Random music news for Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Remember the Havana Syndrome weapon? Yeah, now there’s this. (Via Sean) Music news for January 20, 2026, isn’t nearly as harmful. More music news? Go here. BONUS: This is what
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This South Korean singer is suing her management company for $4.5 QUADRILLION
Unless you’re deep into the South Korean music scene, you’ve probably never heard of Park Bom. She’s a former member of a K-pop group called 2NE1–and she’s very, very upset.
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Americans are so freaked out about the price of eggs that they’re renting chickens. And we’ve been boiling eggs all wrong. Music news for February 10, 2025. More music news?
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Black Friday for everyone–except plumbers. For them, today is known as Brown Friday. (Via Larry). Let’s be careful around there. Here’s music news for November 29, 2024. More music news?
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A music producer has been arrested for using AI to scam streaming royalties
Michael Cornelius of North Carolina appears to have believed that he could scoop up lot of royalties from the streaming music platforms by using hundreds of thousands of fake songs
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Can you launder criminal money using Spotify? Turns out you can.
I’m always fascinated by the ways people to game the system when it comes to music streaming. But using the platform for money laundering? That’s a new one. According to
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Pre-sale tickets for Fyre Festival II have sold out. For the love of God, WHY?
Billy McFarlane, the scam artist who was jailed and fined for the fraud (two convictions) that was the first Fyre Festival, is back. His new thing? Fyre Festival II. Details
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A streaming service is taking a stand on listening with the volume down
People are always looking for ways to game the system when it comes to boosting streaming numbers. An easy and common way to do this is to encourage your fans
Read MoreRandom music news for Thursday, August 25, 2022
You don’t want to be a weather forecaster in Hungary. Here’s why. Meanwhile, I can vouch for this music news for August 25, 2022. Police in Stockholm found a bag
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Streaming farms: A new way to game the system
One of the metrics by which an artist lives and dies is the number of streams they amass on streaming platforms. In a just world, the number of streams and
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Rapper arrested in crypto multi-billion-dollar money-laundering scheme
Note to would-be fraudsters: Learn how the blockchain works before you try the launder cryptocurrency. On Tuesday, a woman named Heather Morgan was arrested along with her husband, Ilya Lichtenstein.
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