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iluvlive celebrates turning 21 with a new series of events

1 day ago | musically.com | Stuart Dredge

Happy birthday, iluvlive! The UK-based live-music and talent development nonprofit is celebrating its 21st year of supporting Black musicians and genres. Wretch 32, Ghetts, Kano, Little Simz, Kojey Radical, Ella Mai and Mahalia are among the artists who performed at its events in the earliest stages of their careers, as well as Ed Sheeran and Tom Grennan. Among the activities to mark the milestone year are a new series of events called The Break.
SoundCloud clarifies its policies on music and AI training

2 days ago | musically.com | Stuart Dredge

Streaming service SoundCloud has been forced to clarify its policies on AI training, after a change in its terms of use came to the attention of the music industry.
Ye releases Hitler-referencing track on VE day; DSPs take it down

2 days ago | musically.com | Stuart Dredge

We regret to inform you that Ye is at it again. The ‘it’ in this case being ‘releasing a song called Heil Hitler on the exact day marking the official surrender of Germany’s armed forces in the second world war’. Yes, VE Day. The track includes a prominent sample of a speech by Hitler himself, and artwork including a logo that’s reminiscent of a swastika, if not the exact copy that Ye previously put on t-shirts.
US Copyright Office head fired shortly after latest AI report

2 days ago | musically.com | Stuart Dredge

Last week, the US Copyright Office took the unusual step of releasing a ‘pre-publication’ version of the third in its series of reports on copyright and AI – this one focusing on generative AI training. A few days later, the head of the office, register of copyrights Shira Perlmutter, was suddenly fired by the Trump administration. It should not surprise you to hear that the two events are linked. Perhaps not in the obvious sense.
‘Vinted for tickets’ Ticketoo has over 300k registered users

2 days ago | musically.com | Stuart Dredge

Ticketing startup Ticketoo has crossed the milestone of 300,000 registered users two and a half years after launching its service in Italy. The company’s app has been downloaded more than 250k times, and Ticketoo is now plotting how to scale its service across Europe in the coming months and years. “Ticketoo is like Vinted, but for event tickets.
How Roxette got dressed for success... on TikTok and Spotify

3 days ago | musically.com | Stuart Dredge

Swedish duo Roxette had a string of global smash hits in the 1990s, during the peak era of CD sales. However, in 2025 their audience is growing once again – on digital platforms like TikTok and Spotify. In fact, Roxette currently have 16.8 million monthly listeners on Spotify – up from 10.5 million at the start of 2024 – and have broken into the top 500 artists on the service for the first time. Meanwhile, their TikTok following has grown from 56,000 last November to more than 300,000 now.
US Justice Department and FTC kick off a new ticketing probe

5 days ago | musically.com | Stuart Dredge

There’s certainly not a monopoly on attempts to regulate ticketing in the US, with multiple pieces of legislation, lawsuits and regulatory investigations in play. The latest was announced this week: a public inquiry by the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission into “unfair and anticompetitive practices in live ticketing”.
AI music firm Suno debuts ‘newest and most expressive model’

5 days ago | musically.com | Stuart Dredge

Things have gone quiet for now in the lawsuit filed by record labels against AI-music startups Suno and Udio. However, neither has been silent when it comes to announcing new features for their services. Suno unveiled v4.5 of its model this month, describing it as “our newest and most expressive model”. It includes a greatly-increased number of genres – and combinations of them – as well as vocals with “enhanced range and emotional depth”.
Yamaha launches a $50m fund to invest in music-tech startups

5 days ago | musically.com | Stuart Dredge

Music startups looking for funding may be advised to beat a path to Yamaha Corporation’s door in the coming weeks. The Japanese company’s music-related business focuses on instruments and home-audio products, but now it has launched a Silicon Valley office called Yamaha Music Innovations. It’s a venture capital fund led by veteran music-tech investor Andrew Kahn, previously of Crush Ventures and Live Nation. He has $50m to “create and invest in innovative businesses” over the coming years.
Meta’s latest ad plans include trending reels and Threads video

5 days ago | musically.com | Stuart Dredge

It’s upfronts season in New York, which traditionally involved TV networks showing off their new shows to potential advertisers ahead of their premieres. Nowadays, though, it’s also about the biggest digital platforms courting brands too – not just with new content, but new advertising features. Meta had a few things to talk about at its ‘NewFronts’ presentation this week.