The first four from this year’s cohort were unveiled last week – this time out we put the spotlight on new wave country, UK rap, big-voiced balladry and an emerging singer-songwriter. Cynthia Todd, Senior Manager, Talent Booking: “It’s impossible to ignore the rising momentum surrounding Ty Myers. He brings a fresh energy to the genre, blending timeless storytelling with a sound that is entirely his own. Ty’s music resonates across audiences from country loyalists to Americana fans to anyone who simply loves great songwriting.

Finland-born karaoke technology company Singa has signed a licensing agreement with Merlin, adding “thousands” of original master recordings from independent labels to its platform, six months after securing a similar deal with Warner Music Group.

The partnership, announced Tuesday (December 2), gives the startup access to recordings from Merlin‘s membership of independent labels and distributors spanning more than 70 countries. Combined with its June licensing deal with Warner Music, Singa is assembling a catalog of original masters and “not reproductions or soundalike versions.”

Previously, karaoke companies relied on recreated versions of popular songs due to licensing restrictions with major labels.

Spotify is expanding Song Credits and introducing two new features—SongDNA and About the Song—to give fans a deeper look into the people, stories, and creative connections behind the music they love. The updated Song Credits, now rolling out on mobile, highlight all contributors—including producers, engineers, and musicians—and are sourced directly from labels and distributors.

Warner Music Group and AI platform Udio have reached a landmark agreement resolving their copyright dispute and forming a licensing partnership for a next-generation AI music creation and discovery platform launching next year.

New data from Luminate highlights the significant impact of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts on artists’ digital reach. An analysis of 63 artists who performed in 2025 shows an average 12% increase in on-demand audio streaming in the eight weeks following their Tiny Desk appearance

t seems every tech company in the world wants to get in on the AI-generated music craze.

Just several days ago, we learned that ChatGPT and Sora maker OpenAI is planning to enter the generative AI music space, and now we have another entrant: Adobe.

The company behind Photoshop and other digital content tools has unveiled a new version of its Adobe Firefly suite of content generation tools, and among other things, this latest version can create soundtracks for videos.

Firefly’s new Generate Soundtrack tool, currently in public beta testing, can “create a custom, fully-licensed music track” for videos made in Firefly, Adobe says.

Users can input text prompts like “dreamlike” and “electronic” into the tool to guide the music’s creation, and can also tell the tool what sort of video the music will be used in. The soundtrack will be automatically trimmed to the length of the video, Adobe said in a blog post.

The tool is powered by Adobe’s Firefly Audio Model, which the company describes as being “commercially safe” and “which creates fully licensed, studio-quality instrumental tracks.”