For Music Industry, Cryptocurrency Will be as Disruptive as MTV; Livestreaming and the Horseless Carriage Syndrome

A former MTV exec reflects on how crypto is shaking up the music industry in ways reminiscent of a certain game-changing video network born in 1981.

Livestreaming is a concert without an audience in proximity to the musicians. Marshall McLuhan, in his seminal Understanding Media, argued that humans share an ineptitude in understanding the nature and the effects of new technologies.

We spoke to Gabi, BMAT engineer and the developer behind the Royalties Calculator we recently helped launch.

How fair music recommendation algorithms actually are? And what we could do to build more diverse music recommender systems? Let's find out!

Hipgnosis’ Merck Mercuriadis, who has had strong words against the publishing industry, sounded off in an open letter on Tuesday.

The famous music label UMG is selling stock in Europe, a sign of how the music industry has rebounded amid the boom in streaming.

MF DOOM will be the season-long topic for the second edition of MC Serch’s Did I Ever Tell You The One About... podcast

Spotify Celebrates ’90s Country’s Resurgence Of Popularity With Gen Z

Inflationary pressures are a massive talking point across the world this week, but how will this affect the music industry specifically...

New music download patterns appear to closely resemble epidemic curves for infectious disease, study finds.

Premier League club Wolves have continued their brand building activities outside of soccer through the launch of a new record label.

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