What was that we wrote this morning about BMG and Concord expecting to complete their merger this month? Within hours, it was ...

The RIAA has published its 2026 mid-year report, revealing total wholesale revenues of $5.97bn for recorded music in the US in the first half of this year.

We are delighted to officially announce Music Ally Marketing Week 2026 - in association with TikTok. After the success of the inaugural event in 2025, our new tentpole online event will return across ...

X has launched its own MCP server, becoming the latest social platform to let advertisers create, analyse, and edit campaigns directly through third-party AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT. By ...

Creating and uploading social media content involving multiple clips can require a lot of time, but Instagram is planning to make this easier for creators. Its new ‘First draft’ feature allows artists ...

Soundplate started as a record label before evolving into a company that makes marketing tools for independent artists.

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.

The financial and tech press are abuzz with talk of AI firm Anthropic’s upcoming “mega-IPO”. It could happen as soon as late September or early October and smash the record set earlier this year when ...

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.

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 ...

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.