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IFPI: global recorded music revenues hit $31.7B in 2025, up 6.4% YoY, total streaming revenue surpassed $22B, and users of paid music subscriptions reached 837M (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusin…

Global recorded music revenues hit $31.7B in 2025, up 6.4% YoY; users of paid music subscriptions reach 837M
IFPI has published its new ‘Global Music Report 2026’ showing that global recorded music revenues grew by 6.4%

Making music with MIDI just got a real boost in Windows 11 https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/02/17/making-music-with-midi-just-got-a-real-boost-in-windows-11/

Jesse Colin Young died of heart disease at his home in Aiken, South Carolina, on March 16, 2025, at the age of 83.
Song for Juli by Jesse Colin Young
https://music.apple.com/us/album/song-for-juli/1680014982

Song for Juli by Jesse Colin Young on Apple Music
Album · 1973 · 9 Songs

This morning’s listening:
Wendy Eisenberg
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mE4pAcOJ4Tr0KZm3FQ7VXbuzsT2UhP1Ac&si=YDjgMbItxyIu5XiY

Wendy Eisenberg - Album by Wendy Eisenberg
Listen to Wendy Eisenberg by Wendy Eisenberg on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

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音楽 - Music by PEDRO
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

“I believed Duke Ellington when he said there's no bad music, just some of it is presented badly. As a kid, hanging around Church Street, the presentation of music was so powerful, I couldn't help but jump for joy. I had discovered art, or truth, or whatever you want to call it; I had seen a light I'd follow forever.”
― B.B. King, Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King
#Music

Sony Music exec Dennis Kooker says the company has sent 135K takedown notices for deepfakes of its artists, but sees opportunities in AI with proper licensing (Stuart Dredge/Music Ally)
https://musically.com/2026/03/18/music-and-ai-th…

Music and AI: ‘There is a really big opportunity here – if we get it right’
The IFPI launched its latest Global Music Report this morning in London, and AI was a key topic during the panel of label executives.

Apple KI-fiziert Apple Music ein bisschen – und arbeitet mit TikTok zusammen
Apple Intelligence wird in Apple Music derzeit nicht verwendet. Mit den nächsten iOS- und macOS-Versionen soll sich das ändern. Neu ist auch eine TikTok-Koop.

All you folks doing computer-generated music better check your settings. https://boingboing.net/2026/03/19/the-first-recording-of-computer-music-was-playing-at-the-wrong-pitch-for-decades.html

I like pop artists that sing about politics and social issue. 💕
https://music.apple.com/us/album/topical-dancer/1587361830

Topical Dancer by Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul on Apple Music
Album · 2022 · 13 Songs

Afroman Wins Verdict Rejecting Lawsuit Filed by Ohio Cops Over Mocking Music Videos (Bill Donahue/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-trial-verdict-rapper-wins-lawsuit-cops-music-videos/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p127#a260318p127

03/20 - Sanctuary: Benefit for CASA, Takoma Park, MD
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03/20 - Sanctuary: Benefit for CASA, Takoma Park, MD
FRIDAY, March 20 at 7:30 pm, come on out to a FREE evening of music and poetry in the Takoma Park Community Center celebrating the theme of “SANCTUARY.” ...

Quoted (but not named) in this guardian piece for posting about some freezers on reddit.. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/18/the-sheffield-supermarket-going-viral-for-the-symphonic-sound-of-its-freeze…

FICCI-EY: India's paid music streaming subscriptions rose 37% YoY to 14.4M in 2025, generating $118.2M in revenue; only ~8% of total music streamers paid for it (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.

India added nearly 4m paid music streaming subscriptions in 2025, taking its total to 14.4m, according to new
However, the report found that of the 178 million people who streamed music in 2025, only about 8% were paying for it.

Had the best "tiny desk concert" vibes yesterday with #IndieBeatTV, the Fediverse's 24/7 music video station.
They had @… on and he performed electronic tracks with visuals and live drums to about 4 dozen listeners from around the w…

Sony says it has developed tech to identify copyrighted music in AI-generated songs, aiming to help rights holders receive compensation if their music was used (Rei Nakafuji/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Sony Group tech can identify original music in AI-generated songs
Japanese company seeks to help copyright holders receive share of revenue

This Evening’s LIstening:
Patsy Cline
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kE7bKSek9EXImH0L7fzLku3oAETRTVlts&si=3wBWtFHDRYY8ZhYE

Sweet Dreams: Her Complete Decca Masters (1960-1963) - Album by Patsy Cline
Listen to Sweet Dreams: Her Complete Decca Masters (1960-1963) by Patsy Cline on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Nyeusi Loe (65) Ritchie (60) Pissrot (47) Massacred (41) Traveling Wilburys (37). #myweekcounted 924 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

curtis sliwa has a new substack where he talks abt how listening to the chainsmokers healed his soul from the stress of campaigning against mamdani and cuomo, and ofc brings up the one cab story again for the millionth time
https://curtissliwa.substack.com/p/the-beats-tha…

Green Tea Bitches - Ghosts (Live session)
#music

This is really cool. Someone took recently released archive video footage of the Velvet Underground concert in Dallas, 1969 and synced it up with a fan recording of the same show. Pretty good results. Great vibes.
#music #video

Has your favorite album vanished from the music streaming service of choice again? I highly recommend ripping your CDs and making them available through @… with the @… app; it really works great on iOS & macOS!

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Hole (39) Slowkiss (28) Lorde (23) Nine Inch Nails (23) The Who (23). #myweekcounted 136 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Penske Media names Leila Cobo and Jason Lipshutz as co-chief content officers of Billboard, overseeing editorial content and newsroom operations (Katie Atkinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/leila-cobo-…

Billboard Promotes Leila Cobo & Jason Lipshutz to Co-Chief Content Officers
Leila Cobo and Jason Lipshutz have been promoted to co-chief content officers of Billboard, the global music brand announced Tuesday.

A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews
recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s
has been digitized and made available online for free listening.
The Association for Cultural Equity, a nonprofit organization founded by Lomax in the 1980s,
has posted some 20,000 recordings.

Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings
A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s has been digitized and made available online for free listening.

Just finished copying over the latest released video to our self-hosted PeerTube server! Go check out our channel at @… :)
#Music #PeerTube

RE: https://flipboard.com/@guitarworld/guitar-and-music-news-dca0ilstz/-/a---p5ab8fSM-Idu588HbvCw:a:2933633570-/0
This made me laugh out loud. I can't imagine misreading a room any h…

fantastic work by @… about the current state of political music & why people looking for people strumming guitars might be looking in the wrong place. will add: a big reason #folk music & protest became entwined is 'cause it was…

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Part of a Whole Wave of Protest Music
Liberals keep asking where the political anthems are. They’re right in front of their eyes.

Easy Awesome Vol. 07 Playlist
( Previous volumes here: #EasyAwesomePlaylist )
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPS-MhCl9L4LXks43Cc_42…

Wait, Waterparks? If this is heavy metal I'm gonna be so fucking pissed.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=5O3lpjTrRMk

RE: https://hci.social/@tod/116251983213234845
Link: https://music.stingray.com/en/…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- A feast of great music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sdgq

Send help I have the Eye of the Beholder I intro music stuck in my head https://youtu.be/tgDB2Oq2zE8

This is what happens when you divide a mosh pit by zero.
✋🏻🔺🤚🏻
#music

I'm still in the process of moving more of my applications back to my laptop.
This article helped a lot to gather a list of Linux desktop music players: https://crescentro.se/posts/linux-music-players-2026/
The two contenders I settled on are Lollypop and Elisa.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Pearson Sound:
🎵 Sinkhole
#PearsonSound
https://music.pearsonsound.com/track/sinkhole
https://open.spotify.com/track/7wQDLRHNGvu0ATxjrIy9O9
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#rewind - The Cranberries - Linger
Dolores O’Riordan (1971 - 2018)
#Music #Musik

If this #vinyl #album I just ordered actually comes in (I have doubts since it's $100 cheaper than the average discogs sale), it will be THE get of all gets! 🤞🤞🤞
#music

"In the Spring of 1966, ESP was given a grant by the New York State Council on the Arts, to tour the five colleges in the state with music departments. Artists for this tour included the Sun Ra Arkestra, Burton Greene, Patty Waters, Giuseppi Logan and Ran Blake. Accompanied by an all star backup group from among the participants, Patty's performances resulted in the album, "College Tour", her second recording for ESP-Disk'.

Did you miss one of the Web414 meetings in 2007? Looks like we recorded them!
#mke

"Urine From Music Festival Toilets is Fertilizing a New Biodiverse Forest With Odor-Free Nutrients'
#Festivals #Biodiversity

Urine From Music Festival Toilets is Fertilizing a New Biodiverse Forest With Odor-Free Nutrients
In a UK first, a new forest is set to be grown with fertilized nutrients recovered from urine collected at music festival toilets.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Apparat:
🎵 An Echo Skips A Name (alternate take)
#NowPlaying #Apparat
https://apparat-music.bandcamp.com/track/an-echo-skips-a-name-alternate-take-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/26GdDz2OWiCxQWQEoUfBQ5

douban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…

"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music or a book can make a difference. It can change the world."
—Alan Rickman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Warner Music Group and Netflix strike a multiyear first-look deal for documentaries about WMG artists and songwriters; WMG partners with Unigram for production (Matt Grobar/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/netflix-warner-music-group-set-d…

Netflix Sets Documentary Partnership With Warner Music Group
Netflix and Warner Music Group have set a creative partnership based around docs to do with the label's roster.

Police officers raided the
rapper Afroman's Ohio home,
... then sued him after he ridiculed them on social media
— but a jury just sided with the rapper.
In an unusual lawsuit members of an Ohio county sheriff’s department sued over songs and social media posts by Afroman
(Joseph Foreman)
that criticized the guns-drawn 2022 raid on his property, which yielded no charges.
The case claimed the videos were false and caused the officers "severe …

Afroman Wins Verdict Rejecting Lawsuit Filed by Ohio Cops Over Mocking Music Videos
Afroman won a jury verdict rejecting a lawsuit from police officers who claim the rapper defamed them by mocking them in social media music videos.

How music kept NFL dream alive for Panthers' Jaelan Phillips https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48475698/nfl-carolina-panthers-jaelan-phillips-music-production

Jazzaria – Smell The Music
https://jazzaria.bandcamp.com/album/smell-the-music
https://www.

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Los Saicos (40) Kim Gordon (36) The Black Crowes (22) Los Prisioneros (13) Candelabro (12). #myweekcounted 181 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Motorhead - Rockaway Beach

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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- A feast of great music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sdgq

Fuck Mars. I’m staying.
✋🏻🔺🤚🏻
#music

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Apparat:
🎵 Black Water
#Apparat
https://apparat-music.bandcamp.com/track/black-water
https://open.spotify.com/track/4AFpvq7RIoky0hxjn1fKoO

Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/lyria-3/

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
Lyria 3 is now available in the Gemini app. Create custom, high-quality 30-second tracks from text and images.

Apple launches Apple Music Connect, a new resource for music labels and distributors to manage promotional assets, upload press photos, and more (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/18/apple-music-connect-launched-for-labels/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Apparat:
🎵 An Echo Skips A Name (alternate take)
#NowPlaying #Apparat
https://apparat-music.bandcamp.com/track/an-echo-skips-a-name-alternate-take-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6jJZkZvEQFAVAhZXxCupLE

Go to https://libre.fm/
Scroll to the footer...
Click on AI Policy.

Libre.fm
Libre.fm lets you keep track of your music listening habits.

50 years ago tonight, the #JerryGarcia band in #houston, with lucinda williams opening the late show. no tapes, but a review & solid rap with garcia. #garciafreaksunite

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalMixtape
- Classical music to inspire you
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music, including Beethoven, Haydn, William Grant Still and Yann Tiersen.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r4bv

Thebes

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A man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.

Streaming fraud man who pocketed $8m using hundreds of thousands of AI songs streamed billions of times by
Smith is scheduled to be sentenced on July 29…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Willy DeVille:
🎵 Demasiado Corazon
#NowPlaying #WillyDeVille
https://dreamz-popping-music.bandcamp.com/track/willy-deville-demasiado-corazon-dreamz-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1sHYjY7EsVul6dgXBsL7mB

Liberty NO❤︎AF

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Jellify is my new music client… and, it’s made in Wisconsin by @…
“Jellify is a free and open source music player for the Jellyfin Media Server. Built with React Native, it is available for both iOS and Android.”
https://

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalMixtape
- Expand your horizons with classical music
Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music from Caroline Shaw, Florence Price, George Dyson and Tchaikovsky.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r4md

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Ebo Taylor:
🎵 My Love and Music
#EboTaylor
https://ebotaylor.bandcamp.com/album/my-love-and-music
https://open.spotify.com/track/62Wv19Em9TzGWBGIDztP0b

enjoyed reading this, glad it exists, & delighted to be cited, but didn't quite capture the absurdity of brooklandia as i experienced it & what made DIY venues feel so special. structure felt a bit muddled & could've used a ton more historical/economic context (& more todd p., really). #nyc #books

A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated (Rachel Scharf/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-major-labels-win-music-piracy-lawsu…

Spotify & the Major Labels Won a $322M Court Order Against Music Pirates. Will They Be Able to Collect?
Spotify and the three major label groups have been awarded $322 million in a music piracy lawsuit against the pirate library Anna’s Archive.

Matte Kudasai (Live in Fréjus)

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🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
College feat. Electric Youth:
🎵 A Real Hero
#NowPlaying #College #ElectricYouth
https://mindseye-music.bandcamp.com/track/college-ft-electric-youth-a-real-hero-mindseye-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1aJrVsHwcQMZ8TZ6mlvT5J

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#InTune
- Pianist Boris Giltburg performs live
Petroc Trelawny presents live music in the studio from pianist Boris Giltburg ahead of Cambridge Music Festival, and talks to conductor Tess Jackson about Chromatica Orchestra.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r4bs

Faircamp by @… is pretty cool. It's a static site generator for people who want to put their music online.
Think of a Bandcamp site with your albums and a player, but just static HTML you can drop on any server.
https://

シャルロット・セクサロイドの憂鬱

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Deezer says AI-generated tracks now account for 44% of daily uploads, totaling ~75K tracks per day and 2M per month, but account for just 1-3% of consumption (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-…

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated | TechCrunch
Deezer says consumption of AI-generated music on the platform is still very low, between 1-3% of the total streams, and that 85% of these streams are detected as fraudulent and are demonetized.

RIAA: US recorded music revenue grew 3.1% YoY in 2025 to a record $11.54B; streaming grew 3% to $9.75B, including $6.38B from paid subscriptions, up 5.8% (Chris Eggertsen/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/riaa-2025-music-report-revenue-streaming-vinyl/

U.S. Recorded Music Revenue Hit $11.5B in 2025 Amid Solid Growth in Paid Subscriptions, Vinyl: RIAA
RIAA's 2025 U.S. recorded music report shows that overall revenue topped $11.5 billion last year amid solid growth in paid streaming and vinyl.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
College feat. Electric Youth:
🎵 A Real Hero
#NowPlaying #College #ElectricYouth
https://mindseye-music.bandcamp.com/track/college-ft-electric-youth-a-real-hero-mindseye-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1aJrVsHwcQMZ8TZ6mlvT5J

Haru Nemuri 「アンダーグラウンド」 (Underground) lyrics

Sony says it has developed tech to identify copyrighted music in AI-generated songs, aiming to help rights holders receive compensation if their music was used (Rei Nakafuji/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Sony Group tech can identify original music in AI-generated songs
Japanese company seeks to help copyright holders receive share of revenue

I published one of my albums on Bandwagon.fm
#music

PO-SOUNDS

small update
When given an Invalid URL, the page now show a error message instead of just hanging there like an idiot.
https://kingu.mrpetovan.com/NowPlaying/songlink.html

Universal Music Link Generator - Song.link Interface
Transform platform-specific music links into universal links that work everywhere. Convert YouTube and Spotify links to song.link URLs with QR codes and custom templates.

TikTok partners with Apple to let users with an Apple Music subscription play full songs on TikTok without leaving the app, along with a Listening Party feature (Steven J. Horowitz/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/apple-…

TikTok Teams With Apple Music to Allow Users to Stream Full Songs
Apple Music and TikTok have partnered to launch a feature that allows users of the latter to stream full songs on platform.

チャラン・ポ・ランタン / Космические силы(Mumiy Troll’s cover song)

yosugala / #indigo

indigo by yosugala
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

Spotify says artists from 75 countries made $500K in royalties in 2025, up from 66 in 2024; ~50% of an average artist's streams came from outside their country (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu…

Artists From 75 Different Countries Made at Least $500,000 On Spotify Last Year
"The takeaway here is that music has become increasingly borderless," Spotify's Joe Hadley says of the company's latest loud and clear report released Wednesday

Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk To Fuck (Full Track)

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Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk To Fuck (Full Track) by Kwaidanrecords
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

Report: AI-generated music uploads account for <1% of total streams; AI-adoption is strongest in functional and low-stakes settings such as background music (Advanced Television)
https://www.advanced-television.com/2026/02/12/report…

Report: How the music Industry is battling AI music flood
The music industry has long been defined by an extreme winner-takes-all dynamic. A small number of tracks, artists, and platforms account for the majority of li

WHY DONE IT?

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Buy Now Pay as You Go

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Nekrogoblikon - Fiend [OFFICIAL VIDEO] DOUBLE FEATURE PART 2

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Nekrogoblikon - Fiend [OFFICIAL VIDEO] DOUBLE FEATURE PART 2 by Nekrogoblikon
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

タイムリミット

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タイムリミット by Devil ANTHEM.
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/lyria-3/

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music
Lyria 3 is now available in the Gemini app. Create custom, high-quality 30-second tracks from text and images.

夜渡りヘブン

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ExWHYZ / FIRST STEP [Music Video]

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ExWHYZ / FIRST STEP [Music Video] by ExWHYZ
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

ゆるめるモ！『忍者NOW』(Official Music Video)　/ You'll Melt More!『Ninja NOW』

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ゆるめるモ！『忍者NOW』(Official Music Video)　/ You'll Melt More!『Ninja NOW』 by ゆるめるモ!OFFICIAL
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

pipopapo

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eat it

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On Youtube there is a lot of ads for premium subscription to Youtube Music
But when they list all the advantages they don't mention that they have, in exclusivity, all the new albums released in 2025 from bands that disbanded in the 1970's.
I wonder why! Is that not an amazing exclusive feature?