This is not the Christmas present that Spotify would have been hoping for: a huge chunk of its metadata being released on filesharing.

Universal Music Group’s dealmaking team has been on a tear in 2025, and its final deal of the year appears to be with Roblox.

As the deal to sell TikTok’s US operations enters its final weeks, ByteDance appears to be ready to celebrate an *extremely* profitable 2025.

Ready Player Me emerged during Peak Metaverse Hype a few years ago, with a focus on avatars. Now it is being acquired by Netflix.

TikTok’s US operations will not end this year under new, American ownership. But a sale appears to be signed and sealed for ...

Concerts discovery service Bandsintown has released its 2025 'High Notes' report, based on data from 8bn events.

Musicians and music industry workers with the Musicians For Palestine campaign have published an open letter to Live Nation ...

This week, senior government leaders—such as additional secretary Amita Prasad Sarbhai and director Aneish P. Rajan from the ...

This was the year Music Ally offered its most comprehensive coverage of the Indian music market yet, with the launch of our ...

Until now it’s been available as downloadable software, including a mobile app, but now it is adding a new way to play: in ...

Within hours of Music Ally publishing an analysis of Universal Music Group’s AI deals in 2025, it sprang another one on us ...

Here's part four of our look-back at the key talking points around AI and music in 2025, with a view to what might happen ...