North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive streaming royalty fraud scheme on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and ...

Social community platform Discord is preparing to require users to verify their age by the second half of 2026, and users are concerned about the privacy of uploading a government ID or face scan to ...

Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and ...

Huang and company answered that at GTC with a slew of announcements meant to prove Nvidia is the inferencing leader to beat, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Before streaming, people used to buy albums on CDs or through online marketplaces like iTunes. Those times were very different, as you could ...

Reddit and Discord are in serious trouble over the use of a controversial third-party age verification service, Persona. Reddit has been fined £14.5 million ($19.5M) by the UK data watchdog. Meanwhile ...

Warner Bros’ genre smash Sinners was the lone double winner at the 16th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards, which were handed out Saturday night at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. The pic took Best ...

At Paste Music, we’re listening to so many new tunes on any given day, we barely have any time to listen to each other. Nevertheless, every week we can swing it, we take stock of the previous seven ...

Nicki Minaj’s MAGA turn has been partly fueled by an army of bot accounts on X, according to a new report shared with Politico. Put together by the disinformation company Cyabra, the report analyzed ...

Salsa has known more than its share of star vocalists and virtuoso instrumentalists. But among the artists who defined the rich, layered specificity of its sound was Willie Colón, who died on Feb. 21.

A report analyzing the impact of the rapper’s political tweets is the subject of a just-released study from Cyabra, an Israeli disinformation security company. By Kevin Dolak Nicki Minaj raised ...