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DDEX Announces ElevenLabs as First AI Company to Join Its Ranks

November 5, 2026

International standards organization for the music industry, DDEX, has announced AI audio research company ElevenLabs joining as a full member. Digital Data Exchange (DDEX), the not-for-profit international ... Read More...

What Is Attribution?

Michael Whalen

November 1, 2026

Attribution may become one of the most useful bridges between human creativity and AI music. At its simplest, it gives us a way to see which compositions, recordings, performances and creative choices helped... Read More...

Musixmatch Acquires Songdex Owner Music Reports, Says It’s Transforming Into ‘A Full-Stack Rights and Royalties Platform’

Dylan Smith

October 19, 2026

With an eye on evolving into “a full-stack rights and royalties platform” – and ushering in "the next generation of agentic royalty management" – lyrics database Musixmatch has scooped up Music Reports, Inc. ... Read More...

Will the Music Industry Ever Get a Handle on Rightsholder Payouts?

Paul Resnikoff

October 12, 2026

Digital formats have been around for decades. So why is the music industry still struggling with sluggish payouts, metadata mismatches, and the accumulation of enormous unpaid tranches? According to mass paym... Read More...

What Your Music Data Doesn’t Know Could Be Costing You Money

Eric Baptiste

October 5, 2026

Data quality in the music business is no longer just an administrative concern — it's a revenue issue. When repertoire and rights information is incomplete, inconsistent, or poorly reconciled across the ecosy... Read More...

Three Ways To NOT Get Paid for Your Music, According to a Top Metadata Expert

Natalie Jacobs (Equalizer Consulting)

September 29, 2026

A look at some common (and often invisible) issues blocking your royalties and how to unblock them to get your revenue flowing. The following article, from DMN partner Equalizer Consulting, offers a step-by-... 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...

Voice-Swap Joins DDEX, Eyes ‘Consent and Authorization Metadata’ Contributions as AI Vocals Become ‘Part of Real Production and Commercial Workflows’

Dylan Smith

September 24, 2026

With an eye on making “interoperable metadata” the norm for AI-powered voice models, Voice-Swap has joined the Digital Data Exchange (DDEX) as a full member. DDEX and London-headquartered Voice-Swap made th... 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...

RIAA, A2IM, IMPALA, and Others Announce Track-Level ‘Labeling Program’ for AI Audio, Target ‘Broad, Global Adoption’ Across DSPs

Dylan Smith

July 10, 2026

One AI audio avalanche later, the RIAA, A2IM, IMPALA, and several others have introduced a program to label machine-generated tracks on streaming services. The mentioned organizations, besides the IFPI, the... Read More...

Clarifying or Confusing? CISAC Introduces AVR+ Global Format for Audiovisual Music Data

Ashley King

June 18, 2026

CISAC launches the first global format to modernize audiovisual music data and improve payments, but will it cause more confusion than clarification? The International Confederation of Societies of Authors a... Read More...

Downtown’s CD Baby Unwraps a Full-Service Indie Artist Offering — Powered by the Indie Cred of Molly Neuman

Paul Resnikoff

May 11, 2026

Downtown’s CD Baby distribution mainstay, now part of Virgin Music Group, is expanding its core distribution know-how to include full-service, hands-on support for select indie artists. Here’s more on the jus... Read More...

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

What Is Attribution?

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

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

DDEX Announces ElevenLabs as First AI Company to Join Its Ranks

What Is Attribution?

Musixmatch Acquires Songdex Owner Music Reports, Says It’s Transforming Into ‘A Full-Stack Rights and Royalties Platform’

Will the Music Industry Ever Get a Handle on Rightsholder Payouts?

What Your Music Data Doesn’t Know Could Be Costing You Money

Three Ways To NOT Get Paid for Your Music, According to a Top Metadata Expert

A Tale of Two Industries: Music AI 2.0

Voice-Swap Joins DDEX, Eyes ‘Consent and Authorization Metadata’ Contributions as AI Vocals Become ‘Part of Real Production and Commercial Workflows’

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

RIAA, A2IM, IMPALA, and Others Announce Track-Level ‘Labeling Program’ for AI Audio, Target ‘Broad, Global Adoption’ Across DSPs

Clarifying or Confusing? CISAC Introduces AVR+ Global Format for Audiovisual Music Data

Downtown’s CD Baby Unwraps a Full-Service Indie Artist Offering — Powered by the Indie Cred of Molly Neuman