Behind The Campaign :: Hot Chip
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Tools :: Levellr
The original fan community concept – artist fan clubs – have shifted from physical mailing lists to email lists and now to online messaging platforms like Telegram and Discord. Fan communities are highly desirable at the moment, allowing direct communication between the artist and their most devoted fans. But building your online communities on messaging […]
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Spotify 2022 Artist Wrapped: making the most of your remarkable year
This article on Spotify Artist Wrapped is Partner Content. With the year coming to a close, it’s time for artists to look back on all the progress they have made in 2022. Today, Spotify has launched 2022 Artist Wrapped, which offers artists a look at all the progress they’ve made over the last year with […]
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Spotify Wrapped 2022 is here: end-of-year charts, artist data and more
Apple, YouTube and Deezer did well to get their end-of-2022 recaps out yesterday: Spotify has just launched its annual Wrapped promotion.
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Women In Music’s third annual summit will be a global event
Non-profit organisation Women In Music is preparing for its third annual summit, , which will be held worldwide in January 2023.
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Trevanna Tracks and Soundmouse team up in sync partnership
We recently covered a report published by Synchtank focusing on the “fiendish mass of complexities” around sync licensing and reporting.
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US senators put FTC under the microscope over ticket-buying bots
Live Nation has been under the spotlight since the difficulties with the ticket on-sales for Taylor Swift’s next tour.
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Universal Music Group buys 49% stake in indie group PIAS
Independence is still being stressed, with Gates and fellow co-founder Michel Lambot retaining majority control of PIAS.
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Apple Music, YouTube Music and Deezer launch their annual recaps
With Spotify’s annual Wrapped promotion imminent, three other streaming services launched their recap features for listeners yesterday.
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Elon Musk picks a fight with Apple over ads and the App Store
Sound the klaxons! Elon Musk is picking a fight with Apple. Twitter’s new owner blasted the tech giant yesterday in a tweet.
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Bicep is the latest face of TikTok’s #ElectronicMusic campaign
TikTok has announced its latest music livestream, and it’s coming from Northern Irish duo Bicep at Alexandra Palace in London.
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AI music firm DAACI joins Abbey Road Red startups incubator
London’s Abbey Road Red music-tech incubator has announced its latest participant: British startup AI music company DAACI.
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NetEase Cloud Music extends its deal with Japanese label Avex
Chinese streaming service NetEase Cloud Music [NCM] sees even more potential for J-Pop (Japanese pop music) to grow in China.
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Pixelynx tests out its Elynxir tech with AR game in Miami Beach
Pixelynx began life as a startup helping musicians to forge partnerships with metaverse companies, with co-founders including deadmau5.
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IFPI publishes its first official music chart for MENA region
The Middle East and North Africa is one of the ‘high potential’ regions being eyed eagerly by the global music industry.
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UK’s CMA publishes its final report on music streaming market
The UK’s competition regulator the CMA has published its final report from its market study of music streaming.
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K-pop’s global rise: a series of well-planned explosions rather than a single big bang
This article from Last.fm is Partner Content. Most eruptions in pop music happen over a long period of time rather than immediately. ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ was Elvis’s first US number 1, but his sixth single (albeit his first on RCA Victor). Even The Beatles had been plugging away for several years before Beatlemania happened. The story […]
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Content Operations Coordinator – Domino – London
In collaboration with the Digital Operations Manager, this role manages content operations processes and relationships with a focus on video platforms including YouTube, Meta and more. The position is responsible for video release set-ups, digital rights management and UGC processes. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE: Content Operations & Best Practices: Uphold best-in-class operational/technical account […]
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Twitter verification to return as Musk trumpets signup stats
What’s the plan for Twitter’s verification system? Three colours, ‘tentatively’ launching on Friday, according to a tweet from Elon Musk.
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Cliff Richard aims for Christmas charts success… with a magazine
Our British readers may remember a time when veteran artist Cliff Richard was a reliable end-of-year singles-chart topper.
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Dutch university reseacher wins €1.5m grant for streaming study
Politicians and regulators have been keen to understand streaming’s impact on the music industry and on artists in recent times.
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Sao Paolo, Mexico City and Santiago are the metal megacities
Chartmetric’s latest deep-dive blog post comes from SoundCloud’s director of music intelligence and analytics Wyatt Marshall.
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‘From Apple Music With Love’ Christmas countdown promo returns
The Christmas season is well and truly underway for music streaming: all the services are rolling out their festive content and promotions.
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Last.fm is 20: VP of Product Michael Horan on Last.fm’s 20 years in music-tech – and the future of data in the music industry
This article from Last.fm is Partner Content. The Music Ally Focus Podcast recently welcomed Michael Horan, VP of Product at Last.fm, which is just about to hit a remarkable milestone: 20 years as a music tech company. In that time, Last.fm has gathered an enormous amount of data on how people listen to music – and […]
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UK charity Youth Music launches latest round of incubator fund
British charity Youth Music’s incubator fund has so far provided more than 800 paid work opportunities in the music industry.
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Deezer reveals its most streamed artists and albums of 2022
Deezer has published its end-of-year charts to avoid clashing with (and thus being flattened by) Spotify Wrapped.
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Ed Sheeran’s Pokémon track causes Twitch takedown headaches
Sheeran’s track ‘Celestial’ is being played over the end credits of the latest Pokémon games: Scarlet and Violet.
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Utopia Music confirms layoffs to focus on ‘sustainable growth’
Utopia Music is one of the companies that has been most aggressive with its headcount growth in recent times.
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Channel and Community Manager – Warp – New York
Channel and Community Manager (Social Media and Digital Content Team) • New York, NY, USA • Full-time Company Description For over 30 years, Warp has been a synonym for adventures in sound and vision. We are a leading independent music company representing ground-breaking and influential Artists, including Aphex Twin, Flying Lotus, Danny Brown, Kelela, Stereolab, Nala […]
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Report predicts 12.5m sales of consumer VR headsets in 2022
Research firm Omdia has been gazing into its crystal ball – or should that be crystal headset? – for the virtual reality market.
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Music-events tech company Xceed raises €2m funding round
It’s not been a brilliant year, to say the least, for companies with businesses based on selling tickets and travel around music events.
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Stormzy to chat and perform for Amazon Music +44 showcase
Amazon Music really is throwing its full weight behind British artist Stormzy’s new album, with a Stormzy special event to be held in London.
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NetEase Cloud Music revenues grew by 22.5% in Q3 2022
We don’t have the latest financial results from NetEase Cloud Music yet, but we do have some numbers from Cloud Village’s majority shareholder NetEase.
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TikTok tipped to grow its annual ad revenues to $122.5bn by 2027
If labels weren’t already pushing for a share of TikTok’s advertising revenues, the latest predictions from research firm Omdia should change that.
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Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content report reveals news feed stats
Facebook has published a report on ‘Widely Viewed Content’, focusing on what its users in the US are seeing in their news feeds.
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NFTs firm Sound adds activity feed to boost music discovery
Sound is one of the more interesting music NFTs platforms we saw spring up in the last couple of years.
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BeatBread secures $100m fund to power its advances for artists
Music financing company BeatBread started the year by raising $34m of its own funding to build a business providing advances to musicians.
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Music artists and ClientEarth call for new Euro climate law
A group of music artists are among the signers of an open letter calling for the EU to adopt a new law cracking down on deforestation.
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Ticketmaster to face US Senate hearing by the end of this year
Ticketmaster’s difficult end to 2022 continues, with the company now facing a hearing in the US Senate over its business practices.
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Warner Music Group revenues grew 9% to $1.5bn in Q3 2022
WMG had another strong quarter in Q3 2022, with its financial results revealing a 9% year-on-year growth in the major’s revenues.
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Instagram’s takedown of a drill music video has been overturned
Earlier this year, Instagram took down a music video featuring a track called ‘Secrets Not Safe’ by British drill artist Chinx (OS).
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Artist Account Manager & Sales Team Leader – NRG (International Music Rights Agency) – Prague/Remote
TL;DR We are looking for an experienced salesperson who will help us with getting new clients and at the same time manage our small client acquisition team. We manage worldwide music rights for library writers with whom you will communicate daily. Prior knowledge of the library music industry or music rights is welcome but not […]
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DAACI, Hawkr, Volta XR, Biiah, Curve and Music Health win Music Ally SI:X
It’s time to announce the winners of Music Ally SI:X, our new global showcase, contest and mentorship program for music/tech startups.
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MBA For Africa to release its 2022 album: ‘Fuel & Flames’
MBA for Africa returned for its second year in April, and evolved into a company led by its latest cohort of aspiring industry executives in September.
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Believe and TuneCore enlist Luminate for gender equality study
Believe and TuneCore have published two of their annual ‘Be The Change’ gender equality studies so far, in 2021 and 2022.
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Kanye West back on Twitter, but Jack White and Trent Reznor quit
Musk had stated that he would not reinstate prominent banned accounts until he had formed “a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints”.
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UK Music report reveals updated stats on industry diversity
UK Music’s latest Workforce Diversity Survey data is an important guide both to the progress made so far, and areas for improvement.
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Spotify expands its audiobooks feature to more countries
Having launched its new catalogue of audiobooks in the US in September, Spotify has moved quickly to roll it out to other countries too.
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Senior Channel Manager – Dark Arts – Remote
Dark Arts is a digital agency with a history of working with high profile music and creative industries clients on audience development, channel management and social media campaigns. We are a small company with big ambitions for the coming years which will see the music industry evolve as a new era of the internet takes […]
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Has the key change been dying out in western popular music?
Audiomack data analytics expert Chris Dalla Riva has been listening to every single number-one track from Billboard’s Hot 100.
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Amazon Music reveals Stormzy pop-up and Central Cee livestream
Amazon Music has announced its latest pair of artist partnerships in the UK: one offline and one online.
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Dice extends its ticketing partnership with Primavera Sound
The companies have worked together since 2019, and Dice has sold nearly half a million mobile tickets for Primavera Sound’s events in 2022.
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Brands survey hints at recession silver lining for ad-supported music
There are significant concerns about the impact that economic recessions around the world may have on paid music subscriptions.
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Deutsche Grammophon launches Stage+ classical subscription service
The UMG subsidiary service will combine audio, video and livestreams with music drawn from the DG and Decca catalogues.
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Product Manager – Entertainment Intelligence – UK/Remote
About Ei A Techstars alumni, Entertainment Intelligence (Ei) is an enterprise-level data insights company, with a focus on the music industry. Product Manager Skills: product build/deployment/monetization Salary: Based on experience Location: UK – remote Contact: jobs@entertainment-intelligence.com Ei is seeking a technically proficient Product Manager to design, build and monetize a B2B software offering, in addition […]
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Product Support – Entertainment Intelligence – UK/Remote
About Ei A Techstars alumni, Entertainment Intelligence (Ei) is an enterprise-level data insights company, with a focus on the music industry. Product Support Skill: data/customer support/SQL Salary: Based on experience Location: UK – remote Contact: jobs@entertainment-intelligence.com Ei is seeking a highly motivated individual with proven customer service skills, technical abilities, and an investigative mind. […]
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Ticketmaster cancels public on-sale for Taylor Swift tour
Ticketmaster has cancelled the public on-sale of tickets for next year’s US leg of Taylor Swift’s ‘The Eras Tour’, with the company firmly on the defensive amid criticism from fans and politicians alike.
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Anghami revenues grow but 22% of its staff have been laid off
Middle Eastern and North African music streaming service Anghami has published its financial results for the third quarter of 2022.
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TikTok to stream Wet Leg concert as part of #AltMusic push
On the TikTok, on the TikTok, on the TikTok, all day long, on the TikTok… Well, not all day long if we’re honest: British band Wet Leg’s 24 November London concert will be streamed on TikTok for a shorter period of time, but at least it will be live.
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Sony Music backs ‘Rising Star’ new-talent contest in Africa
Sony Music Africa is giving its backing to a competition for emerging and unsigned artists in Africa.
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After $100k of payouts, Royal launches music rights marketplace
Royal is the startup founded by musician Justin Blau (aka 3lau) to help artists sell NFTs that include a share of their streaming royalties.
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Linktree’s ‘Payment Lock’ can paywall content (music included)
Smart-links firm Linktree has launched a new feature called ‘Payment Lock’ which aims to help people charge for access to exclusive content.
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Jukedeck co-founder returns to AI music with Stability AI role
British firm Jukedeck was one of the first AI music startups to launch and get some traction, back in late 2014.
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Neil Young dings Spotify again over Joe Rogan and music quality
Neil Young removed his catalogue from Spotify earlier this year in protest at podcaster Joe Rogan’s views on Covid-19.
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Deezer reveals its latest B2B partner: DAZN in Italy
Since going public, streaming service Deezer has been outlining its strategy for growth, including good B2B partnerships.
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SiriusXM and Pandora launch an artist accelerator program
Ever since SiriusXM bought streaming service Pandora in 2018, the two services have explored partnerships and cross-promotions.
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Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music in Christmas covers battle
As in previous years, music streaming services are gearing up to celebrate Christmas with a battle royale of exclusive music.
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IFPI explores 2022’s music-listening trends in its new report
The IFPI’s Global Music Report makes plenty of springtime headlines with its figures for the recorded music industry.
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Behind The Campaign :: Tears For Fears
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Campaigns :: 16 November 2022 – Taylor Swift, Amazon Christmas exclusives, Shygirl, UK Charts
A look at four innovative campaigns from Taylor Swift, Amazon, Shygirl and the UK Charts.
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Behind The Single
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Ticketmaster shifts Taylor Swift onsales after presale chaos
Ticketmaster has rescheduled some of the onsales for Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour, after “historically unprecedented” demand for tickets in the initial presale.
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YouTube roundup: Black Voices Fund music class and Shorts updates
There are a few stories from YouTube to let you know about today, starting with the announcement of its Black Voices Fund class of 2023.
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AIM launches investment syndicate and apprenticeship program
British independent labels body AIM held its annual general meeting yesterday, and announced a pair of new initiatives.
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Music licensing startup Uppbeat reaches 1m users milestone
Startup Uppbeat emerged early in 2021 as a music licensing service for YouTubers, with a catalogue of 900 cleared tracks and a freemium business model.
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Music NFTs roundup: Santigold, Coachella, Pianity x Sacem…
Santigold is the latest artist to experiment with NFTs in the context of an online fanclub.
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UK streaming inquiry: ‘The elephant in the room is fair remuneration’
Yesterday, the UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee held a pair of follow-up sessions for its inquiry into the economics of music streaming.
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UK music streaming inquiry returns with follow-up evidence sessions
Thought you’d heard the last of the UK’s parliamentary inquiry into the economics of music streaming. Soz, but no.
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Report: Amazon is preparing to lay off around 10,000 people
Amazon may be the next tech giant to lay off thousands of people, according to a report in the New York Times.
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Spotify wants to help artists sell more merch on its service
Merchandise has been part of Spotify for a while now, and the company is increasing its efforts to help artists use that feature.
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Musicians to suffer from ‘cost of working’ crisis this winter
A survey by the charity Help Musicians has found 98% of musicians are ‘concerned’ about their ability to earn enough income in the next six months.
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Tencent Music revenues fall, but its online music business is still growing
Chinese music-streaming giant Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) has published its financial results for the third quarter of 2022.
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Emma McGann talks Discord RPGs, Unreal music videos and pushing tech boundaries
British artist Emma McGann is launching a Discord RPG bot game alongside her latest EP ‘Monsterverse’, as well as Unreal music videos.
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How gaming could reshape music distribution (guest column)
This is a guest post by Roman Rappak, of the band Miro Shot, and co-founder of music metaverse startup Ristband. He’s been performing and touring live mixed reality concerts since 2017, creating digital twins of live events in his metaverse platform. In this article, he writes about the electronic music and digital arts festival MUTEK, […]
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DeviantArt wants to help visual artists opt out of AI systems
There’s a growing debate about whether and how visual artists should be able to opt out of their work being used to train creative AI systems.
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Staccato pitches itself to songwriters as ‘an AI Lennon to your McCartney’
The new AI-music startup, like its established rivals, is pitching itself as a boon for human songwriters rather than a replacement for them.
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Meta is getting out of its Portal smart-displays business
Meta has been running TV ads for its Portal smart displays, but canny buyers may want to hang on until Black Friday or the Boxing Day sales.
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UK telco Vodafone’s Voxi launches an ‘unlimited music’ plan
British Telco Vodafone is making music a key selling point in the latest affordable mobile plan from its Voxi brand.
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BPI trumpets indies’ growth ahead of streaming inquiry follow-up
“In the first ten months of the year, independently-released music made up 28.6% of the UK music market,” announced the BPI this morning.
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Global Campaign Manager – Warp – London
Company Description For over 30 years, Warp has been a synonym for adventures in sound and vision. We are a leading independent music company representing ground-breaking and influential artists, including Aphex Twin, Flying Lotus, Danny Brown, Kelela, Stereolab, Emma-Jean Thackray, Tinariwen, Horace Andy and many more across our family of labels, which includes Warp Records, LuckyMe, On-U […]
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Viberate explores the Netflix effect for artist Sofia Carson
Analytics firm Viberate has been digging into the Netflix bump for artist and actor Sofia Carson, star of Purple Hearts.
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Lorde warns fans about the ‘demented struggle’ of touring
Lorde sold nearly 20,000 tickets to her recent London concerts, which makes her one of the artists who’s keeping her head above water.
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Songwriter sues 3lau over revenues from his NFT sales
Artist Justin Blau (aka 3lau) has been one of the early movers in music NFTs, selling his own and founding startup Royal.
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HIFI Labs outlines plans for its Neume web3 music data layer
In May we reported on startup HIFI Labs spinning out a project called Neume, to create a data layer for web3 music platforms.
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AI music startup Boomy has been used to create 10m songs
We’ve seen a flurry of announcements from streaming services about their catalogues reaching 100m tracks. Now Boomy has its own milestone.
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WMG launches ‘Out of Order’ label for emerging-markets music
WMG’s latest label has a wide-ranging geographic focus: Africa, India, the Middle East, Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Elon Musk has ‘killed’ Twitter’s official labels… or has he?
It’s possible you don’t want a daily blow-by-blow account of what Elon Musk is doing and saying as the new owner and CEO of Twitter
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YouTube Content ID processed 758m copyright requests in 1H22
YouTube has published its latest copyright transparency report, covering the first half of 2022. It includes stats for Content ID.
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Medical music startup MediMusic joins Abbey Road Red incubator
UK-based startup MediMusic, which explores the intersection of music and medicine, has just joined the Abbey Road Red music-tech incubator.
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Esports brand Fnatic is launching its own music label
Fnatic is one of the big names in the esports world, with its teams of professional gamers competing in tournaments.
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Amazon Music for Artists adds two more merchandise features
Amazon Music has been making a significant push recently around merchandise, encouraging artists to explore the ways they can sell merch.
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YouTube now has 80m paid Music and Premium subscribers
It’s more than a year since YouTube announced that it had 50 million paid subscribers for YouTube Music and YouTube Premium.
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Apple Music names Bad Bunny as its artist of the year for 2022
Apple Music is stealing a march on its rivals by announcing that Bad Bunny is its artist of the year for 2022.
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Anything World raises $7.5m from investors including WMG
Startup Anything World has big ambitions to make it easier for people to create 3D worlds. Now it has a big new round of funding.
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Meta to lay off more than 11,000 staff – 13% of its headcount
Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta has announced plans to lay off 11,000 of its staff – around 13% of its workforce.
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Deezer hires former Vivendi exec Maria Garrido as chief marketing officer
Streaming service Deezer has a new chief marketing officer: Maria Garrido, former global chief insights and analytics officer at Havas Group.
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MQA gains approval for new MQair wireless audio tech
We know MQA for its hi-res audio technology that has been adopted by a range of digital music services, hardware firms and broadcasters.
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Twitter plans ‘official’ label for ‘some public figures’
Another day, another update in how Twitter is planning to change its verification system for public figures and brands.
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Source: Music ally
Condé Nast sues Drake and 21 Savage over promo campaign
Did you enjoy the spoof Vogue magazine cover created to promote Drake and 21 Savage’s new album? Condé Nast didn’t.
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Source: Music ally
#FestivalsWithoutBarriers campaign aims for more accessible festivals
Attitude is Everything is an organisation campaigning to improve accessibility to concerts and festivals for disabled people.
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Source: Music ally
Endlesss adds third-party instruments and audio imports
Endlesss started as a mobile app where electronic musicians could create and collaborate. Now it’s widening its horizons.
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Reservoir financials reveal 10% growth in Q3 revenues
Music rights firm Reservoir Media has published its latest financial results, revealing that its revenues grew by 10% year-on-year.
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Source: Music ally
Pressure mounts on TikTok over its music royalties payments
There has been a steady increase in the chorus of grumbling from music rightsholders about how TikTok pays royalties for music.
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Source: Music ally
Twitter alternative Mastodon reaches 1m monthly active users
Mastodon is one of the Twitter alternatives that some people are migrating to in the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company.
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Ticketswap expands to UK (but it already has 1.5m users there)
Ticketswap is one of the firms trying to build an ethical business out of ticket reselling, rather than going down the tout’s-paradise route.
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Source: Music ally
Get set for a festival playing every Taylor Swift song ever
Yes, every single one. Which according to the latest blurb means 194 Taylor Swift songs will be performed at the two-day festival.
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BeatBlox gives Decentraland’s Metaverse Music Festival a LatAm twist
Later this week the second Metaverse Music Festival takes place in virtual world Decentraland. BeatBlox is one of the companies involved.
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Source: Music ally
Moon Projects adds publishing division via Warner Chappell partnership
The lines between labels, music publishers and management companies get ever blurrier, as shown by Moon Projects’ new publishing arm.
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Source: Music ally
Report: Meta could announce significant layoffs this week
Last week’s big tech-layoffs news story may have been Twitter, but this week’s seems likely to be Meta, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Indian regional streaming app Baahi adds subscription tier
Baahi is a music streaming service that launched in 2020 in the Assam region of India, focusing on regional music.
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TikTok trumpets #ClassicalMusic (with Hans Zimmer’s help)
Well, TikTok isn’t just trumpeting classical music in its latest promo: it’s celloing it, fluting it and bassooning it for good measure.
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Lil Nas X stars at League of Legends Worlds opening ceremony
More than five million people (plus an unknown number of viewers watching livestreams in China) watched the final matches of the League of Legends Worlds 2022.
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Source: Music ally
ISP faces $46.8m damages after losing piracy battle
Record label lawsuits against ISPs for piracy conducted by the latter’s customers feels like a story from a different age.
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Source: Music ally
Audioshake wins Swimming with Narwhals music-tech startups contest
Stem-separation startup Audioshake has another feather in its cap this month: it won the Swimming with Narwhals startups contest.
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Source: Music ally
SoundOut launches OnBrand music-search tool for marketers
There’s a giant haystack of music out there, with every brand searching for the needles that will work best for their campaigns.
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Source: Music ally
Block financials hint at $56m of quarterly Tidal revenues
Fintech firm Block is a.) the owner of music service Tidal, and b.) a public company, so its quarterly results give us an insight into how Tidal is performing.
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Source: Music ally
Live Nation posts strong Q3 but Biden tweet spells trouble ahead
Live Nation has hailed “record levels” of demand for concerts in the third quarter of this year, but there may be some regulatory clouds gathering for its ticketing business in the US, encouraged from the very highest level of US politics.
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Believe reports 36.9% growth in its Q3 2022 financial results
Business continues to be very good for distributor Believe, which announced its Q3 2022 financial results yesterday.
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Source: Music ally
Peloton lost 200,000 members in the third quarter of 2022
“For the last nine months my goal has been to turn around Peloton and position it for sustained growth and scale.
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Former Apple exec Jimmy Iovine has some advice for Spotify
We’d happily listen to Jimmy Iovine telling anecdotes about his time producing the likes of John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen.
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Diplo, Ellie Goulding and Kygo invest in biodegradable bottles
When it comes to the climate emergency, some artists are putting their money where fans’ mouths are.
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Source: Music ally
Climate emergency: notes from Julie’s Bicycle’s We Make Tomorrow 2022
As part of Music Ally’s coverage of the climate emergency and the music industry, we’ve written several times about Julie’s Bicycle.
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Report: global music copyright value grew 18% to $39.6bn in 2021
Every year, author and former Spotify chief economist Will Page publishes his analysis of the ‘global value of music copyright’.
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Spotify says ‘no news to report’ on Anghami acquisition rumour
Is Spotify buying Middle Eastern streaming service Anghami? The question wasn’t in our minds until we read this quote from the company’s spokesperson: “We have no news to report regarding a potential acquisition between Spotify and Anghami.”
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Source: Music ally
How does music streaming affect the valuations of catalogues?
We know how streaming has had an impact on the value of the recorded music industry, but what about on the value of music catalogues?
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Source: Music ally
Hybe revenues grow and Com2uS buys stake in SM Entertainment
K-Pop giant Hybe has published its financial results for the third quarter of 2022.
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Source: Music ally
Music and climate: #WeMeasureTogether and Nordic pilot project
This weekend sees the latest ‘Conference of the Parties’ (COP) climate summit kick off in Egypt, with COP27 due to bring world leaders, climate scientists and activists together.
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AI music roundup: Holly+ does Dolly, Emergent Drums…
“Your algorithm’s like a breath of spring, your code is soft like summer rain…” These are NOT the lyrics in a new cover of Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’, we hasten to add: it’s very faithful to the original.
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Source: Music ally
Elton John goes ‘Beyond the Yellow Brick Road’ on Roblox
Elton John has launched his own Roblox experience today. It’s called Elton John Presents ‘Beyond The Yellow Brick Road’.
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Source: Music ally
Tools :: Trendpop
Trendpop is a SaaS platform and a data-driven tool designed to help users strategise their TikTok presence and navigate the app’s ecosystem.
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Behind The Campaign :: Joakim Berg
Swedish singer and songwriter Joakim Berg first came to prominence as lead singer of pop/rock band Kent. They split in 2016 and thereafter Berg worked behind the scenes. His solo debut, Jag Fortsätter Glömma was released in early 2022 and came as a surprise to many.
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The Sandbox guide to… Catalogue Sync
Catalogue music is having a moment: a full third of Spotify’s weekly Top Songs are now catalogue tracks, and catalogue syncs – Kate Bush, we’re looking at you – have been big news this year. Catalogue music brings with it mood, authenticity, pedigree – and money… but only if you get it right. So how can you […]
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Labels, artists and DSPs join campaign to protect Black art
There has been a growing wave of concern and anger within the music industry about how Black artists’ lyrics have been used as evidence against them in US courtrooms.
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Pandora ad revenues increase but listener total still falling
US satellite radio firm SiriusXM has published its financial results for the third quarter, including the latest figures for its music-streaming service Pandora.
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Taylor Swift clean-sweeps top 10 in Billboard Hot 100 chart
Women may be underrepresented in Blokur’s chart of the top 100 songwriters globally, but this week at least, it’s a different story in Billboard’s Hot 100 tracks chart in the US.
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BPI hails UK chart surge for dance-music releases in 2022
It’s a good year for big fish and cardboard boxes in the UK.
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Source: Music ally
Former Warner Chappell exec Eric Mackay reveals new venture Imbr
It must be the week for music industry veterans who recently left Warner Music to the wrappers off their new startups.
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Fred again tapped Discord for album-launch listening parties
There’s a lot of buzz around the latest album from British artist Fred again, and a decent chunk of that buzz is being driven by his thriving fan community on Discord.
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Elon Musk’s next stunt might just be a revival of Vine
In our Twitter report yesterday, we noted that new owner Elon Musk had tweeted a poll asking ‘Bring back Vine?’ – referring to Twitter’s long-shuttered short-video spin-off. It seems he may not have been joking.
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Olivia Rodrigo was 2021’s top songwriter – but only 15% of the top 100 were women
Startup Blokur has released its second ‘Songwriters’ Review’ report, based on its analysis of Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube.
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Ex-WMG exec Scott Cohen to launch fractionalised music royalties startup
In September, Warner Music Group announced that Scott Cohen, its chief innovation officer, recorded music, would be leaving the company at the end of September.
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