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Nature is healing..
https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/no-rap-songs-hot-100-top-40-first-time-since-1990-1236100625/

No Rap Songs Are in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990
No rap songs have ranked in the top 40 on the last two Billboard Hot 100 charts, following Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "Luther" dropping off the chart.

Universal Music Group reports Q3 revenue of €3.02B, up 5.3% YoY, beating €2.92B estimated, slow streaming revenue growth, and physical sales revenue up 18.4% (Glenn Peoples/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/universal-music-group-q3-2025-revenue-umg-ea…

Universal Music Group Q3 Revenue Hits $3.5 Billion on Subscription, Publishing Gains
Universal Music Group’s Q3 2025 earnings are out, with the company reporting $3.3 billion in overall revenue on subscription and publishing gains.

heise | Investieren in Sport: Wie Anleger von Toren und Titeln profitieren können
Die Aktien von Fußballvereinen und Sportartikelherstellern können höhere Renditen als der MSCI World generieren. Trotzdem ist Vorsicht geboten.

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.

Blueprint-Bench: Comparing spatial intelligence of LLMs, agents and image models
Lukas Petersson, Axel Backlund, Axel Wennst\"om, Hanna Petersson, Callum Sharrock, Arash Dabiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25229

Blueprint-Bench: Comparing spatial intelligence of LLMs, agents and image models
We introduce Blueprint-Bench, a benchmark designed to evaluate spatial reasoning capabilities in AI models through the task of converting apartment photographs into accurate 2D floor plans. While the input modality (photographs) is well within the training distribution of modern multimodal models, the task of spatial reconstruction requires genuine spatial intelligence: inferring room layouts, understanding connectivity, and maintaining consistent scale. We evaluate leading language models (GPT…

Beyond the Hook: Predicting Billboard Hot 100 Chart Inclusion with Machine Learning from Streaming, Audio Signals, and Perceptual Features
Christos Mountzouris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24856

Beyond the Hook: Predicting Billboard Hot 100 Chart Inclusion with Machine Learning from Streaming, Audio Signals, and Perceptual Features
The advent of digital streaming platforms have recently revolutionized the landscape of music industry, with the ensuing digitalization providing structured data collections that open new research avenues for investigating popularity dynamics and mainstream success. The present work explored which determinants hold the strongest predictive influence for a track's inclusion in the Billboard Hot 100 charts, including streaming popularity, measurable audio signal attributes, and probabilistic indi…

Ladendiebe werden bald von Drohnen verfolgt – hofft zumindest diese US-Firma
Ein Unternehmen, das bisher nur Polizeibehörden mit Drohnen-Überwachungssystemen beliefert hat, will nun auch Privatfirmen mit Luftüberwachung ausstatten.

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Balu Brigada:
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https://open.spotify.com/track/7yT4NJt5rgmVoMJMGPULcj

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.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement announcement on Instagram surpasses 1M reposts, more than any other post has ever received on the platform (Hannah Dailey/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/tay…

Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce’s Engagement Announcement Breaks Instagram Record
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement post has broken Instagram's record for most amount of reposts.