Tag: brand partnerships

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single label in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of an official rideshare partner. As Jane Austen didn’t quite put it. Capitol Music Group is the label in this...

Anyone who has been to an improv comedy show will know that making up songs on the spot based on audience suggestions is often more admirable than enjoyable. But that’s, in a way, what Jamie Cullum is doing with the release...

“Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?” sang Janis Joplin in 1970. “My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.” Half a century on, instead of wishing for luxury automative brands to fall out of...

Travellers to Dubai’s international airport (DXB) will now be getting some free music playlists, courtesy of the facility’s partnership with streaming service Anghami. “Customers of DXB will now have uninterrupted free...

The notion of ‘exclusive Christmas playlists’ may seem a bit strange: with a relatively-small pool of tracks to choose from in the grand scheme of things, unless you’re commissioning original tracks Amazon-style, differentiation...

Spotify’s pipeline of original podcasts is well and truly rumbling as 2019 draws to a close. The latest show to be announced by the streaming service is called ‘Harmonize’, and it’ll be focusing on “conversations...

Spotify's family of algo-personalised playlists has a new member, joining the likes of Discover Weekly, Release Radar and Daily Drive. The new playlist is called 'Off The Wall Wednesday', and we'll let you guess which...

We like Mabel a lot. We’re excited about many of the ways that music fans are sharing their love for music using mobile phones and social apps. But we apologise for raising a weary eyebrow at news that Mabel played “the...

What does a music video made for blind and partially-sighted people look like? Artist X Ambassadors have worked with Microsoft to find out. The ‘audio-only music video’ is for the band’s track ‘Boom’, and has been...

Boozing and marathon-running go together like… wait, boozing and marathon-running DON’T go together. Unless you need a stiff whisky or seven to get round the London Marathon course dressed in that giant-inflatable-christmas-tree...

After Marshmello and Weezer, the latest artist to launch a high-profile collaboration with video-game Fortnite is Major Lazer. The Diplo-led group have remixed two of the tracks that players hear in Fortnite’s ‘lobby’...

Music Ally has always argued that one of the most interesting things about AI-generated music is when humans are involved – and, indeed, for many famous ‘AI-made’ songs, there have been some non-algorithmic entities...