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Fan remixes are having their latest moment in the spotlight, courtesy of a number of marketing activations as well as startups. The latest example of the former comes from Wu-Tang Clan X Mathematics ...
Spotify has a new video series on its service focusing on K-Pop. It’s focused on original performances: the idea being that groups get to show off their choreography and live vocals in videos that ...
Instagram’s broadcast channels have become a very powerful way for creators (and artists) to send messages out to their keenest fans on that platform. Social media being the dog-copy-dog world that it ...
Is a deal finally on the table to secure TikTok’s future in the US? That depends on how much trust you have in comments made in interviews by the current US president. “We have a buyer for TikTok by ...
UK music licensing organisation PPL has announced details of its Q2 payout to performers and rightsholders. The payment is £96.7m ($132.6m at current exchange rates) which is split between 139,000 ...
Are you in the mood for a dance? Well, you’ve got the chance for a celebratory jive at this news: ABBA’s ‘Dancing Queen’ has reached the milestone of one billion views on YouTube for its official ...
A report compiled for the recent France Music Week conference has offered some calculations for music’s economic impact in that country. Produced by EY for French firm We Are_ and a group of ...
This week has seen two high-profile rulings in legal cases involving AI training and copyright. Both went the way of the AI companies ...
Fully AI-generated music is only accounting for a tiny proportion of streams on services like Spotify and Deezer at the ...
In just two weeks, ‘Sapphire’ – Ed Sheeran’s new single featuring uncredited vocals by Arijit Singh – shot to number one on ...
Spotify partnered with T-Series to launch the soundtrack of Metro… In Dino. Ahead of its release on July 4, the film’s cast ...
Society STIM has published a report exploring the evolution of this success, written by industry economist Will Page.