Delta Debuts Live Music Platform; UK Artists Thriving in the Streaming Era; Pershing Offers to Buy UMG
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Universal Music Group Gets $63.5 Billion Takeover Offer From Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square
Lucian Grainge, CEO of the musical home of the likes of Taylor Swift, and his team “have done an excellent job... However, UMG’s stock price has languished due to a combination of issues that are unrelated” to its music business performance.
Delta Airlines Launches First-of-its-Kind Live Music Platform
Independent creative agency Kin announced the launch of 'Overhead Originals,' a music series created for Delta Air Lines in partnership with YouTube. Designed to drive engagement with Delta’s in-flight entertainment platform and deepen relevance with gen z travellers, the initiative transforms Delta’s aircraft cabins into exclusive live performance venues - redefining what in-flight entertainment can be.
From Access to Infrastructure: How Managers Can Win at Streaming
For the first decade of streaming, success was largely about access. The industry focused on getting music onto digital service providers as quickly and widely as possible, and solving distribution unlocked enormous growth for independent artists and labels.
Yes, UK Artists Are Thriving in the Streaming Era
Spotify’s Andy Sloan-Vincent weighs in on the local debate over streaming pay and the data behind how artists are actually earning today.
Charlie Puth on why musicians shouldn’t write for the feed
Musicians in the 21st century often feel pressured to chase streams, go viral, and tailor every song to the latest social media trends. But Charlie Puth says he’ll release a track whether fans love it or not.
Can Radio Ever Play A Major Role Again In New Music Discovery?
New music discovery, once a radio mainstay, has now been fragmented across thousands of entertainment brands all over the Internet. And now an airline has jumped on the new music bandwagon, begging the question of whether radio can ever recapture its former glory—assuming it wants to.
Rap Fame Is an Online Community Providing Human Connection Via Hip-Hop
Like Reddit, Rap Fame boosts users who give substantive feedback and encouragement, rewarding pro-social behavior and real community investment and turning listening into mutually-beneficial support.
Garth Brooks Is Hurting His Own Legacy By Keeping His Music Off Streaming Services Like Spotify
It’s a well-known fact that the “Friends In Low Places” singer refuses to license his music to Spotify or Apple Music, which combined make up around 50% of streaming users. He even briefly created his own streaming platform called GhostTunes back in 2014, but unsurprisingly it didn’t last long.
Piracy Still Happens — Why the First 72 Hours of Your Music Release Are Crucial
When was the last time you thought about music piracy? It turns out, this is still a persistent problem in the industry — but one that you can control.
Instagram sets out its stall as a ‘music superfandom’ platform
“58% of music super fans use Instagram to engage with music artists and/or music content, making it one of the largest social and video destinations for music engagement,” claims the study, adding that “nearly 1 in 3 (32%) of Instagram’s daily music engagers are qualified as superfans”.
Music Hackathons in the AI Era Shift Toward People Working Together
Critics argue hackathons have lost their value with the rise of AI, but their role has clearly shifted to be less about coding, and more about human creativity.
Hannah Montana Streams Quadruple After Anniversary Special
In the seven-day period before the special hit Hulu and Disney+ (March 17-23), Hannah Montana’s catalog earned 4.63 million official on-demand U.S. streams. That figure exploded by 306% to over 18.8 million streams in the seven-day period following the special’s premiere (March 24-30), according to Luminate.
Norman Feels Catalog Finally Makes It to Streaming Services
Songs from Norman Feels’ original catalog are now available across DSPs, after being available only through samples in others’ songs for decades.
Nine Network to Screen New Michael Jackson Documentary Series
The Michael Jackson Story, produced by Fremantle’s Emmy Award-winning 72 Films, will share rare archive footage of the late singer and interviews with the likes of his sister, La Toya Jackson, as well as Dionne Warwick and manager Dieter Wiesner.
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