Apple Music preps Wizkid concert and adds Flo to Up Next promo
Apple Music is getting back to its live roots by returning to the Roundhouse venue in London for a concert.
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Spotify adds ‘Planet Hip-Hop’ to its branded Roblox island
One problem with music experiences on Roblox is that many of them are one-offs: a single performance or album launch then nothing more.
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Twitch tweaks its revenue-sharing deals with top streamers
Twitch’s standard revenue share for channel subscriptions is 50/50, but the Amazon-owned platform is having to have a somewhat delicate conversation with its creator community about it.
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Music Tectonics reveals finalists in its 2022 startups contest
The Music Tectonics conference is fast making a name for itself as one of the key music/tech events in the US, and that includes its ‘Swimming with Narwhals’ startups contest.
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Symphony launches video streaming service for classical music
Symphony is the latest startup hoping to build a viable streaming business around classical music.
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Spotify launches audiobooks… with an a la carte pricing model
We knew Spotify was preparing to make a big splash in audiobooks, most recently signified by its acquisition of specialist firm Findaway.
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Facebook Pages can restrict posts to top fans and subscribers
Meta has unveiled some new features for ‘creators who use Pages’ on Facebook, which could be of use to musicians.
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ERA claims musicians AND DSPs are more popular than labels
ERA’s longstanding consumer-tracker research interviews 2,000 Brits every quarter about a range of topics.
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Ivors Academy’s Advocacy Accelerator aims to boost diversity
British songwriters body The Ivors Academy is getting into the accelerator game, but not for startups.
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UK venue bodies react to government’s energy-relief plans
Bodies representing music venues in the UK have warned that spiralling costs of gas and electricity could put members out of business.
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NFTs brand Doodles raises $54m with music expansion in mind
Doodles is one of the more successful brands in visual NFTs, with a collection selling for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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UMG brings together its artist and label services into one unit
Universal Music Group revealed its plans yesterday for a new division with a familiar name: Virgin Music Group.
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Patreon layoffs are latest wobble for the creator economy
If the creator economy is booming, why are some of the most prominent creator-economy companies laying off staff?
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Report: Amazon will spend $15bn on video programming in 2022
Bloomberg Intelligence looks into how much money the biggest tech firms are spending on content for their video streaming services.
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YouTube’s annual music industry payouts grow to $6bn
YouTube paid out $6bn to the music industry in the 12-month period between July 2021 and June 2022, the company has announced.
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Gramrphone adds feature to help musicians livestream to TikTok
Gramrphone emerged in 2020 as one of the startups trying to help artists audio-livestream to fans from their homes or studios.
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MMF opens applications for latest music managers accelerator
Applications open today for the initiative’s fifth year, offering training and 12-month grants of up to £15k for the participants.
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Commercial tracks are only 7% of music used for US television
A new report commissioned by the PMA has broken down the sources of music used for broadcast and cable television networks in the US.
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Techdirt takes TikTok critics to task over privacy hypocrisy
The interesting and very spirited counterpoint from Techdirt to the debate about TikTok’s data, privacy and links to China is worth a read.
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Crypto influencer Cooper Turley launches a $10m music fund
Earlier this year, we wrote about a ‘Music NFT Landscape’ chart that crypto influencer Cooper Turley had compiled.
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Spotify and MerchFriends launch ‘Band Shirt Day’ this month
It’s due to take place on 16 September, and revolves around exclusive merch (or discounts on existing products) and donations to charities
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Linkfire launches its ‘next-generation’ bio link for artists
Linkfire’s bio links have become a key part of the music marketing space, among those of its smart-links competitors.
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Country Profile – Thailand 2022
Thailand is a fast-growing digital music market, where ad- supported streaming rules and a local DSP is disrupting the market.
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Leaked Snapchat memo reveals plans for growth and resilience
Snapchat’s parent company Snap has been circling its wagons amid wider economic wobbles.
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Impala launches climate literacy-training IMPACTS project
European indies body Impala has been talking about and working on climate emergency issues for some time now.
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WMG and UMG sued for patent infringement by Blue Spike
A new legal rumble afoot in the digital music world involves a company called Blue Spike and its patents for digital watermarking technology.
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Apple Fitness+ users soon won’t need to own an Apple Watch
Apple held its latest product launch event last night, with new iPhones, Apple Watches and AirPods Pro earphones.
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Investment firm Francisco Partners buys controlling stake in Kobalt
After months of speculation about whether Kobalt was up for sale, who might buy it and for how much, finally some concrete news.
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GEMA-commissioned study explores Germany’s music-streaming economy
Collecting society GEMA has commissioned a report from consultancy firm Goldmedia on music streaming in Germany.
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India’s ‘informal’ music industry: DJs, indie artists, brass bands…
How many people work in India’s music industry? Whatever you guessed, it’s probably well short. The answer is 14 million.
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ByteDance CFO tells staff it has no current plans for an IPO
Speculation about whether and when TikTok’s parent company ByteDance will go public has been quite the rollercoaster ride.
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Report: Saregama ditches Meta platforms for YouTube Shorts
Last week, Indian music company Saregama announced a deal to make its catalogue available for use on YouTube Shorts globally.
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Italy’s recorded music revenues up 18.3% in first half of 2022
Italy was the tenth biggest recorded music market in the world last year according to the IFPI, buoyed by a 27.8% increase in revenues.
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“Unacceptable levels of sexual harm, harassment and discrimination in Australian music industry”
A months-long review into abuse in the Australian music industry has been published, and the report that has followed is difficult but essential reading.
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Spotify launches AI music tool, Basic Pitch
Spotify has launched an open-source AI-powered tool called Basic Pitch.
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Marketing round-up: sheet music “leak” and Asia-Pacific report
Data and research company Luminate’s latest study on the Asia-Pacific region shows that audio/video music streaming platforms are a highly popular form of music discovery in that region.
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The Merge is coming – will it be the next push that web3 music needs?
The Merge has been promised for nearly a decade now. And now The Merge is going to happen… soon, possibly in two weeks.
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