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More trouble for Universal Music as its acquisition of Downtown Music is referred to EU competition regulators by authorities in the Netherlands, delivering another blow to the major’s share price, which is now 14.46% down year on year

Indie publisher trade body IMPF has released its latest stats tracking indie publisher revenues and market share. Although market share has dropped slightly, indies combined are still bigger than the biggest of the major-owned publishers, Sony Music Publishing

Swedish psych-rocker and producer MIYNT oscillates between spacey, scuzzy psych-pop and indie propulsion. Her new single ‘I Am I Am What’ captures the disorientation of going through the motions while your mind drifts elsewhere

A dispute between Tony Bennett’s children over the management of the late singer’s rights and legacy has gone legal. Bennett’s business affairs were long managed by his son Danny, but his sisters now say their brother exploited his position of power to boost his own earnings to their detriment

CMU has been able to get Suno AI to generate entire lyrics for well known songs, something that the company’s founder Mikey Shulman has previously implied should not be possible because of its “aggressive originality-guarding features” that stop people “trying to copy existing music”