The UK government has announced plans to create a working group to explore how musicians are paid in the music streaming economy.
Author Archives: Stuart Dredge
Music Ally's Head of Insight
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Taylor Swift’s latest track had a VERY limited release
The release of any new Taylor Swift track is an event – especially when it’s surprise-announced a couple of days before release.
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Google ordered to pay Sonos $32.5m over smart-speaker patent
Sonos has won a partial victory in one aspect of its long-running legal battle with Google over smart-speaker patents.
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Singaporean artist Stefanie Sun feels under threat from AI clones
Musician Stefanie Sun has become an unwilling guinea pig in the latest wave of experiments with AI voice-cloning technologies.
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New study explores music streaming’s ‘glocalisation’ effect
In 2012, only one of the top 10 songs in Poland was sung in Polish. Ten years later in 2022, that figure had risen to eight.
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TikTok explores conversational AI with tests of Tako chatbot
TikTok is testing an in-app chatbot called Tako that can answer questions about videos and recommend other content.
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Björn Ulvaeus warns music industry: ‘We will lose the next Paul McCartney’
ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus did not pull any punches in his introduction to the latest annual report by collecting societies body CISAC.
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YouTube Music tests TikTok-style feed of music recommendations
YouTube Music is the latest streaming service to decide it wants a splash more ‘For You’ in its app, mirroring TikTok’s famous feed.
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Meta has laid off Instagram’s director of music partnerships
Meta held its latest round of layoffs this week, and one of the company’s prominent music executives was among those leaving the company.
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Snapchat gets virtual artist merch with Bitmoji ‘band tees’
Snap has announced the launch of ‘Band Tees’ within Snapchat: virtual t-shirts based on artists, starting with six Republic Records acts.
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Mexican artist Peso Pluma is having a big streaming moment in the US
Peso Pluma is the latest breakout music success from Latin America, with the Mexican artist riding high on Spotify and YouTube.
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Spotify quantifies the streaming benefits of artist collabs
Check this shock news out: artists collaborating on tracks can have positive effects for both parties! Who knew?