Roblox Opens Up a Huge Global Audience for Artist Discovery; Spotify Debuts Personalized In-app Merch Hub; Universal Music Launches Music-licensing Service for Creators
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How Roblox is opening up a huge global audience for artist discovery
Roblox’s head of music partnerships, Karibi Dagogo-Jack, has outlined the platform’s potential to break artists and songs. In recent years, Roblox has become a key destination for artists entering the metaverse, with high-profile avatar performances by David Guetta, Bebe Rexha and Lil Nas X.
Spotify is launching a personalized in-app Merch Hub
Once you’re in the hub, you can browse and click on merch items to learn more about them. If you’re ready to make a purchase, you can do so through the artist’s Spotify store thanks to a partnership with Shopify.
Ghostwriter, the guy behind the viral Drake/Weeknd song, thinks AI music is like fanfiction
Why he think AI is the future of music and more revelations from his first-ever interview.
Universal Music launches music-licensing service for creators
Music rightsholders like to grumble about Epidemic Sound’s popularity with online video creators as a source for music. Now Universal Music Group is going head-to-head with the production library.
With the biggest jazz album debut in Spotify history, AWAL says Laufey is bringing ‘jazz to Gen Z’
Raised between Reykjavík and Washington, DC, and now based in Los Angeles, the Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter has been racking up streams and streaming records in the two years since signing a global recordings deal with AWAL (in 2021).
Introducing An AI-powered Music Distribution: 52Eighty Distro
In the ever-changing world of art and commerce, where traditional rules, boundaries, and business models no longer apply, artists need a forward-looking and multifaceted company to help them shape, facilitate, and support their vision. 52 Eighty Distro is that company.
Amazon Music Original Orchestration tracks reach 43m streams… on YouTube
There’s an interesting stat in Amazon Music’s latest announcement of a new ‘Amazon Original Orchestration tracks. Those are tracks re-recorded by artists exclusively for Amazon Music with new backing orchestration, and according to the DSP they now have more than 43m streams… on YouTube.
Music of the Sails turns Sydney Opera House into an audiovisual performance lasting 744 hours
Collaborating with the University of New South Wales and Uncanny Valley, the Opera House is using data from the building to create a generative soundscape and visual artwork.
Audoo Secures Expansion With Foundation Client APRA AMCOS in Australia and New Zealand
After partnering with Australasian music rights management organization APRA AMCOS last year, Music Recognition Technology (MRT) company Audoo has now announced an expanded rollout of its Audio Meters in the region. Audoo’s CEO reveals that the first tranche of installations in key Australian and New Zealand cities was a success — and ‘scaling is now the next step.’
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