Last month we wrote about fan-data firm Laylo’s new AI Ticket Sales Agent, which automated the process of reconnecting with fans who’d RSVP’d or clicked on a link.
Author Archives: Stuart Dredge
Music Ally's Head of Insight
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Lorde speaks out against Spotify’s ‘About the Song’ feature
Clearly relishing her freedom as an independent artist, Lorde has been speaking out about technology issues lately: witness her well-timed takedown of Meta’s AI glasses at a recent festival – which was sponsored by its smart-specs partner Ray-Ban..
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UK’s Ofcom launches investigation into TikTok over child safety
The list of regulators’ child-safety investigations into TikTok has lengthened again. This time it’s the UK’s communications and media watchdog Ofcom holding the app to account.
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Album-selling app Lume launches: ‘We just think the current system is incomplete’
Last month we reported on the upcoming launch of Lume – a startup helping artists to sell albums to their core fans.
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Suno adds iMessage… but a hack may have revealed its training data
AI-music firm Suno’s big announcement yesterday was a new integration with Apple’s iMessage app, but it was rather undercut by an investigative report claiming to answer the longstanding question of what it trained its model on.
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Genotone unveils ‘Proof of Human’ initiative for AI music
Last week, a group of music-industry bodies published proposals for a two-badge system to label music that’s wholly AI-generated or AI-assisted. Humans disclosing this information are key to the system… but how will *they* be verified?
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Avicii Community launches with archives, playlists and more
The work to continue the legacy of Swedish electronic-music star Avicii continues, eight years after his death. The latest initiative, from Pophouse and his estate, is the online Avicii Community.
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Spotify expands managed accounts and debuts ‘early access’ videos
With regulators around the world eyeing digital services used by children with intent, Spotify has announced an expansion of its ‘managed accounts’ for kids.
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Global on-demand music streams up 9.8% in first half of 2026
Fellow stat-nerds, assemble! Luminate’s mid-year report is out, with all manner of figures on music (not to mention TV and film) in the first half of 2026.
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Arson Theory talks heavy music: key challenges, fan culture, fairness and more
Just under a year ago, Cameron Almasi and Eddie Hermida co-founded Arson Theory. 300m streams later, the company is thriving.
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Spotify gets more conversational with its user interfaceÂ
Given everything going on around AI right now, it’s hardly a neck-sticking-out prediction to say that conversation is going to be the next big leap for the way people use music services. Spotify’s latest announcement offers more evidence.
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Tomorrowland and Fuji Rock Festival reveal livestream partners
We’re entering an era where the biggest, sold-outest festivals use livestreams as a core part of their strategy to reach larger audiences online, and build their brands globally. Two announcements yesterday continue the trend.
