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Interviews with Spotify founder Daniel Ek on his CEO exit, and new co-CEOs Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström, who face algorithmic fatigue and angry artists (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

dbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Ahkatari (14) twisted teens (12) Dillon & Paten Locke (9) place on earth (5) Slik Jak & Vincent Pryce (5). #myweekcounted 54 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Donald Trump has reversed Joe Biden’s legal offensive against #crypto,
debuting his own token, $Trump, before his inauguration,
and rolling back government actions against the industry, which heavily supported him during his bid for the presidency.
Celebrities have likewise returned to hawking cryptocurrency projects or launching tokens of their own.
Celebrities in the crypto realm …

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Aurora (36) ROSALÍA (35) Dua Lipa (24) Todos mis amigos estšn Tristes (10) Rauw Alejandro (8). #myweekcounted 170 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Interviews with Spotify founder Daniel Ek on his CEO exit, and new co-CEOs Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström, who face algorithmic fatigue and angry artists (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

"I made a song entirely from 50 country artists singing "cold beer"" – There I Ruined It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR2pslqKNP8

Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/copywriters-reveal-how-ai-has-decimated-their-industry/

❝Our guidelines for generative AI in music and audio are as follows:
● Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp.
● Any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles is strictly prohibited in accordance with our existing policies prohibiting impersonation and intellectual property infringement.❞

Bandcamp’s Mission and Our Approach to Generative AI
We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Unclassified
- Carolling
Elizabeth Alker shares ambient and genre-defying artists with new takes on familiar festive songs and themes.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n8k0

MVP4D: Multi-View Portrait Video Diffusion for Animatable 4D Avatars
Felix Taubner, Ruihang Zhang, Mathieu Tuli, Sherwin Bahmani, David B. Lindell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12785

MVP4D: Multi-View Portrait Video Diffusion for Animatable 4D Avatars
Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating photorealistic human avatars is expensive and time-consuming, requiring large camera capture rigs and significant manual effort from professional 3D artists. With the advent of capable image and video generation models, recent methods enable automatic rendering o…

The city with lots of artists and hence proper art stores came through, tyvm.
https://mastodon.social/@shriramk/115503499813950900

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ireland-basic-income-artists-program-permanent-1234756981/

Various Artists – CHORDS AND ECHOES – TWO
https://insectorama.bandcamp.com/album/chords-and-echoes-two

How The World's Biggest Songwriters Actually Make Hit Songs For Artists by Daniel Wall
#music

Fascinating bit of trivia about "My Sharona"
https://www.musicradar.com/artists/it-was-

“It was like getting hit in the head with a baseball bat. I fell in love with her instantly. And when that happened, it sparked something”: The new wave classic and No.1 hit that was written in one hour and recorded in one take
“I still make a very good living off of that one song - easily over $100,000 a year"

November was the first month the Hospitality House gallery on Market St & 6th in #SanFrancisco owned its own building and it is now making a difference in the lives of its in-house low income local #artists . The Community Arts Program offers tea and snacks to the people who walk through its doors — but also pat…

‘A Creator’s Dream’: Inside the SF Studio Building a Hub for Low-Income Artists
Hospitality House has purchased a mid-Market building that contains the nonprofit’s fine art studio — securing its future forever.

I've taken a big step away from #Spotify and installed #qobuz because it's a European alternative (@…) and they pay artists much better…

I am these cost 25¢ per song years old.
I wonder how much the artists got paid being played on these compared to Spotify or any of the other streaming services? Assuming they did in fact get paid.
Think how annoying it is when some AH plays their phone on speaker. Now imagine a diner full of tables all playing their own tunes on speaker (the only way you could).

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#InTune
- Live music by Astatine Trio & Duncan Honeybourne
Katie Derham is joined by BBC New Generation Artists the Astatine Trio for a live performance.And pianist Duncan Honeybourne has a new album of music by Reginald Redman.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ph57

My most-played artists from the last 30 days.
#Music #LibreFM

FINALLY started scrobbling my shit on last.fm. This is me: https://www.last.fm/user/jake4480

jake4480’s Music Profile | Last.fm
Listen to music from jake4480’s library (18 tracks played). jake4480’s top artists: Ahkatari, place on earth, Arabic Flavor Music. Get your own music profile at Last.fm, the world’s largest social music platform.

'60s '70s '80s - Warm, Candid, Classic, Rock Interviews With Music Legends - A Breath Of Fresh Air
Iconic artists? Music Legends? Sandy Kaye interviews them all on A Breath of Fresh Air – a multi award-winning podcast featuring in-depth interviews with the artists you love...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: htt…

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: PC Music (7) Sasha (6) 高中正義 (5) Fluke (2) MKL (2). #myweekcounted 46 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Another year, another @… Year in Music! 🥳
#ListenBrainz #YearInMusic #MusicBrainz

Interesting... Yamaha has a process called Acoustic Resonance Enhancement that does something similar, and they do it to guitars starting in the mid range price.
https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/jason-isbells-method-to-age-acou…

“The longer it goes, the better the guitar is going to sound”: Jason Isbell has shared his bizarre method for breaking in new acoustics – and you’ll never guess what it is
There’s science behind the madness. We promise

My favorite Organum record! David Jackman got his start in Cornelius Cardew’s Scratch Orchestra and continued down his own improvising path. In the 1990’s he collaborated with a variety of artists, but that fizzled out by the end of the century. His newer records are available from Die Stadt or a distributor in your country.
https://…

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

Can art enhance your life? Here’s what I learned from Ali Smith, Tracey Emin, Claudia Winkleman and more https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/nov/10/…

The ephemeral nature of digital music and "albums" is a bit annoying. You can listen to an album today that has more or fewer songs than it had two days ago.
Also, artists can republish the same song on the same album, effectively replacing the original over time. Next thing you know, your folk album is a dubstep nightmare (hyperbole).

How three Las Vegas artists created visuals that reach beyond just cleat art https://www.raiders.com/news/how-three-las-vegas-artists-created-visuals-that-reach-beyond-just-cleat-art

"participating artists will have “full control” over how their likeness and music are used, though it doesn’t share how."
Sure.
https://www.theverge.com/news/829189/warner-music-group-suno-ai-licensing-deal

Why does this shit make it into mass media as if it is anything to take seriously?
This is on exactly on the same level as Mayan-calendar apocalypse stuff.
Not only is it complete bullshit, it also takes away time and space from the actual issues with "AI", like widespread theft ripping off authors and artists, the largest investment bubble in history threatening the economy, even more aggregation of wealth in the hands of a few tech billionaires, the deskilling of people and the utter bankruptcy of education; just to name a few.

En Nombre del Progreso (In the Name of Progress)
2017 by Alfonso "Piloto" Nieves Ruiz, active in the United States, born Querétaro, Mexico. at Intuit Art Museum, West Town, #Chicago

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kendrick Lamar:
🎵 Not Like Us
#KendrickLamar
https://djdetoxx.bandcamp.com/album/kendrick-lamar-not-like-us-various-artists-mashups
https://open.spotify.com/track/6AI3ezQ4o3HUoP6Dhudph3

"For me, our job as artists is to serve the story, serve the director, and serve the fellow actors. And if you do that, by osmosis you’re serving yourself because you’ll get the best out of yourself."
—David Oyelowo
#acting #coaching

NLRB: DreamWorks remote workers, Netflix animation production workers, and "Ted" production workers vote to unionize with the Animation Guild and Editors Guild (Jazz Tangcay/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/artisans/news/drea…

Artists at DreamWorks, Netflix and 'Ted' Show Vote to Unionize with The Animation Guild
Artists at DreamWorks, Netflix and 'Ted' Show vote to unionize with The Animation Guild.

Concept artists give informed critiques of using GenAI to concept. Fav quote:
“When I show someone a rough sketch they see it differently than I do. They’re not seeing the sketch, they’re seeing the potential for what the sketch could be through their own taste and experiences, and it sparks all kinds of wonderful ideas that I would’ve never thought of on my own.”
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder

Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did.

Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: PC Music (7) Sasha (6) 高中正義 (5) Fluke (2) MKL (2). #myweekcounted 46 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Surprising results in my 2025 #Jellyfin #rewind results.
My top artist was Zombina and the Skeletones.
#punk

How Artists Are Keeping 'The Lost Art' of Neon Signs Alive https://www.404media.co/how-artists-are-keeping-the-lost-art-of-neon-signs-alive/

Making Of A Musician
Interviews from a range of Australian Artists about the music that influences them...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/making-of-a-musician/

This week’s @… radio episode promotes today’s Last #BandcampFriday Before New Years
Grab these links and give some #accordion artists a gift of inva…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-12-03: Last Bandcamp Friday Before New Years (And a Few Book Recommendations)
One more time before the year is up, we’re hosting another #AccordionBandcamp special on the occasion of #BandcampFriday coming up this week on Dec 5th, your chance to purchase accordion musi…

The top half of this is completely unsurprising, the bottom half is WILD

How three Las Vegas artists created visuals that reach beyond just cleat art https://www.raiders.com/news/how-three-las-vegas-artists-created-visuals-that-reach-beyond-just-cleat-art

Tomorrow is #BandcampFriday 🎶
That means every cent you spend goes *directly* to the artists, Bandcamp takes 0%.
Support artists, not corporations 💿❤️
🔗 https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/ba<…

Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ireland-basic-income-artists-program-permanent-1234756981/
Dette burde man også forsŸke i Norge!

Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent
Several years after launching a trial, Ireland is set to make its basic income for artists program permanent starting in 2026.

UMG and Stability AI announce a partnership to develop music creation tools powered by "responsibly" trained AI (Marc Schneider/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/umg-stability-ai-partnership-develop-music-creation-tools/

UMG Partners With Stability AI to Develop Music Creation Tools for Artists, Producers
Following its Udio settlement, UMG teams up with Stability AI to build responsibly trained AI tools that empower artists and protect copyrights.

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

I guess Saya Gray put out some demo mixtape just on her tour, and I can't even find it anywhere, not on YouTube, nothing. Man, I'd really like to hear that. Guess this is how artists build mystique. But it's annoying as hell hahaha. If anyone runs across a copy of that, let me know?
FINAL EDIT - it's definitely called 'Saya Demo Mixtape' and this is the tracklist & cover art, if you find it:

SAYA DEMO MIXTAPE by Saya Gray
Get all the lyrics to songs on SAYA DEMO MIXTAPE and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics.

Real humans don’t stream Drake songs 23 hours a day, rapper suing Spotify says - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/real-humans-dont-stream-drake-songs-23-hours-a-day-rapper-suing-spotify-says/

Anthony Rother (hybrid electro) — Recorded live at Fuse Brussels
Anthony Rother enters our REC series at Fuse. At the vanguard of the electro scene, few artists like Rother can boast a 20-plus years career in such a prolific way. And one thing's for sure, this rich heritage seeps through this two-hour hybrid mix, recorded within the hallowed walls of our beloved Room 01.

You no longer need to be a multimillionaire to own a Picasso
– for 100 Euros, anyone in the world has the chance to walk away with a painting by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
The French charity
"Alzheimer’s Research Foundation" announced recently it was raffling Picasso’s 1941 portrait,
"Tête de femme",
💥which is worth more than one million Euros,
- to a single winner.
Proceeds from the tickets will hel…

Love last.fm so much. Their yearly wrapup is so fun.
Love this list of top artists.
#music

Interesting breakdown of where some of the key melodies came from on the Rod Stewart hit. Worth considering in the context of art/copyright/theft/AI

“We wrote the biggest-selling single that Rod ever had, and it took us an hour to put it down. It ended up selling millions all around the world”: When Rod Stewart and drummer Carmine Appice created a controversial disco-era smash hit
It all started when Rod said, "I want something like Miss You by the Stones"

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Florence the Machine (38) Guided by Voices (18) Mon Laferte (18) Alexisonfire (13) Dúo Pajarito (12). #myweekcounted 395 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Good for him, and good for all the other artists who are taking a stand.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/wicked-composer-stephen-schwartz-kennedy-center-event-rcna252011

'Wicked' composer Stephen Schwartz backs out of Kennedy Center event
Stephen Schwartz, composer of the hit musical “Wicked,” is no longer hosting a gala at the Kennedy Center this year following the Trump administration’s takeover of the performing arts venue

Hello #FOSDEM crowd. If you know someone attending 2026 who creates some form of an #openart - under a free license, let them know that there could be a small community gathering for them. Theater producers, visual artists, actors, musicians, painters, photographers and more and more are welcomed.

FOSSArt
artists who create under a free license @FOSDEM

Among the top 10K artists streamed in Australia from 2021 to 2024, Australian artists fell ~20% as algorithms make English-speaking artists compete globally (The Australia Institute)
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post

Drowned out in the stream. Australian music is in trouble and needs investment: new report
The algorithms of global music streaming services like Spotify, YouTube, Amazon and Apple are killing Australian music, according to a new report by a

dbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…

Australian artists and craftspeople please hit me up with a link to your website. I'd love to see your work as I'm looking to buy a couple of steel or silver wire knotwork (Irish style) pins / brooches to buy as small gifts (after the Christmas rush).
#Silver #Steel

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Saja Boys (2) Evil Nine (1) HUNTR/X (1). #myweekcounted 4 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Debussy’s La Mer live from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Joshua Weilserstein and the BBC Philharmonic with Debussy's La Mer live from Salford, music from our New Generation Artists, and Immo Yang plays Prokofiev’s 1st Violin Concerto.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mx1p

A look at Live Nation's Setlist.fm, a wiki-like site with 80M annual users that changed live music by letting users document songs that artists play at concerts (Marc Hogan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/arts/music/setlist-fm-website-con…

The Website Reshaping Live Music, One Set List at a Time
On Setlist.fm, users track what songs artists play at concerts (and more). The availability of so much data has changed the ways musicians and fans experience shows.

#OntarioPlace - News - Open Call for Ontario Artists - #Lumière: The Art of Light 2026
https://ontarioplace.com/en/2025/09/03/open-call-for-ontario-artists-lumiere-the-art-of-light-2026/

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Saja Boys (2) Evil Nine (1) HUNTR/X (1). #myweekcounted 4 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Pedro Aznar (65) The Beatles (32) Milo j (29) Clara Cantore (23) Pulp (23). #myweekcounted 559 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

I'm stopping using Spotify until the ICE ads are removed. Recruiting for the law breaking secret police is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify
https://indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

Blind Greyhound Variety Hour
This show features interviews with the best and brightest artists coming out of Australia & NZ...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/blind-greyhound-variety-hour/

UMG and Stability AI announce a partnership to develop music creation tools powered by "responsibly" trained AI (Marc Schneider/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/umg-stability-ai-partnership-develop-music-creation-tools/

UMG Partners With Stability AI to Develop Music Creation Tools for Artists, Producers
Following its Udio settlement, UMG teams up with Stability AI to build responsibly trained AI tools that empower artists and protect copyrights.

Take a razor to the speaker, innit
https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/dave-davies-on-how-to-slash-an-amp

“So Dave, how do I slash the amp?”: Dave Davies shows you the proper way to slash an amp to achieve his Kinks tone
The guitarist gives a firsthand showing of how to achieve the band’s landmark distortion without the use of pedals

US immigration lawyers, talent managers, and creators say influencers and OnlyFans models now dominate O-1B visas, which are reserved for "exceptional" artists (Ian Hodgson/Financial Times)

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

Técnicamente fue Candida Doyle, quien es miembro de Pulp. Pero si hablamos de voz principal, Miley Cyrus.
👉🏻 https://maloja.altgr.xyz/charts_artists?in=2025&page=0&perpage=10
Re:

Indivisible Santa Barbara,
working with Artists for Democracy,
is planning an event for January,
"Art of the Resistance".
We are looking for signs and hand-painted protest art
to show in a gallery during the event.
Go to https://buff.ly/ZplE0qE
to submit your ori…

How AI Artists Tried to Scam Me! by Roll For Combat
#ai #art

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

A look at Live Nation's Setlist.fm, a wiki-like site with 80M annual users that changed live music by letting users document songs that artists play at concerts (Marc Hogan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/arts/music/setlist-fm-website-con…

The Website Reshaping Live Music, One Set List at a Time
On Setlist.fm, users track what songs artists play at concerts (and more). The availability of so much data has changed the ways musicians and fans experience shows.

MUSICbible Australia
Your backstage pass to the artists, stories, and moments shaping the Australian music scene...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/musicbible-australia/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Ottorino Respighi & CHAARTS Chamber Artists:
🎵 Antiche danze ed arie, Suite No. 3: 2nd mvt; Arie di corte. Andante cantabile
#OttorinoRespighi #CHAARTSChamberArtists

Big genre standard of bands I often end up enjoying the music of: dudes standing in graveyards in black and white photos with their hair hanging down

How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (Corinne Reichert/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…

300,000 AI-Animated Poses in an Instant: My Visit to Disney and the New Reality for Cartoons
Disney checked out "thousands of AI companies" before backing one that keeps animators in the driver's seat.

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Swans (39) Scowl (30) Todos mis amigos estšn Tristes (27) Maruja (26) Viagra Boys (25). #myweekcounted 762 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

US immigration lawyers, talent managers, and creators say influencers and OnlyFans models now dominate O-1B visas, which are reserved for "exceptional" artists (Ian Hodgson/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8816fcec-4148-4cda-be7f-fc59d5bcbf59

Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US ‘extraordinary’ artist visas
Work permits increasingly being awarded on basis of online reach, favouring content creators

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Radio3InConcert
- Radio 3 New Generation Artists at Bath Mozartfest 2025
Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Kleio Quartet are joined by clarinettist Annelien van Wauwe, flautist Elizaveta Ivanova and harpist Sally Pryce.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mcm4

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Mon Laferte (60) Lily Allen (28) Pulp (28) Chini.png (25) Blondie (22). #myweekcounted 769 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Warner Music Group sues PacSun for copyright infringement, claiming PacSun used at least 290 recordings by WMG artists in posts on Instagram and TikTok (Rachel Scharf/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/warner-music

Warner Music Sues PacSun Over TikToks Set to Cardi B, Ariana Grande & Beyoncé Songs
Warner Music Group has sued PacSun for posting TikToks using songs by Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Cardi B and more without acquiring sync licenses.

dbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
http…

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

A look at the rising popularity of virtual K-pop stars, usually created by artists wearing motion sensor suits, and the labor rights questions they raise (Michelle Kim/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/metaverse-kpop-idols/

The metaverse is rewriting the rules of who can be a K-pop star
In an industry studded with megastars like BTS and Blackpink, virtual idols are building powerful new fandoms even while their true identities remain obscured.

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (Corinne Reichert/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…

300,000 AI-Animated Poses in an Instant: My Visit to Disney and the New Reality for Cartoons
Disney checked out "thousands of AI companies" before backing one that keeps animators in the driver's seat.

BPI: the UK music industry had its 11th straight year of growth in 2025; album sales rose 4.9% YoY to 210.3M, aided by the Oasis reunion and Taylor Swift vinyls (Rob Davies/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/

dbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
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dbpedia_recordlabel: DBpedia artist-label affiliations
Bipartite networks of the affiliations (contractual relations) between artists and the record labels under which they have performed, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 186758 nodes and 233286 edges.
Tags: Economic, Employment, Unweighted
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