Photo Credit: Music Venue Trust British venues attracted more than 22 million visitors in 2022 — down 16.7% from 2019 as profit margins continue to shrink amid the cost of living crisis. Music Venue Trust (MVT), representing nearly 1,000 UK grassroots music venues, has launched its 2022 annual report, highlighting the importance of its members’ […]
Photo Credit: Mike Castro Demaria Google researchers have created an AI capable of generating music from text prompts—like ChatGPT. The model is called MusicLM. A text prompt like ‘a calming violin melody backed by a distorted guitar riff’ will generate music at 24kHz for several minutes. The paper published by researchers says MusicLM outperforms previous […]
Photo Credit: Sweetwater Ready to take your home setup to the next level as a content creator? Whether you’re writing music, streaming video games, or making videos–Sweetwater has the gear content creators need to take their production quality to the next level. The following was created in collaboration with Sweetwater, a company DMN is proud […]
Photo Credit: Douglas Johnson / CC by 2.0 What are the best-selling albums of all time? We look at the top ten based on total certified copies sold versus claimed copies sold — and why it’s so difficult to determine how many copies an album sells. While it might seem simple to list the best-selling […]
Photo Credit: Thibault Penin Spotify has now suffered at least two outages in as many weeks, and the second of these service interruptions occurred soon after the Stockholm-headquartered company laid off hundreds of employees. More than a few social media diehards have penned firmly worded posts about the Spotify outages, which the streaming giant has […]
Photo Credit: Gary Lerude / CC by 2.0 China’s government is buying shares in Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, and other tech companies to give the CCP special rights over certain business decisions. The Chinese government is buying shares, usually a 1% holding in a vital area, in tech companies like Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent to be […]
Photo Credit: Sony Asia Pacific Sony announces two new music players in the Walkman family with download and streaming functionality, enhanced sound quality, and longer battery life. Singapore-based Sony Asia Pacific has unveiled two new music players, the NW-ZX707 and the NW-A306, the latest editions to the Walkman series. Both players have been designed for high-quality sound, […]
Photo Credit: TikTok TikTok launches a ‘Talent Manager Portal’ that allows creators’ managers to negotiate branding deals. To make it easier for brands to work with its biggest creators, TikTok has updated its Creator Marketplace to include a Talent Manager Portal, inviting talent managers to oversee and analyze brand opportunities and campaigns presented to their clients. The […]
On-demand music streaming volume grew dramatically in India between the first and final weeks of 2022, according to a new report. Photo Credit: Luminate Global on-demand music streams (for audio as well as video) hiked by 25.6 percent to crack 5.3 trillion during 2022, as stateside on-demand streams grew by double digits to surpass 1.3 […]
Photo Credit: Apple Apple has announced a new Business Connect tool for Apple Maps to make it easier for users to buy tickets, book hotel rooms, and make dinner reservations. Business Connect is aimed at bringing physical businesses more ways to connect with customers digitally through Apple Maps. Some of the examples Apple shares are […]
