Surf Music has been operating for three years: running in “quasi-stealth” mode in Japan and South Korea. Now it’s ready to go global. The post Songs marketplace Surf Music expands beyond Japan and South Korea appeared first on Music Ally. Source: Music ally

Last year, we wrote about how music-tech firm Pacemaker – best known for its innovative DJ apps – was up for sale. The post Tuned Global hits the dancefloor with Pacemaker acquisition appeared first on Music Ally. Source: Music ally

Music licensing firm Songtradr has long had an eye for an acquisition: Big Sync Music in 2019, CueSongs in 2020, Pretzel in 2021… The post Songtradr agrees acquisition deal for B2B music firm 7digital appeared first on Music Ally. Source: Music ally

Cyanite’s latest music-search tech involves complex text input” using natural language, like the latest crop of text-to-image AIs. The post Cyanite debuts tech for ‘complex text input’ music searching appeared first on Music Ally. Source: Music ally

Soundtrack Your Brand, one of the main companies providing music to shops, restaurants and other businesses, has offered some data points. The post K-Pop streams for businesses grew by more than 200% in 2022 appeared first on Music Ally. Source: Music ally

Tuned Global is one of the companies focusing on business-to-business (B2B) digital music: helping brands and other companies launch music services without having to build them and license them from scratch. Headquartered in Australia, it’s now making a push in Europe by poaching from one of its main rivals, British firm 7digital. Tuned Global has appointed […]

As expected, B2B digital-music firm 7digital has appointed eMusic boss Tamir Koch to its board of directors, alongside entrepreneur David Lazarus. The move comes as the company tries to raise funding to stave off the threat of administration at the end of July. Koch will be the non-executive chair of 7digital’s board, and has reiterated his ambitions […]

Record label Rehegoo Music is the latest company setting its sights on the background-music sector: providing curated music for businesses to play in their offices and public spaces. The label is offering a library of thousands of songs from “underground professional artists” with playlists based on various moods and genres – and the promise of new selections […]

There has been some uncertainty around the relationship between B2B digital-music firm 7digital and retail group MediaMarktSaturn in recent months. In January it emerged that the companies were in talks over the future of MediaMarktSaturn’s Juke music service, which 7digital powers. Now that’s been settled. “Under the Agreement, 7digital has accepted settlement of, and release […]

B2B digital-music service 7digital published an update on its business on Friday, with three separate pieces of news. Among them, the news that 7digital is in talks with European retailer MediaMarktSaturn about the future of its Juke music-streaming service, which 7digital powers. “MMS has indicated that it may wish to change the current arrangements and this […]