Dynamic ticketing: Springsteen’s manager defends pricing
The Bruce Springsteen ticket-pricing saga rumbles on, and now The Boss’s, erm, boss – manager John Landau
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Snap launches Snapchat Sounds Creator Fund
Snap has announced that, as of August, it will launch a “Snapchat Sounds Creator Fund” which provides monthly grants “of up to $100,000” to top creators using its ‘Sounds’ feature,
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Cyanite raises funding to create “universal music intelligence”
When AI music platforms were at the spiky end of the Hype Cycle, they seemed poised to offer a lot of exciting possibilities with a wide variety of real world applications
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Web3 troubles provide useful learning opportunities
New buzzy web3 things like NFTs and DAOs, are – on balance, we think – A Good Thing. DAOs, for instance, will likely provide a platform to create a “fan-club+” experience – take a look at artist RAC’s experimental racOS DAO
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“22 million songs a year, and only 12 notes available” – pursuing a copyright claim in the music industry today (Guest column)
This is a guest post on music copyright law by Oliver Lock, and Owen O’Rorke, who, respectively, work in Reputation Management and Intellectual Property & Commercial, at UK law firm Farrer & Co. They wrote this column in response to Ed Sheeran’s recent plagiarism case court victory, and in it they discuss when – and when not to – […]
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Meta financials reveal a year-on-year decline in revenues
News that the FTC wants to block its acquisition of music VR app Supernatural wasn’t the only piece of bad news for Meta yesterday.
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Ed Sheeran is the first artist with 100m Spotify followers
Congratulations are due to Ed Sheeran. First for becoming the first artist to reach the milestone of 100 million followers on Spotify…
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Spotify stops making Car Thing, its first hardware device
We reported on Spotify’s financial results yesterday, but another piece of news has emerged since then.
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TikTok’s latest trademark filing hints at a music service
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance already has a couple of music streaming services: Resso in India and a few other markets, and Qishui Yinyue in China.
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The FTC wants to block Meta’s acquisition of Supernatural
Meta announced plans to acquire music-driven VR fitness app Supernatural in October 2021, but the deal is running into some big problems in the US.
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Mandolin expands beyond livestreaming into fan analytics
Mandolin’s next move? Fan analytics and a richer-media take on smart links. It is launching two new services for artists.
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Meta changes: Facebook Feeds tab and auto-Reels videos
We think the changes could be significant for music marketers as well as everyone else using the platforms.
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NetEase Cloud Music swells K-Pop catalogue with YG deal
With exclusive licensing deals off the table in China, streaming services are moving to expand catalogues with non-exclusive agreements.
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Epidemic Sound sues Meta in $142m infringement lawsuit
Meta is facing a big headache in the form of a $142m copyright infringement lawsuit from production music firm Epidemic Sound.
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Minecraft NFTs: ‘Not something we will support or allow’
If you think there’s been some stinging fan backlashes against NFTs in the music world, you should see some of the almighty hoo-has in the games industry.
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Business accounts can now turn Instagram Reels into ads
Meta is mustard-keen right now to make its short-video Reels format central to its various apps, particularly Instagram.
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Spotify expands its ‘Blend’ feature with merch sales
Spotify’s ‘Blend’ started as a feature to automatically create shared playlists with certain friends, before expanding to include famous artists as the blendees.
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SyncFloor’s new offshoot is music NFT platform Groovemint
We know SyncFloor as one of the companies trying to shake up the sync market: we profiled it in 2020
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‘What is a stream anyway?’ wonders Damon Krukowski
Artist Damon Krukowski has long been banging the drum over streaming royalties and musicians.
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WMG signs up for SoundCloud’s ‘fan-powered royalties’
Warner Music Group has become the first major to sign up for SoundCloud’s user-centric ‘fan-powered royalties’ system.
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Lollapalooza festival launches an official Discord server
A growing number of artists and music brands are using Discord for their fan communities, but the company is also forging some official partnerships in our world.
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Country Profile – Argentina 2022
Argentina’s economic problems make it hard to accurately assess the strength of its recorded music business. But the rise of local acts suggests the outlook is positive.
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Google allows alternative Android billing systems in Europe
Google and Apple continue to face pressure around how (or indeed whether) they allow apps to use alternative payment systems to their own.
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Shopify adds YouTube to its roster of music DSP partners
E-commerce firm Shopify is steadily signing up the biggest music streaming and social services as partners.
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Nearly half a million UK video on demand subscriptions cancelled in Q2
In Q2 (April to June), the number of households that subscribed to at least one VoD service in the UK fell to 16.42 million.
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The art of music longevity: craft, graft and gratitude
The Song Sommelier founder Keith Jopling’s latest blog post has plenty of food for thought for young musicians and their teams.
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Deezer looks back (again) with 1990s covers compilation
Nostalgia is all the rage, from 80s-infused TV dramas to piano-house bangers back in the British pop charts.
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British music venues encouraged to plan daytime activities
An initiative launching in the UK is hoping to widen music venues’ horizons… to the daytime, with a particular focus on six areas.
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Report claims TikTok is laying off staff amid wider economic uncertainty
It’s no secret that tech businesses are steeling themselves for an economic slowdown – or in other words, initiating job cuts and hiring freezes.
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Over 300 music videos are in YouTube’s ‘Billion Views Club’
YouTube is using the tenth anniversary of the release of Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ – 4.48bn views and counting – to put out some wider stats on the upper echelon of music videos on its platform.
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Apple debuts Apple Music Sessions and Antidote Editions
Apple has unveiled two new ways for artists to work with Apple Music on exclusive material.
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AudioShake wins Wallifornia Music Tech Pitch Contest
The Wallifornia Music & Innovation Summit took place earlier this month in Belgium, and it included a pitch contest for startups.
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VRJam launches its virtual reality music app in closed beta
Back in 2019, startup VRJam launched an equity-crowdfunding campaign to raise £250k for its plans to build ‘interactive virtual environments for artists and fans’.
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Apple and Amazon get enhanced versions of Mabel album
Artist Mabel released her new album ‘About Last Night…’ on Friday (15 July) complete with enhanced versions for two of the biggest streaming services.
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Anghami algorithm updated for older tracks and binge listening
MENA music service Anghami has announced some changes to its chart algorithms.
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Spotify’s latest RapCaviar spin-off is a Hulu docuseries
It’s five years since Spotify launched its first physical music concerts for its flagship hip-hop playlist ‘RapCaviar’.
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Radio 2.0 startup Stationhead raises $12m funding round
Stationhead was a pioneer of what we’ll slightly-awkwardly call ‘user-generated streaming radio’ with its app that let anyone broadcast their own station.
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Hipgnosis says its portfolio is now worth $2.69bn
Hipgnosis Songs Fund published its latest annual financial results yesterday, for the fiscal year ended 31 March.
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Beyoncé joined TikTok yesterday and already has 3.5m followers
Break My Soul? Beyoncé is certainly on track to break a few records on TikTok, having joined the app and posted her first video yesterday.
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Big Bang Reads: Bringing buzzing sounds to beeping buttons – music and gaming in India (guest column)
Big Bang Music is writing a series of guest columns for Music Ally’s readers to help you understand the latest trends in India. In this latest piece, Kartik Sundar explains how the recent success of non-film music and gaming is resulting in new music partnerships and brand opportunities.
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GLAAD warns that social media services are failing LGBTQ users
Its second annual ‘social media safety index’ analyses how well the various platforms score for LGBTQ safety, privacy and expression.
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Yadeck turns French rappers into NFT-driven digital card game
It’s a fun spin on the idea of digital collectibles: an online game that involves building decks of digital cards based on French rappers.
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Metaverse firm Xone joins Abbey Road Red startup incubator
Xone has become the 17th startup to join Abbey Road Red, the startup incubator run within Abbey Road Studios in London.
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TikTok reveals its latest efforts to be ‘safe and entertaining’
The company has announced the latest changes that it’s making to make its experience more positive for users.
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Brands be warned: TikTok’s UGC music licences don’t include you
When social media companies sign music licensing deals covering user-generated content, those users do NOT include brands.
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Tools :: TikTok tools round-up
As the recent debate around the pressure on artists to go viral on TikTok shows, the short-form video platform remains one of the most important tools in artist marketing. However, as always, strategy is key and music marketers have a growing number of tools available to refine their artist’s TikTok strategy. This week, we’re walking […]
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Behind The Campaign :: Anitta
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Snap to launch a test turning NFTs into AR Snapchat lenses
The test “would allow NFT artists to showcase their designs on the Snapchat platform as augmented reality filters”.
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Odesza turn their new album into an online scavenger hunt
‘The Maze’ is a collection of quests for fans to uncover the album’s tracks and themes, with codes found online and offline.
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K-Pop stars Blackpink to play a virtual concert in PUBG Mobile
Korean group Blackpink are returning soon with new music, and they’ll be building anticipation for it with a concert in the PUBG Mobile game.
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Spotify buys music trivia game Heardle with discovery in mind
Spotify has snapped up Heardle, the Wordle-inspired music identification game that became popular earlier this year.
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How do SoundCloud’s ‘fan-powered royalties’ work for artists?
SoundCloud revealed its ‘fan-powered royalties’ plans in March 2021, applying them to its community of independent artists.
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Riot Games launches its third ‘creator-safe’ Sessions album
Besides spawning a roster of virtual artists, League of Legends publisher Riot Games has been building itself a music compilations business.
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Clouty launches Musiq, a financial-style index for songs
If the catalogue-buying boom has taught us anything, it’s that a growing number of investors see songs as a valuable AND predictable ‘asset class’.
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Lukas Graham set for ‘green battery-driven’ tour in Denmark
Diesel-powered generators are one of the big climate headaches for the live music industry when it comes to outdoor concerts and festivals.
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Copyright claim takes down Lofi Girl’s YouTube music streams
Lofi Girl is the lo-fi hip-hop music brand that reached the milestone of 10 million YouTube subscribers earlier this year.
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UK mobile operators to begin blocking access to piracy sites
The BPI is celebrating this morning after securing an expansion of the UK’s regime for blocking music piracy sites and apps.
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Report predicts that global games market will FALL in 2022
The games industry being huge and growing is something many people have taken for granted for years now, which makes research firm Ampere Analysis’s latest prediction somewhat startling.
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Musician Frank Carter launches Kickstarter… for a card game
Artist Frank Carter has launched a new Kickstarter project, but it’s not for his music.
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London’s £4.1m ‘Talent House’ opens to support Black music
UD (formerly Urban Development) has been working hard for a long time to support young Black musicians in the UK.
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QQ Music is first Chinese streaming service to add Dolby Atmos
The surround-sound Dolby Atmos format has been making strides in the west thanks to its use by Apple Music and Amazon Music, among other streaming services.
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MMF wants ‘greater transparency’ over black-box collections
That controversy within the UK music industry over funding for PRS Foundation isn’t going away.
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