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- 11 Sept
AI Music News 11 SeptSIQA announces the first AI Music Awards for November 13, 2026 in Los Angeles, plus a one-day SIQA Summit
- SIQA hosts the first AI Music Awards on Friday, November 13, 2026 at The Mayan in Downtown Los Angeles.
- The SIQA Summit runs the day before, November 12, with panels, demo lounges, a networking mixer, and the first awards handed out at a Premiere Ceremony.
- 25 categories cover AI Song, Artist, Album and Producer of the Year plus genre and classification awards, and verified AI artists pick the winners.
- 10 Sept
AI Music News 10 SeptApple puts always-on Shazam on the wrist with Audio Intelligence on Apple Watch Series 12
- Apple announced Audio Intelligence for Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 on September 9, 2026.
- Shazam is one of four Audio Intelligence features, alongside Sound Recognition, Live Rewind and Siri Recap.
- The watch names the song and artist on the Music Recognition widget in the Smart Stack without the wearer tapping anything.
- 10 Sept
AI Music News 10 SeptTicketmaster is the first music partner for Meta's Muse AI agent, but it won't buy your tickets
- Ticketmaster is available as a connector inside Muse, the personal AI agent Meta announced on September 8, 2026.
- Once a fan adds the connector, Muse surfaces concerts and other live events with real-time seating options and ticket pricing.
- Muse does not complete the sale. Fans are passed to Ticketmaster's marketplace to pay.
- 10 Sept
AI Music News 10 SeptMeta's Muse AI now posts from @muse on Instagram, and the band Muse is at @museband
- Meta's Muse team is now posting from @muse on both Instagram and X after Mark Zuckerberg announced the AI agent on September 8, 2026.
- The British rock band Muse, which has used the name for over 30 years, posts from @museband on both platforms.
- The band made the switch this summer, months before Meta's announcement, which fans read at the time as a sign something was coming.
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- 10 Sept
AI Music News 10 SeptThe 10 Swimming With Narwhals 2026 semi-finalists are mostly plumbing, not consumer apps
- Music Tectonics and the Yamaha Music Innovations Fund named 10 semi-finalists for the 2026 Swimming With Narwhals pitch competition.
- The semi-finalists pitch at the Music Tectonics Online Pre-conference on September 23, 2026.
- Four finalists are then selected to pitch in person to a jury of investors in Santa Monica from October 27 to 29, 2026.
- 10 Sept
AI Music News 10 SeptUniversal Music signs ElevenLabs to a multi-year deal, one day after Suno launched its label-backed v6
- Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs announced a multi-year licensing agreement and strategic collaboration on September 10, 2026.
- It is ElevenLabs' first agreement with a major label.
- The first product is a fan-facing AI music creation platform built on licensed music and artist participation, still in development.
- 09 Sept
AI Music News 09 SeptSuno admits it took YouTube audio with YT-DLP, then says the labels can't sue over it
- Suno filed a 26-page answer on September 1 in Massachusetts federal court, responding to the first amended complaint from UMG Recordings, Capitol Records and Sony Music Entertainment.
- The answer states that "audio data was obtained from YouTube for use as training data using YT-DLP", and repeats the YouTube point at five further places in the document.
- Suno argues UMG and Sony lack standing on the stream-ripping claim, saying they are not "person[s] injured" under DMCA Section 1203(a).
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I'm Christopher Wieduwilt. Founder of The AI Musicpreneur.
Christopher Wieduwilt
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I've been a musician for over 25 years — metal bands in Germany, a solo singer-songwriter project that toured the US coast to coast, 500,000+ plays on Myspace. Then Myspace crashed and I lost my entire fanbase overnight.
After that I worked inside the music industry for years on the business side: managing artists, working for record labels, organising concerts and festivals. Watched the same mistakes repeat on newer platforms.
In 2023, generative music AI started reshaping everything: production, promotion, rights, revenue. I started covering AI in music production in August 2023, before Suno's public launch. 200+ stories since.
Today the site is read by 20,000 music professionals every month — Grammy-winning engineers, artists, and people inside Warner Music, AWAL, Believe, Songtradr, and UnitedMasters.
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My article on What is AI music covers this in full: how AI models are trained on audio, what generation tools can and can't do, and where the copyright questions stand.
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Practice is shifting. The US Copyright Office has ruled that purely AI-generated output doesn't qualify for copyright protection. Is AI music copyrighted covers the current legal position, the active lawsuits, and what this means for artists using AI tools in their work.
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