Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Theres no such thing as one best music streaming service. Most of these apps are designed around the same principles and provide access to a huge music catalog. Pretty much none of them are paying artists properly, yet nearly all of them are steadily raising prices. This article originally appeared on Engadget at [link]

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Additionally, starting later this month Google will no longer accept purchases for music within its Play Store. Google is making these big moves now that its YouTube Music service is in full swing as its replacement. Transferring all of that content is as simple as opening the YouTube Music app for the first time.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If you purchased a Peloton bike or treadmill to exercise with during the pandemic, you’ll soon have a new collection of classes to take from a familiar artist. Peloton says that Beyoncé is one of the most requested artists for its playlists.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

TikTok announced today the “Artist Account” or “shop window” for followers to see musicians’ songs, learn about upcoming releases and get an inside look into their creative process.

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Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

Artists across the creative industries have also recently protested the UK government's December 2024 proposal to change copyright law. with 12 songs spelling out, "The British government must not legalise music theft to benefit AI companies." In February, over 1,000 musicians released an album called Is This What We Want?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Spotify’s going to test letting artists and labels influence more of what its algorithm promotes. The company announced today a new test for all artists and labels on the platform where they can decide to promote any music that’s important to them.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Pixelynx, an Animoca Brands-owned metaverse company co-founded by DJ and producer Deadmau5, announced today its newest suite of tools for its flagship product Korus, an AI-powered music creation platform where you can remix content using AI and licensed stem files made by artists and music labels, then mint music and earn revenue.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Music is about to become a much bigger part of Fortnite. So far the likes of Diplo, Steve Aoki, Deadmau5, and Kenshi Yonezu have performed music, while the theater has been used to screen a Tenet trailer , Epic’s Apple-mocking short “Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite,” and even a discussion about race in America.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new music platform, Uppbeat , aims to make it easier for YouTubers and other content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos. based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine , which has been operating for about six years. That led to deciding to build Uppbeat,” he says.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Learn to: • Generate engaging visuals with AI image-creation tools • Explore artistic styles using AI-powered image analysis • Create unique AI-composed music and jingles Register Now! Please Note: This webinar will be recorded.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Soundtrack is an application that broadcasters can use to add popular music from independent artists to their streams. On Wednesday, Twitch released a new feature that should help streamers avoid copyright strikes.

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TechSpot

JULY 6, 2021

On Tuesday, Roblox Corporation announced that it inked a deal with Sony Music Entertainment to bring its recording artists into the game. The arrangement sees Roblox and Sony collaborating to create "innovative music experiences" for the community, such as virtual concerts.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Apple’s year-end review and answer to Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, has arrived, but it’s still no match for Spotify’s personalized look back at your year in music.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 22, 2021

What happens when you put magnetic liquid inside a speaker and start playing music? An artist in Korea built his own rig to find out.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Creative platform EVEN , which allows artists to sell music directly to fans, said it has closed a $2.2 The platform positions itself as the first stop before artists release music on streaming platforms. For fans, it has become increasingly costly to support their favorite artists.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Despite its straightforward nature, 1.156 million unique players showed up for the event, with a peak concurrent total of 166,620 people — and it’s just the start of a plan to make music an integral part of Roblox. Our notion of a virtual concert we think has to have a virtual artist, a virtual stage, a virtual audience.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Chris McGarry, who previously led music integration at Facebook’s Oculus, is taking a new approach to bringing music into the virtual world with his startup Authentic Artists. “Music is the lifeblood of our vision, and accordingly, we’ve invested significantly in the core audio engine,” McGarry said.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The projectfeaturing more than a dozen Bay Area music artists, including E-40 , Too $hort, Saweetie , G-Eazy, Goapele, LaRussell, and Larry Junearrives just in time for the league’s All-Star Game weekend in San Francisco. For me, to be the first team to have a music company, or production company, its kinda cool, Payton said.

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TechSpot

JUNE 10, 2021

Variety reports that NMPA president/CEO David Israelite announced the lawsuit at the trade group's 2021 annual meeting, highlighting Roblox's millions of daily active players and alleging that it goes to great lengths to avoid paying artists for using their music.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Amazon is adding a large vault of music videos to its Amazon Music Unlimited service. Unlike some competitors like YouTube Music, Amazon’s videos are only available to paying subscribers, according to Android Police — not listeners on the ad-sponsored free tier. There will also be music video playlists to watch through.

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TechSpot

APRIL 12, 2023

Universal Music Group wants music streaming platforms like Apple Music and Spotify to block AI services from scraping melodies and lyrics. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Universal Music Group is modifying its contracts to extend the period in which an artist can rerecord their music, The Wall Street Journal reported. The move comes after the success of Taylor Swift’s rerecorded albums and the music label’s effort to gain more rights from artists who decide to rerecord their work.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As this is being written, we are still in the midst of the Spotify controversy , during which artists are abandoning the audio service in protest of that company’s contract with podcaster Joe Rogan. Neil Young was the first to pull his music from the service, followed by Joni Mitchell and others. Amazon Music. Amazon Music.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The Screen Actors Guild Awards, hosted by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), is set to take place tonight (Sunday, February 23) at 8 p.m. She will be joined by People editor at large Janine Rubenstein, EW general manager Patrick Gomez, and EW editorial director of TV and music Gerrad Hall.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

If you can host a popular talk show in Animal Crossing , why not stage an official music video there? Particularly when, as you’ll see in Sylvan Esso ’s official “Ferris Wheel” music video, the results are excellent. This actually isn’t the first official music video shot in Animal Crossing , by the way.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, Twitch releases Soundtrack , a new product that allows streamers to play music while they’re live — or, at least, that’s the simplest way to explain it. If the product works the way Twitch says it does, Soundtrack will be much more than just a way to play rights-cleared music while you’re broadcasting.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Snap is making good on its word to bring music to Snapchat and setting itself up to compete even more so with TikTok and Instagram. The company announced today that iOS users around the world will be able to include popular music in their snaps. Snap doesn’t say how big its music catalog is other than calling it “robust and curated.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Now a new startup is launching what it calls “functional music”, and it’s raised institutional backing to power its next phase. Spoke brings together the seemingly opposing worlds of music culture and mental health,” Ariana Alexander-Sefre, founder and co-CEO of Spoke, said in a statement.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

If youre currently in the market for a music-streaming subscription, have we got a deal for you. Pick up six months of Apple Music for just $3. Apple Music is a fine little streaming platform. It may not allow exclusive access to Joe Rogan episodes , like Spotify, but thats because Apple Music seems dedicated to, well, music.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

TikTok and Sony Music Entertainment have reached a licensing deal that will keep bringing songs from the record group’s roster of hit artists to the shortform video app. The companies are also supposed to work together on ways to promote Sony artists and “greater levels of TikTok user personalization.”.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Music is a daily part of many of our lives and the year is coming to an end. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could see what your music said about you this year? You don’t have to wait for your music streaming service to provide that for you anymore—you can see and learn from your listening data at any point in the year using Tableau.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

TL;DR : You don't need to be a professional to make music — just get lifetime access to Supermusic AI for only $39.97 (reg. Bring your musical ideas to life with Supermusic AI. Think of this tool as an AI music generator — it works similarly to AI article and image generators you've probably already fiddled with.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2022

First, they represent the intrinsic value of copyright ownership, and second, the emotional value of owning something scarce that’s associated with your favorite artist. Music, for example, is invisible, so it wouldn’t make sense for music NFTs to be applied the same way as NFTs for visual art, he said.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To date, Curio has released more than 75,000 NFTs in collaboration with leading music, film and television brands. Curio launched in 2020 and dropped its first NFTs in February 2021. The service allows users to create, mint, market and sell NFTs. The company’s co-founder and co-FEO, Ben Arnon, previously worked at UMG.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Normally in the music industry, it’s more or less impossible for ordinary investors to buy music rights. Thus, Web3 startups saw an opportunity to tokenise music assets, allowing fans access to music rights in a wholly new fashion. That way, it says, fans earn royalties alongside the artist and get paid when they do.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Mindset, a platform featuring personal story collections from recording artists, announced today that it raised $8.7 In its current format, Mindset features four audio collections from artists like Jae, Tablo, BM, and Mindset co-founder Eric Nam , who happens to be a K-pop star himself. million in seed funding.

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