Spotify Tests AI Playlists; Wez Clarke Debuts AI Engineering Clone; Bandsintown Unwraps Shareable Live Music High Notes for Artists
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Spotify confirms test of prompt-based AI playlists feature
Though the company isn’t yet ready to commit to the launch of AI playlists, the streamer has been heaving investing in AI across its app, including with the launch of an AI DJ at the beginning of the year, which offers personalized playlists and commentary in an AI voice that’s based on Spotify’s head of cultural partnerships Xavier ‘X’ Jernigan. That feature became globally available in August.
Grammy-winning Engineer Wez Clarke Launches the World’s First AI Engineering Clone
In a pioneering collaboration, Clarke has licensed his unique talent to AI mastering company Masterchannel, for the launch of Wez Clarke AI. The launch represents a significant advancement in the integration of musical artistry with AI, and showcases the future potential of how AI can be developed in partnership with the music industry.
UMG and Supersocial team on Beat Galaxy music hub in Roblox with Yungblud as launch artist
Beat Galaxy is described as a next-generation social experience centred around music discovery, featuring a fully interactive social space where fans can meet, discover and share their favourite artists and music. It builds on several activations on Roblox by UMG artists and labels.
Bandsintown unwraps shareable live music High Notes for Artists
High Notes is designed to be shared by artists to thank fans, grow their following, and celebrate accomplishments.
TikTok Expands ‘Add to Music App’ Feature to 19 New Markets
The video-sharing platform is continuing its efforts to translate the success of music on the platform onto DSPs with its latest development. TikTok initially unveiled the feature in the United States and United Kingdom, allowing users to select their preferred streaming app including Amazon Music, Apple Music and Spotify.
WMG teams up with MediMusic to test ‘music as medicine’
Warner Music Group is the latest major label to explore music’s therapeutic potential. It has signed a deal with UK startup MediMusic.
SoundCloud says it will be profitable in latest financial year
The profitability (or rather, the unprofitability) of independent music-streaming services has long been a talking point.
Armada’s $100m BEAT Music Fund strikes series of rights deals in the UK, including the entire catalog of Sola Records
Armada Music‘s BEAT Music Fund’s campaign to invest $100 million in dance music rights in the first two years of its existence continues apace, with the fund announcing on Thursday a series of new acquisitions, including the entire back catalog of Sola Records.
AI’s Influence on Music Is Raising Some Difficult Questions
Earlier this year, Bad Bunny emphatically rejected rumors that he was about to release a new song with Justin Bieber. “That’s fake,” he told TIME in an interview for a cover story on his meteoric rise. “You never know what I’m going to do.”
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