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Warner Music Group Acquires Songkick Concert Discovery App
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Warner Music Group has acquired “selected assets" from Songkick, the popular live music discovery platform. The surprise deal, which appears motivated by the startups protracted legal battle with Ticketmaster, includes Songkick's concert discovery app and web site, but not its ticketing business. Warner Music Group has acquired selected assets from Songkick, a live music discovery platform that attracts 15 million fans a month. The deal includes Songkick's concert discovery app and site, as well as the Songkick trademark. As part ...
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Lyor Cohen Details YouTube's Future Product Plans
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YouTube's Global Head of Music Lyor Cohen sat down with the board of directors of A2IM recently and detailed the video channel's priorities and product plans for 2017. Many are designed to help musicians market and monetize views on the online video behemoth. Lyor Cohen, YouTube's Global Head of music shared some changes and additions coming to YouTube this year with the board of directors of the American Association of Independent Music. According to A2IM, they include: Official artists ...
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Spotify Continues To Add New Artist And Fan Friendly Features
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As Spotify continues to grow and adapt to global streaming trends, the popular music streaming service is rolling out several new features, benefiting both artists and music consumers. Below we take a closer look at some of these new tools. Guest post by Dylan Lewis, Manager, Retail Marketing of The Orchard's The Daily Rind Have you been using Spotify lately? You may have noticed a plethora of new features rolling out here and there. A lot of these intuitive new tools are ...
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GET BACK: Paul McCartney Settes With Sony/ATV To Reclaim The Beatles Songs
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Copyright reversion, or the return of master recordings and publishing to the creators when copyrights 'run out', is an issue that is finally reverberating throughout the music industry. In perhaps the most high profile music reversion to date, Paul McCartney and Sony/ATV reached a settlement over the ownership of many of The Beatles' songs. Paul McCartney and Sony/ATV have reached a settlement over the ownership of The Beatles song rights, avoiding a legal decision by a U.S. court in the case. According ...
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How To Throw A DIY House Concert: The Definitive Guide
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DIY shows in places like people's homes can be an excellent way to provide an alternative space where community members can go to hear live music, particularly in a venue-sparse area. Here we look at the five key components of throwing a successful DIY house show. Guest post by Evan Zwisler of Soundfly's Flypaper House shows, and all sorts of DIY shows, are a great way to create an alternative, personalized space to hear live music in your community. If you ...
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How Music Streaming Creates New Fans for Classic Artists
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As Deezer announces its first-ever Family Plan offer in the US, VP of Marketing Deborah Jourdan discusses key stats and findings to discuss the broader context off how the music industry is changing and how music streaming in particularly has changed the landscape for artists of today and yester-year. By Deborah Jourdan, VP of Marketing for Deezer Trends are cyclical. Fashion, hair styles and neighborhoods are among those that go in and out of popularity and, as history has shown, it will continue to ...
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How Chatbots, Blockchain Will Converge And Shape Music's Future
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In this article, Bas Grasmayer explores the significance of two developing technologies, chatbots and block, and how these two avenues of technological advancement, and their convergence, will serve to shape the future of the music industry. Guest post by Bas Grasmayer on Synchblog I want to make this Projecting Trends installment more personal, since it’s the last regular edition in the series. I’d like to talk about the convergence of two important trends: chatbots and blockchain. In recent weeks, I was ...
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Why The Music Industry Needs Computer Coders
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Here Samuel Potts unpacks how the music industry has expanded to include tech companies, meaning that it's now part of the tech sector, as well as why it needs to remain so and some the obstacles this newly enlarged industry will likely face down the road. Guest post by Samuel Potts of Medium You’ll read a lot in the news about YouTube, Spotify, Apple, Soundcloud, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Nokia and other tech giants “negotiating with the music industry” over one ...
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