Music Creators Thrive on Twitch, TikTok, Instagram; Long Live the Music NFTs; Are Podcasts Stealing Streams From Music?

On discoverable platforms, Austin musicians experience encouragement, engagement, and unexpected viral moments

Music listening in the US has fallen since the rise in popularity of podcasts and spoken word streaming.

NFTs will kill streaming giants and your favorite songs will look and sound completely different the next time you hit play due to decentralized technologies.

Music streaming platform Audius enables musicians to embed Solana NFTs on social media platforms including Discord and Twitter.

Watch videos chosen by the artist while their music plays in the Spotify mobile app.

Staccs is set to become the global home for concerts on demand, providing a new commercial opportunity for the music industry.

Wizkid was one of the early Afrobeats artists to gain prominence globally, both through collaborations with western artists and through organic growth of his own fanbase.

Tempo CEO Josh Empson explains his Providence-owned fund's strategy in the music business.

Hivestack announce an industry-first dynamic digital audio out of home partnership with Stingray, a music, media, and technology provider.

Lawrence Dotson is auctioning NFTs of disposable camera photos he took at the record release party for Tupac's legendary album 2Pacalypse Now 30 years ago.

76 percent of Chennai-based Think Music now belongs to Believe, which paid approximately $14.64 million (€13 million) for the interest, calculating at the present exchange rate. 14-year-old Think Music’s “current management team” is set to “remain in place” moving forward.

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