Aux Awards wants to celebrate innovative artists and startups
The company has launched its first Aux Awards, with 11 categories covering musicians, podcasters and music companies.
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Anti-piracy firm DCP takes aim at copyright-infringing NFTs
Anti-piracy company Digital Content Protection (DCP) is aiming to help rightsholders tackle the problem with its new service.
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AIM and Impala respond to Sony / AWAL merger decision
The CMA provisionally cleared Sony Music’s acquisition of AWAL on Friday, but will await the views of interested parties before publishing a final decision.
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Now Spotify is facing pressure over anti-vaccine music
British newspaper The Observer published an investigation this weekend pointing to some of the tracks available on the service.
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Spain has more than 4m paid music streaming subscribers
Although industry body Promusicae has warned that the country remains behind many of its neighbours in terms of streaming uptake.
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CMA provisionally clears Sony Music’s acquisition of AWAL
UK competition watchdog the CMA has published its provisional decision on Sony Music’s acquisition of distributor and artist services company AWAL.
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Artists part of $60m funding for metaverse startup Everyrealm
There’s gold in them thar metaverse hills. At least, that’s what investors hope, and they’re backing promising startups with significant funding rounds.
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YouTube’s product boss talks Shorts, shopping and NFTs
YouTube’s chief product officer Neal Mohan has been blogging about what new features the company has planned for the rest of 2022.
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Music NFTs roundup: WishWorld, Avenged Sevenfold, RAC, Vérité…
Start with WishWorld, a new NFT marketplace being launched in India through a partnership between two companies: One Mercuri and Aqilliz.
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CD Baby says its Pro Publishing service now serves 2m songs
For anyone who still thinks of CD Baby as predominantly a distributor for recordings, the company has a new milestone reminder that it works in publishing too.
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UMPG buys Sting’s songwriting catalogue for rumoured $300m+
Sting is the latest musician to sell his publishing catalogue, but in his case he’s sold it to a traditional music rightsholder rather than a music-rights investment company.
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SiriusXM added 1.2m subscribers in 2021 but Pandora lost 6.6m listeners
US satellite radio firm SiriusXM published its Q4 financials yesterday, revealing that its revenues for 2021 as a whole grew by 8% to $8.7bn.
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YouTube advertising revenues grew by 46% to $28.8bn in 2021
YouTube and Google’s parent company Alphabet published its latest financial results yesterday, including figures for the growth of YouTube’s advertising business.
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WMG follows Sony Music in tackling unrecouped artists problem
It has become the second major label to announce its plans for helping musicians who are still unrecouped from deals signed decades ago.
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Music NFTs startup HitPiece gets off to a bad start with artists
We would – obviously! – never advise a startup to use music or related rights without the permission of artists.
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Games consolidation continues as Sony buys Bungie for $3.6bn
Sony Interactive Entertainment, has swooped to buy Bungie, the developer of the Destiny franchise, and the original creator of Halo.
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Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo launches a ‘Weezify’ streaming app
“Tired of Spotify? Come on over to Weezify,” tweeted Rivers Cuomo, the frontman of veteran rock band Weezer, yesterday.
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Sony Music Publishing launches ‘Songwriter Assistance’ program
Sony Music Publishing has launched a ‘Songwriter Assistance’ program offering counselling services and wellbeing resources.
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Primary Wave buys stakes in Def Leppard masters and publishing
They’re your average ordinary everyday kids… but in Primary Wave Music’s eyes, rock band Def Leppard are also stars worth investing in.
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Analyst upgrade sparks 13.5% rise in Spotify’s share price
The last week’s ructions around Joe Rogan were starting to spark stories about the negative impact on Spotify’s share price.
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The Ivors Academy’s new chair is… Broken Record founder Tom Gray
Last week, Crispin Hunt stepped down as chair of UK songwriters body The Ivors Academy. His replacement is Tom Gray.
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