Limewire to Launch AI Creator Studio on Polygon; BandLab's ‘Comprehensive Rebrand’; TuneCore Partners With Song Data Startup Session

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Limewire to Launch AI Creator Studio on Polygon

LimeWire, a once-infamous file sharing program from the early 2000s known for its role in distributing pirated music, is taking its next major step into the emerging tech landscape as it prepared to launch its AI Creator Studio on the Polygon blockchain.

Music tech company BandLab Technologies launches ‘comprehensive rebrand’

BandLab Technologies’ portfolio includes flagship social music creation platform BandLab, music production software Cakewalk, artist services platform ReverbNation, amd beat marketplace Airbit.

Goldman Sachs’ Lisa Yang: Why I’m bullish about music streaming’s future

MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Lisa Yang, Managing Director of Media & Internet at Goldman Sachs’ Global Investment Research. Yang keeps a very close eye on the music business – she’s the lead analyst on Goldman’s hugely influential ‘Music In The Air’ paper, a new and updated version of which is released each year.

TuneCore partners with song data startup Session, co-founded by Max Martin, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus, Niclas Molinder

The partnership will allow independent artists to share their music from Session Studio directly to digital stores and streaming platforms using TuneCore’s distribution service.

• JKBX, music royalty trading platform, will launch September 12, aiming to become ‘transformative force in music and investing’

• Taylor Swift Hits 100 Million Spotify Listeners, First Female Artist To Do So

• Italy’s recorded music revenues grew 14.2% in H1, with 19 of the Top 20 best-selling albums all by local acts

• This AI generator can create over one billion different soundtracks

• New Dolby Atmos TV Technology Lets You Add Immersion-Boosting Wireless Speakers

• Music tech company InMusic considering legal action over Pioneer DJ parent’s takeover of Serato

• Music Metrics Vault Debuts with Focus on Spotify Analytics

• Meta’s new AI model can create sounds that are technically music

• Up close and personal: when the algorithm goes too far

• Apple Music’s Spatial Audio Vs. Songs of the Summer

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