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Splice & MIDiA Research unveil “Sounds of 2025”, 2024’s Genre Shifts Provide Key Insights Into What We’ll Hear in 2025

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What will the music of tomorrow sound like? According to the latest report from Splice, the global music creation platform, and MIDiA Research, the leading global authority in music, the creator economy and cross-entertainment, the answer is already being written.

NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — What will the music of tomorrow sound like? Global music creation platform Splice and MIDiA Researchhave today released “Sounds of 2025,” a deep dive into the music trends of 2024 and the genres, sounds, and creative shifts that are set to define the musical landscape in 2025.

“Splice is uniquely positioned to see the sounds that are driving music production globally. This report gives us a sense of how music producers are bending and blending genres in real time and just what genres and regions will define what we hear in 2025 and beyond.” Kakul Srivastava, CEO of Splice

The “Sounds of 2025” report reveals that music will be characterized by genre fusions and global influence. Among the hundreds of genres across Splice, one is raising its volume louder than the rest: “pluggnb“. Fusing the trap sub-genre “plugg” with ’90s R&B and gospel harmonies, “pluggnb” is the fastest-growing genre on the platform with downloads spiking 342.8% in 2024. Unofficial “pluggnb” remixes dominated TikTok in 2024 and led to adoption of the genre by K pop heavyweights like LE SSERRAFIM and ILLIT.

The report also takes a look at the top sample creators on the Splice platform, where KSHMR and Oliver continue to be leaders. Grabbing the number one spot in the Top Ten Sample Packs of 2024 is Sounds of KSHMR Vol. 3. Oliver’s Power Tools series (which features prominently in the Julian Bunetta-produced Sabrina Carpenter hit “Espresso”) continues its reign with three volumes in the Top 10.

Creators in LA drive the most Splice downloads by far, 30.7 million in 2024, with New York creators driving roughly half as many, 15.2 million. And while American cities make up half of the ranking for Splice’s top ten cities, the Splice user base is increasingly global. Australia has both Sydney and Melbourne in the Top 10, while Tokyo and Berlin are also included.

According to Splice CEO, Kakul Srivastava, “Splice is uniquely positioned to see the sounds that are driving music production globally. This report gives us a sense of how music producers are bending and blending genres in real time and just what genres and regions will define what we hear in 2025 and beyond.”

“The music industry is always trying to get ahead of trends, but there is perhaps no more forward-looking cultural trend than sample usage,” says Mark Mulligan, Managing Director and Music Analyst, MIDiA Research, the leading global authority in music, the creator economy and cross-entertainment. “The sounds that producers use to create today give us a window not only into the genres that will be big tomorrow but also early indications of entirely new genres that will emerge from the process of mixing samples across styles and cultures. The genres that stand out in this report also underline wider trends: the growing importance of scenes and fan remixing in shaping the sounds of the future.”

Key Highlights The Leading Genres of 2025

● Pluggnb: The Fastest Growing Genre of 2024

Pluggnb—a fusion of trap’s plugg subgenre with ’90s R&B and gospel harmonies—rose an incredible 342.8% in downloads. Artists like Summrs and Autumn! are leading the charge, while Seoul has emerged as a key hub for this genre’s growth. TikTok and digital culture are driving its global rise, making it a key contender for the mainstream in 2025.

● Jersey Club: From Underground to Global Phenomenon

Jersey club, the high-energy hip-hop/house hybrid, saw exponential growth in 2024, particularly in Berlin, where it became the city’s fastest-growing genre on Splice. Its influence is growing worldwide, with artists like UNIIQU3 and Cookiee Kawaii bringing it to new audiences. Expect Jersey Club to continue its global domination as 2025 progresses.

● Rage: The New Sound of Hip-Hop

Rage,” a harder, experimental offshoot of trap, made major strides in 2024. With nearly 1 million downloads, it’s clear that artists like JELEEL! and YoungBoy Never Broke Again are introducing this sound to the mainstream. This genre is likely to continue its rapid rise, blending intense energy with a more experimental, aggressive approach to hip-hop production.

● A New Era of Dance Music: Melodic House & Techno

As house music continues to thrive, its subgenre, “melodic house” has emerged as a growing force, with artists like Ben Böhmer and Solomun defining its softer, atmospheric sound. Similarly, “melodic techno” is expected to rise in prominence, with its minimal, cinematic approach gaining traction globally.

● Afro House and the Global South’s Influence

The global rise of “Afro House“, particularly from South African creators like Black Coffee, continues to push boundaries in 2024. As international audiences increasingly embrace the genre’s fusion of African rhythms and house beats, it’s expected to play a significant role in the sounds of 2025.

● The Rise of Drift Phonk in Brazil

In Brazil, drift phonk—a faster and harder-hitting style of the popular “phonk” genre—became the country’s fastest-growing genre on Splice. As this genre grows in popularity, it highlights the emergence of ‘Brazilian phonk’, which was made popular by European producers who fused “phonk” with the sounds of Latin America, and its reclamation by Brazilian producers.

The New Sound Capitals of the World

While Los Angeles and New York remain the top cities for Splice downloads, the rise of international hubs is undeniable. Tokyo and Berlin are two of the fastest-growing music production cities globally, with new sounds and genres emerging from these places.

Los Angeles: Dominating trends like K-pop and pluggnb, LA continues to be a hotbed for genre experimentation and cross-cultural influence.

● São Paulo: Home to the rapidly growing drift phonk sound, this Brazilian city is becoming a critical center for phonk’s evolution.

Johannesburg: As Afro House continues to soar, South Africa is establishing itself as a global powerhouse for innovative, rhythm-based music.

Berlin: Jersey club’s unexpected rise in Berlin exemplifies the city’s place in the global music scene.

To read the full report – click here

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Safetyfirst Systems, LLC Provides Notice of Data Security Event

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PARSIPPANY, N.J., July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Safetyfirst Systems, LLC (“SFS”) is providing notice of a data security event that may involve information relating to certain individuals. While SFS is not aware of any misuse of information associated with this event, it is providing notice to potentially affected individuals out of an abundance of caution.

On January 19, 2026, SFS identified suspicious activity involving a limited portion of its server environment. Upon discovering the activity, SFS quickly took steps to secure its systems, notified federal law enforcement, engaged leading third-party forensic specialists, and performed a detailed investigation into the nature, scope, and impact of the activity. The investigation determined that an unauthorized actor accessed and/or acquired certain files from limited SFS systems between January 16, 2026, and January 19, 2026. SFS then conducted a comprehensive review of the affected files to determine what information may have been involved and identify the individuals to whom the information relates. The review has recently concluded, and SFS is providing this notification to potentially impacted individuals out of an abundance of caution. Although the types of information vary by individual, the affected information may include names, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license numbers.

Protecting the privacy and security of the information entrusted to SFS is a responsibility the company takes very seriously. In response to this event, SFS promptly strengthened security measures, continues to enhance its technical safeguards and monitoring capabilities, and is reviewing existing policies and procedures to further protect against similar incidents in the future. SFS is also providing notice to potentially affected individuals and, where required, appropriate regulatory authorities.

Although SFS is unaware of any misuse of personal information impacted by this event, individuals are encouraged to remain vigilant against events of identity theft by reviewing account statements, explanation of benefits, and monitoring free credit reports for suspicious activity and to detect errors. Any suspicious activity should be reported to the appropriate insurance company, health care provider, or financial institution.

Individuals seeking additional information regarding this event can contact SFS’s dedicated assistance line at 1-833-289-5523 between the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Individuals may also write to SFS at PO Box 101, 3299 US Highway 46, Parsippany, NJ 07054-9998.

 

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Sunrate and Mastercard Release White Paper on Agentic AI and the Future of B2B Global Payments

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SHANGHAI, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sunrate, the global payment and treasury management platform, and Mastercard, a global technology company in the payments industry, unveiled a joint white paper, Beyond Automation: Defining Agentic Global Payments, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC).

Among the first reports in the payments industry to examine the impact of Agentic AI on B2B cross-border payments, the white paper provides a comprehensive framework for understanding how AI agents are reshaping enterprise payment operations. It proposes that cross-border payments are evolving beyond digitisation and automation into a new stage: Autonomy—where AI agents with reasoning, planning, and execution capabilities can independently orchestrate and optimise end-to-end payment and treasury workflows within defined governance frameworks.

As businesses expand across borders, B2B cross-border payments continue to be constrained by fragmented workflows, disconnected systems, foreign exchange inefficiencies, rising compliance requirements, and complex reconciliation processes. While traditional automation improves individual tasks, the white paper demonstrates that Agentic AI represents a fundamental shift by enabling intelligent agents to coordinate entire payment journeys across systems, counterparties, and approval workflows.

Drawing on Sunrate’s global payment infrastructure and AI-native product capabilities, together with Mastercard’s expertise in secure payment networks and data intelligence, the white paper defines Agentic Global Payments — a new category of AI-native global payment infrastructure built to automate and manage complex enterprise workflows.

The report identifies 16 major pain points across the B2B payment lifecycle and outlines 13 high-value AI use cases spanning supplier onboarding, accounts payable and receivable, virtual commercial cards, payment routing, foreign exchange management, compliance screening, fraud detection, reconciliation, and conversational operational support. It also demonstrates how AI agents can automate complex workflows—from extracting information across multiple document formats and conducting compliance checks to initiating payments, optimising FX execution, and completing reconciliation—while operating within enterprise governance and control frameworks.

The white paper further highlights that trusted adoption of agentic payments depends on more than technological capability. It identifies governance, transparency, security, and ecosystem collaboration as essential foundations for enterprise deployment, supported by frameworks such as Know Your Agent (KYA), payment tokenisation, auditability, and cross-industry interoperability.

Sunrate.AI portfolio currently includes the Payment Agent, FX Agent, Compliance Agent, Onboarding Agent, and Chat Agent, designed to help enterprises automate and optimise critical payment and treasury processes while maintaining compliance and operational control.

Mastercard has also been actively building the foundations for trusted agentic commerce – combining AI capabilities with verifiable authorisation, clear accountability and proven payments security. Its work in this area, including Agent Pay (alongside Agent Pay for Machines) and Verifiable Intent, are proof points in how Mastercard is enabling AI to participate in commerce safely and transparently. 

“Our mission is to make global payments seamless, compliant, and intelligent,” said Paul Meng, Co-founder and CEO of Sunrate. “As businesses continue expanding internationally, AI agents will fundamentally reshape how enterprises manage global payments—enabling smoother capital flows, reducing operational friction, and embedding real-time intelligence into every payment decision. This white paper represents an important step in helping the industry understand how Agentic AI can be deployed responsibly at enterprise scale.”

“Agentic commerce is changing how businesses make and execute payment decisions, but speed without accountability creates new categories of risk,” said Anouska Ladds, Executive Vice President, Commercial & New Payment Flows, Asia Pacific, Mastercard. “As AI starts to act on behalf of businesses, autonomous payment decisions need a clear, auditable chain of identity, intent and action. That’s what allows organisations to delegate with genuine confidence — and what will determine whether agentic commerce scales past pilots.”

Released under WAIC 2026’s theme, “Intelligent Partners, Co-creating the Future,” the white paper provides business leaders with practical guidance on adopting AI-driven payment capabilities, covering implementation approaches, governance considerations, and real-world enterprise applications.

By combining Sunrate’s expertise in global payments and treasury management with Mastercard’s trusted payment infrastructure and network capabilities, the collaboration reflects a shared commitment to accelerating the next generation of intelligent, secure, and autonomous B2B global payments.

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About Sunrate

Sunrate is a leading global payment and treasury management platform for businesses worldwide. Founded in 2016, Sunrate has enabled companies to operate and scale both locally and globally in 190+ countries and regions with its cutting-edge infrastructure, global network, and unified solutions.

Sunrate operates through offices across key markets, including Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London. The company partners with the top global financial institutions, such as Citibank, Standard Chartered, Barclays, J.P. Morgan. Sunrate is also the principal member of Mastercard and Visa. To learn more about Sunrate, visit https://www.sunrate.com/.

About Mastercard

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re building a resilient economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. 

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JAMS Launches AI for Enterprise Job Scheduling: JAX and JAMS MCP

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A new AI agent and an open-standard connector let IT teams query, diagnose, and manage automation in plain language, on the model they choose, with operational data able to stay onshore inside their own network

SYDNEY, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — JAMS Software, an orchestration solution for scheduled and event-driven automation, today announced the general availability of two AI capabilities for enterprise job scheduling: JAX, an AI agent built into the JAMS Web Client, and JAMS MCP, a connector built on the open Model Context Protocol standard that brings JAMS into external AI coding tools. Both capabilities ship at no additional cost as part of JAMS Web.

Automation environments grow faster than the teams that run them. Jobs multiply across SQL Server, Azure Data Factory, Airflow, SAP, JDE, and Banner, and when one fails, finding the root cause often means searching several consoles at once, frequently outside business hours. At the same time, IT leaders carry pressure to adopt AI while staying accountable for where operational data goes. JAX and JAMS MCP close both gaps together.

Full details on how JAX and JAMS MCP work, including the control model behind every action, are available at jamsscheduler.com/product/ai.

JAX is an AI agent that runs inside the JAMS Web Client. It finds jobs, troubleshoots failures, and answers how-to questions in plain language, with each response grounded in the JAMS user guide and checked against a built-in glossary. JAX acts only when a user asks it to. Reads flow freely, and every write action pauses for the user’s explicit approval before it runs. JAX does not learn between sessions, and conversations are not retained on the server.

JAMS MCP is a connector, built on the open Model Context Protocol standard, that brings JAMS into the AI tools engineering teams already use, including Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Codex. Users query jobs, investigate failures, and manage runs in plain language without leaving their tool.

Both capabilities run inside the customer’s own network and act as the signed-in user, with that user’s exact JAMS permissions. There is no elevated AI account: whatever a user cannot do in the JAMS interface, JAX and JAMS MCP cannot do on that user’s behalf. Every JAX and MCP operation is recorded in its own dedicated log, and changes made through the JAMS API land in the JAMS audit trail like any other change. Customers choose their own AI model, whether a commercial provider such as OpenAI or Anthropic or a model running entirely on their own hardware, and JAMS never trains on customer data. In the current release, neither feature edits or deletes a job, folder, schedule, or agent definition. For teams that need operational data to stay onshore, JAX runs on a local model entirely inside the customer’s own network, so nothing leaves at all.

“Adopting AI usually means giving something up, most often visibility into where your data goes,” said Pete Hegland, Chief Executive Officer of JAMS Software. “We built JAX and JAMS MCP so that trade does not have to happen. Every action runs as the signed-in user, every change waits for approval, and the model can run on the customer’s own hardware, keeping operational data onshore.”

“For teams across Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, two things matter: keeping data onshore, and getting answers when a job fails after hours,” said Shayne Cooper, Account Executive for APAC at JAMS Software. “JAX and JAMS MCP address both. The model can run on the customer’s own hardware, and the answer arrives in plain language at the moment it is needed.”

JAX and JAMS MCP are available now to all JAMS Web customers across Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, with no separate licence, SKU, or additional cost. AI-assisted creation of new jobs and workflows from a plain-language description is on the roadmap for a future release, gated by the same approvals and permissions as every other action.

Learn how JAX and JAMS MCP work at https://jamsscheduler.com/product/ai.

Fast facts

JAX is an AI agent built into the JAMS Web Client for job scheduling and workflow automation.JAMS MCP is a connector built on the open Model Context Protocol standard, for Cursor, VS Code with Copilot, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Codex.Both act as the signed-in user, with that user’s exact JAMS permissions, and there is no elevated AI account.Customers choose the AI model, including a local model that runs entirely inside their own network.JAMS never trains on customer data.Both are available now at no additional cost as part of JAMS Web.

About JAMS Software
Founded in 1987, JAMS Software is an orchestration solution that helps IT teams centralize, automate, and manage scheduled and event-driven jobs across complex, hybrid environments. Over 850 customers rely on JAMS to run their automated workloads. JAMS Software, LLC is headquartered at 108 Patriot Drive, Suite A, Middletown, DE 19709.

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