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Post Malone’s ‘Live at le Louvre’ gig streamed live on Roblox
Roblox said that it was the first global, in-person concert to be streamed exclusively on its platform.
STRV partners with Feed.fm to energize new apps with music
With clients including Barry’s, Porsche, The Athletic, Hallmark, Barnes & Noble, and The Pump by Arnold Schwarzenegger, STRV has the distinction of combining award-winning design and cross-functional engineering with unrivaled product vision and strategy.
Amazon Music reveals livestreaming plans for Primavera Sound
From Coachella (YouTube) to Glastonbury (BBC) to Stagecoach (Amazon Music) the number of music festivals with sets being streamed live online continues to grow. Amazon Music is the partner for Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival this year, which takes place from 30 May to 1 June.
Spotify hikes subscription price in France by 1.2% to match new music-streaming tax
Spotify has hiked the price for its premium subscription in France by an eye-watering €0.13 in response to a music-streaming levy imposed by the government at the start of the year.
Sony Music in talks to acquire Queen catalog in potential $1bn deal
Potential deal would become one of the biggest single-artist music catalog sales in history.
The Next Taylor Swift Could Come from Outside the West
In rapidly emerging markets like India and Africa, listeners increasingly care more about domestic artists — and that could determine where the next Taylor Swift emerges from.
AI Can Write the Lyrics, But Who Owns the Music Is Up for Debate
Nashville-based country musician Anna Vaus and her brother were curious about the quality of AI songwriting, so they asked a generative AI chatbot to write a country tune, offering the bot nothing more than a title: “River of Love.”
Matt Serletic joins Amazon Music as Director of AI Innovation and Interactive Experiences
The individual joining the company in that role is music industry veteran Matt Serletic, a Grammy award-winning producer and former CEO of Virgin Records in the US.
ClearBeats wants to shake up clearance of derivative rights
ClearBeats will focus on cover, remix, interpolation, sample registration and clearance.
OpenAI’s New Tool Will Give Artists Control Over Their Data—but It’s Unclear How
ChatGPT developer OpenAI says that artists and other content owners will be able to request that their work be excluded from use in AI development. Many details of the scheme remain unclear.
Domino and Sentric Music join RDx global data exchange service
Launched by IFPI and WIN and operated by PPL, the RDx platform aims to streamline music data for royalty collections.
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