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Can Robots Find the Rhythm and Be "Moved by Music"?
By Elina Melteig, University of Oslo, April 11, 2023 Music can be used to get people to move to the beat, but can you apply the same...
Apr 15, 20232 min read
TikTok was 12% of ByteDance’s $80bn revenues in 2022
By Stuart Dredge, Musically.com, April 3, 2023 With licensing negotiations ongoing between music rightsholders and TikTok – let’s...
Apr 14, 20231 min read
Buying Music IP is Fine, but Music Investing Needs to be Better
By Peter Sinclair, CEO & Co-Founder at beatBread, April 11, 2023 By now, everyone in the music industry — and most people who pay...
Apr 12, 20231 min read
The Unsung Stories of the Music Industry on The Art of Longevity Podcast
by Bowers & Wilkins, April 5, 2023 In Conversation with Keith Jopling: The Art of Longevity Podcast Spotlights the Unsung Stories of the...
Apr 11, 20232 min read
How Nettwerk Took SYML From Sync To Global Success
by Sarah Kloboves, Chartmetric.com, March 22, 2023 Brian Fennell, also known as “SYML”, is an Indie/Alternative artist hailing from...
Apr 10, 20232 min read
How Being a Musician Helped My Career in Advertising
by Steve Miller, ECD, SVP, Partner at FUSE Create (Toronto), on LinkedIn April 4, 2023 April 4th, 1994. Before advertising, there was...
Apr 10, 20232 min read
New director wants more jazz in 2023 Montreal jazz festival
by Brendan Kelly, Montreal Gazette, April 3rd, 2023 Maurin Auxéméry, who replaces Laurent Saulnier at the head of the FIJM programming,...
Apr 10, 20232 min read
The Case For — and Against — Higher Streaming Subscription Prices
by Glenn Peoples, Billboard Pro, April 6, 2023 JPMorgan Chase analysts estimate a Spotify rate increase for U.S. individual plans would...
Apr 9, 20232 min read
Stanford Libraries receives major Black music collection - over 8,000 vinyl records
News release by Stanford Libraries, January 24, 2023 Bram Dijkstra, professor emeritus at UC San Diego, and renowned literary agent...
Apr 9, 20231 min read
Your Followers Are Not Necessarily Your Fans
by Dan Runcie, Founder of Trapital, April 1st, 2023 Your followers are not necessarily your fans. That’s hard for many artists and...
Apr 7, 20231 min read
Why I Don't Announce Artist Lineups for Our Music Festivals Anymore
by Jabari Johnson, Founder & CEO at COLORS Worldwide Inc, March 23, 2023 We just sold out our latest music festival, “R&B ONLY FEST”, in...
Apr 7, 20232 min read
Stingray Introduces the World’s Only FAST Channel Dedicated to Trivia
News release by Stingray, March 31st, 2023 Stingray, a leading music, media, and technology company, today announced that it has acquired...
Apr 7, 20231 min read
Is TikTok Actually Creating More One-Hit Wonders?
by Elias Leight, Billboard Pro, March 28, 2023 The portion of artists who failed to follow-up their first hit has been relatively...
Apr 7, 20232 min read
Songtradr Completes 7Digital Acquisition
by Chris Eggertsen, Billboard Pro, March 30, 2023 The deal will "help deliver scalable solutions for the music industry while simplifying...
Apr 7, 20231 min read
SXSW Music Tech Recap (podcast)
Reporting live from #sxsw 2023! Join us as we catch up with some of the music industry movers and shakers in this special episode,...
Apr 3, 20231 min read
New Study on Gender Equality in the Music Industry Shows Alarming Situation
by TuneCore, Believe and Luminate, March 2023 With equality in mind, beginning in 2021 TuneCore and Believe partnered with leading...
Apr 2, 20231 min read
New Virtual K-Pop Band 'Mave' Generated 20M Streams Off Their 1st Single
by Mandy Dalugdug, Music Business Worldwide, March 28, 2023 Kakao Entertainment, the entertainment division of South Korean internet...
Mar 31, 20231 min read
Jay-Z Has Taken the Hard Route. The Entrepreneur Route.
by Nathan McCartney, founder of The Bag, as published on his LinkedIn profile on March 27, 2023 Forbes recently announced that Jay-Z is...
Mar 31, 20232 min read
Apple Wants to Solve One of Music’s Biggest Problems
by Ben Cohen, Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2023 Forget the metaverse. The future is metadata. It’s how the world’s most valuable...
Mar 31, 20231 min read
YouTube Music Song Credits Coming Soon?
by Ashley King, DigitalMusicNews.com, March 20, 2023 YouTube Music may soon be adding song credits to bring it up to speed with rivals...
Mar 31, 20231 min read
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