Bad Bunny's $467M Tour Record, GEMA's PLAI AI Dataset - July 27

Email us hereBad Bunny rewrote Latin touring history this weekend, and Germany's GEMA made a bold AI licensing move days before a landmark court ruling. Meanwhile, StubHub's CEO is under congressional fire, Katy Perry is furious at the White House, and Charli xcx's streaming boycott has a crack in it. Here's everything that mattered today. Lawsuits & AI • House Democrats demand StubHub CEO Eric Baker's records on his stake in ticket-resale hedge fund Andro Capital. • GEMA launches PLAI, a licensed AI-training dataset of ~178,000 audio files, with Klangio as first customer. • Luminate survey: 38% of Americans less interested in AI music, 28% more — teens aged 13–17 most enthusiastic. • GEMA's copyright suit against Suno heads to Munich court July 31, days after PLAI's debut. Live & Touring • Bad Bunny's Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour grossed $467.5M across 55 shows, a record for male Latin artists. • Tour had zero mainland US dates due to ICE-related fan-safety concerns; Bad Bunny's career gross now tops $1.2B. • Kacey Musgraves quietly dropped three August–September tour dates in Chicago, Boston, and Brooklyn. • Roxette canceled their entire North American 40th-anniversary tour, blaming soaring production costs. Artists & Releases • Katy Perry condemned the White House for using "Firework" without permission in Iran strike TikTok footage. • Perry sold "Firework" in a $225M catalog deal; the White House used it without license or clearance. • Charli xcx "begrudgingly" put three physical-only B-sides on iTunes, breaking her DSP streaming boycott. • Rick Ross' Set In Stone debuted at No. 45 on the Billboard 200 with just 17,189 album-equivalent units. Five minutes, four categories, zero fluff.