Gen Zs Use Spotify to Nurture Connection, Not Just Stream Songs; Rights & Royalties Without Borders
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Gen Zs Use Spotify to Nurture Connection, Not Stream Songs
For many young people, Spotify has become more than just a music streaming app; it’s a vital companion that mirrors their lives through music, podcasts, and playlists. Especially playlists.
Rights & Royalties Without Borders
The future of the multibillion-dollar global music rights management industry depends on data-driven solutions — will you be ready?
Germany is ‘a clear winner’ in music’s glocalisation game
German artists accounted for 43% of streams of the top 1,000 tracks in their home country last year, according to Will Page.
GenAI music-rights startup Musical AI raises $2.1m funding
Musical AI is one of the startups hoping to be the marketplace for AI companies to strike licensing deals with music rightsholders.
The Beatles Win Grammy with Their AI Song. How Was It Made?
The Beatles took home a Grammy for their Now and Then which became the first AI-assisted song ever earning a Grammy.
Marianne Faithfull Doubles Her Career Hits On One Chart Days After Her Death
While her collective streams surely soared, it’s on sales platforms where Faithfull’s work gained the most ground, and it’s on charts related to pure online purchases where her name currently appears. This week, just one of Faithfull’s albums appears on a U.K.-based chart, as Broken English debuts on the Official Album Downloads chart, the list of the most-downloaded full-lengths and EPs throughout the United Kingdom via storefronts like iTunes and Amazon.
TuneCore Accelerator drove more than 21bn new streams in 2024
TuneCore Accelerator is the distributor’s artist-development program, which offers a mix of promo services and marketing tools to help artists boost their streams and audiences.
Riffusion’s free AI music platform could be the Spotify of the future
The company’s new AI model, called Fuzz, can generate complete songs from text descriptions, audio clips or visual prompts. What sets it apart is its ability to learn individual users’ musical preferences over time, creating an increasingly personalized creative experience.
Tuned Global rolls out AI music features via AudioShake partnership
The collaboration will enable Tuned Global clients to separate song stems and generate word-by-word lyric transcriptions.
Patchwork Parkour is the latest music-focused game in Fortnite
There’s a new music game to play in Fortnite this week, created using its Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) tool.
US updates AI-Generated Content Copyright rules
The US Copyright Office just set the record straight on AI-generated content copyright. and the rulings could change everything for creators. From what can and can’t be copyrighted to the future of AI-assisted works, here are five key takeaways.
WMG’s deal with DSP Audiomack now covers 47 more countries
Warner Music Group has been licensing its catalogue to streaming service Audiomack since 2019, when it became the first major label to sign a deal with the DSP.
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