Top music business news last week includes a playbook for small venues, a K-Pop scandal, new mechanical royalty rates, Audiomack, why fans by merch, and much more.
TOP MUSIC BUSINESS NEWS LAST WEEK
- Small Venues in Small Cities: A Playbook for Building Community
- The Context Behind K-Pop’s Biggest Scandal [MIDiA]
- 2026 U.S. Mechanical Royalty Rates Increase: CRB Sets New Rates
- African Artists Are Reaching More Global Listeners With Help From Audiomack
- Learn Why Fans Buy Merch So You Can Sell More Than Just Music
- Spotify adds Music Videos in US and Canada, soon for all Artists
- Getting Paid and Heard? That’s the Artist-Centric Goal of Vocana
- Facebook Redesign: What Musicians and Creators Should Know
- Exposing the Normalized Harm and Safety Issues for Youth in the Live Music Industry
- 2025 Live Music Society Toolbox Grants awarded, surpassing $5.1M in total support for Small Venues
- 6 New Year’s Resolutions for Musicians in 2026
- Independent Venue Marketing Lessons From Across the U.S.
