Musicube Plans U.S. Expansion; What Exactly is the ‘Artist’ in Pop Music?; Songfluencer Acquires Preffy

German startup Musicube is the latest company touting AI-powered technology to analyse and tag catalogues of music, and it has raised funding.

The “artist” as usually defined in pop music is quite a peculiar concept. And it can mean several different things.

Songfluencer — the Nashville-based music marketing firm which uses data-driven technology to earn music success on TikTok — is further staking its claim in the music tech landscape with the…

Universal Music Group proved a hit with investors as its shares surged by more than a third in the first hours of post-IPO trading.

As a result of the new guidelines set out by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), record labels are no longer allowed to issue exclusive licenses to music services.

Foot-square covers, bonus tracks and poster inserts — what's not to like?

From digi-drugs to Neurodungeons, amid the chaos and claustrophobia of COVID, people found groundbreaking ways to party, raise hell, and find themselves online

Songtradr has partnered with the mindfulness music label for sync services across the platform.

ByteDance reportedly started work on the app back in 2019.

The company secured $12.2 million in investment from existing investors, as well as several new investors including key international family offices and former NBA player, actor and music producer Baron Davis.

Apple Music announced that it’s created a process to properly identify and compensate all of the individual creators involved in making a DJ mix.

Would you like the music you listen to if you didn't know who created it? Tunedly wants to answer that question with masked music discovery.

Turns out there's an interesting niche for custom-created streaming music platforms — one that giants like Spotify can't easily service.

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