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A packed release slate shows how entertainment platforms increasingly compete across categories, with viewers asked to treat one week as a full media menu.
With the festival giant on a break, grassroots events offering intimacy and eccentric line-ups are winning over fans seeking a less corporate experience.
The French experimental singer frames her ambitious new record around motherhood, loss and the sense that the wider world is in pain.
A new arts project is exploring how listeners can feel sound in their bodies again, using bass, vibration and performance design to reconnect music with skin and space.
Around 80 guitars and pieces of equipment from the former Smiths guitarist, including instruments tied to landmark recordings, will be sold by Christie's in London.
The Luton singer-songwriter, a former BRITs Rising Star winner, releases his debut through Sony UK, capping a swift ascent from viral covers to arena-sized ambitions.
The pop star duetted with a 10-year-old singer at SoFi Stadium as the United States kicked off its home tournament.
You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love arrived to record-breaking streaming figures and is on course for the biggest first-week sales of the 23-year-old's career.
The pop star's fifth concert tour spans 41 shows from Oakland in June to London's O2 in September, her first major outing in years as live music's demand for marquee names intensifies.
The K-pop trio will mark their 20th anniversary with a 31-date global stadium run promoted by AEG, including a stop at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in September.
Swift's I Knew It, I Knew You sits at number one on the Official Singles Chart for the week ending 18 June, while Niall Horan's Dinner Party debuts atop the albums countdown.
The Devon rockers will play Manchester and London in November in support of their new Warner-released record, due at the end of June.
A multi-year partnership will reserve a pair of tickets for an artist's most dedicated Premium listeners before general sale, using streaming data to identify genuine fans rather than touts and bots.
Organiser Emily Eavis has confirmed there will be no festival in 2026, with the land resting before Glastonbury returns to Worthy Farm in June 2027.
The two-time Grammy winner behind Beauty and the Beast and A Whole New World has died following a stroke.
The R&B star has confirmed a Live Nation-promoted European and UK run, with arena dates in London and Manchester and support from Odeal and Waseel.
The streaming giant will let paying subscribers create AI covers and remixes of opted-in songs, with Universal artists sharing in a new revenue stream built on consent, credit and compensation.
The songwriting awards honoured CMAT's Euro-Country and named Sam Fender Songwriter of the Year, while Thom Yorke received the Academy Fellowship at the Grosvenor House ceremony.
The two-night Las Vegas event returns to T-Mobile Arena in September with Capital One as presenting sponsor and a livestream split across Disney+ and Hulu.