Sales and streams of recorded music in the UK grew by 4.9% last year according to figures published by industry body the BPI.

Congratulations are due to Beyoncé for becoming the fifth musician to achieve billionaire status by the calculations of Forbes.

Having completed their military service last year, it’s been no secret that K-Pop icons BTS have regrouped in recent months.

Drake in legal matters, and it ended with a lawsuit related to his partnership with online-gambling firm Stake.

In November, Indivisible – one of the organisers of the ‘No Kings’ protests against the US administration – launched a campaign encouraging Americans to cancel their Spotify subscriptions in protest ...

An article on state-owned outlet People’s Daily about how AI is opening “new horizons for China’s music industry” ...

His new year’s message, posted on Threads, focused squarely on the issue of the explosion in AI-generated content.

Digital Music News reported on a splash screen shown to users announcing that “Napster is no longer a music streaming service”.

State-controlled outlet China Daily is the source for the latest development, suggesting that the deal may not be final as had been suggested.

Here's part four of our look-back at the key talking points around AI and music in 2025, with a view to what might happen next in 2026.

This is not the Christmas present that Spotify would have been hoping for: a huge chunk of its metadata being released on filesharing.

As the deal to sell TikTok’s US operations enters its final weeks, ByteDance appears to be ready to celebrate an *extremely* profitable 2025.