Tag: brazil

Brazil is already an important market for LyricFind: in fact, it’s the fifth-largest territory in terms of business for the lyrics-focused company. Now it’s hoping to build on that with its latest deal: a licensing...

Global industry body the IFPI and its various local members are continuing their fight against stream-manipulation websites, with Brazil the latest frontier in the battle. Yesterday, the IFPI and Pro-Música Brasil announced that...

'Sony Music Entertainment to acquire Brazilian independent music company Som Livre' is the headline for the major label's latest deal. However, it's a mark of the fluid definition of independence that Sony is actually...

Sony Music is leaning in to the music/tech startups industry in Brazil with a new ‘Digital Accelerator Programme’. It’s looking for inventive music projects using AI and machine learning that could be used...

Brazil’s music industry looks set to record another year of strong growth in 2020, despite the country being badly hit by Covid-19. The last three years have seen the Brazilian recorded music industry experience double-digit...

Brazil’s digital music industry has made up for a slow start with years of growth, a trend that should continue into 2021 and beyond

The IFPI's global battle against 'streaming manipulation' sites continues, with its latest frontier in Brazil. Together with local body Pro-Música Brasil, it has cracked down on a group of sites that it says were offering...

One of the music distribution trends of recent years has been aggressive geographic expansion, as distributors look to gain footholds in burgeoning new markets for music streaming – or those anticipated to grow rapidly...

In September, Amazon launched its Prime membership program in Brazil, including its music-streaming services. Less than a month later, that launch has been followed by the debut of Amazon’s Echo smart speakers in Brazil,...

Spotify has opened a new recording studio in São Paulo, Brazil, with a very specific focus: women. It’s called Casa de Música – Escuta as Minas (translation: House of Music – Listen to Women) and has already been...

Facebook hasn’t just been rolling out UGC-focused music features across its apps in the last year: it has also been expanding those features regularly to new markets. The latest is Brazil, where Facebook and Instagram users...

The impact of streaming in what is now the tenth largest recorded music market in the world could lead to “three to five years of significant growth” – and “the sky’s the limit” says Sony Brasil’s president