India is rapidly becoming one of the most important music markets in the world. From Bollywood and Punjabi music to Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, hip-hop, electronic music and independent artists, India has an enormous and increasingly…
Amazon and Google spent the best part of a decade putting smart speakers into homes around the world. Amazon now says there are more than 600 million Alexa devices in existence. That is an extraordinary…
Doechii’s “Anxiety” is built around “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye featuring Kimbra. If the instrumental instantly sounds familiar, that’s why. But there’s another twist. Doechii originally made “Anxiety” years before becoming a…
Suwannee Hulaween returns to Live Oak, Florida from 22–25 October 2026 with four days of electronic music, jam bands, indie, funk and psychedelic sounds. Pretty Lights, My Morning Jacket, Excision, Geese and host band The…
Instagram is making it clearer when an account represents an AI-generated person. The platform is replacing its previous “AI creator” description with an AI-generated profile label. For musicians creating virtual or AI-powered artists, this is…
DistroKid and UnitedMasters both offer unlimited distribution and 100% streaming royalty retention on their standard paid artist plans. But they feel like very different products. DistroKid DistroKid starts at $24.99 per year in the US.…
Sync licensing can produce some of the largest individual payments an independent song receives. A placement might involve music appearing in: But there is no single fixed sync rate. What determines the fee? Several factors…
There are few better combinations than deep house music, sunrise and the mountains. A sunrise deep house mix at the Dolomites brings all three together, pairing chilled electronic music with one of the most spectacular…
For decades, the music industry has largely made money when people consume music. Buy a record. Download a song. Stream a track. Watch a music video. But artificial intelligence could create an entirely new type…
UK songwriters, composers and music publishers are set to keep more of their royalties. PRS for Music has announced reductions to several of the administration rates it deducts before distributing royalties to members. The changes…
