Creative Teams Deserve a Music Search That Starts with Emotion; How European Music Tech Startups are Shaping Creative Futures
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Creative Teams Deserve a Music Search That Starts with Emotion
SoStereo has introduced 'StereoAI', a new search tool designed for the way creative teams actually think.
Beyond the beat: How European music tech startups and AI are shaping creative futures
Europe’s music streaming market generated a significant €11.13 billion in 2024. And that’s just the surface. Beneath the commercial growth, a deeper transformation is underway, pushed by the AI acceleration but also by a new generation of tech-savvy European founders who are reshaping music, media, and the creative industries.
TikTok partners with iHeartRadio on live music competition for artists with at least 50K followers
Contestants will advance based on a combination of likes, views and comments, and judges' scores.
2% of Spotify listeners buy 50% of concert tickets
Spotify dropped some stats and advice on nurturing streaming Super Listeners last week. With the data comes a surprising takeaway on the importance of an artist’s most active fans, particularly when it comes to selling tickets to live shows.
Is This Our Future? AI Slop Song Drowns Out Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Don’t Tap the Glass’ Album Launch
Tyler, the Creator’s ninth studio album, Don’t Tap the Glass, was set up for a massive summer impact. But the album release has been overshadowed by an AI song with the same name on TikTok.
Apple Music fans are obsessed with AutoMix in iOS 26, but one big flaw could be its downfall
Would you sacrifice playback duration?
Music Ally Mid-Year Wraps: Will superfan tiers save us from the streaming slowdown?
Anyone familiar with the U-shaped chart that plots recorded music income between 1999 and 2025 will be aware of the narrative: streaming saved recorded music. And the Big Number is still going up: each passing year reveals more growth. But what happens when that growth starts to slow?
Geoff Wilkinson of Jazz-Rap Band Us3 on the Rise of AI Music
Geoff Wilkinson of Us3 catapulted jazz into the mainstream in the early 1990s, earning Blue Note Records its first stateside platinum certification. The group released 9 albums over 20 years, until Wilkinson pulled the plug in 2014 due to illness. The London-based Clio award-winning producer has relaunched Us3 and its first album in a decade—Soundtrack—drops on Aug. 22.
Spotify Wants Fans to ‘Read Like They Listen’ as It Hypes Audiobooks
Campaign likens finding a new audiobook to discovering your next favorite track.
Warner Records US reveals revamped marketing team
Warner Records US has revealed changes to its marketing team, with Dalia Ganz promoted to EVP/head of digital & marketing.
Stability AI is developing a legit ‘opt in’ artist marketplace… amid lawsuits over unauthorized scraping
CEO Prem Akkaraju told the Financial Times that the company now has "zero debt."
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