Photo Credit: EU Audiovisual Service TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew met with EU officials to discuss privacy concerns and child safety protections. The European lawmakers asked the TikTok chief several questions focused on its preparation for EU rules focused on content governance and safety. EU commissioners also discussed child safety on the platform, the spread […]
London, England. Photo Credit: Benjamin Davies Thanks largely to continued streaming and vinyl growth, UK music industry sales increased by about three percent during 2022 and approached £1.99 billion, according to a newly released preliminary report. This and other interesting data points came to light in an analysis from London’s Digital Entertainment and Retail Association […]
Photo Credit: YouTube YouTube Shorts is officially preparing to implement a new revenue sharing model – a move that could draw creators away from TikTok, which continues to grapple with bans and far-reaching lawsuits in the U.S. Google’s short-form video-sharing platform just recently revealed its plans to cut creators in on advertising revenue. Scheduled to […]
Photo Credit: Mastercard Mastercard announces its new web3-based “Artist Accelerator” music program in an effort to support emerging musical artists. Financial services company Mastercard announced the debut of its Mastercard Artist Accelerator program at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The program will connect five up-and-coming musicians with mentors, fans, and technical resources to assist in navigating the frontier […]
Streaming platforms have more than eight million artists and eighty million tracks. Sifting through that volume means having the right tool at your disposal. Here’s a peek at how Chartmetric can help you filter the noise. Finding a needle in the haystack doesn’t have to be a monumental task–not with the right tools at your […]
Universal Music Group (UMG) is officially facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly “depriving artists of the royalties they are contractually owed” – to the tune of a staggering $750 million in “unlawfully retained” payments from Spotify streams. Andres Titus and William McLean, rappers who perform and release music together as Black Sheep, just recently submitted […]
Photo Credit: TIkTok DJ and Producer Calvin Harris is hosting an exclusive VR concert on TikTok Live. The show is premiering on Friday, January 13 at 8 pm GMT in partnership with Wave. The Calvin Harris Experience will take fans through a musical journey inspired by Calvin’s virtual universe, featuring audio-reactive visuals in a nature-inspired […]
Photo Credit: André Luís Alves Campos Amazon Music and Fraunhofer are partnering to reveal 360-degree immersive sound while driving at CES 2023. Fraunhofer IIS is the primary developer of the MPEG-H 3D Audio standard, which serves as the base for Amazon Music’s 360 Reality Audio. Now both companies will demonstrate how the format can be […]
Photo Credit: Jamakassi Vinyl sales in the United States have reached highs not seen since 1991 thanks to the holidays. Data from Luminate shows that 2.32 million vinyl albums were sold in the week ending December 22–the last week before Christmas. According to Billboard, that’s the single-largest sales week for vinyl albums since Luminate began electronically tracking music […]
Photo credit: Heidi Fin If you were a 90s kid like me, you probably remember curating playlists before there were playlists. They were called mixtapes, or “burning a CD.” We put our favorite songs in one place so we could just hit play and know that every track would be awesome. Today’s version of that […]
