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.

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

Already one of the most active acquirers of music companies in recent times, Create Music Group ends 2025 with one more flash of its wallet.

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 next in 2026.

Streaming services’ playlists are still the most popular way Americans discover music, according to a new report from consultancy firm Bain & Company. However, no single method dominates the way US ...

The latest contribution to the debate about UMG’s planned acquisition of Downtown Music – and the wider industry landscape – comes from Secretly Group’s Darius Van Arman. In a long, thoughtful op-ed ...

In yesterday’s bulletin we told you about a brand new Christmas single for Amazon Music by Kylie Minogue. However, it’s part of a wider slate of new Amazon Music Originals being released for this year ...

Last week we wrote about AI band Bleeding Verse, whose Spotify listeners had just overtaken one of their main influences, human band Holding Absence. Now there has been a development. “Just wanted to ...

Moises first emerged as an app that helped musicians to practise by removing or isolating the vocals and instruments in tracks. However, its journey since has seen it add progressively more AI-powered ...