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Revenues reached 45.4 million, with streaming accounting for a large part of that value in a market dominated by international artists. Physical sales increased by 20% between January and June.
The recorded music industry in Portugal saw a 14% increase in revenue during the first six months of the current year.
In February of this year, Salvador Sobral removed all his albums from Spotify, aware that the decision could be detrimental to his career.
The musician passed away in Portugal, marking the end of the famous musical partnership.
It may be the most promising new technology in music since the advent of streaming, with the potential to revolutionise how songs are made, heard, and promoted. But there are also serious questions regarding the protection of artists and their copyrights. And will these systems end up flooding us with generic, low-quality content? Answers to the most frequently asked questions.
Portuguese singer Toy criticises the use of playlists on radio stations, comparing the practice to fascism and claiming that the spirit of the 25th of April revolution has not yet fully reached the industry.
IFPI, Grammy, SAG-AFTRA, and RIAA join forces to identify songs as 'Created by AI' or 'With AI assistance'. On Deezer, 44% of music is already AI-generated.
What if the AI invasion in music is, in a way, good news?
A family dispute is reportedly behind the ban on the song being performed in public, which led to booing at the Campo Pequeno concert. The band's lead singer guarantees that lawyers are handling the matter, which should be resolved by mid-July.
The idea is to protect copyright at a time when it is estimated that around 25% of artists' revenue is at risk of being diverted by AI-generated music by 2028.
Faced with the rise of artificial intelligence, the music industry is still looking for a way to combat it and is responding in a fragmented manner, using tools to detect tracks or through agreements with AI companies to compensate artists.
Never has so much music been produced — and never has it been so difficult to tell where it comes from. With AI invading streaming, the question may no longer be whether it is a problem, but what to do about it.
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The Senegalese musician and producer, one of the founding fathers of African hip-hop, has no illusions about the distortions that AI is introducing into the music industry. “Either we adapt or we die,” he says.
Recorded music revenues in Portugal totalled 74.7 million euros in 2025, representing an 8% increase compared to the same period last year, the Association for the Management of Phonographic Producers' Rights (Audiogest) announced this Tuesday. These figures refer to total sales and rights revenues, which aggregate physical sales and...
The recorded music industry in Portugal saw an 8% increase in revenue, reaching a total of approximately 75 million euros in 2025.
“Sold out” is a sign seen on many concert dates. But is the message real, or just a way to sell the image of the performance to charge more for festival appearances? The topic is explored in Spain by the newspaper “El País”, which explains that in certain cases, tickets “sell out” before even a number of tickets close to the venue's maximum capacity has been sold. But why? Sold-out venues are, in theory, the greatest quantifiable sign of an artist's or musical group's success. Selling out venues across the country is one of the main criteria used by those who define festival lineups, even when the performance in question actually makes a loss. Any concert has a list of associated expenses. According to the investigation's findings, many “sold-out” shows yield a marginal profit or even result in a loss, as the volume of tickets sold remains below the maximum. The goal is clear: to sell the image of the artist or band to secure a spot in the lineup of one or more festivals, especially during the summer months, and to command higher fees, as the value is set in advance regardless of the final festival results. This way of working has perverse consequences for the industry, driving up artists' fees faster than ticket sales increase. Festivals often rely on large investments from major companies or public funding from local councils, forcing organizers to raise ticket and concession prices. Consequently, smaller festivals are being crushed by larger ones, as they lack the capacity to meet the aggressive rise in artists' fees while remaining financially sustainable. Shows generated more box office revenue in 2024 despite price hikes.
Singer Fernando Daniel inaugurated the Nagana complex this Thursday, which includes music studios and an academy that will provide scholarships to talented individuals without the financial resources to study in the field, the result of a 2 million euro investment. “I want to be as fair as possible.”
Singer Fernando Daniel inaugurated the Nagana complex in Ovar today, which cost two million euros and includes music studios and an academy that will provide scholarships to support talented individuals without the financial resources to pursue studies in the field.
Charli XCX’s team asserts that the artist “always shares credits fairly,” but Sky Ferreira says she was not credited on some of the songs for the film “Wuthering Heights,” which allegedly contain excerpts of unreleased tracks of hers.
In a panel that brought together foreign musicians and promoters with work done in Portugal, Talkfest, in Lisbon, discussed the future of the live music industry and the generational changes also being felt in the ‘clubbing’ scene, the music danced to until dawn. Maintaining it, believes the co-founder of the MOGA festival, “is a matter of money and politics. There is [politically] an aversion to noise. That harms the scene more than the new generations not going to nightclubs as much.”
The data we provide, more or less unconsciously, is increasingly becoming the fuel for the music industry. In an era where consumption is mostly digital, with streaming platforms (and their partners) controlling some of the paths to the listener, what damage is expected for consumers and for artistic production itself? These were some of the questions raised in a panel at Talkfest, which took place last Friday in Lisbon. What to do with so much information? The algorithm knows.
Portugal is increasingly establishing itself as a musical destination. The country not only attracts major singers and bands to its stages and festivals, but has also become a preferred setting for filming international music videos. The most recent case is that of the South Korean group BTS, who chose the Maritime Museum in Lisbon...
Luso-Brazilian Elsa Costa will speak about event production on March 21st at 4 PM at the Fábrica Braço de Prata in Lisbon. The project is a partnership with the Casa da Língua Portuguesa.
At one of the most provocative panels at the Eurosonic 2026 event in Groningen, industry experts debated international figures, public policy and taxation, concluding that it is difficult to treat culture as an industry in a fragmented Europe. The Rosalía phenomenon was the starting point for a profound reflection: when will Europe be able to turn talent into market power?
Several figures from the music world have declared support for different candidates in next Sunday’s presidential election. Who is backing whom in the race to Belém?
