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Lume to offer fans ‘the world of an album’ – and Lorde is on board

Stuart Dredge — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:30:00 +0000

It’s a year since the release of Lorde’s fourth album, ‘Virgin’, and she celebrated the anniversary by dropping 49 demos for fans to enjoy – as well as teasing a new startup partnership.

Innovate UK launches £10m funding competition for ‘createch’ startups – music included

Stuart Dredge — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:23:47 +0000

Innovate UK’s latest competition will see it invest up to £10m in ‘createch’ startups. The good news being that music startups are very much invited to the party.

GigLogic is a “gig intelligence platform” to help artists evaluate live gig income

Joe Sparrow — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:15:00 +0000

Touring, as every artist knows, is a tough game. Uncertainty is high, margins are razor thin, and once an artist deducts piffling luxuries like, erm, accommodation and food from their income, tours often end in losses. It’s no wonder some bands are asking the 6 Music Dads to help wind up their cables after the show.

Tuned Global partners with music prediction app FanLabel

Joe Sparrow — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:15:00 +0000

It’s prediction market news week here on Music Ally, apparently – to catch up, try listening to The Price of Music from a couple of days ago – and in that episode, we wondered how the music business might best engage with prediction markets – which, remember, is a market that’s worth over half-billion dollars already this year.

Tools :: Highnote FM

Sonia Chien and Marlen Hüllbrock — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

As legacy platform algorithms become less creator-friendly, many artists have faced the dilemma of their fans not seeing tour dates, release announcements and other updates on their feeds.

Reactional Music wins €2.5 million EIC grant to scale gaming “music monetisation layer”

Joe Sparrow — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:45:00 +0000

We’ve written about Stockholm-based Reactional Music a lot before, including a series of partnerships with industry rightsholders, and a $2m fundraising round. Their premise is a tantalising one: a platform that helps game developers not only add music to their games in a rights-compliant way, but to also make the game ‘react’ to that music in real-time.

Music Technology UK relaunches FemTUK and aims to increase number of female founders

Joe Sparrow — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:45:00 +0000

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, who has previously worked at Songkick and the BBC, as FemTUK’s Chair. Her appointment arrives alongside some MTUK research data that FemTUK will be aiming to change: just 12.4% of UK music tech companies are female-led, compares to 16.3% across the broader tech sector and 18% for the UK economy overall. Within MTUK’s own membership the figure is slightly higher, at 14.6%.

UK-based Virtuoso Music expands into India

Amit Gurbaxani — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:55:45 +0000

UK-based music company Virtuoso Music, which is “dedicated to empowering artists, amplifying creativity and creating experiences”, has announced its expansion into India. Like in the UK, the firm will work […]

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Anukari is a virtual 3D Lego-like build-your-own synth platform

Joe Sparrow — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:30:00 +0000

We in Music Ally’s Editorial team are always looking for ways to distract ourselves from work (Hey, get back to your writing – ed.) and this year the World Cup, being many time zones away, isn’t providing its usual second-screen role. Enter Anukari, which might do the trick: part synth, part virtual physics playground, Anukari is a virtual 3D instrument that lets musicians create sound by connecting virtual objects and seeing what happens.

AI background music startup Tringbox is also working with live venues

Amit Gurbaxani — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:55:26 +0000

Among the venues that Indian AI background music startup Tringbox has been working with are cafés, restaurants, bars, nightclubs and hotels—places that are likely to also host live performances. The […]

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AI Round Up: platform news, new marketing tools, and SZA, Jack Conte and Fenix Flexin

Joe Sparrow — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:06:45 +0000

AI is in an unusual position where it sparks polarised public opinions, yet is simultaneously being used by everyone and their dog to do things that they couldn’t do before: make efficiency gains, access information and analysis, or take new creative steps. And once again, a lot of AI news has arrived at all once, and so we’ve pulled it together in a few bundles to try and parse it all.

Atonemo and NTS Radio team up to create dedicated radio player device

Joe Sparrow — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:30:00 +0000

If you were at Music Ally NEXT last week, you’ll have seen Leo Ballesteros, founder of Swedish audio company Atonemo and one of the finalists in our International Entrepreneur of the Year contest, talk about the launch of a neat little product based on the company’s Streamplayer. It’s called the NTS Radio Player, and it’s made in collaboration with the online radio platform NTS. Besides working as a standard Streamplayer, it also has two buttons and a dedicated selection-wheel that “tunes in” to NTS’s two main stations or their 16 themed “infinite mixtape” channels.

Indian AI background music startup Tringbox raises seed funding

Amit Gurbaxani — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:48:26 +0000

Tringbox is an Indian AI startup that’s making background music more generic and specific at the same time. The Mumbai-headquartered company has built what it describes as an “environment-aware” platform […]

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Live-focused superfans startup Swsh raises $4m funding round

Stuart Dredge — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Swsh is the latest superfan-focused music startup, but its focus is on a specific aspect of fandom: live experiences. And now it has $4m to continue building that out.

Indigo is the latest startup connecting artists and superfans

Stuart Dredge — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:30:00 +0000

There is no shortage of startups hoping to help artists connect with their keenest fans. The latest to join the throng is Indigo, whose co-founders include Demi Weitz, whose Quarantunes initiative raised nearly $40m during the pandemic.