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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Spotify and Universal Music Group struck a licensing…

Billionaire Bill Ackman’s hedge fund has offered to buy Universal Music Group (UMG) in a deal that values the world’s biggest music company at about €55bn…

On Halloween 2022, Angelo De Augustine was at home in Los Angeles when he suddenly collapsed. “I got all these strange sensations and knew something was…

Music makes people move and groove, often in surprisingly involuntary ways. As it turns out, we even blink in time to the beat, researchers report in…

The horrors of the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan are all-encompassing. New laws that effectively legalise domestic abuse means that every woman in the country now lives…

How often have you slumped into an armchair and surfed various streaming platforms in search of escape? Even if not looking for them, you’ll have been…

Campaigners are urging ministers to change the law so that music lyrics are inadmissible in court, a shift that they say would stop a practice that…

Newborn babies can anticipate rhythm in pieces of music, researchers have discovered, offering insights into a fundamental human trait.Babies in the womb begin to respond to…

As the Grammy winners took to the stage in Los Angeles on Sunday night, one common thread emerged: many had once walked the halls of a…

It’s wonderful to read such a robust defence of classical music (Classical music brings us joy and meaning. In this time of doom and gloom, we…