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UNDERSTANDING EQUITABLE REMUNERATION AND MUSIC STREAMINGSEE MORE ONMUSICALLY.COM
DRIIFT APOLOGISES FOR TECHNICAL ISSUES WITH GLASTONBURY STREAM Driift apologises for technical issues with Glastonbury stream. This weekend’s ‘Live From Worthy Farm’ was one of the highest-profile music livestreams yet, put on by the organisers of the Glastonbury Festival and online concerts firm Driift. Coldplay, Jorja Smith and George Ezra were among the performers at the £20-a-ticket event,which
TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. VIVENDI COULD SELL 10% OF UMG TO A US INVESTOR BEFORE The company offered its latest update on its plans yesterday, including the distribution of 60% of UMG shares to existing Vivendi shareholders. However, before that: “The group is analyzing the opportunity of selling 10% of UMG shares to an American investor or initiating a public offering of at least 5% and up to 10% of UMGshares,” said
TWITCH ROCKONOMICS STUDY ANALYSES MXMTOON, RAC AND OTHER Twitch Rockonomics study analyses mxmtoon, RAC and other artists. Will Page, the former chief economist at Spotify and PRS for Music, has published a new study of ‘ Twitch’s Rockonomics ‘ that includes case studies of the earnings and audience growth of six music artists on Amazon’s livestreaming service. Page left Spotify at the end of NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of BENJI ROGERS AND IMOGEN HEAP: BUILDING THE MUSIC BLOCKCHAIN That’s why the BPI invited Rogers in on a windy Monday evening for the first in a planned series of “thought-leadership events” tackling big topics and new technologies. He was joined by musician Imogen Heap, who’s also been digging into blockchain technology in recent months from an artist’s perspective. For an hour and a half,they
BRISTOL AND BATH GET A MUSIC-THEMED DIGITAL TREASURE HUNT Bristol and Bath get a music-themed digital treasure hunt. From Massive Attack and Portishead to Idles and DJ Krust, the British cities of Bath and Bristol have a marvellous musical heritage. Now it’s being explored in an interesting digital way, courtesy of a project called ‘ Everything is Music ‘. It’s a partnershipbetween Crack
UNDERSTANDING EQUITABLE REMUNERATION AND MUSIC STREAMINGSEE MORE ONMUSICALLY.COM
DRIIFT APOLOGISES FOR TECHNICAL ISSUES WITH GLASTONBURY STREAM Driift apologises for technical issues with Glastonbury stream. This weekend’s ‘Live From Worthy Farm’ was one of the highest-profile music livestreams yet, put on by the organisers of the Glastonbury Festival and online concerts firm Driift. Coldplay, Jorja Smith and George Ezra were among the performers at the £20-a-ticket event,which
TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. VIVENDI COULD SELL 10% OF UMG TO A US INVESTOR BEFORE The company offered its latest update on its plans yesterday, including the distribution of 60% of UMG shares to existing Vivendi shareholders. However, before that: “The group is analyzing the opportunity of selling 10% of UMG shares to an American investor or initiating a public offering of at least 5% and up to 10% of UMGshares,” said
TWITCH ROCKONOMICS STUDY ANALYSES MXMTOON, RAC AND OTHER Twitch Rockonomics study analyses mxmtoon, RAC and other artists. Will Page, the former chief economist at Spotify and PRS for Music, has published a new study of ‘ Twitch’s Rockonomics ‘ that includes case studies of the earnings and audience growth of six music artists on Amazon’s livestreaming service. Page left Spotify at the end of NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of BENJI ROGERS AND IMOGEN HEAP: BUILDING THE MUSIC BLOCKCHAIN That’s why the BPI invited Rogers in on a windy Monday evening for the first in a planned series of “thought-leadership events” tackling big topics and new technologies. He was joined by musician Imogen Heap, who’s also been digging into blockchain technology in recent months from an artist’s perspective. For an hour and a half,they
WEBINAR: KEY ALTERNATIVE PLATFORMS FOR GLOBAL MUSIC Platforms like Instagram, Facebook and TikTok are used in virtually every artist marketing campaign – but to unlock international or niche audiences, you’ll need to engage with platforms that you may never have used before. It’s clear that managers and marketers with global ambitions or who NMPA SUES ROBLOX IN $200M COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT LAWSUIT Yesterday, the US National Music Publishers Association sued Roblox on behalf of a group of publishers, seeking at least $200m in damages for “Roblox’s unabashed exploitation of EXPERTS PANEL: MAKING STAND-OUT ARTIST BRANDS IN A HYPER Music Ally’s Global Experts Panel is an international group of industry leaders. Each month we put a single, vital question to them about today’s music industry – and ask them what should happen next. An artist’s brand has always needed to be crystal-clear, but in 2021 it’s more important than ever. There are more artists competing for fans’ attention than ever before; and more WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE... The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about it from a position of gut feeling – that it’s a fairer way to distribute streaming royalties – rather than a deep knowledge of the model and its implications. The good news: now is a good time to gen up on thistopic, as
INDEPENDENT LABELS TOOK 26% MARKET SHARE IN UK LAST YEAR 1 day ago · British label bodies the BPI and Aim are trumpeting the market share taken by independent labels in 2020. That share grew to just under 26% last year as measured by ‘album equivalent sales’, a metric blending streams and digital/physical sales. Their announcement also claims that indies’ share OPULOUS REVEALS MORE ON ITS PLANS FOR NFTS AND DEFI LOANS 1 day ago · Opulous is the spin-off from distributor Ditto that announced plans to launch a decentralised finance (DeFi) loans scheme for artists, before expanding into music NFTs.Now, as part of its $6.45m fundraising efforts on the Dao Maker platform, it has published more details about its plans.Opulous is starting with NFT sales for some hand-picked artists, before opening up its tool to moremusicians.
SONY MUSIC LAUNCHES ‘LEGACY UNRECOUPED BALANCE PROGRAM’ 1 day ago · One of the talking points at the recent UK inquiry into music streaming economics was whether more labels should write off unrecouped balances from the pre-streaming era, and thus ensure more artists start to receive royalties for streams of their work. BeggarsGroup has
EC HAS CONCERNS ABOUT SMART SPEAKERS AND VOICE ASSISTANTS Smart speakers and voice assistants loom large: for example in concerns about “the position of voice assistants and smart device operating systems as intermediaries between users, on one side, and smart devices or consumer IoT services on the other side”. BRISTOL AND BATH GET A MUSIC-THEMED DIGITAL TREASURE HUNT Bristol and Bath get a music-themed digital treasure hunt. From Massive Attack and Portishead to Idles and DJ Krust, the British cities of Bath and Bristol have a marvellous musical heritage. Now it’s being explored in an interesting digital way, courtesy of a project called ‘ Everything is Music ‘. It’s a partnershipbetween Crack
BLOND:ISH AND LIL DICKY BREAK NEW GROUND IN MUSIC NFTS Blond:ish and Lil Dicky break new ground in music NFTs. Dig beneath the hype and doom-mongering, and there continue to be plenty of musicians exploring what they can do with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). We have two more examples to tell you about today. First, Blond:ish, who is launching an NFT that she says “does not have any negative BRISTOL AND BATH GET A MUSIC-THEMED DIGITAL TREASURE HUNT Bristol and Bath get a music-themed digital treasure hunt. From Massive Attack and Portishead to Idles and DJ Krust, the British cities of Bath and Bristol have a marvellous musical heritage. Now it’s being explored in an interesting digital way, courtesy of a project called ‘ Everything is Music ‘. It’s a partnershipbetween Crack
YOUTUBE MUSIC, SPOTIFY AND DEEZER MAKE NEW SMARTWATCH MOVES We don’t write that much about music streaming and smartwatches because it feels like a bit of a niche. It’s nice to be able to control or play music from your wrist, but not groundbreaking. Even so, we’re seeing a flurry of activity this week around streaming services and wearables. It’s UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after SPOTIFY LEGAL BOSS ATTACKS APPLE IN ‘RUTHLESS BULLY’ OP-ED Whatever’s on his fists, Spotify’s head of global affairs and chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez certainly wasn’t pulling any punches in his op-ed for the Wall Street Journal this week. “There is a lot to admire about Apple, but my company, Spotify, has seen another, brutish side,” began the piece. “Apple designs, developsand
NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of SPOTIFY HAS 36% MARKET SHARE OF MUSIC-STREAMING SUBS Report: Spotify has 36% market share of music-streaming subs. Spotify, Tencent Music and Pandora announce their subscriber figures on a quarterly basis, but other music-streaming services can be more selective about when they publish stats (if they do at all). Consultancy firm Midia Research is stepping in to the gap once again,with its latest
GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. HOW DO 24-7 YOUTUBE LO-FI HIP-HOP CHANNELS MAKE THEIR MONEY? She explains that the channels have often set up their own labels and signed tracks so that they can make money from streams of that music on other services like Spotify. One, Chillhop Music, is estimated to have made between $5m and $8m of revenue from Spotify alone in 2019. The full article is well worth a read. BRISTOL AND BATH GET A MUSIC-THEMED DIGITAL TREASURE HUNT Bristol and Bath get a music-themed digital treasure hunt. From Massive Attack and Portishead to Idles and DJ Krust, the British cities of Bath and Bristol have a marvellous musical heritage. Now it’s being explored in an interesting digital way, courtesy of a project called ‘ Everything is Music ‘. It’s a partnershipbetween Crack
YOUTUBE MUSIC, SPOTIFY AND DEEZER MAKE NEW SMARTWATCH MOVES We don’t write that much about music streaming and smartwatches because it feels like a bit of a niche. It’s nice to be able to control or play music from your wrist, but not groundbreaking. Even so, we’re seeing a flurry of activity this week around streaming services and wearables. It’s UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after SPOTIFY LEGAL BOSS ATTACKS APPLE IN ‘RUTHLESS BULLY’ OP-ED Whatever’s on his fists, Spotify’s head of global affairs and chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez certainly wasn’t pulling any punches in his op-ed for the Wall Street Journal this week. “There is a lot to admire about Apple, but my company, Spotify, has seen another, brutish side,” began the piece. “Apple designs, developsand
NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of SPOTIFY HAS 36% MARKET SHARE OF MUSIC-STREAMING SUBS Report: Spotify has 36% market share of music-streaming subs. Spotify, Tencent Music and Pandora announce their subscriber figures on a quarterly basis, but other music-streaming services can be more selective about when they publish stats (if they do at all). Consultancy firm Midia Research is stepping in to the gap once again,with its latest
GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. HOW DO 24-7 YOUTUBE LO-FI HIP-HOP CHANNELS MAKE THEIR MONEY? She explains that the channels have often set up their own labels and signed tracks so that they can make money from streams of that music on other services like Spotify. One, Chillhop Music, is estimated to have made between $5m and $8m of revenue from Spotify alone in 2019. The full article is well worth a read. NMPA SUES ROBLOX IN $200M COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT LAWSUIT 22 hours ago · Yesterday, the US National Music Publishers Association sued Roblox on behalf of a group of publishers, seeking at least $200m in damages for “Roblox’s unabashed exploitation of music without proper licences”. ROBLOX SAYS IT IS 'SURPRISED AND DISAPPOINTED' BY NMPA LAWSUIT This morning, we reported on the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) lawsuit against games platform Roblox, on behalf of several of its members. Now the company has issued its response, in a statement sent to Music Ally. “As a platform powered by a communityof creators, we are
MUSIC STREAMING APP TREBEL IS PLANNING TO GO PUBLIC 22 hours ago · Which music company is going public next in 2021? It might soon be easier to ask which music companies aren’t. The latest setting its sights on the markets is music streaming app Trebel, and you can read its filing here, including details on its business. The app has a catalogue of more than 15m songs licensed from rightsholders including all three major labels, having launched in late 2018. EC HAS CONCERNS ABOUT SMART SPEAKERS AND VOICE ASSISTANTS 22 hours ago · Smart speakers and voice assistants loom large: for example in concerns about “the position of voice assistants and smart device operating systems as intermediaries between users, on one side, and smart devices or consumer IoT services on the other side”. LANDR BUYS AUDIO SOFTWARE COMPANY SYNCHRO ARTS 22 hours ago · Creator tools firm Landr has announced its latest acquisition: of audio software company Synchro Arts. That’s the firm behind vocal production plug-ins VocAlign and Revoice Pro, which has been going since 1994. “This deal is a natural fit. “Vocal processing is a key piece of the music creation ANYTHING WORLD MAKES SPOTIFY-SYNCED GAME FOR PINK SWEAT 22 hours ago · Alicia Keys is the latest artist getting fans to provide the content for a marketing campaign. Her new website Memories of A Minor harks back to her debut album ‘Songs in A Minor’, which was released 20 years ago. The ALICIA KEYS LAUNCHES ‘MEMORIES OF A MINOR’ UGC WEBSITE 22 hours ago · Alicia Keys is the latest artist getting fans to provide the content for a marketing campaign. Her new website Memories of A Minor harks back to her debut album ‘Songs in A Minor’, which was released 20 years ago. The site encourages fans to “send a letter to Alicia” and is publishing them (along with their photos) using a globe UI to help other fans browse through them. PRESIDENT BIDEN REVOKES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S TIKTOK BAN 22 hours ago · Good news for TikTok: US president Joe Biden has revoked the Trump administration’s executive orders that could have banned the app (along with WeChat, Alipay and other apps of Chinese origin) in the US. However, these apps are not out of the woods just US CONGRESS TAKES AN INTEREST IN SPOTIFY DISCOVERY MODE There may be trouble ahead for Spotify and its ‘Discovery Mode’ feature. That’s the program where artists and labels can select tracks to be promoted in the recommendation algorithms for Spotify’s radio and autoplay features, in return for a lower royalty rate. ROLLING STONES AND TOM JONES JOIN UK'S BROKEN RECORD CAMPAIGN A letter sent to Prime Minister Boris Johnson in April was signed by the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Kate Bush and Chris Martin. Now a second letter has been sent, with new signatories including the Rolling Stones, Barry Gibb, Sir Tom Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Yoko Ono, Van Morrison, Alison Moyet and the Pet Shop Boys. BRISTOL AND BATH GET A MUSIC-THEMED DIGITAL TREASURE HUNT Bristol and Bath get a music-themed digital treasure hunt. From Massive Attack and Portishead to Idles and DJ Krust, the British cities of Bath and Bristol have a marvellous musical heritage. Now it’s being explored in an interesting digital way, courtesy of a project called ‘ Everything is Music ‘. It’s a partnershipbetween Crack
YOUTUBE MUSIC, SPOTIFY AND DEEZER MAKE NEW SMARTWATCH MOVES We don’t write that much about music streaming and smartwatches because it feels like a bit of a niche. It’s nice to be able to control or play music from your wrist, but not groundbreaking. Even so, we’re seeing a flurry of activity this week around streaming services and wearables. It’s VIVENDI COULD SELL 10% OF UMG TO A US INVESTOR BEFORE The company offered its latest update on its plans yesterday, including the distribution of 60% of UMG shares to existing Vivendi shareholders. However, before that: “The group is analyzing the opportunity of selling 10% of UMG shares to an American investor or initiating a public offering of at least 5% and up to 10% of UMGshares,” said
UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of SPOTIFY LEGAL BOSS ATTACKS APPLE IN ‘RUTHLESS BULLY’ OP-ED Whatever’s on his fists, Spotify’s head of global affairs and chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez certainly wasn’t pulling any punches in his op-ed for the Wall Street Journal this week. “There is a lot to admire about Apple, but my company, Spotify, has seen another, brutish side,” began the piece. “Apple designs, developsand
TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Witness Bauer Media Audio in the UK, which is launching ‘premium subscription online radio services’ for four of its stations: Scala Radio, Jazz FM, Planet Rock and Kerrang Radio. Each service will cost 3.99 a month, giving listeners 20 online radio stations as well as on-demand shows, documentaries, artist interviews and other content GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. BRISTOL AND BATH GET A MUSIC-THEMED DIGITAL TREASURE HUNT Bristol and Bath get a music-themed digital treasure hunt. From Massive Attack and Portishead to Idles and DJ Krust, the British cities of Bath and Bristol have a marvellous musical heritage. Now it’s being explored in an interesting digital way, courtesy of a project called ‘ Everything is Music ‘. It’s a partnershipbetween Crack
YOUTUBE MUSIC, SPOTIFY AND DEEZER MAKE NEW SMARTWATCH MOVES We don’t write that much about music streaming and smartwatches because it feels like a bit of a niche. It’s nice to be able to control or play music from your wrist, but not groundbreaking. Even so, we’re seeing a flurry of activity this week around streaming services and wearables. It’s VIVENDI COULD SELL 10% OF UMG TO A US INVESTOR BEFORE The company offered its latest update on its plans yesterday, including the distribution of 60% of UMG shares to existing Vivendi shareholders. However, before that: “The group is analyzing the opportunity of selling 10% of UMG shares to an American investor or initiating a public offering of at least 5% and up to 10% of UMGshares,” said
UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of SPOTIFY LEGAL BOSS ATTACKS APPLE IN ‘RUTHLESS BULLY’ OP-ED Whatever’s on his fists, Spotify’s head of global affairs and chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez certainly wasn’t pulling any punches in his op-ed for the Wall Street Journal this week. “There is a lot to admire about Apple, but my company, Spotify, has seen another, brutish side,” began the piece. “Apple designs, developsand
TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Witness Bauer Media Audio in the UK, which is launching ‘premium subscription online radio services’ for four of its stations: Scala Radio, Jazz FM, Planet Rock and Kerrang Radio. Each service will cost 3.99 a month, giving listeners 20 online radio stations as well as on-demand shows, documentaries, artist interviews and other content GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. ROBLOX SAYS IT IS 'SURPRISED AND DISAPPOINTED' BY NMPA LAWSUIT This morning, we reported on the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) lawsuit against games platform Roblox, on behalf of several of its members. Now the company has issued its response, in a statement sent to Music Ally. “As a platform powered by a communityof creators, we are
NMPA SUES ROBLOX IN $200M COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT LAWSUIT 19 hours ago · Games platform Roblox has enjoyed plenty of positive headlines for its push into music in partnership with labels and artists, but now the company is facing a battle with music publishers over licensing. Yesterday, the US National Music Publishers Association sued Roblox on behalf of a group of MUSIC STREAMING APP TREBEL IS PLANNING TO GO PUBLIC 19 hours ago · Which music company is going public next in 2021? It might soon be easier to ask which music companies aren’t. The latest setting its sights on the markets is music streaming app Trebel, and you can read its filing here, including details on its business. The app has a catalogue of more than 15m songs licensed from rightsholders including all three major labels, having launched in late 2018. EC HAS CONCERNS ABOUT SMART SPEAKERS AND VOICE ASSISTANTS 19 hours ago · Smart speakers and voice assistants loom large: for example in concerns about “the position of voice assistants and smart device operating systems as intermediaries between users, on one side, and smart devices or consumer IoT services on the other side”. LANDR BUYS AUDIO SOFTWARE COMPANY SYNCHRO ARTS 19 hours ago · Creator tools firm Landr has announced its latest acquisition: of audio software company Synchro Arts. That’s the firm behind vocal production plug-ins VocAlign and Revoice Pro, which has been going since 1994. “This deal is a natural fit. “Vocal processing is a key piece of the music creation ANYTHING WORLD MAKES SPOTIFY-SYNCED GAME FOR PINK SWEAT 19 hours ago · It’s been a while since we’ve played mobile game Temple Run, but we’ve played a LOT of Temple Run-inspired mini-games for music marketing campaigns in the meantime. The latest example is for Pink Sweat$, courtesy of a partnership between Warner ALICIA KEYS LAUNCHES ‘MEMORIES OF A MINOR’ UGC WEBSITE 19 hours ago · Alicia Keys is the latest artist getting fans to provide the content for a marketing campaign. Her new website Memories of A Minor harks back to her debut album ‘Songs in A Minor’, which was released 20 years ago. The site encourages fans to “send a letter to Alicia” and is publishing them (along with their photos) using a globe UI to help other fans browse through them. PRESIDENT BIDEN REVOKES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S TIKTOK BAN 19 hours ago · Good news for TikTok: US president Joe Biden has revoked the Trump administration’s executive orders that could have banned the app (along with WeChat, Alipay and other apps of Chinese origin) in the US. However, these apps are not out of the woods just US CONGRESS TAKES AN INTEREST IN SPOTIFY DISCOVERY MODE There may be trouble ahead for Spotify and its ‘Discovery Mode’ feature. That’s the program where artists and labels can select tracks to be promoted in the recommendation algorithms for Spotify’s radio and autoplay features, in return for a lower royalty rate. ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. BRISTOL AND BATH GET A MUSIC-THEMED DIGITAL TREASURE HUNT Bristol and Bath get a music-themed digital treasure hunt. From Massive Attack and Portishead to Idles and DJ Krust, the British cities of Bath and Bristol have a marvellous musical heritage. Now it’s being explored in an interesting digital way, courtesy of a project called ‘ Everything is Music ‘. It’s a partnershipbetween Crack
YOUTUBE MUSIC, SPOTIFY AND DEEZER MAKE NEW SMARTWATCH MOVES We don’t write that much about music streaming and smartwatches because it feels like a bit of a niche. It’s nice to be able to control or play music from your wrist, but not groundbreaking. Even so, we’re seeing a flurry of activity this week around streaming services and wearables. It’s VIVENDI COULD SELL 10% OF UMG TO A US INVESTOR BEFORE The company offered its latest update on its plans yesterday, including the distribution of 60% of UMG shares to existing Vivendi shareholders. However, before that: “The group is analyzing the opportunity of selling 10% of UMG shares to an American investor or initiating a public offering of at least 5% and up to 10% of UMGshares,” said
UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of SPOTIFY LEGAL BOSS ATTACKS APPLE IN ‘RUTHLESS BULLY’ OP-ED Whatever’s on his fists, Spotify’s head of global affairs and chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez certainly wasn’t pulling any punches in his op-ed for the Wall Street Journal this week. “There is a lot to admire about Apple, but my company, Spotify, has seen another, brutish side,” began the piece. “Apple designs, developsand
TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Witness Bauer Media Audio in the UK, which is launching ‘premium subscription online radio services’ for four of its stations: Scala Radio, Jazz FM, Planet Rock and Kerrang Radio. Each service will cost 3.99 a month, giving listeners 20 online radio stations as well as on-demand shows, documentaries, artist interviews and other content GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. BRISTOL AND BATH GET A MUSIC-THEMED DIGITAL TREASURE HUNT Bristol and Bath get a music-themed digital treasure hunt. From Massive Attack and Portishead to Idles and DJ Krust, the British cities of Bath and Bristol have a marvellous musical heritage. Now it’s being explored in an interesting digital way, courtesy of a project called ‘ Everything is Music ‘. It’s a partnershipbetween Crack
YOUTUBE MUSIC, SPOTIFY AND DEEZER MAKE NEW SMARTWATCH MOVES We don’t write that much about music streaming and smartwatches because it feels like a bit of a niche. It’s nice to be able to control or play music from your wrist, but not groundbreaking. Even so, we’re seeing a flurry of activity this week around streaming services and wearables. It’s VIVENDI COULD SELL 10% OF UMG TO A US INVESTOR BEFORE The company offered its latest update on its plans yesterday, including the distribution of 60% of UMG shares to existing Vivendi shareholders. However, before that: “The group is analyzing the opportunity of selling 10% of UMG shares to an American investor or initiating a public offering of at least 5% and up to 10% of UMGshares,” said
UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of SPOTIFY LEGAL BOSS ATTACKS APPLE IN ‘RUTHLESS BULLY’ OP-ED Whatever’s on his fists, Spotify’s head of global affairs and chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez certainly wasn’t pulling any punches in his op-ed for the Wall Street Journal this week. “There is a lot to admire about Apple, but my company, Spotify, has seen another, brutish side,” began the piece. “Apple designs, developsand
TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Witness Bauer Media Audio in the UK, which is launching ‘premium subscription online radio services’ for four of its stations: Scala Radio, Jazz FM, Planet Rock and Kerrang Radio. Each service will cost 3.99 a month, giving listeners 20 online radio stations as well as on-demand shows, documentaries, artist interviews and other content GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. NMPA SUES ROBLOX IN $200M COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT LAWSUIT 10 hours ago · Yesterday, the US National Music Publishers Association sued Roblox on behalf of a group of publishers, seeking at least $200m in damages for “Roblox’s unabashed exploitation of music without proper licences”. ROBLOX SAYS IT IS 'SURPRISED AND DISAPPOINTED' BY NMPA LAWSUIT 9 hours ago · This morning, we reported on the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) lawsuit against games platform Roblox, on behalf of several of its members. Now the company has issued its response, in a statement sent to Music Ally. “As a platform powered by a community of creators, we are INSTAGRAM WANTS YOU TO KNOW HOW ITS ALGORITHMS WORK 7 hours ago · “It’s hard to trust what you don’t understand. We want to do a better job of explaining how Instagram works,” is how Adam Mosseri, the boss of the Facebook-owned app, began his latest blog post.It’s part of a planned series that will “shed more light on how Instagram’s technology works and how it impacts the experiences that people have across the app”. MUSIC STREAMING APP TREBEL IS PLANNING TO GO PUBLIC 11 hours ago · Which music company is going public next in 2021? It might soon be easier to ask which music companies aren’t. The latest setting its sights on the markets is music streaming app Trebel, and you can read its filing here, including details on its business. The app has a catalogue of more than 15m songs licensed from rightsholders including all three major labels, having launched in late 2018. EC HAS CONCERNS ABOUT SMART SPEAKERS AND VOICE ASSISTANTS 10 hours ago · Smart speakers and voice assistants loom large: for example in concerns about “the position of voice assistants and smart device operating systems as intermediaries between users, on one side, and smart devices or consumer IoT services on the other side”. LANDR BUYS AUDIO SOFTWARE COMPANY SYNCHRO ARTS 10 hours ago · Creator tools firm Landr has announced its latest acquisition: of audio software company Synchro Arts. That’s the firm behind vocal production plug-ins VocAlign and Revoice Pro, which has been going since 1994. “This deal is a natural fit. “Vocal processing is a key piece of the music creation PALOMA FAITH’S ALEXA SKILL ADDS PREMIUM CONTENT 7 hours ago · Back in 2018, Paloma Faith became one of the first artists to launch her own Alexa skill – the equivalent of apps for Amazon’s smart speaker ecosystem. Paloma’s Bedtime was a collection of bedtime stories and songs designed to get children off to sleep. It was a creative idea, and due to the ALICIA KEYS LAUNCHES ‘MEMORIES OF A MINOR’ UGC WEBSITE 10 hours ago · Alicia Keys is the latest artist getting fans to provide the content for a marketing campaign. Her new website Memories of A Minor harks back to her debut album ‘Songs in A Minor’, which was released 20 years ago. The site encourages fans to “send a letter to Alicia” and is publishing them (along with their photos) using a globe UI to help other fans browse through them. MR EAZI TO KEYNOTE MIDEM AFRICA CONFERENCE THIS MONTH 7 hours ago · With the main Midem conference shifted to later this year, organiser Reed Midem is preparing for its Midem Africa online event that starts on 28 June. Yesterday, it confirmed a number of the speakers and sessions, including a keynote from Afrobeats star ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING PUBLISHES ACCESSIBLE EMPLOYMENT Attitude is Everything is a British organisation focusing on accessibility in the music industry: we reported on its ‘Beyond the Music’ campaign last August focusing on opportunities for deaf and disabled people. Now it is publishing a wider Accessible Employment Guide which it hopes will help music companies provide even more of those opportunities. MUSIC CREDIT FUND WILL HELP MUSICIANS RETAIN THEIR Music Credit Fund will help musicians retain their copyrights. It’s every musician’s right to sell their copyrights, if they have retained them. But might they prefer to hang on to these rights if there were another way to leverage them to raise money? That’s something that British startup Music Credit Fund is planning toexplore.
BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Witness Bauer Media Audio in the UK, which is launching ‘premium subscription online radio services’ for four of its stations: Scala Radio, Jazz FM, Planet Rock and Kerrang Radio. Each service will cost 3.99 a month, giving listeners 20 online radio stations as well as on-demand shows, documentaries, artist interviews and other content UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of NFT TRENDS INCLUDE 50/50 SPLIT FOR MUSICIANS AND VISUAL That includes stats: journalist Cherie Hu’s calculation that since June last year around 29,800 NFTs involving artists have generated $42.5m in primary sales. But also a sense of how this revenue is being split between musicians, visual artists and rightsholders (where music is involved). “A 50/50 split is becoming the norm between the TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AI-powered Symphonia app turns singing into instrumental music. French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody. WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE... The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about it from a position of gut feeling – that it’s a fairer way to distribute streaming royalties – rather than a deep knowledge of the model and its implications. The good news: now is a good time to gen up on thistopic, as
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MUSIC CREDIT FUND WILL HELP MUSICIANS RETAIN THEIR Music Credit Fund will help musicians retain their copyrights. It’s every musician’s right to sell their copyrights, if they have retained them. But might they prefer to hang on to these rights if there were another way to leverage them to raise money? That’s something that British startup Music Credit Fund is planning toexplore.
BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Witness Bauer Media Audio in the UK, which is launching ‘premium subscription online radio services’ for four of its stations: Scala Radio, Jazz FM, Planet Rock and Kerrang Radio. Each service will cost 3.99 a month, giving listeners 20 online radio stations as well as on-demand shows, documentaries, artist interviews and other content UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
NFTS MARKETPLACE OPENSEA RAISES $23M FUNDING ROUND OpenSea is the crypto marketplace that was recently used for the Kings of Leon NFT auction, and it is already billing itself as “the largest NFT marketplace” as interest in non-fungible tokens explodes.. Investors are sold on the pitch: OpenSea has just raised $23m in funding led by the crypto arm of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company also says that in February this year, $95m of NFT TRENDS INCLUDE 50/50 SPLIT FOR MUSICIANS AND VISUAL That includes stats: journalist Cherie Hu’s calculation that since June last year around 29,800 NFTs involving artists have generated $42.5m in primary sales. But also a sense of how this revenue is being split between musicians, visual artists and rightsholders (where music is involved). “A 50/50 split is becoming the norm between the TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AI-powered Symphonia app turns singing into instrumental music. French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody. WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE... The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about it from a position of gut feeling – that it’s a fairer way to distribute streaming royalties – rather than a deep knowledge of the model and its implications. The good news: now is a good time to gen up on thistopic, as
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Kushal Patel. Kushal is the Marketing & Training Manager at Music Ally, responsible for delivering Music Ally's training programmes to record labels, management agencies, music industry trade bodies and universities. Kushal also works with artists and labels on digital strategy and marketing campaigns, helping them to strengthen theironline
EXPERTS PANEL: MAKING STAND-OUT ARTIST BRANDS IN A HYPER 18 hours ago · Music Ally’s Global Experts Panel is an international group of industry leaders. Each month we put a single, vital question to them about today’s music industry – and ask them what should happen next. An artist’s brand has always needed to be crystal-clear, but in 2021 it’s more important than ever. There are more artists competing for fans’ attention than ever before; andmore
MUSIC APP MONKINGME APPOINTS NEW CEO AND PLANS MORE GROWTH 15 hours ago · Music streaming app MonkingMe has appointed a new CEO, the company’s former chief content officer Ivet Anoro. The app, which has been downloaded more than 4m times so far, offers a catalogue of free music to stream and download for offline listening. It uses a virtual currency system THE FIVE E’S OF FAN ENGAGEMENT IN MUSIC MARKETING (GUEST 17 hours ago · This is a guest post by Sandra Croft (Artist & Promotions Representative, UK & EU) and Henriette Heimdal (Market Development, UK & EU), of CD Baby.This is their five-point strategy for “transforming audiences into fans” – to go from “initial awareness to lifetime advocacy around artist brands in a hyper-competitive world. YOUTUBE SAYS ITS MUSIC PAYOUTS WERE $4BN IN THE LAST YEAR YouTube has paid out more than $4bn to the music industry in the last 12 months, according to its head of music Lyor Cohen. The new figure was the focus for a blog post published by Cohen this afternoon, in which he also said that YouTube’s premium subscription services have “added more paid members in Q1 ’21 than in any other quarter sincelaunch.”
RESERVOIR BUYS TOMMY BOY, PLANS DE LA SOUL RE-RELEASES 1 day ago · 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 music, with Tommy Boy becoming part of its Chrysalis Records subsidiary – which it JIOSAAVN'S LATEST FEATURE IS LEAN-BACK MUSIC VIDEO VIEWING 1 day ago · Indian music streaming service JioSaavn isn’t new to video content. Its ‘Shorties’ feature is less TikTok and more Spotify Canvas: 15-second looping videos that accompany tracks, and have been seen more than 200m views since their launch in June last year. It also has a deal with Triller. Now FACEBOOK BUYS ROBLOX-STYLE GAMES PLATFORM CRAYTA 1 day ago · With Roblox striking a growing number of partnerships with labels and artists, it’s no surprise that our industry is keen to spot similar games platforms that are emerging. “With the addition of Unit 2 Games, we’ll expand the notion of a Facebook creator to include people who collaboratively ST. VINCENT LAUNCHES THROWBACK SERIES ON APPLE MUSIC RADIO 1 day ago · There’s a strong 70s influence to St. Vincent’s new album ‘Daddy’s Home’ and that’s something she’s diving into for a new series on Apple Music Radio. It’s called ‘WSTV Radio‘ and will run for six episodes, each of which based on a single day in the year’s 1971-76. Expect news 30M RECORDS TALKS 'THIS IS TEHRAN?' AND IRANIAN MUSIC'S Hamburg-based label 30M Records was founded in 2020 by Matthias Koch with the aim of helping Iranian musicians to release their music globally, at a time when economic sanctions mean artists and labels there cannot deal directly with digital music services in the US or Europe.. The label’s first compilation album ‘RAAZ’ came out last year, and this week its second release drops. AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AI-powered Symphonia app turns singing into instrumental music. French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody. BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Music streaming services want to displace traditional radio as the first port of call for listeners, and part of their strategies involves adding more radio-like features (live audio included) to their services. However, this is not just a one-way competition: we expect to see more radio stations UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 After those early worries about music streams falling in the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic’s global lockdowns, it’s become clear that the recorded music industry – streaming services and labels included – is weathering the storm rather well. MUSIC CREDIT FUND WILL HELP MUSICIANS RETAIN THEIR Platforms like Splice which sell sample packs to musicians have also become an interesting revenue opportunity for artists and producers: creating loops and beats for other people to use. TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES The esports community has been chattering about Twitch's latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. NFT TRENDS INCLUDE 50/50 SPLIT FOR MUSICIANS AND VISUAL A 50/50 split is becoming the norm between the musician and visual artist, say artists, executives and lawyers GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. MIKE SHINODA RELEASES HIS FIRST NFT NFTs – nonfungible tokens – are rapidly pinging the radar of the music industry, as it wakes up to the decent sums of money being paid for digital collectible assets of various kinds. We expect to see a growing number of music-related NFTs this year, and Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda – often early into new tech trends – is one of the most high-profile yet. AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody. And Symphonia automatically detects the notes you sing and magically transforms them into amazing musical instruments in MIDI format,” explains its App Store blurb. WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE...CONSUMER CENTRIC MODELEARTH CENTRIC MODELEMPLOYEE CENTRIC MODELMODEL CENTRIC ENGINEERINGSERVICE CENTRIC MODEL This is an edited version of an article that appeared in Music Ally’s Q1 2020 report. In the light of the current #BrokenRecord campaign around music industry economics – see our piece last week for more on that – we wanted to also share it in front of our paywall. The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about itEMAIL MARKETING
Background. Not only is email marketing still relevant today, it is a vital part of any music marketing campaign because unlike other means of communication, its reach is not at risk of being suppressed by anexternal algorithm.
BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Music streaming services want to displace traditional radio as the first port of call for listeners, and part of their strategies involves adding more radio-like features (live audio included) to their services. However, this is not just a one-way competition: we expect to see more radio stations UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 After those early worries about music streams falling in the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic’s global lockdowns, it’s become clear that the recorded music industry – streaming services and labels included – is weathering the storm rather well. MUSIC CREDIT FUND WILL HELP MUSICIANS RETAIN THEIR Platforms like Splice which sell sample packs to musicians have also become an interesting revenue opportunity for artists and producers: creating loops and beats for other people to use. TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES The esports community has been chattering about Twitch's latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. NFT TRENDS INCLUDE 50/50 SPLIT FOR MUSICIANS AND VISUAL A 50/50 split is becoming the norm between the musician and visual artist, say artists, executives and lawyers GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. MIKE SHINODA RELEASES HIS FIRST NFT NFTs – nonfungible tokens – are rapidly pinging the radar of the music industry, as it wakes up to the decent sums of money being paid for digital collectible assets of various kinds. We expect to see a growing number of music-related NFTs this year, and Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda – often early into new tech trends – is one of the most high-profile yet. AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody. And Symphonia automatically detects the notes you sing and magically transforms them into amazing musical instruments in MIDI format,” explains its App Store blurb. WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE...CONSUMER CENTRIC MODELEARTH CENTRIC MODELEMPLOYEE CENTRIC MODELMODEL CENTRIC ENGINEERINGSERVICE CENTRIC MODEL This is an edited version of an article that appeared in Music Ally’s Q1 2020 report. In the light of the current #BrokenRecord campaign around music industry economics – see our piece last week for more on that – we wanted to also share it in front of our paywall. The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about itEMAIL MARKETING
Background. Not only is email marketing still relevant today, it is a vital part of any music marketing campaign because unlike other means of communication, its reach is not at risk of being suppressed by anexternal algorithm.
RESERVOIR BUYS TOMMY BOY, PLANS DE LA SOUL RE-RELEASES 19 hours ago · 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 music, with Tommy Boy becoming part of its Chrysalis Records subsidiary – which it FACEBOOK BUYS ROBLOX-STYLE GAMES PLATFORM CRAYTA 19 hours ago · With Roblox striking a growing number of partnerships with labels and artists, it’s no surprise that our industry is keen to spot similar games platforms that are emerging. “With the addition of Unit 2 Games, we’ll expand the notion of a Facebook creator to include people who collaboratively YOUTUBE SAYS ITS MUSIC PAYOUTS WERE $4BN IN THE LAST YEAR YouTube has paid out more than $4bn to the music industry in the last 12 months, according to its head of music Lyor Cohen. The new figure was the focus for a blog post published by Cohen this afternoon, in which he also said that YouTube’s premium subscription services have “added more paid members in Q1 ’21 than in any other quarter sincelaunch.”
ROLLING STONES AND TOM JONES JOIN UK'S BROKEN RECORD CAMPAIGN 20 hours ago · A letter sent to Prime Minister Boris Johnson in April was signed by the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Kate Bush and Chris Martin. Now a second letter has been sent, with new signatories including the Rolling Stones, Barry Gibb, Sir Tom Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Yoko Ono, Van Morrison, Alison Moyet and the Pet Shop Boys. AUDIOMOB JOINS GOOGLE’S EUROPEAN BLACK FOUNDERS FUND 19 hours ago · AudioMob is a startup focusing on in-game audio ads for mobile games, and it has been working on campaigns with a number of labels including WMG and BMG.. Now it’s also got backing from Google, which has made it one of the startups in the company’s European Black Founders Fund.This means an undisclosed investment in the company – one of 30 to be chosen for the fund – ahead of JIOSAAVN'S LATEST FEATURE IS LEAN-BACK MUSIC VIDEO VIEWING 20 hours ago · Indian music streaming service JioSaavn isn’t new to video content. Its ‘Shorties’ feature is less TikTok and more Spotify Canvas: 15-second looping videos that accompany tracks, and have been seen more than 200m views since their launch in June last year. It also has a deal with Triller. Now ST. VINCENT LAUNCHES THROWBACK SERIES ON APPLE MUSIC RADIO 19 hours ago · There’s a strong 70s influence to St. Vincent’s new album ‘Daddy’s Home’ and that’s something she’s diving into for a new series on Apple Music Radio. It’s called ‘WSTV Radio‘ and will run for six episodes, each of which based on a single day in the year’s 1971-76. Expect news US CONGRESS TAKES AN INTEREST IN SPOTIFY DISCOVERY MODE 19 hours ago · There may be trouble ahead for Spotify and its ‘Discovery Mode’ feature. That’s the program where artists and labels can select tracks to be promoted in the recommendation algorithms for Spotify’s radio and autoplay features, in return for a lower royalty rate. 30M RECORDS TALKS 'THIS IS TEHRAN?' AND IRANIAN MUSIC'S Hamburg-based label 30M Records was founded in 2020 by Matthias Koch with the aim of helping Iranian musicians to release their music globally, at a time when economic sanctions mean artists and labels there cannot deal directly with digital music services in the US or Europe.. The label’s first compilation album ‘RAAZ’ came out last year, and this week its second release drops. AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AI-powered Symphonia app turns singing into instrumental music. French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody. BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Music streaming services want to displace traditional radio as the first port of call for listeners, and part of their strategies involves adding more radio-like features (live audio included) to their services. However, this is not just a one-way competition: we expect to see more radio stations UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 After those early worries about music streams falling in the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic’s global lockdowns, it’s become clear that the recorded music industry – streaming services and labels included – is weathering the storm rather well. MUSIC CREDIT FUND WILL HELP MUSICIANS RETAIN THEIR Platforms like Splice which sell sample packs to musicians have also become an interesting revenue opportunity for artists and producers: creating loops and beats for other people to use. TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES The esports community has been chattering about Twitch's latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. NFT TRENDS INCLUDE 50/50 SPLIT FOR MUSICIANS AND VISUAL A 50/50 split is becoming the norm between the musician and visual artist, say artists, executives and lawyers GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. MIKE SHINODA RELEASES HIS FIRST NFT NFTs – nonfungible tokens – are rapidly pinging the radar of the music industry, as it wakes up to the decent sums of money being paid for digital collectible assets of various kinds. We expect to see a growing number of music-related NFTs this year, and Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda – often early into new tech trends – is one of the most high-profile yet. AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody. And Symphonia automatically detects the notes you sing and magically transforms them into amazing musical instruments in MIDI format,” explains its App Store blurb. WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE...CONSUMER CENTRIC MODELEARTH CENTRIC MODELEMPLOYEE CENTRIC MODELMODEL CENTRIC ENGINEERINGSERVICE CENTRIC MODEL This is an edited version of an article that appeared in Music Ally’s Q1 2020 report. In the light of the current #BrokenRecord campaign around music industry economics – see our piece last week for more on that – we wanted to also share it in front of our paywall. The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about itEMAIL MARKETING
Background. Not only is email marketing still relevant today, it is a vital part of any music marketing campaign because unlike other means of communication, its reach is not at risk of being suppressed by anexternal algorithm.
BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Witness Bauer Media Audio in the UK, which is launching ‘premium subscription online radio services’ for four of its stations: Scala Radio, Jazz FM, Planet Rock and Kerrang Radio. Each service will cost 3.99 a month, giving listeners 20 online radio stations as well as on-demand shows, documentaries, artist interviews and other content MUSIC CREDIT FUND WILL HELP MUSICIANS RETAIN THEIR Music Credit Fund will help musicians retain their copyrights. It’s every musician’s right to sell their copyrights, if they have retained them. But might they prefer to hang on to these rights if there were another way to leverage them to raise money? That’s something that British startup Music Credit Fund is planning toexplore.
UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after NFT TRENDS INCLUDE 50/50 SPLIT FOR MUSICIANS AND VISUAL That includes stats: journalist Cherie Hu’s calculation that since June last year around 29,800 NFTs involving artists have generated $42.5m in primary sales. But also a sense of how this revenue is being split between musicians, visual artists and rightsholders (where music is involved). “A 50/50 split is becoming the norm between the GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AI-powered Symphonia app turns singing into instrumental music. French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody. MIKE SHINODA RELEASES HIS FIRST NFT Mike Shinoda releases his first NFT – and it’s valuable. NFTs – nonfungible tokens – are rapidly pinging the radar of the music industry, as it wakes up to the decent sums of money being paid for digital collectible assets of various kinds. We expect to see a growing number of music-related NFTs this year, and Linkin Park’sMike
WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE...CONSUMER CENTRIC MODELEARTH CENTRIC MODELEMPLOYEE CENTRIC MODELMODEL CENTRIC ENGINEERINGSERVICE CENTRIC MODEL The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about it from a position of gut feeling – that it’s a fairer way to distribute streaming royalties – rather than a deep knowledge of the model and its implications. The good news: now is a good time to gen up on thistopic, as
EMAIL MARKETING
Kushal Patel. Kushal is the Marketing & Training Manager at Music Ally, responsible for delivering Music Ally's training programmes to record labels, management agencies, music industry trade bodies and universities. Kushal also works with artists and labels on digital strategy and marketing campaigns, helping them to strengthen theironline
RESERVOIR BUYS TOMMY BOY, PLANS DE LA SOUL RE-RELEASES 19 hours ago · 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 music, with Tommy Boy becoming part of its Chrysalis Records subsidiary – which it FACEBOOK BUYS ROBLOX-STYLE GAMES PLATFORM CRAYTA 19 hours ago · With Roblox striking a growing number of partnerships with labels and artists, it’s no surprise that our industry is keen to spot similar games platforms that are emerging. “With the addition of Unit 2 Games, we’ll expand the notion of a Facebook creator to include people who collaboratively YOUTUBE SAYS ITS MUSIC PAYOUTS WERE $4BN IN THE LAST YEAR YouTube has paid out more than $4bn to the music industry in the last 12 months, according to its head of music Lyor Cohen. The new figure was the focus for a blog post published by Cohen this afternoon, in which he also said that YouTube’s premium subscription services have “added more paid members in Q1 ’21 than in any other quarter sincelaunch.”
ROLLING STONES AND TOM JONES JOIN UK'S BROKEN RECORD CAMPAIGN 19 hours ago · A letter sent to Prime Minister Boris Johnson in April was signed by the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Kate Bush and Chris Martin. Now a second letter has been sent, with new signatories including the Rolling Stones, Barry Gibb, Sir Tom Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Yoko Ono, Van Morrison, Alison Moyet and the Pet Shop Boys. AUDIOMOB JOINS GOOGLE’S EUROPEAN BLACK FOUNDERS FUND 19 hours ago · AudioMob is a startup focusing on in-game audio ads for mobile games, and it has been working on campaigns with a number of labels including WMG and BMG.. Now it’s also got backing from Google, which has made it one of the startups in the company’s European Black Founders Fund.This means an undisclosed investment in the company – one of 30 to be chosen for the fund – ahead of JIOSAAVN'S LATEST FEATURE IS LEAN-BACK MUSIC VIDEO VIEWING 19 hours ago · Indian music streaming service JioSaavn isn’t new to video content. Its ‘Shorties’ feature is less TikTok and more Spotify Canvas: 15-second looping videos that accompany tracks, and have been seen more than 200m views since their launch in June last year. It also has a deal with Triller. Now ST. VINCENT LAUNCHES THROWBACK SERIES ON APPLE MUSIC RADIO 19 hours ago · There’s a strong 70s influence to St. Vincent’s new album ‘Daddy’s Home’ and that’s something she’s diving into for a new series on Apple Music Radio. It’s called ‘WSTV Radio‘ and will run for six episodes, each of which based on a single day in the year’s 1971-76. Expect news US CONGRESS TAKES AN INTEREST IN SPOTIFY DISCOVERY MODE 19 hours ago · There may be trouble ahead for Spotify and its ‘Discovery Mode’ feature. That’s the program where artists and labels can select tracks to be promoted in the recommendation algorithms for Spotify’s radio and autoplay features, in return for a lower royalty rate. 30M RECORDS TALKS 'THIS IS TEHRAN?' AND IRANIAN MUSIC'S Hamburg-based label 30M Records was founded in 2020 by Matthias Koch with the aim of helping Iranian musicians to release their music globally, at a time when economic sanctions mean artists and labels there cannot deal directly with digital music services in the US or Europe.. The label’s first compilation album ‘RAAZ’ came out last year, and this week its second release drops. AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody. And Symphonia automatically detects the notes you sing and magically transforms them into amazing musical instruments in MIDI format,” explains its App Store blurb. BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Witness Bauer Media Audio in the UK, which is launching ‘premium subscription online radio services’ for four of its stations: Scala Radio, Jazz FM, Planet Rock and Kerrang Radio. Each service will cost 3.99 a month, giving listeners 20 online radio stations as well as on-demand shows, documentaries, artist interviews and other content MUSIC CREDIT FUND WILL HELP MUSICIANS RETAIN THEIR Music Credit Fund will help musicians retain their copyrights. It’s every musician’s right to sell their copyrights, if they have retained them. But might they prefer to hang on to these rights if there were another way to leverage them to raise money? That’s something that British startup Music Credit Fund is planning toexplore.
UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 See the latest figures for the biggest label of all, Universal Music Group, for the latest evidence. Parent company Vivendi’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 revealed that UMG’s revenues grew by 2.2% year-on-year: from €1.77bn in Q1 2020 to €1.81bn in Q1 2021. In terms of ‘organic’ growth, however, the increase was9.4%.
TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES Twitch music guidelines rule out DJ sets without licences. The esports community has been chattering about Twitch’s latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. Dot Esports’ top angle was the fact that using music from streaming services like Spotify is not allowed, but after NFT TRENDS INCLUDE 50/50 SPLIT FOR MUSICIANS AND VISUAL That includes stats: journalist Cherie Hu’s calculation that since June last year around 29,800 NFTs involving artists have generated $42.5m in primary sales. But also a sense of how this revenue is being split between musicians, visual artists and rightsholders (where music is involved). “A 50/50 split is becoming the norm between the GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AI-powered Symphonia app turns singing into instrumental music. French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody. MIKE SHINODA RELEASES HIS FIRST NFT Mike Shinoda releases his first NFT – and it’s valuable. NFTs – nonfungible tokens – are rapidly pinging the radar of the music industry, as it wakes up to the decent sums of money being paid for digital collectible assets of various kinds. We expect to see a growing number of music-related NFTs this year, and Linkin Park’sMike
WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE...CONSUMER CENTRIC MODELEARTH CENTRIC MODELEMPLOYEE CENTRIC MODELMODEL CENTRIC ENGINEERINGSERVICE CENTRIC MODEL The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about it from a position of gut feeling – that it’s a fairer way to distribute streaming royalties – rather than a deep knowledge of the model and its implications. The good news: now is a good time to gen up on thistopic, as
EMAIL MARKETING
Kushal Patel. Kushal is the Marketing & Training Manager at Music Ally, responsible for delivering Music Ally's training programmes to record labels, management agencies, music industry trade bodies and universities. Kushal also works with artists and labels on digital strategy and marketing campaigns, helping them to strengthen theironline
BAUER MEDIA RADIO STATIONS LAUNCH ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES Music streaming services want to displace traditional radio as the first port of call for listeners, and part of their strategies involves adding more radio-like features (live audio included) to their services. However, this is not just a one-way competition: we expect to see more radio stations UNIVERSAL MUSIC REVENUES GREW BY 2.2% YEAR-ON-YEAR IN Q1 After those early worries about music streams falling in the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic’s global lockdowns, it’s become clear that the recorded music industry – streaming services and labels included – is weathering the storm rather well. MUSIC CREDIT FUND WILL HELP MUSICIANS RETAIN THEIR Platforms like Splice which sell sample packs to musicians have also become an interesting revenue opportunity for artists and producers: creating loops and beats for other people to use. TWITCH MUSIC GUIDELINES RULE OUT DJ SETS WITHOUT LICENCES The esports community has been chattering about Twitch's latest guidelines on using recorded music in live broadcasts and video-on-demand uploads to its platform. NFT TRENDS INCLUDE 50/50 SPLIT FOR MUSICIANS AND VISUAL A 50/50 split is becoming the norm between the musician and visual artist, say artists, executives and lawyers GOOGLE REDUCES ITS APP SALES CUT FOR SMALL DEVELOPERS Apple’s 30% “app tax” (as critics like to call it) isn’t always 30%. It’s 15% for subscriptions once a subscriber has been paying for a year, and since November 2020 it has also been 15% for smaller developers and businesses who make less than $1m a year. A change clearly made in part due to the pressure from campaigners (and interest from regulators) in this area. MIKE SHINODA RELEASES HIS FIRST NFT NFTs – nonfungible tokens – are rapidly pinging the radar of the music industry, as it wakes up to the decent sums of money being paid for digital collectible assets of various kinds. We expect to see a growing number of music-related NFTs this year, and Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda – often early into new tech trends – is one of the most high-profile yet. AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody. And Symphonia automatically detects the notes you sing and magically transforms them into amazing musical instruments in MIDI format,” explains its App Store blurb. WHAT ARE USER-CENTRIC MUSIC STREAMING PAYOUTS? START HERE...CONSUMER CENTRIC MODELEARTH CENTRIC MODELEMPLOYEE CENTRIC MODELMODEL CENTRIC ENGINEERINGSERVICE CENTRIC MODEL This is an edited version of an article that appeared in Music Ally’s Q1 2020 report. In the light of the current #BrokenRecord campaign around music industry economics – see our piece last week for more on that – we wanted to also share it in front of our paywall. The topic of user-centric music streaming payouts is one that’s going to keep popping up, and many people talk about itEMAIL MARKETING
Background. Not only is email marketing still relevant today, it is a vital part of any music marketing campaign because unlike other means of communication, its reach is not at risk of being suppressed by anexternal algorithm.
RESERVOIR BUYS TOMMY BOY, PLANS DE LA SOUL RE-RELEASES 19 hours ago · 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 music, with Tommy Boy becoming part of its Chrysalis Records subsidiary – which it FACEBOOK BUYS ROBLOX-STYLE GAMES PLATFORM CRAYTA 19 hours ago · With Roblox striking a growing number of partnerships with labels and artists, it’s no surprise that our industry is keen to spot similar games platforms that are emerging. “With the addition of Unit 2 Games, we’ll expand the notion of a Facebook creator to include people who collaboratively YOUTUBE SAYS ITS MUSIC PAYOUTS WERE $4BN IN THE LAST YEAR YouTube has paid out more than $4bn to the music industry in the last 12 months, according to its head of music Lyor Cohen. The new figure was the focus for a blog post published by Cohen this afternoon, in which he also said that YouTube’s premium subscription services have “added more paid members in Q1 ’21 than in any other quarter sincelaunch.”
ROLLING STONES AND TOM JONES JOIN UK'S BROKEN RECORD CAMPAIGN 19 hours ago · A letter sent to Prime Minister Boris Johnson in April was signed by the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Kate Bush and Chris Martin. Now a second letter has been sent, with new signatories including the Rolling Stones, Barry Gibb, Sir Tom Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Yoko Ono, Van Morrison, Alison Moyet and the Pet Shop Boys. AUDIOMOB JOINS GOOGLE’S EUROPEAN BLACK FOUNDERS FUND 19 hours ago · AudioMob is a startup focusing on in-game audio ads for mobile games, and it has been working on campaigns with a number of labels including WMG and BMG.. Now it’s also got backing from Google, which has made it one of the startups in the company’s European Black Founders Fund.This means an undisclosed investment in the company – one of 30 to be chosen for the fund – ahead of JIOSAAVN'S LATEST FEATURE IS LEAN-BACK MUSIC VIDEO VIEWING 19 hours ago · Indian music streaming service JioSaavn isn’t new to video content. Its ‘Shorties’ feature is less TikTok and more Spotify Canvas: 15-second looping videos that accompany tracks, and have been seen more than 200m views since their launch in June last year. It also has a deal with Triller. Now ST. VINCENT LAUNCHES THROWBACK SERIES ON APPLE MUSIC RADIO 19 hours ago · There’s a strong 70s influence to St. Vincent’s new album ‘Daddy’s Home’ and that’s something she’s diving into for a new series on Apple Music Radio. It’s called ‘WSTV Radio‘ and will run for six episodes, each of which based on a single day in the year’s 1971-76. Expect news US CONGRESS TAKES AN INTEREST IN SPOTIFY DISCOVERY MODE 19 hours ago · There may be trouble ahead for Spotify and its ‘Discovery Mode’ feature. That’s the program where artists and labels can select tracks to be promoted in the recommendation algorithms for Spotify’s radio and autoplay features, in return for a lower royalty rate. 30M RECORDS TALKS 'THIS IS TEHRAN?' AND IRANIAN MUSIC'S Hamburg-based label 30M Records was founded in 2020 by Matthias Koch with the aim of helping Iranian musicians to release their music globally, at a time when economic sanctions mean artists and labels there cannot deal directly with digital music services in the US or Europe.. The label’s first compilation album ‘RAAZ’ came out last year, and this week its second release drops. AI-POWERED SYMPHONIA APP TURNS SINGING INTO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC French startup Symphonia claims that its iPhone app is “the future of music composing”. Released this year, it uses AI to help people turn their musical ideas into actual music. “Just sing a melody. And Symphonia automatically detects the notes you sing and magically transforms them into amazing musical instruments in MIDI format,” explains its App Store blurb.*
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