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| 24.03.2026 | AI Reshapes Music: Spotify's Intelligent Future Meets Artist Connection | Music's future unfolds rapidly. AI transforms streaming, boosting personalization and discovery. Spotify leads with innovative AI features like ChatGPT integration and Prompted Playlists. Competitors race to keep pace. Simultaneously, tradi... |
| 22.03.2026 | Why Spotify AI more than music will be the secret to keeping subscribers | A new ChatGPT integration with Spotify and a “Prompted Playlists” feature are signals from the music streamer that investing in AI may be the best defense from threats including AI commodification of music and Apple, YouTube and Amazon comp... |
| 05.03.2026 | Apple Music will put custom tags for AI songs and visuals, but it’s not enough | Apple Music started rolling out Transparency Tags on March 4, a system for flagging AI-generated music and artwork. Music Business Worldwide reports that labels can now tag content across four categories when they deliver it: tracks, compos... |
| 23.02.2026 | Sony’s AI Music Detector | Image generated by Gemini AI
Sony is reportedly developing a tool that can identify original music inside AI-generated songs and estimate how much each source influenced the output. The aim is to make attribution more measurable when synthe... |
| 16.01.2026 | Spotify’s Third Price Hike in 30 Months Hits $13 | Image: Unsplash
Hear ye! Hear ye! Spotify has notified subscribers that Premium monthly subscriptions will jump from $12 to $13 per month starting with February billing cycles.
This marks the streaming giant’s third price increase in just 2... |
| 29.12.2025 | How Generative AI Is Enabling More Connections With True Fans | Walled Culture has written a number of times about the true fans approach – the idea that creators can be supported directly and effectively by the people who love their work. As Walled Culture the book explains (available as a free ebook),... |
| 25.11.2025 | Digital music distributor Octiive gets acquired by US-based GoDigital Media Group |
Founded in 2020 by Sky Sound Digital House AG, Octiive is a global music distribution and promotion platform tailored for independent artists, labels, and musicians, offering services similar to major labels but designed for indie creators... |
| 24.10.2025 | Реестр оценки стоимости патентов, тайная разработка Porsche и споры вокруг бренда Bitcoin: дайджест новостей | Apple будет отслеживать танцы пользователей, акции Dragonfly Energy взлетели из-за одобрения патента, а Spotify работает над системой автоматического создания музыкальных миксов. Рассказываем в нашем дайджесте про эти и другие новости в сфе... |
| 27.09.2025 | AI vs artists: who owns the future of music? | The music industry took years to recover financially from the impact of the disruptive technology of peer-to-peer file sharing driven by Napster. It again finds itself at a critical junction – this time over how it navigates the terrain pre... |
| 23.09.2025 | Anthropic’s AI Lawsuit Settlement May Not Go Through, But It Exposes A Truth About Copyright | The latest generation of AI systems, based on large language models (LLMs), is perceived as the biggest threat in decades to the established copyright order. The scale of that threat can be gauged by the flurry of AI lawsuits that publisher... |
| 23.07.2025 | Украдено для вдохновения? Как нейросети превращают чужое творчество в «уникальный» контент | Нейросети пишут книги и музыку, создают картины и другие произведения искусства. Этим уже никого не удивишь, но есть нюанс. Основой для искусства от генеративного ИИ служат произведения людей. Как творят нейросети, и что они вытворяют с ран... |
| 21.04.2025 | Industry Begins Embracing True Fans, Super Fans, Core Fans As An Alternative Way To Fund Creators | Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) concluded with a look at “true fans,” an alternative way of funding creators that avoids the main problems of the current copyright system. The approach is based on nurturing the con... |
| 21.03.2025 | ‘Shark Tank’s’ Robert Herjavec takes on major role with Zetaris and its AI data lakehouse
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Your vote of support is important to us and it helps us keep the content... | The announcement this month that Robert Herjavec (pictured) would become executive director of global strategy for data lakehouse company Zetaris Pty Ltd. was the culmination of a chance conversation the “Shark Tank” star had in a school pi... |
| 07.02.2025 | AI Is an Answer, But Not the Only Answer — Here's Why It Can't Replace Humans The detriments of lacking human touch due to AI are not unique to the music industry: It's a conversation being grappled w... | As we emerge from Spotify Wrapped season, many will agree that this past year's recaps looked a bit … different, disappointing some who proclaimed this iteration a "flop" due to over-reliance on generative AI, barely a year after ... |
| 30.10.2024 | Вытеснит ли искусственный интеллект людей из мастеринга? | Процесс мастеринга композиции — это завершающая стадия создания музыки. Труд мастеринг-инженеров оплачивается, отдельная профессия существует уже давно, хотя выполняют они на первый взгляд тривиальный набор задач. Автоматизированный мастери... |
| 10.10.2024 | The Rise of Sooqista Studios: A New Dawn for Gaming in the GCC | In the heart of Kuwait, a gaming revolution is brewing. Sooqista Studios, an independent game developer, is on the brink of launching its ambitious project, *Fractalians*. This web3 multiplayer action role-playing game is not just another t... |
| 10.10.2024 | Save YouTube videos: 2 solutions that work | Ever been stuck on a long journey with no internet and a dying data plan?
Fortunately, video downloaders allow you to save videos directly to your laptop, mobile device, or tablet, enabling you to watch them anytime, anywhere, without an in... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Rise of Local Giants: Anghami and India’s Plant-Based Revolution**
** | ** In the vast landscape of global markets, local players often find themselves overshadowed by giants. Yet, in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Anghami has carved out a niche that challenges the dominance of Spotify. Meanwhi... |
| 19.07.2024 | In MENA, Spotify plays second fiddle to one homegrown platform | Community Content
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| 27.06.2024 | AI Startups in Legal Battle with Record Labels | AI startups Suno and Udio are facing legal battles with major record labels over alleged copyright violations. The record labels, including Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Records, are seeking compensation for what they claim ... |
| 25.06.2024 | A Microsoft-Partnered AI Startup Is Being Sued By the Biggest Record Labels in the World The company is allegedly profiting from AI without compensating the human work that fed the technology, the law... | Since AI can take a written command and create an image, movie, or song within seconds, the process can seem almost magical at first glance.
Yet there are key legal issues that persist underneath the shine. Does the company behind the AI mo... |
| 13.06.2024 | Spotify Faces Complaint Over Alleged Deceptive Subscription Scheme After Launching Audiobooks in Premium | By Inno Flores
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| 21.05.2024 | Suno raises $125M to become the ‘ChatGPT’ of music creation | Join us in returning to NYC on June 5th to collaborate with executive leaders in exploring comprehensive methods for auditing AI models regarding bias, performance, and ethical compliance across diverse organizations. Find out how you can a... |
| 21.05.2024 | Generative AI music maker startup Suno raises $125M in funding
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| 09.05.2024 | Concord bows out of bidding war with Blackstone for Hipgnosis | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Concord will not raise its bid for Hipgnosis Songs Fund, ending a multiweek bidding war with Blackstone for the troubled U.K.-based music royalties company.
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Triller, the controversial company that once tried to rival TikTok, is betting the upcoming merger with AGBA will revitalize its social media ambitions, CEO Bobby Sarnevesht tells Axios.
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A bidding war between Apollo-backed Concord and Blackstone has broken out for Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the troubled U.K.-based music royalties company.
Why it matters: The back-and-forth between the two ... |
| 12.04.2024 | Entertainment | The US might ban TikTok. Record labels are cutting ties. What’s music’s Plan B? | August Brown | Los Angeles Times (TNS)
LOS ANGELES — In November 2022, Isimeme Udu uploaded the song that changed her life. The singer, who performs as Hemlocke Springs, was stressing about her medical studies at Dartmouth when she dropped ... |
| 09.04.2024 | How the 'Oh-oh-oh Ozempic' commercial song made a musician $1 million | Media How the 'Oh-oh-oh Ozempic' commercial song made a musician $1 million
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| 29.03.2024 | Of True Fans And Superfans: The Rise Of An Alternative Business Model To Copyright | One of the commonest arguments from supporters of copyright is that creators need to be rewarded and that copyright is the only realistic way of doing that. The first statement may be true, but the second certainly isn’t. As Walled Culture ... |
| 13.03.2024 | Maryland's concert ticket crackdown bill could change the industry | Concert prices are soaring to the tune of thousands per ticket—especially in this exclusivity economy boom — but new legislation in Maryland could increase transparency around exorbitant ticket costs.
Why it matters: If passed, Maryland's b... |
| 13.03.2024 | KKR leads $500M debt financing for HarbourView Equity Partners to buy more music rights | Prolific music catalog buyer HarbourView Equity Partners said Wednesday morning it had closed nearly $500 million in debt financing led by KKR to buy more music rights.
Why it matters: HarbourView has been among the most active firms in the... |
| 28.02.2024 | Adobe reveals a GenAI tool for music | There are plenty of GenAI-powered music editing and creation tools out there, but Adobe wants to put its own spin on the concept.
Today at the Hot Pod Summit in Brooklyn, Adobe unveiled Project Music GenAI Control, a platform that can gener... |
| 06.02.2024 | Spotify CEO Daniel Ek tells investors Apple’s DMA rules are a ‘farce,’ but says there are ‘future upsides’ too | Spotify, a notable Apple critic, unsurprisingly came out swinging after Apple announced how it was complying with the EU’s new regulation, the Digital Markets Act, or DMA, calling Apple’s plan “extortion” and a “complete and total farce.” B... |
| 01.02.2024 | Google releases GenAI tools for music creation | As GenAI tools begin to transform the music industry in incredible — and in some cases ethically problematic — ways, Google is ramping up its investments in AI tech to create new songs and lyrics.
The search giant today unveiled MusicFX, an... |
| 30.01.2024 | Universal Music Group plans to pull song catalog from TikTok | Universal Music Group (UMG), the label representing artists such as Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande, says that it’ll pull its music from TikTok tomorrow at midnight after failing to reach a deal with the platform’s parent comp... |
| 24.01.2024 | Apple Music Classical Now Rolls Out to China, Japan, Other Asian Countries | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 24 January 2024, 09:01 am |
| 22.01.2024 | Apple will pay artists more to have a spatial audio version on Apple Music | Apple will pay additional royalties starting this month to artists if they have a spatial audio version on Apple Music, according to multiple reports.
The company will pay up to 10% additional royalty if an artist has all their songs in spa... |
| 17.01.2024 | EU calls for laws to force greater algorithmic transparency from music-streaming platforms | The European Parliament is calling for new rules to bring more fairness and transparency to music-streaming across the bloc, including proposals for a new bill to force streaming platforms to open up their recommendation algorithms.
The bil... |
| 22.12.2023 | Generative AI’s emergence is a huge juncture in the history of IP rights | An AI-generated image. Source: Adobe Stock. article-article-body
Generative AI is upending industries, but little is certain about how this technology will fare amidst a range of issues in a fiercely crowded market.
In 2023, the creative in... |
| 11.12.2023 | Nicki Minaj makes Roblox debut to promote her new album | Pop icon Nicki Minaj has jumped, pink boots first, into the metaverse to launch a virtual shop in Roblox to help promote her new album – Pink Friday 2.
Music Business Worldwide says the shop is called “Nicki Minaj’s Gag City’ and users can ... |
| 21.11.2023 | Spotify says its upcoming royalty model changes will generate $1B for artists over five years | Spotify’s upcoming royalty model changes will generate $1 billion in five years for new and popular artists, the streaming service announced on Tuesday. As previously reported, Spotify is changing its royalty system to direct more money to ... |
| 17.11.2023 | Generative AI gets the Microsoft treatment, supercomputers get the AI treatment – and Sam Altman gets the boot from OpenAI
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| 14.11.2023 | Add to Music App: TikTok's New Feature Lets You Save Songs Directly to Spotify, Amazon Music | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 14 November 2023, 11:11 am
TikTok has partnered with Spotify and Amazon Music to allow users to easily store tracks from TikTok videos on their chosen streaming music app. Since Spotify's TikTok-inspired app revamp ea... |
| 06.11.2023 | Spotify Changes How It Pays Out Royalties To Try To Stop Scams; Upsets Indie Artists In The Process | A few weeks ago we had a story from Glyn Moody about how some people were effectively spamming music streaming services like Spotify with “functional music,” tracks designed to get plays solely for the sake of royalties. Glyn, reasonably, c... |
| 27.10.2023 | This week in European tech: Monzo rumoured to be raising £300M, EA Elektro-Automatik acquired in $1.45B deal, the Tech.eu Summit, and more! | This week, our research tracked more than 80 tech funding deals worth over €521 million. We saw over 15 exits and M&A transactions on the other end of the spectrum.
In addition to this week's top financials, we've also indexed the most ... |
| 26.10.2023 | Spotify’s Royalty Model is Changing with More Eligibility to Earn from the Streams | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 26 October 2023, 01:10 am
While still being among the top streaming platforms in the world, Spotify has developed the app into a place that fosters talent, but that could soon change as there are reports citing th... |
| 20.10.2023 | 9 investors betting millions on the rebound in live events and entertainment | Media 9 investors betting millions on the rebound in live events and entertainment
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| 19.10.2023 | Подмена человеческого голоса. Как ИИ лишает работы певцов и актёров озвучки | Если сравнивать нашу реальность с киберпанком, то в первую очередь с «Матрицей». Во второй части, «Матрица: Перезагрузка», должен был сняться Джет Ли. Но Ли тогда отказался из-за опасений, что киношники оцифруют все его боевые приёмы. Его б... |
| 19.10.2023 | AI Company Anthropic Sued by Universal Music, Concord, and ABKCO—Here’s Why | Aldohn Domingo, Tech Times 19 October 2023, 02:10 am
AI company Anthropic has been sued by music publishers Universal Music, ABKCO, and Concord Publishing over alleged copyright infringement of their songs.
According to Reuters, this lawsui... |
| 19.10.2023 | Music publishers sue Amazon-backed AI company, accusing it of 'systematic and widespread' infringement of song lyrics | Bad Bunny is one artist represented by Universal Music Publishing. Jason Koerner/Getty Images
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| 12.10.2023 | Block acquires music financial services startup Hifi | Block, the Jack Dorsey-founded fintech company previously known as Square, has acquired Hifi, a music-focused fintech startup. The company declined to share deal terms.
Hifi founder and CEO Damian Manning announced the news in a LinkedIn po... |
| 12.10.2023 | Hook wants to help you create a legal remix of your favorite track for TikTok | The rise of short video apps has fueled people to use many tools to make their videos different by remixing popular songs. Many creators use tricks like speeding up, slowing down or using clap tracks to modify songs. While labels and social... |
| 07.10.2023 | Алексей Екимов получил нобелевку, Intel не хочет платить $2 млрд: дайджест главных новостей | Открытие квантовых точек принесло Нобелевскую премию по химии работающему с 1999 года в США Алексею Екимову, а в это время компании по всему миру тоже пожинают плоды своих открытий и разработок и защищают их от конкурентов. Google выигрывае... |
| 07.09.2023 | SoundCloud’s TikTok-styled discovery feed is rolling out to everyone | SoundCloud said today it is rolling out a TikTok-styled discovery feed with vertical scrolling and short clips from songs. The music streaming company started testing the feature in March, and now it will be available to all users on iOS an... |
| 23.08.2023 | Dice books $65M for its event discovery and ticketing platform | Live, in-person activity has come back in force in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a London startup that built an events tech business is today announcing funding to capitalize on that. Dice, an events discovery and ticketing platfor... |
| 26.07.2023 | Spotify Hints at Adding AI-Powered Capabilities for Personalization, Ads | Inno Flores, Tech Times 26 July 2023, 02:07 am
Spotify hinted that it is expanding its efforts to invest in artificial intelligence (AI). Generative AI could summarize podcast content for easier discovery, leading to increased consumer enga... |
| 19.07.2023 | K-pop Powerhouse HYBE is Looking to Lift Language Barriers With AI | Fei Ruby, Tech Times 19 July 2023, 12:07 pm
By translating a song by artist MIDNATT into six other languages using artificial intelligence, South Korea's biggest music company, HYBE, is transforming the K-pop sector.
The music was concurren... |
| 30.06.2023 | TikTok parent ByteDance launches music creation and audio editing app in closed beta in the US | TikTok’s parent company ByteDance announced today that it’s launching a new, free-to-use music production app in closed beta in the United States. The app, called Ripple, is currently available on an invite-only basis to a small group of te... |
| 30.06.2023 | How to survive Taylor Swift's Indianapolis snub | It's nearly impossible to scroll through social media without seeing highlights of your friends having the time of their lives at a Taylor Swift concert.
Why it matters: Swift's Eras Tour has been selling out stadiums and shutting down citi... |
| 01.06.2023 | Music deals get louder on reports of $1b record for Queen catalog | Universal Music Group is in talks to buy Queen's music catalog from Disney for more than $1 billion, according to multiple reports.
Why it matters: Disney is denying that it intends to sell off its British rocker royalties, let alone for a ... |
| 20.05.2023 | This Week in Apps: ChatGPT comes to iPhone, Bing AI efforts expand, Instagram’s Twitter clone | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for t... |
| 13.05.2023 | This Week in Apps: Google I/O 2023 recap; Android, apps and AI; Twitter’s new CEO | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for t... |
| 06.05.2023 | This Week in Apps: Apple and Google team up on trackers, Google I/O preview, apps hit NewFronts | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for t... |
| 25.04.2023 | An AI-generated viral Drake and The Weeknd dupe may provide clues into the mysterious case of the Spotify song with 49 different names | Songs seemingly generated by AI are flooding streaming services, including a recent viral Drake and The Weeknd collab. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for SiriusXM
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| 22.04.2023 | People think AI is to blame for the mysterious case of the Spotify song with 49 different names | Songs made with generative AI are infiltrating streaming services.
One Spotify user was recommended the same song under 49 different names and suspects AI is behind it.
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| 22.04.2023 | This Week in Apps: Apple ‘sherlocks’ journaling apps, Twitter’s checkmark apocalypse, Snap summit recap | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for t... |
| 15.04.2023 | This Week in Apps: Newsrooms leave Twitter, Reels expands, Android 14 arrives | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for t... |
| 26.03.2023 | Companies say Elon Musk's plan to charge $1,000 for month for Twitter checkmarks is 'outlandish' and makes them 'meaningless' | Twitter will start charging organizations $1,000 a month to be verified. Getty Images
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| 26.03.2023 | Companies say Elon Musk's plan to charge $1,000 for month for Twitter checkmarks is 'outlandish' and makes them 'meaningless' | Companies have hit out at Elon Musk for charging them $1,000 a month to stay verified on Twitter.
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| 14.03.2023 | TikTok is using SoundOn to take on the entire music industry as it queues up creator marketing and hires an A&R lead for North America | Snoop Dogg and Death Row Records announced in February that the label's catalog would be reissued via TikTok's SoundOn. Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic. This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading... |
| 08.03.2023 | Spotify is revamping its podcaster tools, including Anchor, and is partnering with Patreon | In addition to news related to its mobile app’s revamp and the introduction of TikTok-style music and podcast discovery feeds, Spotify announced podcast-focused news at its Stream On event in LA this morning. The company showed off a redesi... |
| 18.02.2023 | This Week in Apps: Twitter alternative winners and losers, BeReal declines, iOS web apps to get notifications | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for t... |
| 22.12.2022 | The Copyright Industry Is About To Discover That There Are Hundreds Of Thousands Of Songs Generated By AI Already Available, Already Popular | You may have noticed the world getting excited about the capabilities of ChatGPT, a text-based AI chat bot. Similarly, some are getting quite worked up over generative AI systems that can turn text prompts into images, including those mimic... |
| 20.12.2022 | Nonstop partying, lavish spending, and sexual-harassment accusations: Inside the self-destruction of Pollen, the music startup once worth $800 million | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
It was May 2019, and Pollen CEO Callum Negus-Fancey walked through the woods, grinning as he sprayed Fireball into his employees' mouths ou... |
| 17.12.2022 | This Week in Apps: AI Art apps top the charts, Instagram adds text-only ‘Notes,’ alternative app stores in EU | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
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| 17.11.2022 | How TikTok and the music industry are bound to each other as 'frenemies,' even as they battle over licensing | Ole Obermann, the global head of music at TikTok and ByteDance, previously served as Warner Music Group's chief digital officer. Tolga Akmen / AFP. This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start read... |
| 13.10.2022 | TikTok already took over as Gen Z's social platform of choice. It might be coming for Spotify next. | Ole Obermann. Tolga Akmen / AFP.
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| 13.10.2022 | TikTok already took over as Gen Z's social platform of choice. It might be coming for Spotify next. | ByteDance is talking to music labels to expand its music-streaming services globally, per the WSJ.
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| 24.09.2022 | This Week in Apps: YouTube takes on TikTok, Spotify adds audiobooks, BeReal takes a dive | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly f... |
| 29.08.2022 | Music streaming service Deezer is testing a meditation app | France-based music streaming service Deezer is testing a well-being app called Zen in Belgium that features content for guided yoga, meditation and inspiration. The app is currently only available on iOS with an Android version in the works... |
| 15.08.2022 | elasticStage tunes in £3.5 million to modernise vinyl production | Avid record lovers can rejoice now! With a next day turnaround time, gone are the days of waiting months for vinyl production as vinyl manufacturing gets to don a new hat.
Eliminating the old-fashioned way of pressing vinyl and offset print... |
| 03.08.2022 | TikTok Music’s trademarks spotted in multiple countries, hinting toward global launch plans | ByteDance may be preparing for a global launch of TikTok Music service, according to trademarks filed in several countries found by TechCrunch. The China-based conglomerate has filed TikTok Music trademark in countries like the U.K., Singap... |
| 29.07.2022 | This Week in European Tech: OneWeb and Eutelsat announce a $3.4 billion merger, Octopus closes $550 million round, and investors pour over €1.9 billion into the ecosystem
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| 07.07.2022 | Kate Bush has now made $2.3 million from her 37-year-old song featured in ‘Stranger Things,’ according to one industry estimate | Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.
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| 01.07.2022 | Singer Kate Bush earned $2.3 million after "Stranger Things" popularized "Running Up That Hill" | Singer Kate Bush has garnered legions of new fans thanks to Netflix's "Stranger Things" tapping her 1985 hit "Running Up That Hill" as a talismanic song for the character Max Mayfield.
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| 29.06.2022 | Spotify Is Developing AI Tools To Hook Users On Music Creation | circa 1939: Musician Lois Kendall plays the cello while a mechanical man named Elektro 'conducts' ... [+] on stage as part of a Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co demonstration at the World's Fair, Flushing Meadow Park, Queens, New ... |
| 22.06.2022 | It’s TikTok’s world. Can TV live in it? | The people who bring you video entertainment could be in for a rough time: A looming recession could hurt their advertising revenue and consumer spending on subscription TV streaming services. But they’re also facing a foe that has nothing ... |
| 16.06.2022 | Sint Maarten Artist "Boni Faas" Signs with Universal Music Africa and return with "Bestie" | Boni Faas Signs to Universal Music Africa (UMA)
Sint Maarten Artist "Boni Faas" Signs with Universal Music Africa and return with "Bestie"
The singer-songwriter has been through his own trials and tribulations to get whe... |
| 04.06.2022 | This Week in Apps: WWDC preview, hitting the Top Charts, Instagram’s AMBER Alerts | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer sp... |
| 02.06.2022 | NFTs Are So Much More Than Just Jpegs, They Are Redefining Access And Ownership In Media And Entertainment | Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are still a bit head-scratchy for some. While there’s a lot of excitement around NFTs within the media and entertainment industries, there’s also a lot of skepticism and criticism. Some critics discredit NFTs as n... |
| 01.06.2022 | Snoop Dogg Scoops Up Two $760 ‘rektguy’ NFTs from Former Barclays Trader Ovie Faruq | Ryan Epps, Tech Times 01 June 2022, 01:06 pm
Snoop Dogg recently acquired two NFTs at about $760 each from the likes of prior Barclays Plc trader Ovie Faruq. The hip-hop mogul and rap icon have been heavily invested in the Web3 and crypto s... |
| 08.05.2022 | London Thieves Are Targeting Digital Currency Investors in a Wave of Crypto Muggings | Sophie Webster, Tech Times 08 May 2022, 12:05 pm
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ByteDance, the China-based owner of the famous social media platform TikTok, had added Douyin to its subsidiaries' names, including one base... |
| 08.05.2022 | ByteDance Changes Names of Subsidiaries to Douyin, Speculated to be Mulling an IPO | Sophie Webster, Tech Times 08 May 2022, 12:05 pm
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ByteDance, the China-based owner of the famous social media platform TikTok, had added Douyin to its subsidiaries' names, including one based in Hong K... |
| 05.05.2022 | SoundCloud купила ИИ, который предсказывает будущие хиты | Музыкальная стриминговая платформа SoundCloud купила сингапурского разработчика искусственного интеллекта Musiio. Его технология умеет «слушать» новую музыку и предсказывать будущие хиты. Это поможет SoundCloud разобраться в «огромной библи... |
| 29.04.2022 | Bandcamp says it can’t afford Google Play billing, Epic files injunction | Enlarge
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| 29.04.2022 | Animoca co-leads $7.5m round of John Legend’s NFT music firm | BlockchainInvestmentsNews
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Our Happy Company, a social commerce firm co-founded by singer John Legend, has recently raised US$7.5 million in a ... |
| 21.04.2022 | Reaping The Benefits, Sidestepping The Risks: Navigating The Confusing NFT Landscape | Michael Golomb, Founder & CEO @FanVestor. |
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