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Music Ally Insight Report :: International Focus 2026
Welcome to our sixth annual Music Ally International Focus report – where we bring all of Music Ally’s Country Profiles published in the last 12 months into one place.
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!K7 calls for indie labels to measure EDI as well as their climate impact
Independent labels in Europe have been making notable progress measuring their climate impact. !K7 thinks EDI could get the same treatment.
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German artists call for crackdown on secondary ticketing
We’ve been covering the debates and legislation around secondary-ticketing reform in the UK and US. Now Germany is also seeing a step-up in calls from the music industry for change. […]
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German collecting society GEMA reveals its 2025 distributions
“Strong growth despite difficult trading conditions,” is the summary of German collecting society GEMA’s 2025 in its annual report.
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Germany joins the recorded-music slowdown with 2.3% growth
German labels body BVMI has published its figures for 2025, revealing that the country’s recorded-music market grew by 2.3% last year to €2.42bn (around $2.82bn at current exchange rates). That’s a […]
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Behind The Campaign: Alex Warren
US singer-songwriter Alex Warren first came to prominence as a founding member of The Hype House, the TikTok-centric creator group based in Los Angeles. From here he started releasing music […]
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Production-music firm Sonoton adds ‘VIP’ sample-curation service
German production-music company Sonoton Music has an enviable client list in terms of artists, with Kendrick Lamar, PinkPantheress, Drake…
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EarthPercent’s Cathy Runciman: “There’s a groundswell now of music as resistance”
At Berlin’s Most Wanted: Music conference yesterday, Cathy Runciman, co-executive director of EarthPercent, the environmental charity organisation co-founded by Brian Eno, spoke about how music can – and maybe could – […]
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GEMA scores court victory in its copyright battle with OpenAI
German collecting society GEMA has scored a victory in its lawsuit against OpenAI, with a court ruling that the latter infringed copyright.
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Germany’s rap boom has a dark side: neo-Nazi hate speech
TikTok is under the spotlight again over its moderation policies – and this time there is a direct music angle. An investigation by news agency AFP has revealed that “far-right German-language rappers […]
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Spotify update: German rap playlist, Lagos Greasy Tunes pop-up
Recent years have seen a sustained period of streaming success for German rap (or Deutschrap). Now Spotify is throwing more weight behind it.
