Spotify Opens Release Radar for Brand Sponsorships; Twenty One Pilots to Perform in Roblox; APM Music, Cyanite Partner to Enhance Music Tagging

Spotify's weekly playlist of new releases has been keeping users in the loop for five years, and now the company is opening it up to sponsorships..

The immersive performance begins inside Roblox on Friday.

Metadata is important across the whole music industry, and that includes the production music sector, with its clients invariably pushed for time as they hunt down the right tracks for their projects.

Blockbuster albums have been in short supply these past 18 months.

For those who remember the original Turntable, a glorious rebirth is afoot. Introducing tt.fm, ‘The all-new Turntable.'

While new technologies often get headlines for driving music industry growth, it’s really the fans – particularly hip hop fans – who are enabling the next wave of innovation in the music industry, writes Kriss Thakrar of MIDiA.

Spotify’s Release Radar is turning 5 and with it comes word that the personalized new music discovery playlist has been streamed more than 16 billion times.

NCT 127 will be unveiling an exclusive Spotify playlist titled Welcome to NCT 127 Sticker, the Enhanced Playlist on 10 September.

Roar Studios hopes to be a virtual platform to help musicians find collaborators and perform via avatar.

Westcott Multimedia gives music rights holders access to hyper-targeted programmatic advertising in order to drive revenue.

Twenty-eight percent of Gen Z music listeners use video games to discover new music, according to a new report by MRC Data.

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