StageIt Helps Artists Connect, Monetize; Audio Brand Trends ’21; Imogen Heap’s Creative Passport…
StageIt Helps Artists Connect and Monetize — www.billboard.com Live streams from Blue October, Rhett Miller, and Devin Townsend…
StageIt Helps Artists Connect and Monetize — www.billboard.com
Live streams from Blue October, Rhett Miller, and Devin Townsend highlight the best of StageIt’s 2020 live stream surge.
Imogen Heap’s Creative Passport goes live in beta mode — completemusicupdate.com
Imogen Heap’s Creative Passport venture had a beta launch yesterday, with music-makers across the world now encouraged to sign-up for a free account. The new service allows artists to store all sorts of data about their work, their output and their individual artist businesses.
Gibson releases Peace Through Music streaming concert, featuring Keith Richards, Santana and Gary Clark Jr. — www.guitarworld.com
Company also launches “Get an Epiphone, Gibson Gives an Epiphone” to provide guitars for music students.
The lost art of the Christmas single — thecritic.co.uk
It’s 1973 and Slade bass-player Jim Lea is taking a shower. The band are touring the States and it feels like a long way from home.
Spotify set for daily soap opera podcast in 2021 — musically.com
“Spotify is developing a daily soap opera podcast that could represent the most significant challenge to The Archers in the Radio 4 show’s 70-year history,” claimed the article, suggesting that the drama show will launch “as early as next year”.
Audio Brand Trends ’21: How The Sound Of Brands Will Change Next Year — www.bandt.com.au
Looking at trends that will define media, tech and marketing in 2021, world-leading sonic branding agency amp has earmarked the four key audio technology trends that we need to be listening to.
Live streaming giant MeMe Live’s popularity soars during pandemic — www.radioandmusic.com
Clocks over 11 million downloads.
Spotify’s about to know way more about what podcasts you listen to, even if you don’t use Spotify — www.theverge.com
Data, data, data.
FUGA Partners with Japanese Firm Space Shower Networks To Establish New Digital Music Distribution Joint Venture — www.recordoftheday.com
FUGA and Space Shower Networks Inc., the independent Japanese distribution, sales and marketing enterprise, have signed an agreement to establish a new joint venture company based in Japan.
Digital Performances Are Landing With Loyal Audiences — www.americantheatre.org
With data from virtual programming of 6 theatrical orgs, JCA Arts Marketing finds the greatest buy-in among longtime patrons.
LyricFind partners with Wixen Publishing to license lyrics from Wixen’s catalogue — lyricfind.com
LyricFind will be the licensing partner for the over 2,000 artists/songwriters under the Wixen banner, which includes heavyweights such as Tom Petty and Rage Against the Machine.
Hundreds of songs from Sony Music Japan added to Spotify & other streaming services worldwide — aramajapan.com
In a new update for the popular music streaming service Spotify, j-pop and j-rock fans were delighted to find tons of new material finally available for streaming!
Three big takeaways from Spotify India’s year-end charts — musically.com
Spotfiy’s detractors might delight in the fact that in India, it is in the position of an upstart, with a fraction of the customers of local rivals.
Troy Carter: ‘The music industry has to change the business model; it’s as simple as that.’ — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com
The Q&A founder and ex-Spotify exec joins the MBW podcast to talk independent artists — and the future of the business.
Prince Harry and Meghan will produce and host podcasts for Spotify, starting with a holiday special in December — www.cnbc.com
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have named their production company Archewell Audio.
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