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John Mayer Launches Sob Rock Records in Partnership With Mercury Records
John Mayer has launched his own record label, Sob Rock Records, through a new partnership with Universal Music Group’s Mercury Records. The agreement marks the seven-time Grammy winner’s return to the major-label system more than four years after leaving Columbia Records, where…
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Serato Launches Full-Featured DJ App for iOS Alongside Serato DJ 5.0
Professional DJ software is making another move beyond the laptop. Serato has launched a new version of its DJ platform for iPhone and iPad, bringing many of the features used by club DJs and turntablists to mobile devices for the first time. Released October 20, 2026, Serato DJ…
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Inside Credits.fm’s Push to Build an Open Credits Database for Music
Open a record sleeve from decades ago and you might find an entire page devoted to the people who made the album: songwriters, producers, engineers, session musicians, arrangers and other contributors. Streaming made nearly every recording available instantly. Somewhere along…
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AFM Launches “Human Made, Human Paid” Campaign to Demand AI Compensation for Musicians
The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) has launched a campaign demanding that record labels obtain musicians’ consent, provide proper credit and share compensation when recorded performances are used to develop artificial intelligence. Called “Human Made, Human Paid,” the…
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Frontiers Launches NOIUS, a New Artist Partnership Model With X Ambassadors as First Signing
Frontiers Label Group has launched NOIUS, a new artist partnership platform designed to give established musicians access to record-label resources without requiring them to surrender ownership of their music or creative control. The initiative launches with multi-platinum…
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Nearly 70 Venues Back Musicians’ Campaign to End Merch Cuts and Pay-to-Play
A growing coalition of U.S. music venues is backing a campaign to eliminate merchandise commissions, pay-to-play booking arrangements and other practices that musicians say make touring increasingly difficult to sustain. Organized by United Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW),…
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Millions of Songs Still Don’t Have Usable Lyrics. lyrcs.ai Wants to Fix That.
Streaming has made music more globally accessible than at any point in its history. The infrastructure surrounding that music hasn’t always kept up. For millions of songs, particularly regional and non-English releases, something as basic as accurate digital lyrics can still be…
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Musixmatch Acquires Music Reports to Build a Global Music Rights and Royalties Platform
Musixmatch, the Italian music technology company best known for powering lyrics across major streaming services, has acquired Los Angeles-based Music Reports in a deal designed to expand its business into music rights administration, licensing and royalty processing. Announced…
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Ticket Resale Enforcement Intensifies as Regulators Target Large Brokers
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against California ticket broker REPS & Company and three of its executives, alleging that the business circumvented ticket-purchasing limits to acquire millions of tickets for resale. According to the government, the company…
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[Disco] Cerrone & Electric Guest – Hell
If you’ve been hanging around The Music Ninja long enough, you probably know that Halloween has always held a special place in this writer’s heart. Back in the 2010s, I’d spend an unreasonable amount of time digging up spooky tracks, building Halloween playlists, and getting far…
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[Indie Rock] Everything Everything – Cold Reactor
Every once in a while, a song comes along that makes me wonder how the hell I’ve managed to spend so much time digging through music without properly falling down a particular band’s rabbit hole. It could have something to do with work and parenting, but that’s beside the point.…
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Goldman Sachs Warns AI Music Could Dilute Recorded Music Market Share
The global recorded music business could grow to $56.1 billion by 2035, but record labels may face increasing competition for that revenue as generative AI makes music creation easier and dramatically expands the supply of available recordings. That is one of the central…
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Deezer Will Let Listeners Remove AI-Generated Music From Search Results
Deezer is preparing to introduce a setting that will allow listeners to hide fully AI-generated music from search results, giving subscribers greater control over whether they encounter synthetic recordings on the streaming platform. Announced October 13, 2026, the feature is…