Synchronization licensing was the fastest-growing line in the U.S. music business through June, reaching $232 million. Here is what a working artist has to control, sign and register before a music supervisor can spend any of it.

Spotify's new program gives Fresh Finds artists a year of studio time, software and therapy. Here is how editors pick records and how to use the twelve months.

Travis Scott’s “RHYNO” is one of the first six songs released from Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, and its Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo production credit gives the collaboration history beyond the franchise.

Rock The Bells added the Sugarhill Gang, the Furious Five, Raekwon and Ghostface Killah, Kool G Rap, Onyx and more to its Nov. 29 festival at Newark's Prudential Center.

T.I. has put money into pocstock, a Newark company that licenses rights-cleared images and video for AI training, while the music business is still settling its AI fights in court.

Jhené Aiko gives “Nothing Nice to Say” its first official visual, turning one of Westside Whimsy’s quietest breakup records into a study in restraint, exhaustion and knowing when to stop arguing.

Syd will bring Beard across North America on a 23-date fall tour beginning November 7 in Vancouver and closing December 16 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles.

The Brooklyn band behind Jay-Z's "Roc Boys" loop brought in the Brazilian composer MF DOOM and Ludacris sampled for strings on its first album in five years, due November 13.

Offset opened a NEED FM hotline to push "Something I Need," out September 18, while Quavo readies QRÖMELIFE and the last Migos album waits on a date.

HITS projects Westside Whimsy to debut at No. 1 on 72,000 units, with only 2,000 of them album sales. Hours later, Jhené Aiko put "Elsewhere" on sale in a limited iTunes edition.

Isaac Hayes cut four songs in 1969, Nas took six straight albums from Hit-Boy before his first Grammy, and Pharrell has now produced two complete albums in fifteen months with a third finished. The one-producer album is the oldest arrangement in this music, and it keeps collecting the trophies.

Tone Capone, who died Saturday at 59, rebuilt a Club Nouveau melody by hand for the Luniz in 1993. Jordan Peele, the NBA and a TikTok sound page show where that decision led.