Category: 5. Entertainment

By Mauro Orru

  Universal Music Group said it reached an agreement with artificial-intelligence startup Stability AI to develop professional music creation tools as the record label steps up efforts to leverage the technology. 

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Japan’s animation industry grew by 14.8% to hit record revenues of $25BN (JPY3.8TR) in 2024, with much of the increase coming from overseas markets, according to a report presented by the Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) at

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12” vinyl single out in January

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Rough Trade Records are excited to announce a new stand-alone single by Lankum.  Originally created for an Oona Doherty dance show ‘Specky…

A shopping centre in Penzance is experiencing a resurgence in its fortunes with empty retail outlets being filled by independent businesses and restaurants, according to the management team there.

In the past month alone two new shops have opened…

Peacock, the streaming service of Comcast’s entertainment unit NBCUniversal, narrowed its third-quarter loss to $217 million compared with $436 million in the year-ago period. The streamer, which unveiled new programming like The Paper and…

LONDON — Universal Music Group and AI song generation platform Udio have settled a copyright infringement lawsuit and agreed to team up on new music creation and streaming platform, the two companies said in a joint statement.

Universal and Udio…

The world has been keeping up with the Kardashian-Jenner clan for 18 years now – and the family’s drama, as well as their bank accounts, remain as juicy as ever.

The smash-hit reality series…

Lily Allen will play her headline-grabbing new album West End Girl in full on a run of 2026 tour dates. The British pop star will perform her fifth album front to back in a series of theatrical venues around the UK next March.

West End Girl…

The interactive nature of short-form video platforms

Launched in 2016, short-form video platforms such as Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok) have enjoyed seemingly unstoppable success. As of June 2022, they had over 962 million users,…