Boomplay, Merlin Expand Licensing Deal Across Africa; LANDR Launches New Sample Plugin Chromatic; Inside the Global Music Vault

Boomplay has over 60m Monthly Active Users and a catalog of over 65m tracks.

The streaming service is working on a few tools and features that cater to users younger than 25.

The case for a new streaming royalty.

Exalted among the many musical innovations that Jamaica has given the world is the dubplate.

The new instrument lets you control samples and loops from your MIDI keyboard.

A call for curiosity, questioning, and action from the entrepreneur who’s raised the most money across music and entertainment as a black woman.

6 predictions from Tony van Veen, CEO of Disc Makers.

Like the Arctic World Archive and the Global Seed Vault, the World Music Archive aims to protect the best humanity has to offer from our worst tendencies.

With the arrival of the metaverse, nonfungible tokens are set to become mainstream, with millions of users getting on board with crypto and blockchain in 2022.

SoundExchange launched action against Music Choice in April 2019 to recover underpaid royalties.

uduX is not originally a video streaming service, but it believes video is richer and saw an opportunity to connect with and get into the rooms of its listeners and prospects, like never before.

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