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NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE... The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about it from a position of gut feeling – that it’s a fairer way to distribute streaming royalties – rather than a deep knowledge of the model and its implications. The good news: now is a good time to gen up on thistopic, as
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CAN HUMANS TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AI MUSIC AND MUSIC Amper Music, the AI composition company, has been looking at how humans respond to AI-generated music and if they can tell if its been made by computers or humans (and if, ultimately, that even matters).It has worked with audio research firm Veritonic and got a number of panelists to listen to music created by AI as well as stock music in a range of videos to see if they could hear the difference. BENJI ROGERS AND IMOGEN HEAP: BUILDING THE MUSIC BLOCKCHAIN That’s why the BPI invited Rogers in on a windy Monday evening for the first in a planned series of “thought-leadership events” tackling big topics and new technologies. He was joined by musician Imogen Heap, who’s also been digging into blockchain technology in recent months from an artist’s perspective. For an hour and a half,they
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NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE... The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about it from a position of gut feeling – that it’s a fairer way to distribute streaming royalties – rather than a deep knowledge of the model and its implications. The good news: now is a good time to gen up on thistopic, as
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CAN HUMANS TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AI MUSIC AND MUSIC Amper Music, the AI composition company, has been looking at how humans respond to AI-generated music and if they can tell if its been made by computers or humans (and if, ultimately, that even matters).It has worked with audio research firm Veritonic and got a number of panelists to listen to music created by AI as well as stock music in a range of videos to see if they could hear the difference. BENJI ROGERS AND IMOGEN HEAP: BUILDING THE MUSIC BLOCKCHAIN That’s why the BPI invited Rogers in on a windy Monday evening for the first in a planned series of “thought-leadership events” tackling big topics and new technologies. He was joined by musician Imogen Heap, who’s also been digging into blockchain technology in recent months from an artist’s perspective. For an hour and a half,they
TRILLER LAUNCHES $29.99 MONTHLY LIVESTREAMS SUBSCRIPTION 21 hours ago · Triller isn’t just a short-videos startup any more: it’s been getting into livestreams of music performances and boxing matches. Now it’s launching a subscription for them called TrillerPass.It will cost $29.99 a month or $299.95 a year, although unusually for a digital subscription, people signing up for the monthly option will have to agree a 12-month commitment. SPLICE ADDS NEW CREATOR PLANS WITH VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS 21 hours ago · Creator tools firm Splice has been offering subscriptions for a long time, but now it has added two new plans into its mix: Creator and Creator+. They sit alongside the existing Sounds+ plan, offering a mixture of tools and credits for Splice’s samples marketplace. However, they also add access OPULOUS REVEALS MORE ON ITS PLANS FOR NFTS AND DEFI LOANS 22 hours ago · Opulous is the spin-off from distributor Ditto that announced plans to launch a decentralised finance (DeFi) loans scheme for artists, before expanding into music NFTs.Now, as part of its $6.45m fundraising efforts on the Dao Maker platform, it has published more details about its plans.Opulous is starting with NFT sales for some hand-picked artists, before opening up its tool to EXPERTS PANEL: MAKING STAND-OUT ARTIST BRANDS IN A HYPER Music Ally’s Global Experts Panel is an international group of industry leaders. Each month we put a single, vital question to them about today’s music industry – and ask them what should happen next. An artist’s brand has always needed to be crystal-clear, but in 2021 it’s more important than ever. There are more artists competing for fans’ attention than ever before; and more SONY MUSIC LAUNCHES ‘LEGACY UNRECOUPED BALANCE PROGRAM’ 18 hours ago · One of the talking points at the recent UK inquiry into music streaming economics was whether more labels should write off unrecouped balances from the pre-streaming era, and thus ensure more artists start to receive royalties for streams of their work.Beggars Group has
INDEPENDENT LABELS TOOK 26% MARKET SHARE IN UK LAST YEAR 21 hours ago · British label bodies the BPI and Aim are trumpeting the market share taken by independent labels in 2020. That share grew to just under 26% last year as measured by ‘album equivalent sales’, a metric blending streams and digital/physical sales. Their announcement also claims that indies’ share CLIO MUSIC AWARDS GIVES GONGS TO SPOTIFY, K CAMP AND MORE 21 hours ago · Alicia Keys is the latest artist getting fans to provide the content for a marketing campaign. Her new website Memories of A Minor harks back to her debut album ‘Songs in A Minor’, which was released 20 years ago. The AMAZON MUSIC GETS MORE RADIO-LIKE WITH NEW ‘DJ MODE 21 hours ago · One of the prevailing trends in the music streaming world is that DSPs want to replace traditional radio, and a big part of their strategy to do that is becoming more radio-like themselves. The latest example is Amazon Music, which unveiled its new ‘DJMode’ yesterday.
BRISTOL AND BATH GET A MUSIC-THEMED DIGITAL TREASURE HUNT Bristol and Bath get a music-themed digital treasure hunt. From Massive Attack and Portishead to Idles and DJ Krust, the British cities of Bath and Bristol have a marvellous musical heritage. Now it’s being explored in an interesting digital way, courtesy of a project called ‘ Everything is Music ‘. It’s a partnershipbetween Crack
BLOND:ISH AND LIL DICKY BREAK NEW GROUND IN MUSIC NFTS Blond:ish and Lil Dicky break new ground in music NFTs. Dig beneath the hype and doom-mongering, and there continue to be plenty of musicians exploring what they can do with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). We have two more examples to tell you about today. First, Blond:ish, who is launching an NFT that she says “does not have any negative BLOND:ISH AND LIL DICKY BREAK NEW GROUND IN MUSIC NFTS Blond:ish and Lil Dicky break new ground in music NFTs. Dig beneath the hype and doom-mongering, and there continue to be plenty of musicians exploring what they can do with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). We have two more examples to tell you about today. First, Blond:ish, who is launching an NFT that she says “does not have any negative UNDERSTANDING EQUITABLE REMUNERATION AND MUSIC STREAMINGSEE MORE ONMUSICALLY.COM
TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of VIVENDI COULD SELL 10% OF UMG TO A US INVESTOR BEFORE The company offered its latest update on its plans yesterday, including the distribution of 60% of UMG shares to existing Vivendi shareholders. However, before that: “The group is analyzing the opportunity of selling 10% of UMG shares to an American investor or initiating a public offering of at least 5% and up to 10% of UMGshares,” said
WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE... The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about it from a position of gut feeling – that it’s a fairer way to distribute streaming royalties – rather than a deep knowledge of the model and its implications. The good news: now is a good time to gen up on thistopic, as
GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area.EMAIL MARKETING
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CAN HUMANS TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AI MUSIC AND MUSIC Amper Music, the AI composition company, has been looking at how humans respond to AI-generated music and if they can tell if its been made by computers or humans (and if, ultimately, that even matters).It has worked with audio research firm Veritonic and got a number of panelists to listen to music created by AI as well as stock music in a range of videos to see if they could hear the difference. BENJI ROGERS AND IMOGEN HEAP: BUILDING THE MUSIC BLOCKCHAIN That’s why the BPI invited Rogers in on a windy Monday evening for the first in a planned series of “thought-leadership events” tackling big topics and new technologies. He was joined by musician Imogen Heap, who’s also been digging into blockchain technology in recent months from an artist’s perspective. For an hour and a half,they
BLOND:ISH AND LIL DICKY BREAK NEW GROUND IN MUSIC NFTS Blond:ish and Lil Dicky break new ground in music NFTs. Dig beneath the hype and doom-mongering, and there continue to be plenty of musicians exploring what they can do with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). We have two more examples to tell you about today. First, Blond:ish, who is launching an NFT that she says “does not have any negative UNDERSTANDING EQUITABLE REMUNERATION AND MUSIC STREAMINGSEE MORE ONMUSICALLY.COM
TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of VIVENDI COULD SELL 10% OF UMG TO A US INVESTOR BEFORE The company offered its latest update on its plans yesterday, including the distribution of 60% of UMG shares to existing Vivendi shareholders. However, before that: “The group is analyzing the opportunity of selling 10% of UMG shares to an American investor or initiating a public offering of at least 5% and up to 10% of UMGshares,” said
WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE... The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about it from a position of gut feeling – that it’s a fairer way to distribute streaming royalties – rather than a deep knowledge of the model and its implications. The good news: now is a good time to gen up on thistopic, as
GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area.EMAIL MARKETING
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CAN HUMANS TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AI MUSIC AND MUSIC Amper Music, the AI composition company, has been looking at how humans respond to AI-generated music and if they can tell if its been made by computers or humans (and if, ultimately, that even matters).It has worked with audio research firm Veritonic and got a number of panelists to listen to music created by AI as well as stock music in a range of videos to see if they could hear the difference. BENJI ROGERS AND IMOGEN HEAP: BUILDING THE MUSIC BLOCKCHAIN That’s why the BPI invited Rogers in on a windy Monday evening for the first in a planned series of “thought-leadership events” tackling big topics and new technologies. He was joined by musician Imogen Heap, who’s also been digging into blockchain technology in recent months from an artist’s perspective. For an hour and a half,they
OPULOUS REVEALS MORE ON ITS PLANS FOR NFTS AND DEFI LOANS 18 hours ago · Opulous is the spin-off from distributor Ditto that announced plans to launch a decentralised finance (DeFi) loans scheme for artists, before expanding into music NFTs.Now, as part of its $6.45m fundraising efforts on the Dao Maker platform, it has published more details about its plans.Opulous is starting with NFT sales for some hand-picked artists, before opening up its tool to BLOND:ISH AND LIL DICKY BREAK NEW GROUND IN MUSIC NFTS Blond:ish and Lil Dicky break new ground in music NFTs. Dig beneath the hype and doom-mongering, and there continue to be plenty of musicians exploring what they can do with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). We have two more examples to tell you about today. First, Blond:ish, who is launching an NFT that she says “does not have any negative SPLICE ADDS NEW CREATOR PLANS WITH VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS 18 hours ago · Creator tools firm Splice has been offering subscriptions for a long time, but now it has added two new plans into its mix: Creator and Creator+. They sit alongside the existing Sounds+ plan, offering a mixture of tools and credits for Splice’s samples marketplace. However, they also add access AMAZON MUSIC GETS MORE RADIO-LIKE WITH NEW ‘DJ MODE 18 hours ago · One of the prevailing trends in the music streaming world is that DSPs want to replace traditional radio, and a big part of their strategy to do that is becoming more radio-like themselves. The latest example is Amazon Music, which unveiled its new ‘DJMode’ yesterday.
TRILLER LAUNCHES $29.99 MONTHLY LIVESTREAMS SUBSCRIPTION 18 hours ago · Triller isn’t just a short-videos startup any more: it’s been getting into livestreams of music performances and boxing matches. Now it’s launching a subscription for them called TrillerPass.It will cost $29.99 a month or $299.95 a year, although unusually for a digital subscription, people signing up for the monthly option will have to agree a 12-month commitment. SONY MUSIC LAUNCHES ‘LEGACY UNRECOUPED BALANCE PROGRAM’ 15 hours ago · One of the talking points at the recent UK inquiry into music streaming economics was whether more labels should write off unrecouped balances from the pre-streaming era, and thus ensure more artists start to receive royalties for streams of their work.Beggars Group has
CLIO MUSIC AWARDS GIVES GONGS TO SPOTIFY, K CAMP AND MORE 18 hours ago · Alicia Keys is the latest artist getting fans to provide the content for a marketing campaign. Her new website Memories of A Minor harks back to her debut album ‘Songs in A Minor’, which was released 20 years ago. The INDEPENDENT LABELS TOOK 26% MARKET SHARE IN UK LAST YEAR 18 hours ago · British label bodies the BPI and Aim are trumpeting the market share taken by independent labels in 2020. That share grew to just under 26% last year as measured by ‘album equivalent sales’, a metric blending streams and digital/physical sales. BRISTOL AND BATH GET A MUSIC-THEMED DIGITAL TREASURE HUNT Bristol and Bath get a music-themed digital treasure hunt. From Massive Attack and Portishead to Idles and DJ Krust, the British cities of Bath and Bristol have a marvellous musical heritage. Now it’s being explored in an interesting digital way, courtesy of a project called ‘ Everything is Music ‘. It’s a partnershipbetween Crack
UNDERSTANDING EQUITABLE REMUNERATION AND MUSIC STREAMING Understanding equitable remuneration and music streaming. This guest column comes from Gregor Pryor, co-chair, entertainment and media industry group, and Nick Breen, partner, at Reed Smith: The DCMS Committee’s inquiry into the economic impact of music streaming has come to an end and we await the release of a parliamentary report intothe
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YOUTUBE MUSIC, SPOTIFY AND DEEZER MAKE NEW SMARTWATCH MOVES We don’t write that much about music streaming and smartwatches because it feels like a bit of a niche. It’s nice to be able to control or play music from your wrist, but not groundbreaking. Even so, we’re seeing a flurry of activity this week around streaming services and wearables. It’s VIVENDI COULD SELL 10% OF UMG TO A US INVESTOR BEFORE The company offered its latest update on its plans yesterday, including the distribution of 60% of UMG shares to existing Vivendi shareholders. However, before that: “The group is analyzing the opportunity of selling 10% of UMG shares to an American investor or initiating a public offering of at least 5% and up to 10% of UMGshares,” said
UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of SPOTIFY LEGAL BOSS ATTACKS APPLE IN ‘RUTHLESS BULLY’ OP-ED Whatever’s on his fists, Spotify’s head of global affairs and chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez certainly wasn’t pulling any punches in his op-ed for the Wall Street Journal this week. “There is a lot to admire about Apple, but my company, Spotify, has seen another, brutish side,” began the piece. “Apple designs, developsand
TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Witness Bauer Media Audio in the UK, which is launching ‘premium subscription online radio services’ for four of its stations: Scala Radio, Jazz FM, Planet Rock and Kerrang Radio. Each service will cost 3.99 a month, giving listeners 20 online radio stations as well as on-demand shows, documentaries, artist interviews and other content GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. BRISTOL AND BATH GET A MUSIC-THEMED DIGITAL TREASURE HUNT Bristol and Bath get a music-themed digital treasure hunt. From Massive Attack and Portishead to Idles and DJ Krust, the British cities of Bath and Bristol have a marvellous musical heritage. Now it’s being explored in an interesting digital way, courtesy of a project called ‘ Everything is Music ‘. It’s a partnershipbetween Crack
YOUTUBE MUSIC, SPOTIFY AND DEEZER MAKE NEW SMARTWATCH MOVES We don’t write that much about music streaming and smartwatches because it feels like a bit of a niche. It’s nice to be able to control or play music from your wrist, but not groundbreaking. Even so, we’re seeing a flurry of activity this week around streaming services and wearables. It’s VIVENDI COULD SELL 10% OF UMG TO A US INVESTOR BEFORE The company offered its latest update on its plans yesterday, including the distribution of 60% of UMG shares to existing Vivendi shareholders. However, before that: “The group is analyzing the opportunity of selling 10% of UMG shares to an American investor or initiating a public offering of at least 5% and up to 10% of UMGshares,” said
UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of SPOTIFY LEGAL BOSS ATTACKS APPLE IN ‘RUTHLESS BULLY’ OP-ED Whatever’s on his fists, Spotify’s head of global affairs and chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez certainly wasn’t pulling any punches in his op-ed for the Wall Street Journal this week. “There is a lot to admire about Apple, but my company, Spotify, has seen another, brutish side,” began the piece. “Apple designs, developsand
TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Witness Bauer Media Audio in the UK, which is launching ‘premium subscription online radio services’ for four of its stations: Scala Radio, Jazz FM, Planet Rock and Kerrang Radio. Each service will cost 3.99 a month, giving listeners 20 online radio stations as well as on-demand shows, documentaries, artist interviews and other content GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. ROBLOX SAYS IT IS 'SURPRISED AND DISAPPOINTED' BY NMPA LAWSUIT 5 hours ago · This morning, we reported on the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) lawsuit against games platform Roblox, on behalf of several of its members. Now the company has issued its response, in a statement sent to Music Ally. “As a platform powered by a community of creators, we are NMPA SUES ROBLOX IN $200M COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT LAWSUIT 7 hours ago · Games platform Roblox has enjoyed plenty of positive headlines for its push into music in partnership with labels and artists, but now the company is facing a battle with music publishers over licensing. Yesterday, the US National Music Publishers Association sued Roblox on behalf of a group of INSTAGRAM WANTS YOU TO KNOW HOW ITS ALGORITHMS WORK 3 hours ago · “It’s hard to trust what you don’t understand. We want to do a better job of explaining how Instagram works,” is how Adam Mosseri, the boss of the Facebook-owned app, began his latest blog post.It’s part of a planned series that will “shed more light on how Instagram’s technology works and how it impacts the experiences that people have across the app”. MUSIC STREAMING APP TREBEL IS PLANNING TO GO PUBLIC 7 hours ago · Which music company is going public next in 2021? It might soon be easier to ask which music companies aren’t. The latest setting its sights on the markets is music streaming app Trebel, and you can read its filing here, including details on its business. The app has a catalogue of more than 15m songs licensed from rightsholders including all three major labels, having launched in late 2018. EC HAS CONCERNS ABOUT SMART SPEAKERS AND VOICE ASSISTANTS 7 hours ago · Smart speakers and voice assistants loom large: for example in concerns about “the position of voice assistants and smart device operating systems as intermediaries between users, on one side, and smart devices or consumer IoT services on the other side”. PALOMA FAITH’S ALEXA SKILL ADDS PREMIUM CONTENT 3 hours ago · Back in 2018, Paloma Faith became one of the first artists to launch her own Alexa skill – the equivalent of apps for Amazon’s smart speaker ecosystem. Paloma’s Bedtime was a collection of bedtime stories and songs designed to get children off to sleep. It was a creative idea, and due to the UMG’S BRAVADO IS WORKING ON NFTS WITH IKONICK DEAL 3 hours ago · As the early hype subsides around NFTs and the trough of disillusionment kicks in, deals are being struck to prepare for the longer term future. One such deal is between Universal Music’s Bravado merch division and digital art company Ikonick. APPLE IS TURNING SHAZAM INTO AN API FOR OTHER APPS 5 hours ago · Apple completed its acquisition of music identification app Shazam in September 2018, and under its ownership the app grew to 200 million monthly active users by November 2020.Now Apple is hoping Shazam will be powering a number of third-party apps through its new ShazamKit framework. You can find the details here. “Match music to the millions of songs in Shazam’s vast catalog ormake
MR EAZI TO KEYNOTE MIDEM AFRICA CONFERENCE THIS MONTH 3 hours ago · With the main Midem conference shifted to later this year, organiser Reed Midem is preparing for its Midem Africa online event that starts on 28 June. Yesterday, it confirmed a number of the speakers and sessions, including a keynote from Afrobeats star ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. BRISTOL AND BATH GET A MUSIC-THEMED DIGITAL TREASURE HUNT Bristol and Bath get a music-themed digital treasure hunt. From Massive Attack and Portishead to Idles and DJ Krust, the British cities of Bath and Bristol have a marvellous musical heritage. Now it’s being explored in an interesting digital way, courtesy of a project called ‘ Everything is Music ‘. It’s a partnershipbetween Crack
VIVENDI COULD SELL 10% OF UMG TO A US INVESTOR BEFORE The company offered its latest update on its plans yesterday, including the distribution of 60% of UMG shares to existing Vivendi shareholders. However, before that: “The group is analyzing the opportunity of selling 10% of UMG shares to an American investor or initiating a public offering of at least 5% and up to 10% of UMGshares,” said
DEEZER ENLISTS WOLF ALICE AND LAURA MVULA FOR 80S COVERS ALBUM Don’t You Want Me. Joe Le Taxi. Wicked Game. Africa. Orinoco Flow. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me). Tainted Love. Buffalo Stance. That’s your day’s worth of earworms covered for readers who grew up in the 1980s. But even if not, don’t fear: Deezer is bringing back a selection of BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Witness Bauer Media Audio in the UK, which is launching ‘premium subscription online radio services’ for four of its stations: Scala Radio, Jazz FM, Planet Rock and Kerrang Radio. Each service will cost 3.99 a month, giving listeners 20 online radio stations as well as on-demand shows, documentaries, artist interviews and other content ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. JORJA SMITH’S NEW SINGLE COMES WITH A NICE MOTORS GARAGE Jorja Smith’s new single comes with a Nice Motors garage website. We’ve seen some strange pivots in our time, but Jorja Smith opening a car garage providing MOTs, servicing and repairs might just be the strangest. Nice Motors is the business in question. “J and Shay’s Nice Motors is a reputable car specialist. WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE... The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about it from a position of gut feeling – that it’s a fairer way to distribute streaming royalties – rather than a deep knowledge of the model and its implications. The good news: now is a good time to gen up on thistopic, as
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Kushal Patel. Kushal is the Marketing & Training Manager at Music Ally, responsible for delivering Music Ally's training programmes to record labels, management agencies, music industry trade bodies and universities. Kushal also works with artists and labels on digital strategy and marketing campaigns, helping them to strengthen theironline
BRISTOL AND BATH GET A MUSIC-THEMED DIGITAL TREASURE HUNT Bristol and Bath get a music-themed digital treasure hunt. From Massive Attack and Portishead to Idles and DJ Krust, the British cities of Bath and Bristol have a marvellous musical heritage. Now it’s being explored in an interesting digital way, courtesy of a project called ‘ Everything is Music ‘. It’s a partnershipbetween Crack
VIVENDI COULD SELL 10% OF UMG TO A US INVESTOR BEFORE The company offered its latest update on its plans yesterday, including the distribution of 60% of UMG shares to existing Vivendi shareholders. However, before that: “The group is analyzing the opportunity of selling 10% of UMG shares to an American investor or initiating a public offering of at least 5% and up to 10% of UMGshares,” said
DEEZER ENLISTS WOLF ALICE AND LAURA MVULA FOR 80S COVERS ALBUM Don’t You Want Me. Joe Le Taxi. Wicked Game. Africa. Orinoco Flow. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me). Tainted Love. Buffalo Stance. That’s your day’s worth of earworms covered for readers who grew up in the 1980s. But even if not, don’t fear: Deezer is bringing back a selection of BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Witness Bauer Media Audio in the UK, which is launching ‘premium subscription online radio services’ for four of its stations: Scala Radio, Jazz FM, Planet Rock and Kerrang Radio. Each service will cost 3.99 a month, giving listeners 20 online radio stations as well as on-demand shows, documentaries, artist interviews and other content ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. JORJA SMITH’S NEW SINGLE COMES WITH A NICE MOTORS GARAGE Jorja Smith’s new single comes with a Nice Motors garage website. We’ve seen some strange pivots in our time, but Jorja Smith opening a car garage providing MOTs, servicing and repairs might just be the strangest. Nice Motors is the business in question. “J and Shay’s Nice Motors is a reputable car specialist. WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE... The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about it from a position of gut feeling – that it’s a fairer way to distribute streaming royalties – rather than a deep knowledge of the model and its implications. The good news: now is a good time to gen up on thistopic, as
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Kushal Patel. Kushal is the Marketing & Training Manager at Music Ally, responsible for delivering Music Ally's training programmes to record labels, management agencies, music industry trade bodies and universities. Kushal also works with artists and labels on digital strategy and marketing campaigns, helping them to strengthen theironline
EXPERTS PANEL: MAKING STAND-OUT ARTIST BRANDS IN A HYPER 1 day ago · Music Ally’s Global Experts Panel is an international group of industry leaders. Each month we put a single, vital question to them about today’s music industry – and ask them what should happen next. An artist’s brand has always needed to be crystal-clear, but in 2021 it’s more important than ever. There are more artists competing for fans’ attention than ever before; andmore
WEBINAR: KEY ALTERNATIVE PLATFORMS FOR GLOBAL MUSIC 1 day ago · Platforms like Instagram, Facebook and TikTok are used in virtually every artist marketing campaign – but to unlock international or niche audiences, you’ll need to engage with platforms that you may never have used before. It’s clear that managers and marketers with global ambitions or who MUSIC APP MONKINGME APPOINTS NEW CEO AND PLANS MORE GROWTH 1 day ago · Music streaming app MonkingMe has appointed a new CEO, the company’s former chief content officer Ivet Anoro. The app, which has been downloaded more than 4m times so far, offers a catalogue of free music to stream and download for offline listening. It uses a virtual currency system THE FIVE E’S OF FAN ENGAGEMENT IN MUSIC MARKETING (GUEST 1 day ago · This is a guest post by Sandra Croft (Artist & Promotions Representative, UK & EU) and Henriette Heimdal (Market Development, UK & EU), of CD Baby.This is their five-point strategy for “transforming audiences into fans” – to go from “initial awareness to lifetime advocacy around artist brands in a hyper-competitive world. FACEBOOK BUYS ROBLOX-STYLE GAMES PLATFORM CRAYTA With Roblox striking a growing number of partnerships with labels and artists, it’s no surprise that our industry is keen to spot similar games platforms that are emerging. “With the addition of Unit 2 Games, we’ll expand the notion of a Facebook creator to include people who collaboratively ST. VINCENT LAUNCHES THROWBACK SERIES ON APPLE MUSIC RADIO 1 day ago · There’s a strong 70s influence to St. Vincent’s new album ‘Daddy’s Home’ and that’s something she’s diving into for a new series on Apple Music Radio. It’s called ‘WSTV Radio‘ and will run for six episodes, each of which based on a single day in the year’s 1971-76. Expect news 30M RECORDS TALKS 'THIS IS TEHRAN?' AND IRANIAN MUSIC'S Hamburg-based label 30M Records was founded in 2020 by Matthias Koch with the aim of helping Iranian musicians to release their music globally, at a time when economic sanctions mean artists and labels there cannot deal directly with digital music services in the US or Europe.. The label’s first compilation album ‘RAAZ’ came out last year, and this week its second release drops. JIOSAAVN'S LATEST FEATURE IS LEAN-BACK MUSIC VIDEO VIEWING Indian music streaming service JioSaavn isn’t new to video content. Its ‘Shorties’ feature is less TikTok and more Spotify Canvas: 15-second looping videos that accompany tracks, and have been seen more than 200m views since their launch in June last year. It also has a deal with Triller. Now BRISTOL AND BATH GET A MUSIC-THEMED DIGITAL TREASURE HUNT Bristol and Bath get a music-themed digital treasure hunt. From Massive Attack and Portishead to Idles and DJ Krust, the British cities of Bath and Bristol have a marvellous musical heritage. Now it’s being explored in an interesting digital way, courtesy of a project called ‘ Everything is Music ‘. It’s a partnershipbetween Crack
US CONGRESS TAKES AN INTEREST IN SPOTIFY DISCOVERY MODE 1 day ago · There may be trouble ahead for Spotify and its ‘Discovery Mode’ feature. That’s the program where artists and labels can select tracks to be promoted in the recommendation algorithms for Spotify’s radio and autoplay features, in return for a lower royalty rate. MUSIC CREDIT FUND WILL HELP MUSICIANS RETAIN THEIR Music Credit Fund will help musicians retain their copyrights. It’s every musician’s right to sell their copyrights, if they have retained them. But might they prefer to hang on to these rights if there were another way to leverage them to raise money? That’s something that British startup Music Credit Fund is planning toexplore.
BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Witness Bauer Media Audio in the UK, which is launching ‘premium subscription online radio services’ for four of its stations: Scala Radio, Jazz FM, Planet Rock and Kerrang Radio. Each service will cost 3.99 a month, giving listeners 20 online radio stations as well as on-demand shows, documentaries, artist interviews and other content UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of NFT TRENDS INCLUDE 50/50 SPLIT FOR MUSICIANS AND VISUAL That includes stats: journalist Cherie Hu’s calculation that since June last year around 29,800 NFTs involving artists have generated $42.5m in primary sales. But also a sense of how this revenue is being split between musicians, visual artists and rightsholders (where music is involved). “A 50/50 split is becoming the norm between the TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AI-powered Symphonia app turns singing into instrumental music. French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody. WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE...CONSUMER CENTRIC MODELEARTH CENTRIC MODELEMPLOYEE CENTRIC MODELMODEL CENTRIC ENGINEERINGSERVICE CENTRIC MODEL The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about it from a position of gut feeling – that it’s a fairer way to distribute streaming royalties – rather than a deep knowledge of the model and its implications. The good news: now is a good time to gen up on thistopic, as
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Kushal Patel. Kushal is the Marketing & Training Manager at Music Ally, responsible for delivering Music Ally's training programmes to record labels, management agencies, music industry trade bodies and universities. Kushal also works with artists and labels on digital strategy and marketing campaigns, helping them to strengthen theironline
MUSIC CREDIT FUND WILL HELP MUSICIANS RETAIN THEIR Music Credit Fund will help musicians retain their copyrights. It’s every musician’s right to sell their copyrights, if they have retained them. But might they prefer to hang on to these rights if there were another way to leverage them to raise money? That’s something that British startup Music Credit Fund is planning toexplore.
BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Witness Bauer Media Audio in the UK, which is launching ‘premium subscription online radio services’ for four of its stations: Scala Radio, Jazz FM, Planet Rock and Kerrang Radio. Each service will cost 3.99 a month, giving listeners 20 online radio stations as well as on-demand shows, documentaries, artist interviews and other content UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of NFT TRENDS INCLUDE 50/50 SPLIT FOR MUSICIANS AND VISUAL That includes stats: journalist Cherie Hu’s calculation that since June last year around 29,800 NFTs involving artists have generated $42.5m in primary sales. But also a sense of how this revenue is being split between musicians, visual artists and rightsholders (where music is involved). “A 50/50 split is becoming the norm between the TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AI-powered Symphonia app turns singing into instrumental music. French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody. WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE...CONSUMER CENTRIC MODELEARTH CENTRIC MODELEMPLOYEE CENTRIC MODELMODEL CENTRIC ENGINEERINGSERVICE CENTRIC MODEL The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about it from a position of gut feeling – that it’s a fairer way to distribute streaming royalties – rather than a deep knowledge of the model and its implications. The good news: now is a good time to gen up on thistopic, as
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Kushal Patel. Kushal is the Marketing & Training Manager at Music Ally, responsible for delivering Music Ally's training programmes to record labels, management agencies, music industry trade bodies and universities. Kushal also works with artists and labels on digital strategy and marketing campaigns, helping them to strengthen theironline
EXPERTS PANEL: MAKING STAND-OUT ARTIST BRANDS IN A HYPER 5 hours ago · Music Ally’s Global Experts Panel is an international group of industry leaders. Each month we put a single, vital question to them about today’s music industry – and ask them what should happen next. An artist’s brand has always needed to be crystal-clear, but in 2021 it’s more important than ever. There are more artists competing for fans’ attention than ever before; andmore
MUSIC APP MONKINGME APPOINTS NEW CEO AND PLANS MORE GROWTH 2 hours ago · Music streaming app MonkingMe has appointed a new CEO, the company’s former chief content officer Ivet Anoro. The app, which has been downloaded more than 4m times so far, offers a catalogue of free music to stream and download for offline listening. It uses a virtual currency system THE FIVE E’S OF FAN ENGAGEMENT IN MUSIC MARKETING (GUEST 4 hours ago · This is a guest post by Sandra Croft (Artist & Promotions Representative, UK & EU) and Henriette Heimdal (Market Development, UK & EU), of CD Baby.This is their five-point strategy for “transforming audiences into fans” – to go from “initial awareness to lifetime advocacy around artist brands in a hyper-competitive world. FACEBOOK BUYS ROBLOX-STYLE GAMES PLATFORM CRAYTA 1 day ago · With Roblox striking a growing number of partnerships with labels and artists, it’s no surprise that our industry is keen to spot similar games platforms that are emerging. “With the addition of Unit 2 Games, we’ll expand the notion of a Facebook creator to include people who collaboratively RESERVOIR BUYS TOMMY BOY, PLANS DE LA SOUL RE-RELEASES 1 day ago · Music rights company Reservoir has made its latest acquisition: of pioneering label Tommy Boy Music. The deal will see Reservoir buy more than 6,000 master recordings of hip-hop and electronic music, with Tommy Boy becoming part of its Chrysalis Records subsidiary – which it YOUTUBE SAYS ITS MUSIC PAYOUTS WERE $4BN IN THE LAST YEAR YouTube has paid out more than $4bn to the music industry in the last 12 months, according to its head of music Lyor Cohen. The new figure was the focus for a blog post published by Cohen this afternoon, in which he also said that YouTube’s premium subscription services have “added more paid members in Q1 ’21 than in any other quarter sincelaunch.”
ST. VINCENT LAUNCHES THROWBACK SERIES ON APPLE MUSIC RADIO 1 day ago · There’s a strong 70s influence to St. Vincent’s new album ‘Daddy’s Home’ and that’s something she’s diving into for a new series on Apple Music Radio. It’s called ‘WSTV Radio‘ and will run for six episodes, each of which based on a single day in the year’s 1971-76. Expect news JIOSAAVN'S LATEST FEATURE IS LEAN-BACK MUSIC VIDEO VIEWING 1 day ago · Indian music streaming service JioSaavn isn’t new to video content. Its ‘Shorties’ feature is less TikTok and more Spotify Canvas: 15-second looping videos that accompany tracks, and have been seen more than 200m views since their launch in June last year. It also has a deal with Triller. Now AUDIOMOB JOINS GOOGLE’S EUROPEAN BLACK FOUNDERS FUND 1 day ago · AudioMob is a startup focusing on in-game audio ads for mobile games, and it has been working on campaigns with a number of labels including WMG and BMG.. Now it’s also got backing from Google, which has made it one of the startups in the company’s European Black Founders Fund.This means an undisclosed investment in the company – one of 30 to be chosen for the fund – ahead of AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AI-powered Symphonia app turns singing into instrumental music. French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody.*
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