Loyalty Tunes to Launch Affiliate-Driven Streaming Service; Dolby, The Weeknd Explore Creativity; 2022 Clio Music Awards Call for Entries

Dolby teamed up with The Weeknd to celebrate a new era for music in Dolby Atmos, which is transforming how music is created and enjoyed.

An infographic published last year by DiMA, the lobbying body for digital music services, suggested that the average DSP keeps $3.10 of every $10 it collects in subscriptions.

The entry window is now open for the 2022 Clio Music Awards celebrating creativity in music marketing and the use of music in advertising.

Pop star Raye publicly called out Polydor for holding back her debut album, and she’s not the first to voice frustrations at detrimental deals, from Charli XCX to Tinashe and Fifth Harmony

After years of relative stability, music consumption is shifting, with the DSP streaming model beginning to lose some ground as illustrated by the major labels growing streaming revenue by 33% in Q2 2021 while Spotify was up by just 23%.

Musicians are still grappling with a world where live touring isn't a reliable source of income. So why doesn't music streaming pay more?

YouTube really doesn't approve of bots that let people pull music from its platform into social platform Discord, having recently shut down Groovy.

Watch the livestream at 7pm BST on Thursday, 23 September 9 September 2021.

Don't spend time and money you can't get back in the recording studio, go into every session prepared and ready. Here are some tips!

Advertising is on track to contribute more than $1 billion in revenues to the U.S. music industry this year, making it the fastest-growing source of streaming/subscription music services, according to first-half industry stats released today by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Kanye West knows how to stir things up, not least in making us rethink what music is and nudging us away from considering it as linear and static.

Sonos announced last month that it would be increasing prices, and we’ve now learned when that will be happening and how hard it’ll hit our wallets.

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