Downtown taps SymphonyOS AI-marketing tech for its artist

Downtown has been testing SymphonyOS’s suite of tools with artists including Hunter Hayes, mehro and Ryan Nealon.

New Spotify Research Finds Genres People Love the Most. And That's Not Pop.

A new study published by Spotify has revealed how on-demand music streaming services (like Spotify itself) are changing the way we discover and consume new music. By analysing the listening habits of one million Spotify users and streaming patterns of 282K newly released music, researchers uncovered some trends about genre preferences and the unique way users interact with newly released tracks. Some of them are indeed surprising.

Apple Music becoming integral to release strategies in India

This month: Amit looks into the impact of Apple Music in India, as the streaming platform slowly becomes a more important part of release and marketing strategies – in a country where freemium music streaming services have long been considered the norm.

Udio Users Make an Average of 864K New Songs Every Day

Udio users are surely revelling, churning out 1,200 free songs a month. It starts with text prompts: you type in a description of a music genre, topic, lyrics, and (as the company’s press release oh-so-eloquently puts it: “artists that inspire”), and voilà—a piece of music materialises within 40 seconds.

This creation can then be “remixed” through further text prompts until the user achieves their desired masterpiece. The solution even boasts the ability to create 15-minute tracks, overshadowing Suno's mere 4-minute limit.

PRS For Music cuts admin rate to deliver £6m boost in royalties from online services

Songwriters and composers are set to receive an additional £6 million in royalties from online services, each year, as part of distributions by PRS For Music.

Marking her fifth year as CEO, Andrea Czapary Martin, announced a reduction in the administration rate from 10% to 8% applied to multi-territory online (MTOL) royalties’ collection. 

Songs as cultural moments (and why TikTok trends are so appealing)

The music industry is racing in two different directions at once. On the one side is the push for more music to be made by more people for less money – underpinning the $500 million valuation of Suno, the generative AI music platform.

How to Beat the Music Streaming Algorithm

GQ columnist Chris Black has perfected something he calls “music rediscovery,” and it’s keeping him out of playlist purgatory.

Primary Wave Music Founder & CEO Larry Mestel: “Most of our competitors are only interested in a strategy of buying and then flipping quickly”

He discusses why buying a catalogue is the easy part, what is behind a slip in the value of second- and third-tier catalogues, why music rights on their own are a damp squib purchase and what patient investment into underserved rights can really deliver. 

This company is building a safe tech playground for kids

In a time when parental controls are becoming increasingly essential for kids to navigate the vast, sometimes unfiltered content online, Gabb, a kid-safe tech company, recently launched a premium music subscription, Gabb Music Plus, giving kids a safe place to explore music.

But beyond music streaming, Gabb is positioning itself as a safe space for kids to gradually transition into the world of technology and explore content in today's digital age.

Universal Music Group sets up a new ‘global impact team’

The UMG Global Impact Team will be focusing on community engagement, environmental sustainability and related events and projects.

Flip it and reverse it: A history of reversed audio in music production

The use of reverse audio in mainstream music really took off in the mid to late 1960s. However, to find the roots of this development we have to go back a bit further and consider a couple of significant changes. 

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