Random music news for Thursday, January 16, 2025
Hey, America! Look what South Korea did! Would that have been so hard? As for music news for January 16, 2025…
- There are rumours about the next big music catalogue purchase. They say it’ll be worth at least US$500 million.
- Three Sex Pistols albums are due this year. Wait–what? Oh, I see.
- Why are so many global stars now targeting India? Let’s take a look.
- Apparently Taylor Swift’s US$17.75 million mansion isn’t quite big enough.
- Drake has dropped his legal action against Universal Music over this silly Kendrick Lamar thing.
- If you have a Sonos system, you’ll read this and go “About time!”
- Meanwhile, in the awful world of R Kelly… (Via Rick J)
- Spotify had a record month in December with 731 million visits. That’s up 20% in six months.
- So how’s that migration from TikTok to Red Note going? Oh.
- Well, maybe TikTok will get some kind of extension when it comes to its proposed ban in the US.
- What will a post-TikTok world look like for the music industry? Let’s guess.
- And if you’re sick of Mark Zuckerberg and his sucking up to Donald Trump, there’s an alternative to Meta-owned Instagram. It’s called Pixelfed.
- This could be handy for songwriters: A service that will translate your lyrics into different languages.
- Shazam’s full “top 50 artists to watch in 2025” list is now available.
- Dallas Green is teasing more new music with Pink.
BONUS: Good one, Elmo.
