Yamaha to Launch $50M Music Tech Investment Fund; How Legacy Recordings Help Bands Keep Rocking
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2025: Trends We Can Expect to See in the Music Industry Over the Next 12 Months
Last year, we saw the takeover of AI music & the revival of physical formats of music consumption, but what are we expecting to see this year?
Yamaha to launch $50 million music tech investment fund
The corporate venture capital fund comes as part of the company’s mission to “explore innovation opportunities with startups and other companies.” The main aim is to “contribute to the well-being of people around the world through sound and music”.
How Legacy Recordings help Bands keep rocking
Legendary bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who and now bands from the 1980’s and 1990’s have shared thousands of vault recordings over the last 50 years, and the fans still want more.
Apple Intelligence makes this Apple Music feature better than ever, here’s why
Apple Music hasn’t technically received any AI upgrades yet, but there’s one recent Apple Intelligence feature that has nonetheless proven a surprisingly great addition to the Music app since iOS 18.2 launched.
Luminate report: audio music streams grew by 14% in 2024
Industry research firm Luminate’s annual report is out, and the biggest of its many big figures is 4.8tn (trillion). That’s how many on-demand audio music streams there were in 2024 according to its calculations – a year-on-year rise of 14%. The US accounted for 1.4tn of those (29.2%).
Cozy up with new winter releases from Feed Originals
Let the cold winds blow while you get your mug of cocoa and relax into a mellow winter groove. Feed Originals just released some of the best new music for winter.
PlaylistSupply Gets Ready for a Big Year with Expanded Services, New Artist Tools, Partnerships
Built as an all-in-one solution for playlist research and promotion, the PlaylistSupply platform helps artists and their teams find relevant playlists faster, making the whole process more efficient.
Melody Rights is a new rights management and distro platform - that won’t distribute your music to DSPs like Spotify or Apple Music
Melody Rights says that its distribution network includes access to what it calls “top-tier platforms in stock music, gaming, and social music categories”, with plans “for rapid expansion”.
Music Can Thrive in the AI Era
It’s past time we applauded the creative skills of LLMs—and it might make us appreciate humans more too.
Musical AI and Beatoven.ai to Create First Fully Licensed, Full-Song AI Generator
Musical AI’s proprietary technology and existing rightsholders catalogs will power a new era in generative music, based on consent and honoring music writers, performers, and rightsholders.
Is It Time Your Radio Station Did A “Cameo?”
The power of celebrity has never been stronger, especially on social media where it is coveted. So-called brand influencers are cashing in on the trend. But there’s no substitute for true stardom, and that’s what Cameo is all about – putting celebrities to work to record customized, personalized greetings for fun and profit.
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