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  • UMG pushes out top label bosses while it builds a central AI and data team

    Universal Music Group's final round of 2024-planned cost cuts removed the heads of Def Jam, Republic and Polydor and two senior Interscope Geffen A&M A&R executives, while UMG says it is "bringing in new skills and technology". UMG has not tied the cuts to AI, but the people it hired this year are data and machine-learning specialists, and that changes who speaks for an artist inside a major.

    Industryvia Universal Music Group

  • How much music is actually AI? Qobuz and SIQA's numbers, read carefully

    Qobuz says only 0.38% of its streams come from AI-identified tracks, and it treats 60% of those streams as fraud. A self-selected sample of AI creators charted by SIQA points the other way, towards hybrid human-plus-AI work. Supply is huge, real listening is small, and policy written for "fully AI slop" misses most of the people actually using these tools.

    AIvia Qobuz

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