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In my recent experience speaking to colleagues, artists, bands and just anyone who listens to music, no one seems to like, want, need, desire or knowingly listen to AI-generated music. I would say that my overall takeaway from these conversations has…
The Featured Artists Coalition published its Kitemark for music distributors on 23 July 2026. Drawn up by the FAC Artist Council, it aims to set out what a distributor should offer as a bare minimum in the digital age we now…
A musician releasing music independently this year, will spend somewhere in the region £2,000 on a single release cycle. This is by the time all of the distribution fees, analytics subscriptions, PR retainer’s and the paid social advertising are taken into…
On the 30th April 2026, Spotify announced a new badge verification scheme for ‘human’ artists. The programme, launched under the name Verified by Spotify, is described by Spotify’s own newsroom headline as “a Signal of Authenticity and Trust for the Artists…
Ron Perry, who runs Columbia Records, one of the largest record labels in the world, recently went on record with some remarkable statements. Earlier this year, he told Billboard that TikTok “made things go faster for a small period of time”…
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