A Music Service Based on Collective Bids on NFTs; KCRW's Chris Douridas Teams With CCS Rights Management/Daytripper; De La Soul Music Coming to Streaming

This week hundreds of people pooled money to collectively place a bid on NFTs and attain fractional ownership using a tool called PartyBid. They succeeded. 478 people teamed up to form the Party Of The Living Dead and secured one of the highly popular (and expensive) NFT collectible CryptoPunks.

Former KCRW "Morning Becomes Eclectic" host Chris Douridas is partnering with CCS Rights Management in a joint venture with its Daytripper Music Publishing to expand that company in the U.S. by building and developing its talent roster.

Since 1984, American Songwriter has helped aspiring songwriters get noticed and have fun.

They’ve apparently gotten the rights to their masters, too.

A company that’s barely known in the U.S. and Europe is the most successful online music platform in Africa -- making it target number one in Spotify’s campaign to dominate the continent’s streaming market.

MBW's number-crunching tells us it's going to be a gangbusters year for the majors.

Business veteran and former BMG EVP Andreas Katsambas has been named President/Strategy, Marketing & Operations at Chartmetric, a leading data analytics and business intelligence resource serving the entertainment industry.

Livestreaming music startup Sessions is launching new tools to help artists build audiences and make money on its service. We talk to CEO Tim Westergren.

Soundrop, a distribution company which specializes in aiding social video creators, has announced 99 cent pricing for its cover music service.

Researchers in Canada have created a system called LyricJam which aims to take live instrumental music and create lyrics for it on the fly.

COVID-19 didn’t create the virtual-concert experience, but it certainly brought it to the masses. Will fans still want to watch concerts on their smartphones, tablets, computers and TVs now that they have many more opportunities to see the real thing?

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