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Beatly Music wants to build a takedown-proof home for AI music

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Startup Beatly Music says it’s going “back to Napster days” with a safe haven for music with AI-generated vocals based on real artists.

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The Weeknd hits new Spotify milestone of 100m monthly listeners

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We called this one in January! The Weeknd has become the first artist to have more than 100 million listeners on Spotify.

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Harry Styles ‘As It Was’ was the biggest global music track in 2022

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The biggest music track globally in 2022 was Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’ with 2.28bn ‘global subscription stream equivalents’.

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The Weeknd may soon have more than 100m listeners on Spotify

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A full year after The Weeknd released album ‘Dawn FM’, his Spotify metrics are going from strength to strength rather than dropping off.

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The Weeknd beats Ed Sheeran for most-streamed Spotify track

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Congratulations are due to The Weeknd, whose track ‘Blinding Lights’ has (at the time of writing) 3,334,180,640 streams on Spotify.

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Musicians facing lawsuit over Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs

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One result of the recent crypto-market difficulties has been anger from people who bought expensive NFTs, then saw their value plummet.

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UMG’s deal with The Weeknd: ‘This isn’t an acquisition…’

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Universal Music Group’s new deal with The Weeknd offers an interesting snapshot of how deals with current, frontline artists are evolving.

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The biggest digital track of 2021 racked up 2.15bn streams

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BTS may have been the biggest artist of 2021 by the IFPI’s calculations, but the body’s prize for the biggest digital single last year went elsewhere.

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The Weeknd bags 705m Spotify streams in just two weeks

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If anyone had any doubt about The Weeknd’s status as a top-tier streaming star (spoiler: they didn’t) they’ll have been set straight now.

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Pearpop takes investment from The Weeknd, Snoop Dogg and more

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We wrote about startup Pearpop in October last year, when it launched as a way for TikTok stars to charge fans for the privilege of making collaborative videos with them. Now the company has […]

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The Weeknd will hold his first NFT sale this Saturday

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We knew a non-fungible token sale from The Weeknd was coming, but now we know the details. It’s going to be a collection released this weekend on the Nifty Gateway marketplace, […]

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NFTs explosion: Crypto.com, The Weeknd, Gorillaz, Lindsay Lohan…

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Say what you like about non-fungible tokens (NFTS) – and right now, everyone appears to be doing exactly that on Twitter – but it’s undeniable that there is a gold rush of […]

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