This is a guest column from Virginie Berger (below), a music and tech industry executive with over 20 years experience in rights management and digital transformation, and currently an international […]
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Reclaiming Fame: as an artist, who’s your customer? (guest post)
This is a guest post from Piers Henwood, a GRAMMY and JUNO-nominated artist manager and musician. Here, he writes about the implications of the pressure placed on artists to succeed in a needy industry and an always-on culture – and he also picks apart our own expectations, as fans.
The localisation of Western pop music in China (guest column)
This is a guest post by XinYue, Editor of Kanjian Music, the Chinese music services company which is Music Ally’s partner for our Music Ally China arm. We asked XinYue […]
Debating the upsides of Universal Music Group’s recent AI attack (guest post)
This is a guest post by Markus Schwarzer, CEO of AI-powered music analysis and recommendation platform Cyanite. He addresses the concern that major labels and other large music companies have […]
Sink or swim: the urgent need for advanced tools to navigate the inundation of music content (guest column)
This guest post is written by Martin Nedved, co-founder of AIMS, a platform of AI-based products designed to search and tag catalogues of music, and which is a supporter of next week’s NEXT […]
In China, traditional opera and pop music is combining to find a new audience (guest column)
This is a guest post by XinYue, Editor of Kanjian Music, the Chinese music services company which is Music Ally’s partner for our Music Ally China arm. We asked XinYue […]
The first step to artist-centric streaming? Start listening to artists… (Guest column)
This is a guest column by David Martin, CEO of the Featured Artists Coalition – the UK trade body that represents the rights and interests of music artists. In this […]
We deserve better: no artist should be in the dark about their financial status (guest column)
This is a guest post by Tracey Melnick, VP, Royalty Services at music distributor and payments firm Stem. She believes that finance teams like hers can “be the engine” that can power a […]
The Long Tail’s Sting: The political battle over content moderation and music’s dilemma (Guest column)
The below guest post is by Tristra Newyear Yeager, Chief Strategy Officer of music/tech PR firm Rock Paper Scissors. In it, she joins the dots between some potentially meaningful and high-profile […]
Improving representation in music – and what Youth Music is doing to create change (Guest column)
This is a guest post from Matt Griffiths, CEO of UK charity Youth Music. He discusses diversity and representation in the UK music industry, explores the challenges that still exist, and explains […]
Marrying art and science: the challenges and opportunities of curation for the music industry today (Guest column)
In light of NY:LON CONNECT 2023, we asked Alex Kisch, EVP, Business Development & Affairs, General Counsel at Vevo – sponsor of the event’s “Changing nature of music formats” track – to […]
Streaming services need to do better by listeners and artists — HiFi is the way (Guest column)
This is a guest post by Nigel Harding, VP Artist Relations at Deezer. He argues that hi-fi audio shouldn’t be a luxury extra – but instead should be a fundamental part […]