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Sia’s Catalog Snags a Cool $180 Million for a 50% Share; Pophouse Has Big Plans Ahead

Paul Resnikoff

October 1, 2026

Stockholm-based entertainment and music investment powerhouse Pophouse Entertainment has officially acquired a 50% stake in the publishing and master recording rights of Australian singer-songwriter Sia, per ... Read More...

A Tale of Two Industries: Music AI 2.0

Michael Whalen

September 25, 2026

AI music is not going away. It is separating into a transient synthetic economy and an artist-centered business built around identity, ownership, relationships and fans. Something fundamental is happening in... Read More...

The Return of Physical Product. Kinda…

Michael Whalen

September 22, 2026

Streaming won the listening war. Physical media found another job: making money. Apparently physical media is back, which is wonderful news for anyone who has spent the past twenty years wondering what to do... Read More...

The Curious Case of Stella Lefty

Michael Whalen

September 16, 2026

Your feed made her famous and then called it “organic” discovery. The music business loves a miracle, especially one it can invoice. Every few months, a new artist supposedly appears from nowhere, posts the ... 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 Next Fan May Never Search for You

Michael Whalen

August 30, 2026

Imagine someone sitting at home late at night and saying, “Play me something spacious and beautiful that I haven’t heard before. No vocals. Piano is fine, but nothing too sentimental.” Who gets played? That q... Read More...

How Wax Motif Uses Live Crowds and Social Media to Test Unreleased Music

Candese Charles

August 26, 2026

Wax Motif has spent all spring and summer this year bringing his sophomore album, House of Wax II, to dance floors around the world. But some of the dropped tracks filling his iconic sets have yet to be relea... 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...

Your New Collaborator: Train Your Own AI With Your Own Music

Michael Whalen

August 19, 2026

For the last few years, musicians have been asking the wrong question about artificial intelligence. Can AI write a song? Of course it can. Can it compose music, imitate a voice, generate an orchestral cue, ... Read More...

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