Is Meta Adding Music to Threads?; Inside Canada's 'Streaming Tax' Battle
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Is Meta adding music to Threads?
Meta’s Threads app is reportedly developing a feature that allows users to add music to their posts. This would bring the app closer in line with Instagram and Facebook, where users can already show off their music taste via similar features.
Major Music Streaming Companies Push Back Against Canadian Content Payments: Inside Canada's 'Streaming Tax' Battle
Spotify, Apple, Amazon and others are challenging the CRTC's mandated fee payments to Canadian content funds like FACTOR and the Indigenous Music Office, both in courts and in the court of public opinion. Here's what's at stake.
Concert Films The Latest Feature For Music Streaming Aussies
With Spotify entering the concert film market, how does their move impact the rest of the music streaming ecosystem?
The State of Music Publishing in 2025: A chat with Reservoir Media President & COO, Rell Lafargue
The past decade has seen a vast uptick in the importance of the music publishing sector. Publishing rights now account for roughly 30-40% of rightsholder revenue, thanks in part to both the adoption of consistent digital revenue streams and major investments from the financial sector that have bolstered the value of music catalogs.
WhatsApp's new new music status updates take me back to my MySpace and MSN Messenger days
If you're very online and a certain age, you'll remember when MySpace used to let you display specific songs on your profile, or when we used "What I'm Listening To" in our MSN Messenger statuses to show how cool/tortured/whatever we were.
Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish Drive Pop Streaming Growth vs Latin Music
"Women led the charge, with 63.4 percent of the U.S. top 100 pop audio streams performed by female artists," highlights a Luminate report for 2024.
TikTok Curators: Spotify’s Next Move for Music Discovery?
With the looming possibility of a US TikTok ban, we see a significant opportunity for Spotify to establish itself as the go-to platform for TikTok music curators. Could Spotify seize this moment?
Most-Viewed Music Documentaries: 'Greatest Night In Pop' Leads
A new report from Billboard chart data provider Luminate tallies which titles overperformed on major streaming platforms in 2024.
RoEx adds Ableton Live Set Export and DAWproject support
AI-mixing startup RoEx has a new feature: Ableton Live Set Export.
Vimeo wins latest round of long-running music copyright case
It’s more than 15 years since we reported on video service Vimeo facing a lawsuit from labels over videos using their music without permission.
$500m-valued Suno hit with new copyright lawsuit from Germany’s GEMA
GEMA represents the copyrights of around 95,000 members in Germany (composers, lyricists, music publishers) as well as over two million rightsholders worldwide.
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