Coachella Launching Avalanche NFT Quests Game at Music Festival

Concertgoers at this year’s Coachella Music Festival will be able to earn perks and upgrades by playing a blockchain-based game called Coachella Quests developed by the festival's Coachella Innovations division in partnership with Ava Labs, the company behind the Avalanche blockchain.

How Taylor Swift changed the copyright game by remaking her own music

At a Harvard Law School event, an expert in digital exploitation of intellectual property says Taylor Swift singlehandedly shifted composition copyright considerations

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How Taylor Swift changed the copyright game by remaking her own music

Alphabeats uses music to help athletes ‘enter a flow state’

2024 is seeing a new crop of startups focusing on music and health or fitness. Alphabeats is one of them, fresh from a seed-funding round.

Spotify wants to make podcasts a marketing driver for music

Despite being the most transparent DSP on the market (at least in terms of publicising music data), Spotify does not make aggregate consumption data readily available to the public. So, when Spotify is willingly providing this type of data to a news outlet, there is likely a strategic reason for doing so.

How Universal Music Group is leading the industry's response to AI

Under CEO Lucian Grainge, the parent company of Interscope, Geffen, and Def Jam is leading the industry’s response to AI—and reworking streaming royalties to boot.

How do people search for music – and what do they really want in their results?

The latest episode of Music Ally Focus features Einar Helde, AIMS API’s co-founder and CCO, and explores how AI-driven search and discovery is changing how music is used. 

Tuned Global and Spafax team up to deliver in-flight music

The partnership combines Spafax’s experience in curating in-flight entertainment with Tuned Global’s advanced playlisting tools.

Stability AI’s Stable Audio update enables full-length song production from text or audio

The AI developer stresses that its new text-to-audio tool works to prevent abuse of copyrighted materials.

I just created an AI music video in 30 minutes — and I can’t believe the results

This is what LTX Studio can do.

Anghami completes merger with MENA-based Netflix rival OSN+

The combination of the music and video streaming platforms will create an "entertainment powerhouse" in the MENA region, the companies say.

Christian Luiga named new CFO of Spotify

Spotify said Luiga will join the company in Q3 2024, while Ben Kung, Spotify’s VP of Financial Planning and Analysis, will serve as interim CFO until then.

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