A&R and Recordings Manager – Anjunabeats – London
Anjunabeats A&R & Recordings Manager (Involved Productions) London, Bermondsey UK Salary dependent on experience With a rich 20 year history, Anjunabeats remains one of the world’s best-loved independent dance labels. We’re looking to grow our music team with a new A&R hire as we continue to redefine and evolve the sound of electronic music. Working […]
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BoxVR fitness game to get a major overhaul as FitXR
FitXR is the UK-based startup that’s had a hit with virtual reality fitness game BoxVR. Earlier this month, the company raised $7.5m of Series A funding, and now it’s announcing a major overhaul of its main product.
Renamed FitXR, the app will start with more than four hours of boxing workouts, each with their own musical soundtrack, and audio prompts from its roster of trainers. Later in the year, the company says it will add “different styles of workout” to take the game beyond boxing – the phrasing being used is “virtual fitness studio”.
As we noted at the time of the funding round, music is a crucial part of BoxVR (and now FitXR) with the punches, dodges and blocks in its workouts synchronised to soundtracks including rock, hip-hop, pop and drum’n’bass.
Thus far, that music is mainly being sourced from production libraries, but with FitXR already selling extra workouts as downloadable content (DLC) packs, there’s potential – as has been explored by VR game Beat Saber – for licensed artist packs too.
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Spotify CEO talks Covid-19, artist incomes and podcasting (interview)
Spotify announced its latest financial results yesterday, with growth in listeners and subscribers at the top end of its forecasts, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. CEO Daniel Ek talked to Music Ally after the financials were announced, starting with his view on the growth.
“It’s very encouraging. Already last earnings call we were seeing a lot of the numbers stabilising and it was looking very promising, so it’s nice to see that stability and to see more and more regions get back to normal again, with a continuing trend from Q1,” said Ek.
One of the lines that jumped out of Spotify’s Q2 earnings announcement was “Gone are the days of Top 40, it’s now the Top 43,000” – referring to the fact that the streaming service’s ‘top tier’ of artists – those accounting for the top 10% of its streams – now number more than 43,000, compared to 30,000 a year ago.
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