Stuart Dredge, Author at Music Ally

Firebird Music reveals $750m fund for catalogue acquisitions

Stuart Dredge — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:45:00 +0000

Firebird Music Holdings came to prominence in 2023, although it had been investing in various management firms and independent labels for a year and a half before that, backed by investment firm Raine Group.

Notes·fm launches its open music-credits database Credits·fm

Stuart Dredge — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The music industry never did quite get its ‘global repertoire database’ off the ground, but the last decade has seen a number of individual (sometimes linked) efforts to gather music-metadata and make it useful for rightsholders, musicians and digital services alike.

Live Nation to livestream Pitbull’s bald-cap world-record attempt

Stuart Dredge — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0000

Pitbull’s BST Hyde Park concert this July in London won’t just be a collection of bangers from Mr Worldwide’s back catalogue.

Openstage is connecting fan-data to Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT

Stuart Dredge — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:45:00 +0000

Beyond the heated debates and dealmaking around GenAI music, use of chatbots and other AI tools is growing rapidly across the music industry. Now fan-data firm Openstage is leaning in to that dynamic with its latest tool.

Beatport Greenroom is a B2B dashboard for artists and labels

Stuart Dredge — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:30:00 +0000

Today’s the day (1 July) for Beatport’s leadership transition, with CEO Robb McDaniels handing over the electronic-music brand’s reins to colleagues Matt Gralen (now CEO) and Helen Sartory (now president and COO).

Misheard ‘Doobie Scoot Canoe’ lyric fuels a big TikTok surge

Stuart Dredge — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:18:35 +0000

“Excuse me while I kiss this guy… All the lonely Starbucks lovers… Parrot, parrot, parrot eyes…” There’s a long history of collectively-misheard lyrics. And now we can add “Doobie Scoot Canoe” to the list.

Impala outlines new five-step plan for the digital-music market

Stuart Dredge — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:03:04 +0000

European independent-music body Impala is never shy about putting forward its views on how the music industry should develop. The latest example being its five-point plan to”transform the digital music market” as it reaches the milestone of one billion streaming subscribers.

Musician Dave Rowntree loses appeal in PRS for Music battle

Stuart Dredge — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has received another, seemingly-final setback in his battle against UK collecting society PRS for Music over ‘black box’ royalties.

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.

Tidal allows AI-generated music – but it won’t earn royalties

Stuart Dredge — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:18:45 +0000

Tidal is the latest music-streaming service to set out its policies around AI-generated music, and it’s going further than many of its peers in one respect: it won’t be paying royalties out for these tracks.

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.

Report: There are now more than 400m Gen-Z fans of esports

Stuart Dredge — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:55:54 +0000

It’s been a little while since we checked in on the esports market, but y’know who’s checking in regularly on professional gaming tournaments? Gen-Z, that’s who.

Sprite and Genius launch ‘The Living Tracklist’ hip-hop campaign

Stuart Dredge — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:44:27 +0000

Hip-hop nostalgics could lose plenty of time going misty-eyed while scrolling through Genius and Sprite’s ‘The Living Tracklist’ collaboration.

Le Sserafim return to the stage of gaming event BlizzCon 2026

Stuart Dredge — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:38:22 +0000

BlizzCon is the annual convention held by games company Blizzard Entertainment, whose franchises include World of Warcraft, Diablo, Hearthstone and Overwatch.

Backstreet Boys are latest artists to file for voice trademarks

Stuart Dredge — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:31:06 +0000

Everybody! (Yeah!) File your trademarks! (Yeah!) Everybody! (Yeah!) Protect your body of vocal work… alright!