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  • Your imaginary record label can get started for $50
  • Spotify’s former Head of Innovation raises $5.5m pre-seed for music app startup; Dawn Ostroff among the backers
  • Khosla Ventures-backed AI music company GRAI acquires social music platform Hangout

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mashable.com /1 month ago

Your imaginary record label can get started for $50

Pay $49.99 for lifetime access to MusicMagic Starter, an AI music tool with 100 track generations, eight genres, cover art, and unlimited distribution.

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musicbusinessworldwide.com /1 month ago

Spotify’s former Head of Innovation raises $5.5m pre-seed for music app startup; Dawn Ostroff among the backers

The company, which builds apps that let people take apart and rebuild recorded music, was founded in 2024, the same year Zonoozy left Spotify. Source

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musicbusinessworldwide.com /1 month ago

Khosla Ventures-backed AI music company GRAI acquires social music platform Hangout

Hangout launched in November 2024 with a catalog of over 100 million tracks, licensed from Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Merlin. Source

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digitalmusicnews.com /1 month ago

‘Music Software Label’ A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya Raises $5.5 Million, Aims to Develop ‘The Next Great Consumer Music App’

Self-described “music (software) label” A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, founded by former Spotify head of innovation Máuhan Zonoozy, has scored a $5.5 million pre-seed raise. That multimil...

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musicbusinessworldwide.com /1 month ago

ElevenLabs adds section-by-section song editing to ElevenMusic, as Suno, Udio, and Google build out rival tools

Tracks can be built from a user's own lyrics, from an existing recording, from a text prompt, or from scratch, ElevenLabs said. Source

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digitalmusicnews.com /3 days ago

AI Music Instruction Startup ArtMaster Just Raised $2.4 Million, With WMG Chief Robert Kyncl Among the Backers

Prague-based startup ArtMaster raises $2.4 million in a seed round that will go into developing AI models to help people learn musical instruments. Prague-based startup ArtMaster h...

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musicbusinessworldwide.com /2 weeks ago

Google picks Base for Music for its Gemini Startup Forum – as $1.7M-backed French company says it uses AI to predict mus...

More than 100 startups taking part, from 17 countries, were selected from over 2,000 applications, according to Google Source

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moviemaker.com /5 days ago

Top 5 Music Promotion Services for Independent Artists in 2026

A finished single is not a launch plan. Every week, a few thousand independent releases land on Spotify, YouTube and

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edinburghnews.scotsman.com /1 week ago

CITY JAM founder launches AI-era accelerator and incubator model for music, starting with record labels

Pat Villaceran's new AI-era accelerator and incubator model for music aims to support the music industry in adapting to emerging technologies, starting with record labels.

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tuoitre.vn /1 week ago

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Thay vì xem bản quyền nhạc như một khoản chi phí ép buộc, startup Loudio mang đến góc nhìn mới: biến âm nhạc thương mại thành công cụ tăng doan...

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engadget.com /1 month ago

Universal Music Group is collaborating with ElevenLabs on a new AI-powered creation platform

The unnamed software will be built around licensed music from UMG artists who want to participate.

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weraveyou.com /2 weeks ago

Napster co-founder backs Stability AI’s music push alongside all three major labels

Sean Parker’s first act in music ended in court. Napster, the service he co-founded, was shut down in 2001 after the major labels sued. His second act has those same labels on the...

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indiepulsemusic.com /1 week ago

ReleaseJet Builds an AI-Powered Music Marketing Hub for the Modern Independent Artist

Independent artists face an increasingly demanding challenge in today’s music industry: creating music is only one part of building a successful career. From designing cover art an...

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digitalmusicnews.com /1 month ago

Spotify Wants to Blow You Up: ‘Fresh Finds Forward’ to Support 10,000 Emerging Indie Artists

Spotify launches Fresh Finds Forward, a program giving about 10,000 emerging indie artists annually the resources to support long-term growth. Spotify has announced Fresh Finds For...

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thenextweb.com /1 month ago

ElevenLabs signs its first major-label deal, licensing Universal music for a fan remix platform

Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have signed a multi-year licensing agreement and will build a music creation platform on it that lets fans produce remixes, mashups, new interp...

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routenote.com /1 week ago

Suno launches Live Experiences division to connect AI music with live shows

Suno is expanding into live music with a new division overseeing Songkick, aiming to connect music creation with concert discovery and help emerging artists reach fans. The post Su...

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musicbusinessworldwide.com /3 weeks ago

Direct-to-fan platform EVEN launches STUDIO, giving artists a standalone destination to sell music, tickets and merch

Artists can use STUDIO to release music or other content, sell tickets and merch, host livestreams, and more Source

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obscuresound.com /3 weeks ago

Spotify’s Fresh Finds Forward to Reach 10,000 Independent Artists a Year

Spotify has launched Fresh Finds Forward, a new program designed to give roughly 10,000 emerging independent artists each year structured support at the earliest stages of their mo...

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digitalmusicnews.com /1 month ago

ElevenLabs Launches Its ‘Best Music Model Yet’ in v2.5 — While Emphasizing That Universal Music’s Walled Garden ‘Deal Is...

ElevenLabs has officially launched ElevenMusic v2.5 – but not with its newest partner, Universal Music Group (UMG), which is collaborating on the development of a different product...

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digitalmusicnews.com /1 month ago

Suno Launches v6 Models With Support from Warner Music, Believe, and BMG, Says Artist-Specific Products Are ‘Next’

Moments after announcing a Believe partnership deal, Suno is now rolling out its Warner Music- and BMG-backed v6 models – with an eye on expanding into “opt-in experiences built ar...

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musicbusinessworldwide.com /1 week ago

Spotify launches Spotify Technology to sell its internal software tools to other companies, says the brand is ‘becoming...

Spotify Technology, groups four products – Portal, Confidence, Xirp, and Spotify for Backstage – under one name, with its own website. Source

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musicbusinessworldwide.com /1 month ago

ElevenLabs launched Music v2.5 – shortly after announcing its UMG licensing deal.

The model went live on September 11 and is now the default “for prompted and reference generation” in ElevenMusic, the company said. Source

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indiepulsemusic.com /1 month ago

The Independent Artist’s New Studio: From an Idea in Your Head to Digital Platforms Without Breaking the Bank

For any independent musician, the path separating a good idea in their head from a published song on Spotify has always been a route filled with financial and logistical obstacles....

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digitalmusicnews.com /2 weeks ago

Introducing ‘Spotify Technology’: DSP Kicks Off Enterprise-Focused Software Sales Expansion, Says Its Products Are ‘Beco...

Introducing Spotify Technology: The DSP is officially in the business of selling software and has already made several “battle-tested” products available to clients. Spotify disclo...

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