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- Music Business Worldwide · 30 Oct 2026UMG’s share price closes up 7.9% – adding around $2.5B in value – after Q3 subscription growth beats forecasts
- Music Business Worldwide · 30 Oct 2026From Universal Music’s $3.90bn quarter to Spotify’s AI remix gamble… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
- CMU · 30 Oct 2026Spotify aiming to get AI remix product live in early 2027, even though it remains unclear if artists and fans are all that interested in it
- CMU · 30 Oct 2026CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
- The Guardian · 30 Oct 2026The week’s best new tracks and the act you need to know: Dutch squat-punks Bombstrap’s uncompromising racket
- The Guardian · 30 Oct 2026Radie Peat: No Human Tongue Can Tell review – Lankum singer’s solo debut is the year’s best folk album
- Music Business Worldwide · 30 Oct 2026Copyright Alliance – whose members include the RIAA, NMPA, and UMG – calls Meta’s proposed business terms ‘unconscionable.’ Now Meta says the rollout could be delayed again.
- Music Business Worldwide · 30 Oct 2026Suno fights to make Apple testify on whether Apple Music could survive without UMG and Sony, claiming the majors use their catalogs ‘as a cudgel’ to win anti-AI concessions
- Music Business Worldwide · 30 Oct 2026Garth Brooks cancels Kansas City show, saying bots made up most of a 90,000-plus ticket queue
- Music Business Worldwide · 30 Oct 2026Goldman Sachs just told the music industry to sell to fans first
- Music Business Worldwide · 30 Oct 2026Suno’s new MCP tool lets users make songs inside ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini – as its developer API gets a sign-in portal but remains in beta
- Music Business Worldwide · 30 Oct 2026Spotify plans Q1 2027 launch for AI covers and remixes tool, weighing $4–$5 monthly price (report)
- The Guardian · 30 Oct 2026Kali Malone: Burning Song review – drone composer wields Bach’s organ to breathtaking effect
- The Guardian · 30 Oct 2026‘Ignorance towards immigration is horrible. It’s not British’: Skepta on his long-awaited return – and his anger at the racist right
- CMU · 29 Oct 2026Brazil enforces new ticket touting laws ahead of BTS shows, as more artists criticise ticketing bots
- CMU · 29 Oct 2026🎧 Approved: Big Softy
- The Guardian · 29 Oct 2026‘He buckled. I could hear his bass ringing out ...’ The luminous rise and tragic end of US alt heroes Morphine
- The Guardian · 29 Oct 2026‘Algorithms make everything predictable’: why the CD is making a comeback