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 ...

The Brazilian DJ and producer Alok has partnered with agency Rise New York & Partners on an ambitious AI-powered campaign for his headphone line, WAAW by Alok. The core idea: turning a product ...

The financial and tech press are abuzz with talk of AI firm Anthropic’s upcoming “mega-IPO”. It could happen as soon as late ...

Music rights are now an international asset class, priced by institutional capital. The question is no longer whether music is an asset. It is who holds the data to price […] ...

How are alternative music platforms differentiating themselves from mainstream services, and how can they hope to hold their own? What do they tell us about what the future of music could and should ...

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The UK left the European Union at the end of January 2020, and in the years since there have been regular complaints from the music industry about the impact that ‘Brexit’ had on British artists ...

Ugandan-born artist Jon Muq has partnered with veteran music executive Kevin Wommack to launch Shake It Africa, a new record label and live entertainment company.