Random music news for Friday, June 19, 2026

You can’t join the Mile High Club on a Ferris wheel. Or can you? As for music news for Friday, June 19, 2026…

1. Are you keeping track of all the World Cup anthems? Here’s a list.
2. Threads says it now has 500 million monthly users. It’s only be online since July 2023. The “Music Threads” community is the biggest, too, with 642,000 members as of today.
3. Canada will now block searches for stream-rippers.
4. Around 59% of videos served to new TikTok accounts are AI slop.
5. Spotify has made it possible to react to the collaborative playlists with emojis.
6. There’s no Glastonbury this year. Do you know why?
7. A new and previously unknown Velvet Underground song called “I Don’t Care Much for the Things That You Do” (recorded in 1967) has been discovered.
8. You gotta love how Stephen Colbert stuck CBS with a big music bill on his last episode of The Late Show. And you gotta love what the owners of that song did with the payment.

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