TikTok’s top song of summer 2025 is actually… 10 years old?” was how we headlined our report on Jess Glynne’s ‘Hold My Hand’ winning the summer-virality battle on TikTok last year.

Thanks to the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), big online platforms have to regularly publish their user numbers in the region, giving nosy folk like us a glimpse at their growth.

If you’re a longtime reader of Music Ally, you might remember our coverage of Japanese company GungHo Online Entertainment and its massive mobile-gaming hit Puzzle & Dragons back in the day.

The music-numbers story from media giant Bertelsmann’s latest financial results was 5% growth for BMG’s revenues in the first half of this year. However, the music-deals story was the imminent ...

By all accounts, Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields festival went swimmingly this weekend. Even Katseye, who’d been forced to pull out after an injury to a group member, managed to make an appearance ...