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SubmitHub Bans AI Music Submissions: ‘We Don’t Need More Noise’

September 17, 2026

SubmitHub switches it up with a new AI policy that will keep AI music off the platform—even at the cost of up to 10% of its current revenue. SubmitHub has announced a new AI policy that builds on Spotify's m... Read More...

Universal Music Sues DistroKid for Copyright Infringement and Deceptive Trade Practices, Says the Distributor ‘Is Flooding Platforms With AI-Generated Slop’

Dylan Smith

September 15, 2026

Today in high-profile industry litigation: A firmly worded complaint filed by Universal Music Group (UMG) against DistroKid, which the major label says “is engaged in both deceptive trade practices and blatan... Read More...

The End of Streaming Fraud? Major Labels, Merlin, IMPALA, Hybe, and Multiple Distributors Take Aim at Manipulation With the ‘Streaming Integrity Initiative’

Dylan Smith

September 14, 2026

With an eye on making fake plays an issue of the past, the majors, Merlin, CD Baby, Too Lost, Hybe, and several others have joined the “Streaming Integrity Initiative,” which is designed to “prevent fraudulen... Read More...

Suno’s Post-Overhaul Dealmaking Streak Continues With Believe ‘Strategic Partnership’ — Including TuneCore Distribution for ‘All Tracks’ Generated by Its Licensed Models

Dylan Smith

September 8, 2026

A month and change after announcing a sweeping policy overhaul, Suno has scored another high-profile licensing deal – this time with Believe as well as its TuneCore subsidiary. Paris-headquartered Believe re... Read More...

In an era of average AI, what's the 'human premium'?

In the Era of Average AI Music, What’s ‘The Human Premium’?

Michael Whalen

September 8, 2026

AI is very good at creating—or regurgitating—perfectly average, unoriginal music in extreme quantities. That is a big, big problem for human musicians who are also creating perfectly average, unoriginal musi... Read More...

The Quiet Death of Playlist Chasing

Michael Whalen

September 6, 2026

Getting heard was never the same thing as building an audience... For the better part of the last decade, independent musicians have participated in one of the strangest rituals in modern music marketing. We... Read More...

Your Distributor Doesn’t Matter Until It Really, Really Matters

Michael Whalen

September 2, 2026

Pay attention. It’s your music and they handle a lot. I have been actively looking for a new music distributor, which is one of those jobs that sounds simple until you actually start doing it. I compared ser... Read More...

Simply Add Major Label Lighter Fluid: Warner Music Inks Distribution and Studio Deal With Austria’s Tonherd

Dylan Smith

August 27, 2026

Warner Music Group’s aggressive international expansion isn’t finished yet: Warner Music Austria’s roster is officially set to gain “direct access to” Vienna-based indie Tonherd’s “state-of-the-art” studio un... Read More...

The End of the Definitive Recording

Michael Whalen

August 26, 2026

Every musician knows the moment. After weeks, months, sometimes years of writing, recording, editing, overdubbing, mixing, second-guessing, remixing, mastering, unmastering, remastering, and listening to the ... Read More...

After Facebook: Building a Music Career After Social Media

Michael Whalen

August 24, 2026

In June, I dumped my Facebook account. I did not deactivate it for a while or dramatically announce that I was taking a break. I deleted it because I had grown tired of the advertising, the clutter and, most ... Read More...

As UGC Lawsuits Rage, Epidemic Sound Offers a Strikingly Different Licensing Approach

Paul Resnikoff

August 20, 2026

Shake a stick in this business, and you’ll quickly find a contentious lawsuit involving social media music licensing. Great for the lawyers, as they say, but is there a better way? Sadly, that’s a critical ... Read More...

DMN Pro Exclusive

More Than One-Third of Apple Music Subscribers Are Now Part of Bundled Plans, Latest Data Reveals

Paul Resnikoff

August 18, 2026

Last month, DMN Pro exclusively revealed that Apple Music had quietly surpassed Spotify in the critical US-based subscriber race. Now, more intel shared with Digital Music News shows that a growing number of Apple Music subscribers are appearing in broader Apple One bundles.

WNXP Director of Partnerships & Projects
Company: Nashville Public Radio
Location: Nashville, Other / Non-US, 37201, United States
Senior Marketing Manager
Company: Sound Credit
Location: Drivable to Memphis, TN preferred, but open to remote for the right candidate. Southeastern, US OK
Social Media & Content Manager
Company: SoundStock
Location: Las Vegas HQ
Director of Marketing
Company: Musixmatch
Location: Bologna or Remote
Vice President, Global Head of Fraud Prevention
Company: UMG, the Universal Music Group
Location: Full Time Remote, California and New York

SRR Capital Launches With a VC-Style Approach to Music Investing

What Is Attribution?

So Busy With "The Quiet Time..."

Netflix Won the Streaming Wars. YouTube Changed the Rules.

Indonesia: One of the World’s Most Promising Digital Music Markets

What Politicians Could Learn from the Music Business: A Midterm Election Primer

Musixmatch Re-Inks With DistroKid; Partnership Aims to Help Independent Artists Layer More Lyrics Into Their Releases

DMN Pro Weekly: The Suno Subpoena Wars Are Targeting the Music Industry’s Deepest, Darkest Secrets. Here’s Where Things Stand.

What Is Attribution?

Create Music Emerges from the Shadows as a DistroKid Minority Investor

Former Sony, Discovery, WWE Executive James Rosenstock Joins Too Lost as CFO

SubmitHub Bans AI Music Submissions: ‘We Don’t Need More Noise’

Universal Music Sues DistroKid for Copyright Infringement and Deceptive Trade Practices, Says the Distributor ‘Is Flooding Platforms With AI-Generated Slop’

The End of Streaming Fraud? Major Labels, Merlin, IMPALA, Hybe, and Multiple Distributors Take Aim at Manipulation With the ‘Streaming Integrity Initiative’

Suno’s Post-Overhaul Dealmaking Streak Continues With Believe ‘Strategic Partnership’ — Including TuneCore Distribution for ‘All Tracks’ Generated by Its Licensed Models

In the Era of Average AI Music, What’s ‘The Human Premium’?

Your Distributor Doesn’t Matter Until It Really, Really Matters

Simply Add Major Label Lighter Fluid: Warner Music Inks Distribution and Studio Deal With Austria’s Tonherd

The End of the Definitive Recording

As UGC Lawsuits Rage, Epidemic Sound Offers a Strikingly Different Licensing Approach

More Than One-Third of Apple Music Subscribers Are Now Part of Bundled Plans, Latest Data Reveals