Tag: music
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Square, Inc., the financial services company founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is acquiring a majority stake in Tidal, the high-fidelity audio and video streaming service led by Jay-Z. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22313108/square-inc-tidal-majority-stake-jack-dorsey-jay-z more ›
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The MBW Review is where we aim our microscope towards some of the music biz’s biggest recent goings-on. This time, we take a closer look at new numbers just revealed… more ›
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Merck Mercuriadis had a good Christmas. On Christmas Day, the No 1 song in the UK was LadBaby’s Don’t Stop Me Eatin’, a novelty cover version of Journey’s 1981 soft-rock… more ›
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Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was a band called Death. Punk before punk existed, three teenage brothers in the early ’70s formed a band… more ›
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Music is TikTok’s universal language, each song representing a flourishing web of emotions, in-jokes, and dances. As the spaces where people normally enjoy music were impacted by the pandemic, TikTok… more ›
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The tumultuous personal life of the great tenor Enrico Caruso, as dramatic as any opera, is illuminated by a treasure trove of letters. In 1897, a young and little-known tenor… more ›
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In this specific instance, there’s certainly a case to be made that Autoplay might actually be doing a service to the songs that it unintentionally favors — that it might… more ›
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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 ›
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Twenty twenty wap wap wap. Weird and problematic. Wintry and pandemicy. Wishing away politicians. Weeknd and Pop Smoke. Watermelon (sugar) and ppcocaine. Our annual running list of top 10s,… more ›
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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 ›