Spotify Jazzes Up Library UI; The Sachetization of Music Consumption; Revelator Brings Instant Payment, Real Data to Music

Sachetization comes from the fast-moving consumer goods industry and refers to the bite-size packaging – e.g. one biscuit, or 15ml shampoo – of goods that used to be available only in bigger, and thus more expensive, packages.

Spotify is redesigning its Your Library tab to make it easier to navigate. People can pin up to four pieces of content to the top and view all their downloaded content.

Revelator sprang from the assumption that music business systems could be dramatically improved and that decentralized approaches would yield the greatest impact.

John Mayer is in talks with with Paramount Plus-CBS to host a talk show based on the U.K.'s "Later with Jools Holland" format, say sources.

Imogen Heap was one of the very first artists talking about (and experimenting with) cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, so it’s no surprise to see her also exploring what non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are all about.

In this second article in the series, we look at the role of algorithms and playlists in determining the music we listen to and how payment models affect classical artists.

Sound Royalties founder Alex Heiche on the catalog acquisition market and what he’d change about the music business…

London Grammar have reworked three tracks from their recent No.1 album Californian Soil for Calm, in a project led by Sony Music UK's 4th Floor Creative and Ministry Of Sound.

2020 was a particularly big moment for audio growth, one characterized by a massive shift in lifestyle as more people were working from home.

Go back ten, maybe fifteen years and analog LP sales were vapor thin among young, non-audiophiles. Streaming lossy, compressed music on handheld devices had.

In 2020 streaming income in France grew by 20.6% to €453m, with the number of paid music subscriptions growing from 7.2m in 2019 to 8.7m in 2020.

Pizza aficionadoughs can get down to TYNAN and G-Rex's "Doughboi" and Buku's "Cake Dough Cheddar."

Not many artists are brave enough to put out their debut LP as a concept album, but that’s what Laura Veirs did with ‘The Triumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae’.

This innovative in-person and drive-in music festival takes place in the Miami Marine Stadium parking lot. It’s gonna be a party with help from social influencer, YesJulz, featuring music’s hottest acts: Lil’ Wayne, Tekashi 6ix9ine, 2Chainz, Tyga, Cris Cab, Kidd Lee.

Rickie Lee Jones’ rich catalogue is re-discovered by Lea Andrews who was 12 when Jones was 25. As Rickie Lee road around Southern California with Tom Waits and Dr John, Lea connected with her music all the way from suburban Hertfordshire.

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