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What is 'blue dot fever' and what does it mean for the music industry?
Major musicians from Post Malone to Meghan Trainor have recently struggled to sell out stadiums and arenas for their tours. It's a troubling trend being called 'blue dot fever' and has led to entertainers canceling some or all of their shows.
Is the Music Industry Officially Oversaturated With Songs? | Billboard On The Record
With more than 100,000 songs hitting streaming platforms every day, according to Luminate, is the music industry struggling to keep up? Milana Lewis, cofounder and CEO of Stem, sits down with Billboard On The Record to break down what this…
The Music Industry's Next Mental Health Frontier: Ensuring Quality Care (Guest Column)
For most of the modern music industry's 100-year history, mental health was barely spoken about. Individuals suffered silently, burned out privately (or publicly) and often, at least in the case of behind-the-scenes music workers, were replaced.
Lizzo Says Social Media Algorithms Are 'Destroying the Music Industry' & Messing Up Her Album Promo
Lizzo is feeling frustrated by the state of social media music marketing, which she says is cutting off her ability to properly promote her upcoming album, Bitch. In a video posted to TikTok on Tuesday (May 12), the singer-songwriter started out by…
Music industry 'disappointed' by UK government's 'draft' bill on ticket tout ban from King's Speech
The music industry has been left “disappointed” by the UK government's draft bill on a ticket tout ban in the King's Speech today (Wednesday May 13). READ MORE: Keir Starmer tells us about “protecting creativity” in the…
Blockbuster movies are connecting new audiences to classical music
Classical music isn't dead, but who's listening, and how, is changing. One of the clearest signs of that change is the rise of live orchestral concerts paired with blockbuster film screenings. These concerts are significantly driving the growth in…
The Ivors' CEO Roberto Neri on AI, Championing U.K. Music & Hosting the Industry's 'Oscar-Equivalent' Awards Ceremony
Planning awards shows is no simple task, not least when you run the U.K.'s Ivor Novello Awards, which Robert Neri, the Ivors Academy CEO, posits is music's “Oscar-equivalent” ceremony. When Billboard U.K. speaks with Neri a fortnight…
The live-music boom has convinced some artists they're bigger than they are
The era of sky-high concert-ticket prices is exposing pop music's middle class — or, at least, who isn't among the 1%. A slew of high-profile artists have recently made headlines for downsizing, postponing, or outright canceling their arena…
Inside Towa Bird's Rise in Music, New Album | Billboard Women in Music 2026
Billboard and Hennessy present Next in Sound with Towa Bird, in which the rising star opens up about her early inspirations, new album and what it meant to appear at Billboard Women in Music 2026. Towa Bird: It's Towa Bird, and I'm here with…
How The Music Stops For AMD (NASDAQ:AMD)
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has finally gotten its day in the sun in the current semiconductor-fueled rally we've all witnessed. This raises the question, though, of how much further upside there is from current levels. In my view, there is…
At Jacaranda, a Food-and-Music Power Couple Reignites L.A. Fine Dining
The Los Angeles restaurant scene has been in acute crisis thanks to everything from the Trump administration's tariffs and Hollywood's business woes to rising labor costs and the normalization of GLP-1s. Yet the K-shaped economy has simultaneously…
Variety's 2026 Women of Nashville Entertainment Report Spotlights Music City's Movers and Shakers
Global lead for country music programming In her decade with Amazon Music, Cohen Belote has continued to expand the platform's influence within the country genre through artist development, programming and large-scale initiatives. In 2025, she led…
U.K. Live Industry Dismayed as Government Delays Ticket Touting Laws: 'A Betrayal of Millions of Music Fans'
The U.K. live industry has criticized the government after ministers stopped short of introducing immediate legislation to tackle ticket touting, despite Labour's 2024 pledge to crack down on resale profiteering. In the King's Speech delivered in…
Ledisi Joins The Broadway Cast of New Musical WANTED
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actress, author, and producer Ledisi will head to Broadway this fall in the new musical WANTED. Ledisi will star as Tallulah Clarke, mother of the sisters Clarke, alongside Solea Pfeiffer (Hadestown, Gatsby:…
Pixel & Galaxy Watch users complain of a frustrating YouTube Music bug
Tushar Mehta / Android Authority YouTube Music on Wear OS appears to have a playback bug with offline playlists. Several users complain that downloaded playlists stop working after the first song. There's currently no permanent fix to the solution…
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