Spotify Partners with Bandsintown to Boost Live Music Discovery

With Bandsintown event listings now directly integrated into Spotify, artists can reach the right fans — while they’re listening — driving better engagement and stronger sales for their live events around the globe.

Inside the Music Industry's High-Stakes A.I. Experiments

Lucian Grainge, the chairman of UMG, has helped record labels rake in billions of dollars from streaming. Can he do the same with generative artificial intelligence?

Cinq Music raises $250m from parent company for acquisitions

Label, publisher and distributor Cinq Music has raised $250m of funding to spend acquiring music rights, from its parent company.

The Woman-Owned Music Company Behind 7 Big Game Ads

It's been a busy few months for music, sound-design and mixing company Barking Owl, with founder and ECD Kelly Bayett and creative director Johanna Cranitch putting in extra hours on a bevy of Super Bowl campaigns.

Defected launches Afro-house label One People

One People aims to “orchestrate a sonic celebration of Afrocentric music from a diverse and international roster of artists”, according to a statement. The label will feature Afro-house, Afro-tech and melodic house.

AI can now master your music—and it does shockingly well

After mastering, the end result should sound "more like a record," but this stage of the music-making process has always required subtle value judgments, as every change operates on the entire stereo track. And well-trained humans excel at subtle value judgments.

YouTube reveals 2024 class for ‘Fifty Deep’ hip-hop program

YouTube celebrated last year’s 50th anniversary of hip-hop with a ‘cultural campaign’ called Fifty Deep. Now it’s expanding.

Music promotion startup Groover raises an $8m funding round

French startup Groover launched in 2019 as a way to help independent artists promote their music by getting it in front of tastemakers.

“A new chapter in the evolution of DJing”

The reimagined Vision Pro version of djay - already a hit on iOS, Mac, Windows and Android - enables you to mix on a set of virtual 3D turntables, interacting with them by moving the needle around or scratching. You can position yourself in various immersive environments, and there are light shows that respond in time to your performance.

UMG wants to build a ‘music city’ in the United Arab Emirates

Universal Music Group’s latest Middle East move is a partnership with United Arab Emirates music organisation DGMC.

Hipgnosis Songs Fund is looking for a new company to value its catalogues

The company that valued the catalogues owned by the Hipgnosis Songs Fund has quit, it has emerged - Citrin Cooperman stood down from that role after the fund’s board raised concerns about the valuation it had calculated

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