youtube music

• YouTube issues grants to 28 global hip-hop artists as part of Fifty Deep campaign
• YouTube celebrates 100 million subscribers across its Music and Premium tiers

  YouTube Music and Premium now have 100 million paying customers between them. YouTube's paid subscriptions have been available since 2015.

  
• 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
• 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