Music in the Metaverse Challenge showcases four new startups
Music Ally has been covering music in the metaverse – the intersection of music with games and virtual worlds – for a long time now.
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Report claims Reels are the most-liked content on Instagram
We know that Instagram loves its Reels format and is making it a bigger priority within its app, but do Instagram users agree?
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Björk teams up with Mailchimp for ‘Sonic Symbolism’ podcast
Artists can launch podcasts, but should they? Only if they’re interesting enough is the blunt answer to that question.
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Apple has quietly released a Platoon for Artists app
Apple appears to have released a new music-related app this week, although without the fanfare that would usually accompany such a launch.
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Deezer launches a spin-off ‘Zen’ app focused on wellbeing
Relaxation and meditation has been a big playlists category on the major music streaming services.
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First Female* Producer Prize winners announced in Germany
More than 170 people applied for the prize, with five winners announced this week: Novaa, Jenny Gerdts, GOTOPO, Maxi Menot and Nora Medín.
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SoundCloud to lay off “up to 20%” of its workforce
SoundCloud employees received an email yesterday from CEO Michael Weissman, who told them “we have decided to make reductions to our global team that will impact up to 20% of our company
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BPI Chief Geoff Taylor to depart in 2023
Geoff Taylor, the Chief Executive Officer of UK record label trade body the BPI, who also oversees the BRIT Awards and the Mercury Prize, has announced his intention to move on in 2023, after 15 years leading the BPI. In the decade prior to the BPI, he also worked in senior legal roles at the IFPI.
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Audoo strikes deal with APRA AMCOS for use of audio recognition tech
British music tech startup Audoo’s Audio Meters are small devices that plug into the wall, recognise what music is playing, and provide data that aims to gives a more accurate insight onto which songs are being heard in business premises.
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Solana blockchain suffers widespread attack, with wallets drained
Solana is a public blockchain and crypto wallet that is used by a number of music-oriented web3 platforms, like Audius and Single Music amongst others, and the users of those platforms.
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Will Page analyses lockdown’s effect on UK music and predicts bounce-back
Will Page, the former Chief Economist of Spotify, and British collecting society PRS for Music, has brought together some hefty sets of data in order to map the change in UK consumer behaviour around music before, during and after the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown.
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Chartmetric report challenges catalogue definition
Catalogue music – traditionally defined as songs over 18 months old – has always been an intriguing proposition, containing locked-away value that sometimes seemed difficult to eke out.
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TikTok’s SoundOn service allows official pre-releases of songs
The idea of songs being “leaked” in the early internet era had an illicit thrill, but the concept has changed somewhat since it became clear that considerable social media excitement followed a leak
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Cypress Hill sue Peloton over “unlicensed use” of music
Peloton has had a rocky year or so: shares in the Fitness startup are down by 95% from their all-time high, and it’s made dramatic changes: outsourcing manufacturing, and focusing on expanding its product range and the classes that made its name.
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NFT round-up: Jay Chou, Damien Hirst and OneOf
Jay Chou is the “King of Mandopop”, and has sold tens of millions of records – but is also known in his native Taiwan as an artist, actor, rapper, producer, TV presenter *and* fashion designer.
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Music Ally NTK :: Creating Music NFTs
This Need To Know video is based on our Sandbox Guide to creating music NFTs. In it, we’ll be explaining the key questions you need to ask (and answer) if you’re launching NFTs for an artist or music brand. We dig into what NFTs are; explore what kind of content and features might be most […]
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Spotify’s audio ad revenue shows possibility for more growth
Why is Spotify not suffering in the markets quite like its big-tech peers?
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Fan-centric platform Fave launches “fan verification”
The nature of some fandoms is to generate a fan hierarchy, often based around either perceived proximity to the artist, or by regularity of posting, or encouraging fan behaviour like downloading of new songs
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Serenade launches chart-eligible “digital pressings”
Web3 music marketplace Serenade has partnered with Warner Records UK to launch “digital pressings”:
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Pop stars, private jets, and the bigger picture
As the world experiences shocking extreme weather due to the climate emergency, there’s increasing attention on celebrities’ use of private jets.
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Music Ally Quarterly Report :: International Focus 2022
Welcome to our second annual Music Ally International Focus report, where we zoom out and dig into the last 12 months of Music Ally’s Country Profiles. This is an utterly essential guide for the internationalised music industry pro – packed with data, interviews, local strategies, and insight from the people who count in each country. We have split our focus between […]
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