a legitimate lifesaver'
One of Grace Cummings' earliest memories is going into the lounge room to tell her parents about the night terror she'd had. The four-year-old was tormented by the possibility of what happens after death, her imagination stretching the…
Spotify says it won't recommend music from 'AI Personas'
Artist profiles on Spotify that do ‘not represent a real person' will get an ‘AI Persona' badge. Artist profiles on Spotify that do ‘not represent a real person' will get an ‘AI Persona' badge. All the latest in AI…
Spotify to launch badge identifying AI music
'Listeners have been clear in telling us that they don't like seeing an artist profile that seems human, only to find out that the persona is AI-generated,' Spotify said in a statement. The move is the Swedish company's latest effort to be…
Spotify Will Now Flag 'AI Personas' and Stop Recommending Their Music
Is that a human artist or an AI persona? Spotify will soon make that distinction clearer with new “AI Persona” labels. The streamer introduced the label today and said that it will apply to artists' profiles whose public identity…
A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical review ✭✭✭✭
This rousing jukebox musical spanning Neil Diamond's impressive career really is so good, so good Theatre, Musicals Princess Theatre, Melbourne Recommended Melbourne's stages have seen a slew of jukebox musicals tread the boards over the past few…
Puck Bunnies: A Heated Rivalry Drag Musical Parody review at Edinburgh Fringe: sketchy musical parody
“Late-night laughs” Aug 11, 202610:56 by Paul Vale Gilded Balloon Patter House, Edinburgh Kyra Brown and Hanna Barlow in Puck Bunnies: A Heated Rivalry Drag Musical Parody at Gilded Balloon Patter House, Edinburgh. Photo: Jordan Frame…
Augustus bags 19.5g/t WA gold at Music Well
Augustus Minerals has bagged its highest gold grade to date at its Music Well project near Leonora in Western Australia, with its June reverse circulation (RC) drilling campaign intersecting a one-metre section grading 19.5 grams per tonne (g/t)…
AI Music Company Suno Unveils Download Caps for Free, Paid Tiers in Quest to Combat Abuse (EXCLUSIVE)
Suno last week said that it would impose download limits on users of its AI music generator as it seeks to legitimize its presence in the music industry. Now it has specifics. Starting Sept. 3 for all songs in a user's library, free Suno users will…
China's Tencent Music Reports $1.32 Billion in Q2 Revenue as Ximalaya Integration Marks New Audio Push
China's Tencent Music Entertainment Group posted total revenues of RMB8.93 billion ($1.32 billion) for the second quarter of 2026 – a 5.8% year-over-year gain – as its music services arm delivered double-digit growth and the newly…
Spotify is introducing AI Persona tags to differentiate real artists from fake ones, vowing to become ‘the most transparent and trustworthy place to listen to music' - but the tool isn't targeting the music itself
Spotify is introducing AI Persona tags in mid-September The platform aims to improve user transparency by differentiating real artists from AI-generated ones Spotify only reviews an artist's profile and images, and not the music itself Spotify has…
The song nobody sang: Is AI killing music, or just removing the human?
Every catchy AI song is, in some sense, built out of the bones of songs that came before it. This is because an AI music model has been trained on an almost unimaginable quantity of existing music until it has absorbed enough of the pattern to…
Headliners announced for music festival in Clyde Valley
Two top musical acts have been announced as headliners at the inaugural family music festival being staged next summer at a popular Lanarkshire garden centre. Goulding's Live will take place in August 2027 at the centre's Valley View venue on…
Pluribus': Vince Gilligan and Composer Dave Porter On Series Music
Of the 18 Emmy nominations for Apple TV ‘s Pluribus, composer Dave Porter can call dibs on three of 'em: for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series, Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour), and Original Main Title Theme…
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