The country ballad holds the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart for a 23rd nonconsecutive week, besting the record set by “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”
Four supporting acts dropped out of Sheeran’s tour, citing the right to free speech after the rapper Macklemore was removed over pro-Palestinian comments he had made onstage.
Jason Isbell and three others filed a lawsuit against Suno, accusing the company of training its model on their songs. The suit will test a legal strategy not based on copyright but unlawful imitation.
Advances in A.I. are making it possible to create all kinds of music from scratch, but they also raise questions about what is legal and who will actually listen.
Major music industry groups, including the organization behind the Grammy Awards, have proposed labels for tracks made with some degree of artificial intelligence.