Two lawsuits caught our eye today, both of which tell you something about the tension between established artist contracts and music rights – and how they fit in a modern media and legal landscape.

In September, UMG sued distributer DistroKid over the latter’s “illegal, deceptive, and unlawful practices” – with two specific and fairly blockbuster accusations at the lawsuit’s heart: that ...

Netflix is allegedly about to cut 850 jobs as early as next week, according to media industry reporting service Puck. If that’s true – Netflix has not commented – that’s about 5% of its global ...

We’re used to reading about novel ways of recruiting people en masse from another company, but a “reverse acqui-hire deal” was a new one to us. You’ll be aware of an acqui-hire deal, where one company ...

Rockstar Games is slowly drip-feeding a ravenous fanbase small nuggets of Grand Theft Auto VI before its launch on 19 November. The company has often led with music in this teasing process, and it has ...

If you’re a fan of SOCIAL MEDIA TITANS BEEF, prepare to record your direct-to-camera ragebait hot take: Meta, the parent ...

When Jack White played a show at BleauLive Theater in Las Vegas on October 2, 2026, the show’s poster was also available for sale – as a board game. All 350 copies of Jack White: Las Vegas Frenzy sold ...

Spotify has been feeling confident recently about its internally-built tools – for instance its bespoke “large taste model" ...

Part of Suno’s licensing deal with Warner Music Group last November involved acquiring concert-discovery platform Songkick. It felt like a strange quirk at the time – what does an AI music-generating ...

It's comforting to remember that music isn’t merely a thing that exists in a series of breathless AI press releases – it’s ...

You’ll doubtlessly have heard the news, and so – as decreed by the super-est mind of our times – Music Ally will be referring ...

James Johnston is a country singer-songwriter from Australia who started putting out his music independently in 2021 before signing to Warner Music Australia ahead of his second album, Where You’ll ...