Music Technology UK (MTUK), the trade association for the UK’s Music Tech sector, recently relaunched FemTUK, its community supporting female founders and aspiring founders in Music Tech. It’s now appointed Sarah Jones, […]
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The Open Innovation CMO: Sacem Lab, New Tech, and Creator Tools – with Julien Lefebvre, Head of Innovation and SACEM Lab
Collective management is no longer just about collecting royalties; it’s about innovating infrastructure and offering direct services. In the second in a special series of Music Ally Focus we were […]
UK music startups raised £14m of public funding since 2020
In a busy day for announcements about music-related funding of different kinds, industry body Music Technology UK has published its latest report: focusing on government investment in music-tech startups. It calculates […]
Music, gaming, and innovation – “Fandom is in a different league in video games!”
This is news coverage of Music Ally Connect 2026 – our international music business conference that is taking place 22–23 January 2026 in London. To introduce the conference’s music and […]
Dune raising £2m for platform where fans buy stakes in artists
We don’t get to write about complex but lushly-produced space opera films much, but… Oh wait, not THAT Dune. No, this Dune is a music/tech startup based in the UK, which is […]
Stem-separation startup Audioshake raises $14m funding round
It’s just over four years since we first wrote about AI stem-separation startup Audioshake, and just under four since its first $2m seed-funding round. Now the US-based company has raised a $14m […]
Boomy taps Google’s Lyria 2 for LoopMagic stem-making service
LoopMagic is the AI tool launched by startup Boomy and producer Ramon ‘!llmind’ Ibannga Jr in 2024 as a way to create loops and sounds for musicians’ projects. Now it’s getting […]
Aiode emerges from closed beta with $5.5m more seed funding
AI-music startup Aiode was one of the winners of our Music Ally SI:X startups contest in 2024, before joining the Abbey Road REDD incubator program. Now it has launched its desktop app after […]
AI music roundup: SoundPatrol, Suno Studio, SGAE study, UK concerns…
We brought you news of Spotify’s new measure to tackle AI spam and impersonation yesterday. But it was a bumper day for other news relating to AI, music, the impact on creators […]
The Beat Goes On: How Artist Growth is Orchestrating the Future of Music Business Management
Twelve years. In music industry time, that’s roughly equivalent to 47 regular years, given how fast things move around here. When we started Artist Growth back in 2012, smartphones were […]
Five lines of code worth asking for
This is a guest column by Benji Rogers, co-founder of AI attribution startup Sureel and founder of PledgeMusic. He believes that rightsholders are in a “rare” moment of leverage – and that they must now demand transparency in the age of generative AI.
The AI tipping point is happening – and here’s how it will affect the music industry
This is a guest post by veteran tech and music executive Virginie Berger. It’s the latest in a short series of posts by Berger on high-level AI developments and how she thinks they may impact the music industry.

