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Sounds of 2026 | MIDiA and Splice name Afro house as the sound of the year
How live music will change in the next decade
YouTube meets a new era with DreamTrack and music video remixing
The future of record labels: Shifting sands
Who tomorrow's music business is being built for
Are the ongoing layoffs in games indicative of a wider issue in the games industry?
Will ByteDance build the first cultural graph for music recommendations?
The ‘pure’ songwriter is disappearing – and it’s everyone’s problem
All eyes, no ears: New MIDiA data shows why virality is not building fandom
The music industry’s tipping point is Right Here, Right Now
The unflattening of streaming
Streaming is both retail and radio – it shouldn’t be
What Western DSPs can learn from Tencent Music’s SVIP Tier
A new era of music fluidity is here
What is the value of a stream in 2025?
Can Swift and Beyoncé save the economy? What the data says about music tourism
Indie labels are trading quantity for quality as they let go of the “volume game”: MIDiA’s latest label survey
Is the internet re-localising?
