It shouldn’t be a surprise that Apple Music is raising the price of its subscriptions: the last time such a hike happened was four years ago in 2022.
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Tomorrowland and Fuji Rock Festival reveal livestream partners
We’re entering an era where the biggest, sold-outest festivals use livestreams as a core part of their strategy to reach larger audiences online, and build their brands globally. Two announcements yesterday continue the trend.
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Music business ended 2025 with 921.6m paid streaming subscribers
By the end of this year, it’s quite possible that there will be more than one billion music subscribers globally.
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Financials roundup: Apple, Roblox and Reddit Q1 2026 trends
Q1 financial-results season is up and running, so much so that we’re having to bundle some of the key announcements together today for reasons of space. We’ll start with Apple, which […]
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Texas Attorney General launches ‘bribery’ probe of big music-streaming services
“Don’t Mess with Texas” was the slogan of a 1980s public-information campaign launched by the US state to stop people littering its highways.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down at the start of September
Yesterday was clearly a day for ‘CEO stepping down’ announcements. Rumours have been bubbling about the future plans of Apple boss Tim Cook for a few months, and his company […]
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Apple Music adds ‘transparency tags’ for uses of AI with music
Apple Music is the latest streaming service trying to ensure people know when they’re listening to music where AI has been used.
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TikTok teams up with Apple Music for full-length streams and listening parties
TikTok users in some countries can now play full songs within its app… if they subscribe to streaming service Apple Music.
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Apple says it demonetised 2bn fraudulent music streams in 2025
Apple Music identified and demonetised up to 2bn fraudulent streams last year according to longtime exec Oliver Schusser. He was talking to The Hollywood Reporter about Apple’s ongoing efforts to tackle fraud […]
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Apple Music broke its revenues record in final quarter of 2025
The final quarter of 2025 was a lucrative one for Apple, as its fiscal-Q1 revenues grew 16% year-on-year to $143.8bn. That included the latest record total for its services division: up […]
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Eddy Cue trumpets ‘best year ever’ for Apple Music in 2025
Apple exec Eddy Cue has published a new year’s recap post about the growth of the company’s services business in 2025 – including Apple Music
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Bruno Mars duets top YouTube and Apple Music’s year-end charts
YouTube and Apple Music have launched their annual reviews, including charts of their most popular music and artists this year.
