It’s the weekly headline roundup!
This week we’re looking at Apple’s new music venue, Coachella and YouTube, what country owns the most superstar artists, Sony joining Ariam, and more.
Apple Music Opens a London Venue Built to Turn Concerts Into Content
Apple has opened a live music venue in London designed to make a single concert work simultaneously as an intimate show, a global livestream and a professionally recorded piece of content.
– Bruce Houghton, Hypebot
Apple Music Hall is a new 600-capacity room inside Battersea Power Station. The venue combines a reconfigurable 38-foot stage and 48-speaker spatial sound system with two recording and mixing studios, a broadcast control room and connections for at least 16 cameras.
YouTube Extends Deal to Stream Coachella Through 2030
Coachella will be streaming on YouTube for years to come.
– Alex Weprin, Hollywood Reporter
The streaming platform said Wednesday that it had inked a new deal with promoter Goldenvoice to be the exclusive livestream home of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival through 2030. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced the deal on stage at its Made On YouTube event in New York City Wednesday morning.
The US and UK’s share of the world’s ‘Superstar’ artists has fallen from 55.7% to 40.7% since 2021, shows Chartmetric data
The share of the world’s ‘Superstar’ artists who hail from the United States has fallen from 45.1% to 33.1% since 2021.
– Tim Ingham, Music Business Worldwide
Over the same period, the UK‘s share dropped from 10.6% to 7.6%.
Added together, the two markets accounted for 40.7% of that tier in 2026, down from 55.7% five years earlier.
The figures come from Global Music Pulse, a new report from music data platform Chartmetric, which tracks 14 million artists across streaming and social services.
Chartmetric counts an artist as a ‘Superstar’ if they sit in the top 0.02% of its database by Chartmetric Score.
Sony Music group joins ‘responsible AI’ policy coalition Ariam
Ariam? It’s new to us, but that’s no surprise: the Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts & Media didn’t have any music-industry members until this week.
– Stuart Dredge, Music Ally
TV and film companies, news outlets and book publishers were its core so far, with members including Disney, the BBC, the New York Times, ITV, Condé Nast, Fox Entertainment and the Financial Times. Now Sony Music Group has joined them.