One Billion Music Creators; Amazon Music's Country Heat Brand Surpasses 13B Streams; Tinder, Spotify to Generate Custom Dating Playlists

Making a tune is now as easy as taking a photo and uploading it to Instagram. With its 1 billion monthly active users, Instagram has made photographers out of all us. As phone cameras improved, the Instagram filters did the rest.

From 2017 through 2020, streams of the Country Heat station quadrupled.

Tinder and Spotify have formed a match made in heaven after pairing up to combine everything they know about dating and music to curate a date night playlist generator for wooing romantic interests.

The service incentivises Shorts influencers and those using YouTube’s main platform to promote new music by rewarding them for featuring tracks in their content.

The app has been downloaded over 1 billion times outside of China.

Artists’ financial rights group HIFI is buying FinTech The Music Fund in a deal that gives artists and musicians a rapid cash advance on their royalty income.

Tully’s services range from workflow management, to asset management, as well as templated contracts.

Splice says that Council members will help identify opportunities to support under-represented music-makers.

As the founder of music technology firm MQA – and before that of Meridian Audio – Bob Stuart has plenty of views on audio quality and music services.

Pex's partnership with the WIPO Center is equipped to resolve copyright conflicts across platforms, championing the entire creator economy.

MedRhythms and UMG are the first companies to develop an FDA-approved.

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