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Spotify says it won’t recommend music from ‘AI Personas’
Spotify has announced it will label AI-generated artist profiles and exclude their music from recommendations, as streaming platforms grapple with a growing wave of AI-produced content. From mid-September, profiles that do not represent a real person will carry an “AI Persona” badge, and such music will no longer appear by default in editorial suggestions or…
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Spotify to flag AI musicians and limit recommendation exposure
Spotify has confirmed it will begin labelling AI-generated musicians with an “AI Persona” badge from mid-September, alongside new details on how the tags will be applied and appealed. Profiles will be flagged either through artists’ own disclosure or via Spotify’s internal review of photorealistic AI-generated names and imagery, with the badges excluding such acts from…
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Spotify to Start Labeling AI Artists
Spotify has announced a new “AI Personas” feature to identify AI-generated artist profiles on its platform, marking one of the streaming service’s most significant efforts yet to improve transparency around AI content. The badge will appear on artist profiles, in search results and on track listings, alerting listeners when an artist’s identity is AI-generated rather…
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Spotify to label artificial artist profiles with AI Persona badge
Spotify has confirmed it will introduce an “AI Persona” badge from mid-September to flag artist profiles that are not human, whether disclosed voluntarily by the artist or identified through the platform’s own review process. The move is intended to preserve trust between listeners and artists as generative AI increasingly enables synthetic musicians and performer identities,…
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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is ‘Exploring’ A Music Career. His New Video Is a Good Start
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has released a video for “Your Dad,” a new song he co-wrote with Iam Tongi, the Hawaiian singer who won American Idol in 2023. The track features on the newly released album Moana: Voices Across the Ocean, a companion record to the recent live-action Moana film, and marks Johnson’s most personal…
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Ms. Rachel Announces First-Ever Album ‘I’m So Happy’
Ms. Rachel, the children’s entertainer behind the Songs for Littles series, has announced her debut album, I’m So Happy, due out on 25 September via Magic Star, the children’s and family division of Sony Music’s The Orchard. It marks the first full-length record from Rachel and Aron Accurso, the married couple who co-created the hugely…
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‘Seth MacFarlane Sings The Muppets’ Classic Songs on His New Album: Here’s the Release Date
Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy and Ted, is releasing a new album titled Seth MacFarlane Sings The Muppets on 18 September via Verve Records/Republic Records. The 14-track record sees the actor and singer, already known for several Great American Songbook albums, turn his attention to beloved music from The Muppets’ film and television…
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The Mad King: 9 Things We Learned About Westeros From the New Game of Thrones Play
Game of Thrones: The Mad King is the new stage tie-in to George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. The play has just opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Stratford theatre in England, and it’s chock-full of new GoT details!
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China’s Tencent Music Reports $1.32 Billion in Q2 Revenue as Ximalaya Integration Marks New Audio Push
Tencent Music Entertainment Group, China’s dominant streaming platform, reported total revenues of RMB8.93 billion ($1.32 billion) for the second quarter of 2026, a 5.8% year-over-year increase. Growth was driven by strong performance in music services and the first quarter of contributions from Ximalaya, the long-form audio platform TME acquired in a deal that closed on…
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Infantino, Trump, Bezos and Mourinho: together at last: Football Weekly – video
This is a video episode of the Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast, in which host Max Rushden is joined by Nicky Bandini, Lars Sivertsen and Paul Watson to discuss recent football talking points. The main topic is Donald Trump’s complimentary remarks about Gianni Infantino, the Fifa president who has faced mounting pressure and criticism in his…