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Apr 15, 20232 min read

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 14, 20231 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 12, 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 11, 20232 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 10, 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 9, 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 9, 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, 20231 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 7, 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, 20232 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, 20231 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, 20232 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, 20231 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 3, 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 2, 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...

Mar 31, 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, 20232 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, 20231 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...

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