youtube music

• YouTube celebrates 100 million subscribers across its Music and Premium tiers
• YouTube trained its AI using pop songs — and created new tensions with labels in the process

  YouTube may have reignited tensions with Big Three recording industry labels after using copyrighted music to train its generative AI.

  
• Around the World: The YouTube Music museum, Pakistan’s million-dollar creator fund, and more

  YouTube Music opened a museum in Mexico, a Pakistani creator fund hit one million dollars, and Yogscast attended a London investment forum.

  
• YouTube’s new Samples feed makes music short-form

  The Samples tab is a personalized, music-only recommendation feed that presents 30-second cuts from music videos and live performances of songs.

  
• YouTube selects 2,000 music videos from its “archival treasury” to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop
• Barbiemania brings millions of views to YouTube music videos (including one from 1997)
• Podcasts are now live on YouTube Music — and background listening is available for free
• A group of YouTube contractors just earned a big win in their labor dispute with Google
• YouTube Music’s plan to compete with Spotify’s podcast library just took a step forward
• YouTube Music users can now build custom radio stations
• 80 million people are paying YouTube for Premium and Music
• YouTube Originals animates music pioneers with ‘Behind the Beats’