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Music NFTs roundup: The Chainsmokers, Fuel, Meteora…

It should come as no surprise that The Chainsmokers are the latest artist selling NFTs with startup Royal: they invested in its $55m funding round last November.
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Audius raises $5m from investors including Katy Perry and Nas

Decentralised music streaming service Audius has announced a $5m funding round that includes investment from some big names in the music world. Katy Perry, Nas, The Chainsmokers, Jason Derulo and Pusha T are among the...
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The Chainsmokers launch their own VC fund with $35m to invest

Concerts with disputed social-distancing safety measures didn't work out so well for EDM duo The Chainsmokers. Perhaps venture capital will go better. Alex Pall and Drew Taggart are launching an early-stage VC firm called...
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The Chainsmokers co-found blockchain-ticketing startup Yellowheart

If you ever want to feel sympathy for the challenges that music/tech journalists face, read our 2018 report that included an ‘A to Z of Blockchain Music Startups’ and see our valiant efforts to find different ways of...
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Sandbox Issue 233: Shopping Around: Making Online Stores Add Up

Lead: Working with D2C experts is one part of the business, but changes in how social media sites are structuring themselves can offer acts new ways to sell products to fans of all stripes. We look at where social platforms...
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Sandbox Issue 219: The Tools and Trends That Will Shape 2019

Lead: A new year and a new slate. To kick off the year, we speak to marketers around the business and around the world about what tools they think will be indispensable and what trends they believe will shape 2019. From AR...
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Fitness firm SoulCycle launches music program with Apple

SoulCycle has become a hit with its indoor-cycling workouts, and earlier this year it signalled its musical ambitions, with the launch of a media division to work on partnerships with music companies and artists. One of those...
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Sandbox Issue 217: Transfer Time. How to move fans from underperforming social channels

Lead: Artists have had to adapt to streaming microroyalties being minuscule – but equally they have had to grapple with organic reach on Facebook now nudging close to 0%. They can, of course, spend their way out of it;...
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The Chainsmokers launch ‘sound packs’ for Beat Maker Go app

EDM duo The Chainsmokers are the latest artist to explore the potential of selling samples (or in this case, ‘sound packs’) for music-making software. They are working with apps firm Gismart, providing sounds for its...