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US bill to force ByteDance to sell TikTok is being fast-tracked
TikTok has been trying to fend off the latest attempt by US politicians to force its parent company ByteDance to sell its ownership stake in the short-video app
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Sound of Fractures wants tokens to ‘re-imagine our relationship with music’
En masse, the music industry seems to have decided that NFTs were a terrible idea best swept under the carpet and forgotten.
The most pre-saved album in Spotify history is… a secret double album
What album might that be? ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ of course. Taylor Swift’s new album is off to a strong start on streaming services.
Merlin strikes Audiomack deal – including ‘Audiomod’ feature
Indie licensing agency Merlin has announced its latest deal: a strategic partnership with streaming service Audiomack. As is the way of such announcements, it’s more about the broad brush than…
Midia Research: ‘Today’s music business will become two’
Music industry consultancy Midia Research is a dab hand at coming up with theories about what will happen next in music
Fairly Trained founder ‘raises serious questions’ about Udio
We wrote about AI music startup Udio’s launch recently, and the uncertainty about what music its model has been trained on. Now Fairly Trained founder Ed Newton-Rex has been trying to…
‘Nature’ is now an artist to raise money for conservation
The hottest new artist on the block already has lots of streams – not to mention rivers, seas and oceans. That artist is ‘Nature’. This is a climate emergency initiative launched…
Believe CEO’s consortium moves to buy 100% of the company
With Warner Music Group having backed out of a potential bid for French music company Believe, the way is now clear for a consortium involving its CEO Denis Ladegaillerie to…
The Sandbox Guide to… Marketing to Superfans
“Superfans” is not simply the buzzword du jour – it’s the endpoint of a whole bunch of modern marketing approaches around building, nurturing, and monetising the most enthusiastic and supportive…
TikTok goes big on Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
When Taylor Swift’s catalogue returned to TikTok last week, it was big news, because it marked a break with the policy of her label partner.
“The music industry’s approach to mental health was disastrous”
In the new episode of the Music Ally Focus podcast, editor Joe Sparrow is joined by music industry psychologist and therapist Anne Löhr – who gives a snapshot of the…
NMPA criticises Spotify over ‘bundle’ plans – and royalties
US music publishing body the NMPA has never been shy of a fight with digital services if it feels its members aren’t being respected.
TikTok starts testing its Instagram-like TikTok Notes app
If every other app in the world can copy TikTok, why shouldn’t TikTok copy some of those other apps too?
Black Lives in Music launches bullying and harassment survey
UK-based organisation Black Lives in Music (BLiM) has launched a survey on bullying and harassment in the music industry.
State of Tennessee set to get new fund to support live music
Having speed-run its ‘Elvis Act’ AI regulation into the statute book, the US state of Tennessee looks set to sign another music-related bill into law soon. Well, two bills: SB2508…
Epidemic Sound financials reveal 25% revenue growth to $135.5m
Production music company Epidemic Sound has published its annual report, including financials for 2023. The company saw its revenues grow by 25% last year to SEK 1.48bn ($135.5m at current exchange…
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