Tag: music publishing

• Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention Economy?

  December 21, 2020

  This could actually be good news for streaming services, which for the past two years have been pouring money into podcasts, which cost them less. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9500546/streaming-music-growth-stalled-factors-attention-economy/ more ›

• ‘It’s the screams of the damned!’ The eerie AI world of deepfake music

  November 11, 2020

  The song in question not a genuine track, but a convincing fake created by “research and deployment company” OpenAI, whose Jukebox project uses artificial intelligence to generate music, complete with… more ›

• Madame Gandhi is running her music career just like a startup

  August 1, 2020

  Kiran Gandhi spent her first term at Harvard Business School on tour with the rapper M.I.A. Her management style is inspired by classes on collaborative leadership; the way she diversifies… more ›

• TikTok inks global deal with music publishers (who previously threatened to sue it)

  July 26, 2020

  TikTok and the US-based National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) have inked a multi-year licensing agreement. https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/tiktok-inks-global-multi-year-deal-with-music-publishers/ more ›

• Twitch’s Streaming Boom Is Jolting the Music Industry

  June 21, 2020

  On the morning of May 27, Kenneth Charles Blume III wanted to talk about white privilege. Blume, a 29-year-old DJ from Greenwich, Connecticut, has produced beats for some of the biggest… more ›

• Music Publishing Glossary

  April 28, 2020

  https://www.songtrust.com/music-publishing-glossary more ›

• The Record Label of The Future is No Label At All

  November 3, 2019

  Spotify’s announcement of Anchor and Gimlet seemed inevitable given the companies quest to dominate all things audio. In his blog post on the acquisition, Audio-First, Daniel Ek stated: https://medium.com/@denishakuhlor/the-record-label-of-the-future-is-no-label-at-all-75a0b52a4995 more ›

• FKA twigs: ‘An incredible woman always in the shadow of a man? I can relate’

  September 28, 2019

  FKA twigs lives in a real house, in the real world, though this seems hard to believe. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/28/fka-twigs-in-shadow-of-man-robert-pattinson-surgery-new-album-miranda-sawyer more ›

• Urbano Reached Critical Mass in 2018. Now Can It Be Normalized?

  September 14, 2019

  Cardi B’s Instagram typically serves as a roving press conference on personal matters, quelling rumors of infidelity or amplifying existing beefs. But on a recent live video, she addressed dembow… more ›

• Should Spotify Change the Way It Pays Artists?

  June 16, 2019

  British electronic-music pioneer Jon Hopkins, writing on Twitter back in 2011, is definitely responsible for the most succinct public attack on the world’s biggest music subscription service. The most memorable… more ›