The Sandbox Guide to… Marketing in 2022
Our first Guide of 2022 is designed to help map out your year ahead. We asked 25 thought-leaders in the modern music industry – including Aaron Bogucki, global head of audience development at AWAL, Beth Appleton, chief marketing officer at Jaxsta, Devraj Sanyal, MD & CEO of Universal Music India and South Asia, and Molly […]
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OpenSea is battling a tide of plagiarised, fake and spammy NFTs
OpenSea has been chosen by a number of musicians to release their first non-fungibles over the last year. Now it’s facing some challenges.
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Report claims Twitch has surpassed $1bn in mobile spending
How much money is Twitch making? Amazon doesn’t yet split that out in its financial results. However, research firm App Annie has published a figure.
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Saregama trails plans to invest $100m in its music business
Indian films and music company Saregama is planning a major investment of “up to Rs 750 crore” (that’s around $100m) in the latter part of its business.
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Lil Yachty sues Opulous over announcement of branded NFTs
Lil Yachty claims that Distributor Ditto Music’s Opulous advertised an NFT collection that would feature his music without permission.
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Spotify publishes platform rules as Joe Rogan row snowballs
Where to start with the latest developments in the row over Spotify, Joe Rogan, Covid-19 misinformation and Neil Young’s decision to remove his music from the streaming service?
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Publishing innovation: ‘You can’t take a Ferrari engine and put it into a Model T!’
The publishing strand at last week’s NY:LON Connect conference included keynotes from Primary Wave’s Natalia Nastaskin and PopArabia / Reservoir’s Spek.
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Apple posts record revenues and grows to 785m paid subscribers
Apple made a LOT of money in the final quarter of 2021: $123.9bn, which was a record holiday quarter for the tech giant.
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Create Music Group buys influencer marketing agency VRTCL
VRTCL is one of the companies that sprang up to help labels and artists make the most of TikTok and other social platforms, launching in 2019.
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Fender adds R&B and Soul learning path to Fender Play service
Fender continues to add new features and content to its Fender Play educational service, which people access online to learn to play guitar, bass and/or ukulele.
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Music metaverse startup Ristband bags Epic Games ‘MegaGrant’
Ristband is the startup formerly known as Overview Ark. It rebranded last year while working on its plans for a ‘multiplayer music metaverse’ platform.
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Music, socials and burnout: ‘We’re asking artists to do a lot’
We are now more than 13 years into the music streaming era, but its workings continue to evolve.
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SoundCloud and music: ‘It’s about watching artists and fans connect’
SoundCloud has been reinventing itself over the last few years. You could say it’s going back to its roots.
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Where You At app focuses on safety during nights out
British startup Where You At is testing an app that it hopes will help women to feel safer when they are out clubbing.
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Family in Music to launch MgNTa online music identifier
We’ve seen various attempts in recent years to improve the quality of metadata identifying the writers of songs and their splits. Session, for example, has created tools to encourage songwriters to start creating this metadata from the earliest stage of their working process. Another startup has emerged today with its own ideas. Family in Music […]
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The Weeknd bags 705m Spotify streams in just two weeks
If anyone had any doubt about The Weeknd’s status as a top-tier streaming star (spoiler: they didn’t) they’ll have been set straight now.
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Data suggests YouTube Music is rising fast in South Korea
The music industry knows all about YouTube’s role in bringing K-Pop music to the world, from Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ to the success of BTS and Blackpink.
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Netflix raises its monthly subscriptions in North America
Spotify’s management should probably prepare for a new round of ‘if Netflix can hike its price why can’t you?’ questions in the coming weeks.
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Investment giant Pimco eyes music copyrights with BMG
Its alliance with KKR is well established, but now the Financial Times has reported a separate BMG deal with Pimco, another giant financial investor.
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Secondary ticketing firm StubHub wants to go public
The parent company, StubHub Holdings, is reportedly exploring going public via a Spotify-style direct listing.
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MMF boss: ‘The majors can not continue having their cake and eating it’
Recent speculation about how much money major labels are earning in ‘one-off’ licensing payments is rousing a rumpus in the British music industry.
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The top 10 musicians collectively earned $2.3bn in 2021
Longtime music earnings analyst Zack O’Malley Greenburg has just published his annual ‘music money list’ across Rolling Stone and his own newsletter.
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Music Ally Quarterly Report :: The Trends Report – January 2022
The Trends Report is designed to set your synapses buzzing with ideas, and put you on the front foot in 2022. In it, we look back at what happened in 2021 – that most complex of years – and turn what we learned into a forward-thinking series of analyses, with advice, ideas and context, to help you navigate a better route through the year ahead. […]
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Music NFTs roundup: Beatport, Keith Richards, Metaplex…
Beatport is the latest music company exploring the world of NFTs, via a partnership with deadmau5 and Richie Hawtin’s startup Pixelynx.
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Merlin signs on with creator-focused licensing firm Lickd
Slowly but surely, music licensing startup Lickd, which helps YouTubers to pay for tracks to use in their content, is picking up deals.
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Australian music industry calls for Covid-19 live fund
As a new wave of Covid-19 restrictions hit the Australian live music business, a group of industry bodies is calling for more support from the government there.
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SiriusXM buys business-music service Cloud Cover Music
US satellite-radio firm SiriusXM has made an interesting acquisition: ‘music for business’ company Cloud Cover Music.
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Doctors and scientists criticise Spotify over Joe Rogan
Spotify has been criticised both externally and internally for some of the views expressed (and guests hosted) by podcaster Joe Rogan, to little avail.
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Music NFTs roundup: Opulous, Parker McCollum, Lüm…
Royal’s high-profile drop of music NFTs from Nas may have hit a snag this week, but there is still plenty of other news coming out of the sector.
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Future of Music Coalition hails Bandcamp Fridays impact
Non-profit US organisation the Future of Music Coalition (FMC) has been praising the Bandcamp Fridays promotion run by Bandcamp.
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Consumer spending on music in the UK grew 8.7% in 2021
Music consumption grew by 2.5% in the UK last year, but actual spending grew by more, according to figures published by the ERA.
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Music industry seeks more subscription growth in China
Music Ally has been talking to our sources in China to get a sense of the market’s development last year, for our latest country profile.
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Rolling Stones become latest band to star on Royal Mail stamps
The latest stage for the Rolling Stones is a set of 12 stamps issued by the Royal Mail in the UK, in a partnership with the band.
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WMG buys majority stake in African distributor Africori
Warner Music Group has revealed its latest strategic move in Africa: a majority stake in distributor Africori.
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Apple set to allow alternative payment systems in South Korea
Apple will abide by new rules in South Korea that ban app store owners from forcing developers to use their own in-app payment systems.
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Spotify is shutting down ‘Studio 4’ internal podcasts studio
Trouble at the ‘audio first’ mill, or just inevitable reorganisation as part of the growth process? Spotify is shutting down one of its internal podcast studios.
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Website problems lead Royal to reschedule drop of Nas NFTs
The drop was due to happen on 11 January but has now been rescheduled.”Due to the amount of excitement and support, our website went down,” explained Royal.
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Audio music streams in Germany grew by 19.6% in 2021
Industry body BVMI reported yesterday that more than 165bn audio music streams were measured in Germany last year, up from 138bn in 2020.
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