Harry Styles, Ayra Starr, aespa & More: Which Is Your Favorite New Music Release This Week? Vote!

This week also brought new releases from R&B singer Yebba and Mexican rock band The Warning. Harry Styles at The BRIT Awards 2026 held at Co-op Live on February 28, 2026 in Manchester, England. Zak Hussein/Billboard Trending on Billboard Grammy-winning pop superstar Harry Styles leads this New Music Friday withContinue Reading

Apple Music Now Requires AI ‘Transparency Tags’ for All Uploaded Music—Here Are the Guidelines

Photo Credit: Daniel Cañibano Apple Music is introducing new metadata requirements aimed at providing better transparency around AI-generated content on the platform. Apple Music has launched “Transparency Tags,” a new system of metadata requirements aimed at disclosing content on the platform. According to details confirmed to Digital Music News, recordContinue Reading

Pipeline Officially Acquires Clarty, Says It’s Transformed ‘Into a Data-Driven, End-to-End Music Asset Financing Platform’

Clarty co-founders Pierre Suignard (left) and Stéphane Hubert. Photo Credit: Pipeline B2B advance specialist Pipeline is putting its $200 million war chest to good use, as it’s officially acquired catalog appraiser Clarty Partners. London-based Pipeline reached out with word of the Clarty purchase today, a month and change after settingContinue Reading

“I took the one lesson and left and never went back. I got to learn how to play guitar by myself”: Joan Jett on defying stereotypes and teaching herself guitar by playing along to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath records

(Image credit: John Shearer/Getty Images for FIREAID) Joan Jett may now be known as the Godmother of Punk. However, it was thanks to her chutzpah that the Runaways co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and I Love Rock ’n’ Roll hitmaker got to play electric guitar in the first place – especially afterContinue Reading

“It was like, ‘Congratulations, you just bought Leo Fender’s company. Now you gotta learn how to make guitars’”: The origins of Ernie Ball Music Man – and how it all started with a bass

(Image credit: Ernie Ball Music Man) Ernie Ball Music Man is honoring the 50th anniversary of its gold-standard bass, the StingRay, with an equally golden model. Consequently, it’s got Sterling Ball, son of Ernie, reflecting on the iconic instrument’s – and the company’s – origins. It’s a celebratory bass fitContinue Reading

Primary Wave Nears Deal to Acquire Kobalt, Which Would Create a $7B Indie Music Powerhouse

Trending on Billboard Primary Wave is in the advanced stages of putting together a deal to acquire Kobalt Music Group, the gigantic independent music publishing administration company, which would create a powerhouse independent music company with over $7 billion in assets, Billboard estimates.  Primary Wave’s portfolio, which includes stakes inContinue Reading