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- 22 Sept
22 SeptWinamp is building its own streaming subscription on Deezer's technology, launching H1 2027
- Winamp announced the Deezer partnership on July 29, 2026 from Brussels and Paris, and Digital Music News surfaced it on September 21.
- Deezer supplies white-label streaming technology and its catalogue; the subscription ships under the Winamp brand.
- The new Winamp Player is scheduled for H1 2027.
- 21 Sept
21 SeptAI artists can't perform live? Gorillaz answered that in 2005, and Unit1 has $20m to scale it
- Unit1 Studio raised $20m, close to £15m, in a round led by Balderton Capital partner Daniel Waterhouse.
- Gorillaz put their animated band on stage at the 2005 MTV EMAs and the 2006 Grammys, then cancelled the tour on cost.
- Hatsune Miku has played 91 Miku Expo shows since 2014, with pre-recorded vocals over a live band.
- 21 Sept
21 SeptKorea takes the AI music registration question to the National Assembly on September 22
- Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced the forum on Monday, September 21, 2026.
- The session runs on Tuesday, September 22 at the National Assembly, co-hosted with the office of Rep. Kim Jae-won.
- The third co-host is the K-Music Rights Organizations Coexistence Committee, a coalition of 6 industry groups.
- 21 Sept
21 SeptSting says AI music is singing a borrowed story, and the labour economy is what worries him
- Sting made the comments on the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, broadcast on September 20, 2026.
- He said AI can write serviceable pop music but has never had its heart broken, so the story in the song is borrowed.
- He said he feels no competition from AI because audiences still want to watch a human who can make mistakes.
- 18 Sept
18 SeptSamori Coles and Olivia B. Moore are putting on an AI creator weekend in Atlanta this October
- AI Music & Video Creator Weekend runs October 17 and 18, 2026 at Cr8tive Lyfe Studios in Atlanta.
- Samori Coles is Executive Director and Olivia B. Moore is Co-Producer, with AI Soundcheck and Sound & Screen presenting.
- Saturday night is a $25 meetup and listening event where ticket holders can submit a track to be played.
- 18 Sept
18 SeptLuke Bryan denies AI wrote his single, and says writers cloned his voice on the demo
- Luke Bryan says he has never used AI to write any song he has been part of, in a radio interview with Big D & Bubba.
- The accusations followed Fish Hunt Golf Drink, a track from his album Signs, written with Chase McGill and Matt Dragstrem.
- Bryan says outside writers pitching him songs cloned his voice onto their demos so he could hear himself on the track before recording it.
- 17 Sept
17 SeptAnthropic scanned songbooks and threw the paper away, and publishers want the titles
- Music publishers told a California court that Anthropic bought songbooks and sheet music, scanned every page, and threw the paper away.
- They want the program, which Anthropic called Project Panama internally, opened up in the first round of evidence gathering.
- Anthropic says the question belongs in the second round, after the judge rules in the older Concord case.
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- 17 Sept
17 SeptBelieve and TuneCore put 2 consent checks between your music and Suno
- Believe CEO Denis Ladegaillerie says no Believe or TuneCore music enters an AI training set without artist consent first.
- The process has two steps, a general opt-in to AI programs and then a separate yes or no on the Suno deal by name.
- An artist who opts out is excluded from training Suno's models and from anything those models generate.
- 17 Sept
17 SeptSubmitHub now blocks any track its detector scores 85% likely AI
- SubmitHub is blocking any submission its own detector scores at 85% or higher likelihood of being AI.
- The block covers pure AI and hybrid AI alike, and writing the lyrics yourself earns no exemption.
- Roughly 11% of tracks uploaded in the past month cleared that 85% mark.
- 17 Sept
17 SeptA third breach lawsuit hits Suno, filed 10 days after the first two were merged
- Michael Beckham filed a third proposed class action against Suno on September 3, 2026 in Massachusetts.
- It landed 10 days after Judge Allison D. Burroughs merged the two earlier breach cases into one.
- The complaint says the stolen dataset held roughly 55.3 million email addresses plus tens of thousands of Stripe purchase records.
- 17 Sept
17 SeptUniversal and Warner say one answer the AFM gave in July ended its own AI pay case
- Universal and Warner Records filed their closing written answers in the AFM case on September 11, 2026.
- Both point to July 21, when the union's lawyer told Judge Edgardo Ramos that no AFM agreement covers AI use.
- Universal argues the clause the union relies on borrows its rate from another agreement, and that no such agreement exists.
- 16 Sept
16 SeptSuno hired Cherry Miao as its first CFO, 3 months after the $5.4B round
- Cherry Miao announced on September 14, 2026 that she has joined Suno as its first Chief Financial Officer.
- She was previously CFO at Hightouch, where she ran finance, legal, data and revenue operations.
- Suno raised more than $400M in June 2026 at a $5.4B post-money valuation, led by Bond Capital.
- 15 Sept
15 Sept3 in 4 AI tracks are distributed through DistroKid, and TuneCore's share fell by two thirds
- DistroKid carried 77.6% of AI releases with distributor data in SIQA's Mid-Year 2026 report, up from 75.8% in Q1.
- TuneCore fell from 4.7% to 1.7% after Believe and TuneCore began blocking unlicensed Suno tracks in April 2026.
- Self-released tracks came second at 6.2%, followed by LANDR at 4.9%, UnitedMasters at 3.5% and Ditto at 3.1%.
- 15 Sept
15 SeptFemale voices are the most popular sound in AI music, 2 reports running
- Female-presenting artists held 56% of the most popular AI songs across 20 chart weeks, against 35% male-presenting and 9% neutral or group.
- The period closed with 6 of the 10 most popular AI songs credited to female-presenting artists.
- SIQA measures the vocal presentation of the artist persona, not the gender of the human creator, and states the distinction in the report.
- 15 Sept
15 SeptGospel is the fastest-growing genre in AI music, and it beats R&B on results
- Gospel nearly doubled its share of AI music releases from 8.1% in Q1 2026 to 14.0% at mid-year, the fastest growth of any genre.
- Gospel took 25% of the most popular AI songs in the final 10 chart weeks, while R&B/Soul fell from 63% to 25% over the same windows.
- R&B/Soul still leads releases at 32.0%, so Gospel matches it on results with less than half the output.
- 15 Sept
15 SeptA Suno song hit No. 89 on Melon's Top 100, and its creator collects no songwriting royalties
- The track "Forest of the Heart" by the YouTube channel Joseon Hiphop entered Melon's Top 100 on September 6, 2026, peaking at No. 89, and left the chart on September 8.
- The creator wrote the lyrics by hand, then prompted Suno for the composition and the vocals, which makes the track AI-assisted rather than fully AI-generated.
- Three more Joseon Hiphop songs were sitting on Melon's Hot 100 as of September 13, 2026.
- 15 Sept
15 SeptMajor labels are releasing AI music now, and a Warner artist held the AI No.1 for 14 weeks
- The Second Voice, released through Warner's Spinnin' Records, held the SIQA AI No.1 for 14 straight weeks, the first major-label AI artist to top the chart.
- Tyga charted with a peak of No.8 after confirming he used Suno on $TARFACE, and Fenix Flexin charted with RUBBERZ.
- In Q1 the only industry names on the chart sat at No.76 and No.88, so the arrival accelerated sharply in 6 months.
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