Lorde made the news when she announced that she was now a free agent. Which, in musical terms, translates to being independent from any record label. As it happens, the singer had been signed since the age of 12 (!) with Universal Music, the biggest label on the planet…

For decades, the general wisdom has been that the new business model of (recorded) music, i.e. streaming, has been far less profitable than the previous, physical-led model. Could it be changing?

Rosé & Bruno Mars’ “APT.” was recently crowned the #1 selling song of 2025 by the IFPI, music’s global representative body. The one after that is KPop Demon Hunters’s “Golden”. Mars comes back at #4 with “Die With A Smile”, his (other) duet with Lady Gaga…