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How To Build Your First 100 Fans, According To Music Marketing Experts
CHIBA, JAPAN - JULY 2: Japanese fans party at 'Live 8 Japan' at Makuhari Messe on July 2, 2005 in Chiba, east of Tokyo, Japan. The free concert is one of ten simultaneous international gigs including Philadelphia, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Barrie…
What Is K-Pop? How Korean Pop Music Became A Global Sensation
Music group BTS accepts the Top Social Artist award onstage during the 2017 Billboard Music Awards (Photo by Kevin Mazur/BBMA2017/Getty Images for dcp) South Korean pop music, also known as K-pop, has been dominating the music scene and has…
Nintendo Music comes to CarPlay with latest app update
Nintendo has released a big update to its popular Nintendo Music app. The update adds three new features, including CarPlay support, Siri integration, and a dedicated iPad app. Nintendo Music was first released back in October 2024. The app lets…
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory stars on bringing the musical to Hong Kong
Pure imagination will take hold in Hong Kong this November as the Broadway musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory makes its debut in the city. The recent announcement, made at Felix on the 28th floor of The Peninsula Hong Kong hotel in Tsim Sha…
Amazon Music Unlimited Launches in India as Prime Music Prepares to Add Ads
Amazon has launched Amazon Music Unlimited in India, bringing its premium music streaming service to the country for the first time. The new subscription tier offers ad-free listening, on-demand playback, offline downloads, HD audio, and Spatial…
Report: Music's Power To Unite, Heal Down 74%
WASHINGTON—Indicating a downward trend across all genres, a new report from the Recording Industry Association of America released Thursday found that music's power to bridge divides and lift spirits had dropped 74%. “After this…
Spotify's EQUAL is pushing for safer and fairer music spaces
At Spotify's first EQUAL Day in India, popular Hindustani vocalist Kaushiki Chakraborty, reflecting on how women performers continue to navigate a male-dominated music industry, recalled an incident during a video shoot where she was asked to wear…
BTS, Benson Boone, Cardi B Among Performers Set for iHeartRadio Music Festival 2026
BTS, Benson Boone and Cardi B are among the acts slated to perform at the iHeartRadio Music Festival presented by Capital One, taking place on September 18-19 at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena. Hosted by Ryan Seacrest, the event will also include…
Havas Bets on a Record Label to Reshape Brand-Music Partnerships
Cannes Lions is where the biggest ideas take center stage. Join ADWEEK for must-see conversations, top industry leaders, and the moments everyone will be talking about. Havas is entering the music business with the launch of VOLYUM, a record label…
Ariana Grande haunts US actor Justin Long in new music video
Popstar Ariana Grande appears to haunt US actor Justin Long in her new music video for Hate That I Made You Love Me. The 32-year-old singer stars in the video for her latest song alongside the He's Just Not That into You and Jeepers Creepers star…
Why I'm Optimistic About the Future of Music: RIŽIK
Written and pondered over by Los Angeles-based independent live electronic artist RIŽIK (Hisham Dahud) I know this title probably sounds insane right now. Every conversation around music seems increasingly pessimistic. AI is supposedly…
The Untitled Nashville Hotel at Bankers Alley, Tapestry Collection by Hilton Debuts in Music City
The new aesthetic of The Untitled Nashville Hotel at Bankers Alley is carefully curated to celebrate storytelling in all forms, with specialty-crafted wallpaper from Local Language Art adorning each room and eye-catching opening storylines etched…
Leo Sayer's eerie phone call with Elvis Presley a day before music legend died
Leo Sayer has detailed the eerie moment he spoke to Elvis Presley on the eve of the rock n roll icon's death. Elvis died aged 42 on August 16, 1977, but the Suspicious Minds singer had organised a meeting with Leo, now 78, the night before his…
Apple Music is going free? Well, sort of…
If you want to listen to music for free, you need to put up with annoying ads and scrambled tracks with no skipping. That's the free subscription streaming model that Spotify started years ago, and YouTube Music adopted later. Now it seems that…
Nvidia's AI-Generated Fever Dream Music Video Says a Lot About 2026
There's no question that Nvidia has gone all in on artificial intelligence, and nowhere is that more true than in the bizarre, high-energy AI music video the company used as the grand finale and recap for its 2026 Computex keynote. Forget humans…
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