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Condé Nast sues Drake and 21 Savage over promo campaign
Did you enjoy the spoof Vogue magazine cover created to promote Drake and 21 Savage’s new album? Condé Nast didn’t.
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Spotify puts Drake OVO Sound logo on FC Barcelona’s next match kit
Drake is one of the first artists to benefit from Spotify flexing the muscles of its sponsorship of Catalan football giant FC Barcelona.
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Live Nation shares fall after Astroworld Festival tragedy
Live Nation issued a statement this weekend following the deaths and injuries at the Astroworld Festival in Houston, promising to “continue working to provide as much information and assistance as possible to the local authorities as they investigate the situation”.
The company’s involvement in the event has already had an impact on its share price, with the Financial Times noting that Live Nation lost more than $1bn in market value following the concert – and a flurry of lawsuits that has already begun raining in.
The FT reported that one lawsuit, filed on behalf of attendee Kristian Paredes, is seeking $1m in damages from Live Nation, the venue, Travis Scott and Drake (who came on-stage for a guest spot at Astroworld on Friday).
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Steve Stoute: ‘If Drake goes independent, the music business is over…’
Shock news! The boss of a high-profile distributor that helps artists to operate outside the traditional label system reckons a big artist will soon decide to operate outside the traditional label system!
Steve Stoute offered his views on Drake during an online event hosted by his company, UnitedMasters, during a conversation with rapper Russ. And yes, his opinion isn’t shock news at all, but it’s worth thinking about nonetheless.
(You can watch the interview here: the Drake bit starts around 47 minutes in.)
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Drake’s rap-battle partner Caffeine raises $113m funding round
Microsoft may have closed its Mixer livestreaming service and thrown its lot in with Facebook, but another of Twitch’s live-video rivals has just raised a big funding round. Caffeine is the […]
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Today’s positive coronavirus-related industry news (17 April)
Start today with David Guetta’s plans for a ‘United at Home‘ fundraising livestream from Miami this Saturday. The two-hour set will be streamed on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Twitch, […]
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Drake’s ‘Toosie Slide’ heads towards 3bn views on TikTok
Drake released his new track ‘Toosie Slide’ on 2nd April, and as we reported before, TikTok and other social platforms were part of its marketing strategy right from the start, […]
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Drake tapped dancing influencers for ‘Toosie Slide’ release
If you’ve been spotting Drake’s new track ‘Toosie Slide’ all over your socials in recent days, it’s no accident. Rolling Stone has a piece explaining how the artist enlisted some popular dancing […]
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Billie Eilish wins big in Apple awards and Spotify 2019 stats
What we need, said almost nobody in the music industry, are a few more awards ceremonies. But now we have two, from the world’s biggest subscription music-streaming services.
Spotify’s first awards will take place in Mexico City next March, driven entirely by its data, but Apple Music’s first event took place overnight, chosen purely by the company’s editorial team. The simplification of Spotify as ‘algorithms’ and Apple Music as ‘humans’ is a complete fallacy, but dammit if the two services’ awards aren’t playing right in to it.
Spotify’s awards don’t even have nominees yet, but the company did (also overnight) just release its ‘Wrapped 2019’ data for the most popular artists and music on its platform this year. So what can we learn? There’s fun to be had comparing the 2019 stream-count for Billie Eilish on these fierce rivals.
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Drake gathers old non-album tracks in streaming ‘Care Package’
If we know anything about the dynamics of music-streaming in 2019, it’s that quiet periods aren’t really an option: like sharks, artists have to constantly be in motion in terms […]
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Drake inks a ‘creative partnership’ with SiriusXM and Pandora
Drake famously took to the stage at the launch of Apple Music in 2015 to give his endorsement of the company’s new streaming service. But you don’t get to be […]