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Second Ado Utattemita Album Cover Song Voting OpensAdo has opened a worldwide voting poll for her second Utattemita album, allowing fans to choose songs she will cover. The voting period runs until June 21, 2026, with the album slated for a winter release between December 2026 and March 2027. Fans can select genres like J-pop, Western music, or Vocaloid, and must provide song title, artist, and personal details to cast their vote. Ado is also involved in the upcoming game Stranger than Heaven, where she appears as a character and performs the theme song.
'What we’re building is grounded in consent, credit, and compensation for the artists and songwriters that take part': Planned Spotify AI tool can generate remixes and coversSpotify is planning to launch a new AI tool that will allow users to create AI-generated covers and remixes of songs. This feature is being developed under a licensing agreement with Universal Music Group and is intended to provide new revenue streams for artists and songwriters. The tool will be a paid add-on for Spotify Premium users, with a focus on consent, credit, and compensation for participating artists.- Spotify and Universal are building an AI tool for covers and remixesSpotify is developing a new paid AI tool in collaboration with Universal Music Group that will allow for the creation of AI-generated song covers and remixes. This initiative aims to explore new avenues for music creation and licensing within the evolving digital landscape.
Berkat Taylor Swift, Musisi Univesal Music Group Dapat Rezeki NomplokUniversal Music Group (UMG) is set to sell half of its three percent stake in Spotify, a move expected to generate up to $1.4 billion. This sale will trigger a clause in UMG's contract with Taylor Swift, ensuring that all artists under the label receive a non-recoupable share of the profits. Swift's negotiation prior to joining UMG in 2018 was instrumental in securing this favorable outcome for thousands of other musicians.- Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scrapingAnna's Archive, an open-source library and search engine, has been ordered by a New York federal judge to pay $322 million in damages to Spotify and three major record labels for illegally scraping and intending to distribute millions of songs. The court found Anna's Archive guilty of direct copyright infringement and breach of contract, ordering the destruction of all scraped music files.