Since the dawn of the streaming economy, De La Soul’s back catalogue was a say-no-go area for music services. That’s now changing.
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De La Soul confirm plans for back catalogue’s digital debut
2021 will be the magic number for De La Soul, as the hip-hop veterans confirmed plans to finally bring their full back catalogue to streaming services.
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Reservoir Media completes its spac merger to go public
Reservoir Media has become the latest music company to go public, in its case via a ‘spac’ merger with a company called Roth CH Acquisition II Co.
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Reservoir buys Tommy Boy, plans De La Soul re-releases
Music rights company Reservoir has made its latest acquisition: of pioneering label Tommy Boy Music. The deal will see Reservoir buy more than 6,000 master recordings of hip-hop and electronic […]
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Tommy Boy president: ‘YouTube could become our number one DSP’
Friday saw the first ever Music Ally TV weekly show, broadcast using video-conferencing platform Zoom. Our guests included Rosie Lopez, president of Tommy Boy, and the topic at hand was YouTube.
“We’re feeling very optimistic about YouTube. We’re projecting that YouTube could potentially become our number one DSP in the future,” said Lopez. “It’s a lot of work… but it is a platform where you literally get what you put in, back out, if you put time into it, [and] if you have a great team.”
Lopez went on to note that YouTube is more than just a “profit centre” for Tommy Boy: it’s also “a way to grow the family, the close-knit people that come in and check on us on a daily basis”. She added that its social features are key to that.
“On Spotify, we can’t comment back to people who love our music. On YouTube we can,” she said. “On YouTube you’re gonna hear what people like, you’re gonna hear what they don’t like, and if you learn to pay attention, you’re gonna learn a lot from your audience on YouTube!”
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De La Soul say no go for Tommy Boy catalogue talks
We’re sad to report that there has been no magic number (be it three or anything else) in the long-running talks between rap trio De La Soul and label Tommy […]
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Tommy Boy postpones digital release of De La Soul back catalogue
De La Soul’s classic albums were due to be released digitally for the first time this week, but the launch has now been postponed by label Tommy Boy after a […]
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Music-streaming trends, from A&R to global/local evolution
At today’s Midem conference in Cannes, a pair of afternoon sessions at the event’s ‘Streaming Summit’ focused on some of the evolving trends around the music-streaming world.
The first explored the question of whether streaming services are “the new A&Rs”, with a sparky (if, unfortunately, all-male) panel including Epidemic Sound CEO Oscar Hoglund; Playground Music Scandinavia A&R / label manager Patrik Larsson; 7digital deputy CEO Pete Downton and Mom + Pop Music co-president Thaddeus Rudd.
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YouTube, streaming, managers and the future of music (#midem)
What were the key trends in the last 50 years of music, and what’s coming up to shake things up again in the next half-century? That was the pitch for the opening keynote panel at Midem today, tying in with the conference’s 50th anniversary.
There was a heavyweight panel of industry veterans: Glassnote Entertainment Group president Daniel Glass; Greenberg Traurig’s global entertainment and media group chairman Joel Katz; Tommy Boy Entertainment founder Tom Silverman; and Sire Records chairman Seymour Stein. The panel was moderated by Mobilium Global’s Ralph Simon.
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Tommy Boy and Pants Velour launch BitTorrent Bundle campaign
We’ve covered some of the BitTorrent Bundle campaigns from established artists, from Public Enemy and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry to De La Soul and Moby. There’s a conversation to be had […]
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Merlin unveils new board
Indie licensing agency Merlin has announced that its inaugural board is now stepping down, following elections for a new board.