Whatever you do, don't snort at Peppa Pig's music clout. The popular children's character has more than 1bn lifetime music streams.

Back-office admin – from distribution and DSP analytics to neighbouring rights and D2C sales – remains a massive operational drain for indie labels, publishers, and self-releasing artists. In the ...

Square Nine Capital. Announced last week, it has refinanced an “existing credit facility” of the company, providing “additional capital to support Beatport’s strategic priorities”.

AEG Presents had a new number to trumpet this weekend: country star Zach Bryan broke the attendance record for the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, with 73,538 fans attending his second night there.

We did not expect to be writing a story about the Pope in 2026, let alone two, but here we are. Pope Leo XIV has been sounding off again about artificial intelligence and art – this time in a post on ...

Ticketing-tech firm SeatGeek has launched a new product that’s for promoters and venues rather than music fans. TourIQ is a predictive-intelligence tool.

In March 2025, Sony Music said that it had successfully gotten more than 75k AI-generated deepfakes of its artists from various online platforms. A year later, in March 2026, the company said that it ...

We recently reported on the latest devices from children’s speakers maker Yoto. Now the company has published its financial ...

Indian music licensing company Novex has launched Velvet Labs, a company that designs and builds music technology products.

Instagram has rolled out a new option this week that lets artist teams boost Instagram Live broadcasts directly from the app.

A Santa-hat tip this morning to music-streamers in the Philippines, who are famously early to popping on their holiday playlists. 2026 is no exception.

Meta has officially launched Forum, a standalone home for Facebook Groups that it has been testing since May. Rather than ...