Spotify has tapped Julian Parker – formerly a research scientist at independent multi-modal generative AI company Stability AI – to work on the streaming giant’s artist-first AI initiative. News of Parker’s appointment comes days after Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) unveiled landmark recorded music and publishing licensing agreements on AI features for fans. The deals will…
Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) have signed new licensing agreements that will allow Spotify to launch generative AI tools for fan-made covers and remixes. The deal covers recorded music and music publishing rights. It will let Spotify Premium users create AI-powered covers and remixes of songs from participating UMG artists and songwriters. Paid Feature…
Spotify announced on Thursday that it has partnered with Universal Music Group to allow fans to use generative AI to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs. The tool will be launched as a paid add-on available to Spotify’s Premium subscribers. It will also offer a revenue share with participating artists for the AI-generated…
The streaming service Spotify and the music group Universal Music Group have concluded a licensing agreement for a new generative artificial intelligence tool. This will allow users to create their own cover versions and remixes of songs by participating musicians in the future. Artists and songwriters are to be involved in the revenue. The tool…
Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) have announced new recorded music and music publishing licensing agreements that will allow Spotify users to create AI-generated covers and remixes of songs from participating artists and songwriters. The feature, which will be introduced as a paid add-on for Spotify Premium subscribers, will use generative AI technology to enable…
Spotify has partnered up with Universal Music Group (UMG) to deliver a new AI-powered experience on the platform that will allow subscribers to remix songs and create music covers. The feature is exclusively available to Premium users who will be asked to pay extra for the new generative AI tool. Spotify, UMG Offer New AI-Powered…
Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced a licensing deal for recorded music and publishing rights, enabling Spotify to launch generative AI music models in the future. With this deal, Spotify’s models will allow fans to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs from participating artists and songwriters signed to UMG. The new deal…
Spotify and Universal Music Group have announced a major recorded-music and music-publishing licensing agreements that will enable Spotify to launch a new tool allowing fans to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs from participating artists and songwriters. The tool will be powered by generative AI technology that the announcement states “will open up…
The Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) and The Advertising Club (TAC) have announced MediaKart as a co-presenter for the 19th edition of Goafest, with LinkedIn and Spotify Advertising joining as ‘Powered by’ sponsors. The event is scheduled to take place on May 20, 21 and 22, 2026, at Taj Cidade de Goa Horizon. Goafest…
Jason Moran, a renowned jazz composer and pianist, got a strange call from a friend last month. The friend, bassist Burniss Earl Travis, was curious about Moran’s new record that he saw on the music streaming service Spotify. “It has your name on it,” Travis told him. “But I don’t think it’s you.” Moran said…
