NFTs & Web3: New Tools for Artists, Musicians; The Story of AfroCharts; TikTok’s Fingerprints Were All Over the Grammys

The emerging class of NFT musicians empowered by decentralized technology and Web3 development promises better experiences in the metaverse for society at large.

Leonard Novati has bootstrapped AfroCharts while working full time as a programmer analyst in Milwaukee. Despite a lifetime of barriers, he says: "I still think I can make it here."

Grammy Awards showcased TikTok’s rising influence over the music industry.

Nomad Media Club is set to launch a Web3 based music streaming platform that hopes to disrupt subscription-based streaming and offer fairer payment to artists.

We tracked some of this year’s Grammy winners and nominees to see which songs were the most copied on social media.

The project also broke the record for the most first day and first week streams globally on Amazon Music for a country album by a female artist.

VNUE is announcing the newest and most advanced version of its Soundstr audio recognition and identification platform product, Soundstr MDM.

Never heard of Plern? Here's how an upstart Thai streaming music platform quickly created heat for Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.

As hot new bands like Wet Leg sang songs at SXSW, industry players debated whether it’s the song or the singer that makes the single swing to the top of the pop charts, and how to split the streaming money, which is reportedly clocking in at a brisk $1.4 million per hour for the Big Three.

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