SiriusXM financials reveal slight revenue decline for Pandora
US satellite radio firm SiriusXM has published its financial results for the first quarter of 2023. They showed a slight decline in revenues.
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The RAP Act aims to limit use of music lyrics in US court cases
The Restoring Artistic Protection Act (RAP Act) has been reintroduced by Democrat congressmen Jamaal Bowman and Hank Johnson.
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Future Producer Academy will support underrepresented producers
Producer Fraser T Smith is launching a new scheme to support underrepresented producers, with backing from PPL and the Music Producers Guild.
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Snapchat users are up 15% but its revenues are down 7%
These are tough times for mainly-ad-supported services. Witness Snap’s latest financial results, which came out yesterday.
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Clubhouse lays off more than half its staff ‘to reset the company’
Remember when live-audio app Clubhouse was the bright future of the media and tech industries? It seems a long time ago now.
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Event management and ticketing startup POSH raises $5m funding
New York-based startup POSH is having its official launch this week, but it’s already been building up a head of steam.
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Triller to pay Sony Music $4.5m in case over music usage
Triller’s relationships with the music industry have been distinctly rocky in recent times, epitomised by a Sony Music lawsuit.
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Music Ally NEXT Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2023 awarded to Dr Arun Castro of Roadie Medic
Dr Arun Castro, medical director at Roadie Medic, is the inaugural winner of the Music Ally NEXT Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. Held this week at our NEXT conference in London, the award was backed by Universal Music Group, and was our celebration of the next wave of music-tech founders. Roadie Medic is a […]
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US senators target Ticketmaster with Unlock Ticketing Markets Act
Pressure on Live Nation and its Ticketmaster business from US politicians isn’t letting up, led by Amy Klobuchar and Richard Blumenthal.
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UMG boss says label is ‘open for business’ with ‘legitimate’ AI music firms
Major labels are demanding that AI music firms be properly licensed if they are training their models on commercial music.
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BPI: ‘As an industry we need to revisit how we define catalogue’
Music industry body the BPI has been drip-announcing stats from its latest annual yearbook, and the latest drop focuses on ‘new music’.
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Report: Electronic music sector grew by 34% in 2022 to $11.3bn
Woah! We’re going to Ibiza for this news story. Woah! Back to the island – and its annual IMS conference and accompanying report.
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Meta now has more than 3bn daily active people using its apps
To adapt a phrase from… somewhere in Meta’s corporate history: a billion users isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Three billion users.
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Sony Music UK backs new accelerator for Black startup founders
Sony Music UK has teamed up with the UK’s Digital Catapult initiative to launch an accelerator for Black startup founders.
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Impala offers its latest plan for reforming the streaming economy
In 2021 European indies body Impala published a 10-point plan for reforming music streaming. Now it’s revisited and reworked those ideas.
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web3 music in 2023: experiments, communities… and weirdness
If you apply Gartner’s famous hype cycle methodology to web3 technologies and music, where do we stand in 2023?
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Metallica’s latest campaigns: Playlists, Roblox, ASL videos…
Fresh from becoming the majority stakeholder in their own vinyl-pressing plant, Metallica have been letting loose a variety of interesting digital marketing campaigns.
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Music & Copyright publishes its market share analysis for 2022
Music & Copyright has published its newest figures for 2022, covering both publishing and recorded music.
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YouTube ad revenues were down 2.6% year-on-year in Q1 2023
Tech giant Alphabet published its latest financial results yesterday, and they included a breakdown of YouTube’s advertising revenues.
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Grimes’ AI deepfake rules: no baby murder songs or Nazi anthems
Grimes is essentially tweeting out loud the thought process that any artist must work through if they want to work with this kind of technology.
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Spotify CEO addresses the risks and potential of generative AI
Ek was asked how Spotify’s new ‘AI DJ’ feature plays given the “subsequent copyright pushback from some of the major labels”.
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Primary Wave eyes Indian catalogues with Times Music deal
The music catalogues of heritage artists in the western world have been big business. Now Primary Wave, is turning its attention towards India.
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JKBX says musicians will benefit from its royalty-streams marketplace
Startup JKBX is launching a marketplace for trading in music royalty streams as an asset class, but consent from musicians is non-negotiable.
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Spotify ended Q1 2023 with 515m listeners and 210m subscribers
Spotify has published its latest quarterly financial results, revealing that it now has 210m premium subscribers, and 515m active listeners.
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Deezer revenues grew 6.5% in Q1 but subscribers fell by 2.1%
Deezer’s latest financial results are a familiar tale: its revenues are growing, but it has yet to turn around its decline in subscribers.
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Grimes encourages people to use her voice in AI-generated tracks
One artist who isn’t getting too cross about the prospect of their voice being cloned for AI-generated tracks is Grimes.
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Beatly Music wants to build a takedown-proof home for AI music
Startup Beatly Music says it’s going “back to Napster days” with a safe haven for music with AI-generated vocals based on real artists.
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Featured Artists Coalition Step Up Fund returns for second year
The UK’s Featured Artists Coalition has teamed up with Amazon Music again for the second year of its Step Up Fund.
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PRS for Music reports record figures and 22.9% revenue growth in 2022
British collecting society PRS for Music has published its annual figures, reporting record-breaking revenues and distributions in 2022.
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Indian artists to benefit from agreement between industry bodies IMI and ISRA
A new agreement between Indian music bodies IMI and ISRA will see performance rights revenues flowing to the latter’s artist members.
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Saffron seeks £50k to continue its gender-equality music work
Saffron supports women, non-binary and trans people in the music industry. Now it needs help to continue that work in the future.
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Independent music publishers had a 27.1% market share in 2021
Independent music publishers accounted for 27.1% of the global publishing market in 2021 according to the latest report from the IMPF.
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DiMA’s latest report explores country music’s streaming audience
The latest report from DiMA explores some of the data and trends around country music and streaming – in the US and globally.
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Sony Music Japan’s Prism Project adds three more virtual artists
Sony Music Japan’s virtual talent management agency Prism Project has just announced its latest three avatar artists.
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Music Ally SI:X winner Hawkr raises £260k of seed funding
Music merchandise startup Hawkr has raised a seed funding round of £260k to continue building its business.
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Amazon’s Audible reveals its new slate of hip-hop originals
Audible has unveiled a slate of podcasts and audiobooks celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop this year.
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Report: Web3 funding from VCs “craters” in 2023 Q1
A new Crunchbase report says that VC funding into web3 has “plummeted 82% year to year, dropping from $9.1 billion in Q1 of 2022 to only $1.7 billion”.
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Live Nation launches music travel experience company Vibee
Initial events which will have experiential offerings include Lollapalooza, Hotel EDC and ACL Festival.
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Roblox users aged 17-to-24 is the fastest growing group
The toy-like look and feel of the game is changing too, with more human-like avatars and more detailed world-like environments.
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Music streaming tax recommended to French culture minister
French newspaper Les Echos reports that the changes are also aimed at making French pop music – or “F-Pop” – a global success.
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Report: Spotify is market leader for paid subscriber use in India
A new report by Redseer Strategy Consultants says that, of paid DSP services in India, Spotify has established itself as the market leader.
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Snapchat has new features, including live music AR integrations
Snapchat has announced new features and data at its Snap Partner Summit 2023, and says it has “750 million+ Monthly Active Users” across its services.
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NFT creator community split over enforcement of royalties
AI might be stealing all the thunder, but the world of NFTs remains both an exciting space of bleeding-edge ideas – and an endless source of bickering and trolling…
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Today in AI: Artist APIs, AI-sis sound “mega”, and Michael Schumacher
At the moment, AI music is a bit of a Wild West, and is generating some interesting experiments. Here are some of the latest.
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Sink or swim: the urgent need for advanced tools to navigate the inundation of music content (guest column)
This guest post is written by Martin Nedved, co-founder of AIMS, a platform of AI-based products designed to search and tag catalogues of music, and which is a supporter of next week’s NEXT summit in London. In this article, he explores the “urgent need for advanced tools to help the music industry survive and thrive”, and looks at […]
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International Marketing & Promotions Manager – Warp – London
Company Description Warp is a leading independent music company representing a small family of labels, including Warp Records, LuckyMe, On-U Sound, PLZ Make It Ruins, All Saints Records, Disciples, Roya and more. Through these labels we release and promote music and art by groundbreaking artists including Aphex Twin, Flying Lotus, Yves Tumor, Danny Brown, Kelela, Stereolab, Squid, […]
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Tools :: Immensity
It’s crucial for artists to have a strong online presence – however, with so many platforms available, it can be challenging to know which ones are impactful and where to focus your marketing efforts. This is the problem Immensity hopes to solve. Immensity is a tool that takes all the data from online platforms – as well […]
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Behind The Campaign :: Louis Tomlinson
Lisa Wilkinson, director of UK marketing (new recordings) at BMG, explains how they looked to reposition him in the market, what learnings were coming from his live success as well as his own festival, and more.
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Music Declare Emergency launches Fan Club for Climate
The climate campaigning organisation Music Declares Emergency has launched a new initiative, Fan Club for Climate, “a community of music-lovers who care about the planet.” The fan club is a weekly newsletter containing “inspiring messages from musicians” and tips on making climate-positive decisions, but it’s also a network-building exercise. The aim is for members “to create their own spaces […]
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Fake Drake/Weeknd streaming millions of times despite being taken down
The old adage about bankruptcy is that it happens very slowly and then very suddenly. The emergence of creative music AI has taken a similar route: we have been aware of it, and listening to it, and writing about it for years, and now here it is, in the form of “Heart On My Sleeve”, […]
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BMG “fully integrates” catalogue and frontline music
BMG has announced that it will “fully integrate” its new release and catalogue recordings businesses from today. How that will effectively work is that ‘catalogue’ music will now follow the same structure that BMG uses for ‘frontline’ recordings, “reporting locally as per its country of origin and then globally through EVP Global Repertoire Fred Casimir for […]
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Instagram now allows up to five “links in bio”
Instagram has been famously restrictive when allowing users to post links to external websites: only one link was allowed, and that was only possible in your bio at the top of the profile, not in text accompanying posts; hence the endless pleas to “see link in bio”. Now that’s changed: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced […]
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In China, traditional opera and pop music is combining to find a new audience (guest column)
This is a guest post by XinYue, Editor of Kanjian Music, the Chinese music services company which is Music Ally’s partner for our Music Ally China arm. We asked XinYue to explore some of the music industry trends inside China that may not yet be as well known elsewhere. She kicks off this series with […]
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Video editing app Capcut powers extra-viral TikTok videos
Users are turning to external apps to make slicker, or more complex videos, using advanced editing features.
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LimeWire offers new subscription-based platform for artists
It will allow artists to supply fans with exclusive content or experiences in exchange for subscriptions and payments – with a twist.
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Utopia Music lays off a reported 100 people – 15% of its workforce
As the business continues to try to right the ship, Mattias Hjelmstedt, co-founder and interim chief executive, announced that there will be more job cuts.
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AI continues to test creative industries and existing legal frameworks
The major labels will have to deal with increasingly complex ideas, which are coming thick and fast now.
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Managing Director, North America – DICE – New York
Live shows make us feel good. They’re a time to hang with our friends, discover new artists or lose ourselves on a dancefloor. We’re on a mission to bring all of this to more fans, more often – and that’s where you come in. We’re looking for a Managing Director to join our US team […]
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Winamp launches new in-app “Fanzone” service for artists
Music player Winamp continues its revamp with mobile and online versions of its music player to go alongside its traditional desktop app.
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Fake Drake raises questions over AI tools used to create covers
A cover version of “Drake” performing Ice Spice’s song ‘Munch’, caught the attention of the Canadian rapper himself, who took to Instagram.
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Roblox creators can sell limited-edition digital items (but they’re not NFTs)
Roblox creators can now sell virtual items and restrict the number of them available for sale, the company has announced.
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Snapchat expands Sounds library with new licensing deals
Snapchat has announced a slew of new music licensing deals, which will add more music to the Snapchat Sounds library
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Country Profile – Venezuela 2023
Venezuela is in turmoil, economically and politically; but its music industry is evolving and local talent is strong.
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Nursery rhymes and Indian film-music top YouTube monthly view charts
The two most popular YouTube channels by monthly views are music channels – but not from major western artists.
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Coachella Island opens up in Fortnite to accompany IRL festival
Coachella may be a two-weekend festival in real life, but now it has an ‘always-on’ version in the metaverse too: a Fortnite island.
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Turntable Live acquires fellow social-music startup JQBX
Turntable Live has acquired JQBX. No, NOT fractionalised royalties startup JKBX with a K. This is social music app JQBX with a Q.
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Samply and Myxt are the latest music collaboration startups
Two new startups in the audio-collaboration space have popped up in recent days: Samply and Myxt. Both are aimed at musicians.
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Study explores majors’ share of key (and niche) Spotify genres
Do major and independent labels get their fair share of streams on the big music services? Music Tomorrow has published its latest analysis.
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The first step to artist-centric streaming? Start listening to artists… (Guest column)
This is a guest column by David Martin, CEO of the Featured Artists Coalition – the UK trade body that represents the rights and interests of music artists. In this post, he addresses the recent major label drive to create “artist-centric” systems of payment from the perspective of an artist-focused organisation; and explores what an increasingly independent […]
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Former Spotify economist Will Page causes a stir with equitable remuneration report
Music industry economist Will Page has been ruffling feathers with his latest report: an examination of equitable remuneration (ER) models.
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Swedish unions want collective bargaining negotiations with Spotify
Three Swedish unions have written to Spotify requesting formal collective bargaining negotiations on behalf of its employees there.
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Latin music soared to $1.09bn of US recordings revenues in 2022
The latest stats from industry body the RIAA offer the latest evidence for the long-term, streaming-fuelled surge of Latin music in the US.
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TuneCore’s latest diversity move is a partnership with Gritty in Pink
TuneCore has partnered with Gritty in Pink to support the latter’s marketplace for women and gender-expansive people in the music industry.
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Startup Reactional Music raises just over $2m of new funding
Adaptive-music startup Reactional Music has raised a pre-Series A funding round of $2.05m, led by Amanotes and Butterfly Ventures.
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DiMA says music streaming contributed $14.32bn to US GDP in 2021
The body representing music streaming services, DiMA, has published a report estimating ‘The Impact of Digital Music Streaming’ in the US.
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How is diversity in audio production and engineering? Not great…
The latest report analysing diversity in the music industry trains its sights on audio production and engineering.
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beatBread’s sliceNote offers fractional investment in musicians
beatBread is launching a spin-off platform called sliceNote that will help investors back artists and independent labels.
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Lofi Girl meets Synthwave Boy in new YouTube chillout channel
Lofi Girl is one of the biggest chillout-music YouTube channels. Now it has a new round-the-clock synthwave stream.
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Amazon Music to stream Stagecoach Festival on Twitch and Prime Video
Amazon Music has been named as the exclusive livestreaming partner for the country-focused Stagecoach Festival.
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Report: UMG wants DSPs to block unlicensed AI-training scraping
Universal Music Group is flexing its corporate muscles to clamp down on AI-generated music trained on commercial music without a licence.
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Gimme Radio shuts down as startup funding squeeze starts to bite
Streaming startup Gimme Radio is shutting down. Is this an example of chilly funding headwinds blowing for other music-tech startups?
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Italian watchdog AGCM investigates Meta over its music dispute
Meta appears to have not just opened a can of worms, but tipped that can all over itself, with its music-licensing dispute in Italy.
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Human Artistry Campaign adds more music-industry body members
The recently-launched Human Artistry Campaign, which is trying to set guidelines for the use of creative AIs, has added new members.
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Digital sheet-music startup Enote raises €10m funding round
Enote is the latest startup focusing on digital sheet-music, and it has raised a €10m funding round to continue building its technology.
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German band Trigger Cut’s UK tour nixed by Brexit red tape
German band Trigger Cut have highlighted the challenges for European artists touring the UK in the wake of its ‘Brexit’ from the EU.
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Music technology firm MQA restructures and enters administration
Hi-res music-tech firm MQA has announced that it has restructured and entered administration, after its financial backer sought an exit.
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Only 26,000 people attended Decentraland’s Metaverse Fashion Week
web3 virtual world Decentraland recently held its Metaverse Fashion Week event, but attendance was down dramatically from 2022.
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Mdundo warns Nigerian artists off ‘stream farming’ tactics
Streaming manipulation continues to be a source of concern for the music industry, including in Africa, according to streaming service Mdundo.
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FEAT hails French ruling over unauthorised secondary ticketing
Google is on the wrong end of a new court ruling in France over advertisements for unauthorised secondary ticketing services.
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BPI’s new report explores more streaming stats for UK artists
British music body the BPI has published its latest report: ‘The New Music Democracy: How More Artists Are Benefitting From Streaming’.
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Data Scientist – un:hurd – London
Who We Are 🙋 unhurd is a music-tech start-up with a difference. We’re at the start of an exciting journey to transform the way independent artists, management companies and record labels market and promote their music. By building best in class marketing and promotion tools, we are leveling the playing field for artists at every […]
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Blond:ish tests PHA vinyl with biodegradable #PlasticFreeParty
Musician Blond:ish has launched her latest project: a 14-track compilation called #PlasticFreeParty. Sustainability is key to the release.
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Behind the Single: PinkPantheress, Ice Spice – ‘Boy’s a liar Pt. 2’
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Campaigns :: 6 April 2023 – Pink Floyd, Apoki, Dice, Cari Lekebusch
New and noteworthy campaigns from Pink Floyd, Apoki, Dice and Cari Lekebusch.
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Behind The Campaign :: SZA
US R&B singer SZA released SOS, her second album, in December 2022. Sej Jheeta (marketing manager and A&R at RCA in the UK) and Luke Smith (digital marketing manager at RCA in the UK) explain the campaign.
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Spotify says it has tripled its Indian users in last two years
Spotify has tripled its number of users in India in the past two years, and is now reportedly generating 10bn monthly streams there.
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Tidal rebrands its ‘DJ’ feature as ‘Live’ for official launch
Tidal’s ‘DJ’ feature has launched officially with a new name: Tidal Live. It turns streaming listeners into music broadcasters.
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TikTok fined £12.7m in the UK for misusing children’s data
TikTok is in privacy trouble again: it has been fined £12.7m by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office for misusing children’s data.
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2022 was a billion-Euro year for GEMA as revenues rose 13.4%
German collecting society GEMA has published its financial results for 2022, and they show strong growth in its collections and distributions.
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AI music-making app Moises hits 30m registered users milestone
Moises has come a long way since we first wrote about it in November 2019: the AI-powered stem-separation app now has 30m registered users.
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China’s music industry expects strong subscriptions growth
China is now the fifth biggest recorded-music market globally. Music Ally’s new country profile explores the trends driving its growth.
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German labels win court injunction over stream-ripping site YouTube-DL
The music industry’s fight against stream-ripping services continues, with German labels claiming the latest victory.
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Utopia’s music services boss Roberto Neri joins Believe as publishing CEO
Utopia Music’s head of music services Roberto Neri has announced that he is joining Believe as its CEO of publishing.
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TikTok unveils its songwriting-focused #BehindTheSong campaign
TikTok is launching an initiative called #BehindTheSong, which is designed to celebrate songwriters and producers.
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YouTube steps up Coachella livestreams with six-stage broadcast
Earlier this year, YouTube renewed its deal to livestream the Coachella festival. Now it has revealed a major expansion in that coverage.
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Spotify shuts down its Clubhouse-style audio app Spotify Live
Spotify is shutting down its live-audio app Spotify Live, but says it will continue experimenting with live features in its main service.
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Reports: TikTok was 12% of ByteDance’s $80bn revenues in 2022
Reports claim that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance made more than $80bn of revenues in 2022 – up 30% year-on-year.
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Epic Games boss is bullish on metaverse, but less keen on NFTs
As the company behind Fortnite and the Unreal Engine, Epic Games is playing a key role in the metaverse sector.
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Spotify launches R&B First Nights concerts series in the US
Spotify has launched R&B Nights, a concert series that will focus on emerging R&B artists playing their first gigs in US markets.
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UMG Nashville to boost indie partnerships and TV/film expansion
Cindy Mabe was recently promoted to become chair and CEO of Universal Music Group Nashville. Her first day in the job was 1 April.
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AIM boss on independent growth; DIY sector and major questions
The recently-appointed CEO of UK indies body AIM, Silvia Montello, has given her first ’State of Independence’ address.
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It’s 2023, so naturally we asked ChatGPT to write a bunch of April Fool’s stories for us
Every year, Music Ally publishes a spoof April Fool’s news story. This year we got ChatGPT to do the hard work for us.
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Ed Sheeran says new album includes ‘at least one’ track written by an AI
Ed Sheeran has revealed that he’s been using a creative AI on his new album, and that it’s written one song entirely by itself.
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