Latest Music Industry Hires: Target Center, Legends Global, Invisible Art, Catch Point, AFM Local 47, Copyright Alliance, More

Amy Rahja, general manager of the Target Center. Photo Credit: Legends Global Here’s a recap of recent music industry hires and in-house promotions as of January 9th, 2026. If you have a job shuffle to share, we’re all ears. Send us a note to news@digitalmusicnews.com. If you’d like to post aContinue Reading

UMG Head Lucian Grainge Outlines 2026 Streaming 2.0 Plans, Plots ‘Special Events and Products for Superfans — Both Virtually and in the Physical World’

Universal Music Group head Lucian Grainge. Photo Credit: UMG Another year, another internal rally-the-troops memo from Universal Music head Lucian Grainge, who’s shed a bit of new light on the major’s 2026 “Streaming 2.0” and superfan plans. Grainge just recently mass-emailed this “UMG New Year’s Memo 2026” to staffers. AndContinue Reading

“It bothers me that there is a generation that has never plugged into a tube amp because they have a free one on their laptop”: EarthQuaker Devices and Dr. Z launch a tube-loaded preamp pedal – and it could be the missing piece of your digital rig puzzle

(Image credit: EarthQuaker Devices) EarthQuaker Devices has partnered with guitar amp expert Dr. Z for the ZEQD-Pre – a tube-loaded preamp that might just be the pedal that digital modeler users have been dreaming of. It’s a pretty big collaboration. On the one hand, you have one of the gearContinue Reading

Bayer and Cradle enter collaboration to enhance AI-enabled antibody discovery and optimization

Cradle provides a scientific AI software platform focused on protein engineering / Bayer continues to utilize AI in R&D, reinforcing commitment to modernize and scale its drug discovery and development efforts / Bayer and Cradle to jointly work on a machine learning research project to further develop capabilities Berlin, AmsterdamContinue Reading

Napster Music Streaming Service Abruptly Shuts Down in Pivot to AI—’Napster is No Longer a Music Streaming Service’

Photo Credit: Napster After its acquisition by AI company Infinite Reality, Napster abruptly shuts down its music streaming service and pivots to… AI assistants? Back in November, Digital Music News covered Napster’s $3 billion funding apparently falling through, leaving the music streaming platform’s future uncertain. Now, the company has abruptlyContinue Reading

What’s Fire?! Mariah The Scientist Seemingly Checks Hazel E After She Drops Emojis Under Clip Of Young Thug (PHOTO + VIDEO)

Whew, Roomies! Mariah The Scientist is making it clear that she’s stepping and standing ten toes down behind her fiancé Young Thug. That’s the energy she had when she peeped Hazel E leaving a random comment under a video of her man. RELATED: Congrats! Young Thug Proposes To Mariah TheContinue Reading

BTS Reunion Album Release Date Revealed

2024 Olympics: BTS’ Jin Was “Nervous” About Surprise Role in the Paris Olympics BTS has some dynamite news. The K-pop boy band—comprised of Jimin, 30, Jung Kook, 28, Jin, 33, Suga, 32, J-Hope, 31, RM, 31, and V, 30—will be releasing new music in March, nearly four years after 2002’sContinue Reading