Materialize Labs & Feed.fm Drive Business Results for AI & Video Apps

Discover how Materialize Labs and Feed.fm collaborate to drive business results in AI and video apps, showcasing the power of music integration for enhanced user engagement and digital offerings.

Alizé Song Contest Announced

Alizé, the premium French liqueur, announces the second annual Alizé Song Contest.

Alizé has inspired great music over the past decades and now, the brand is looking for the next iconic Alizé song and giving one lucky musician the chance to win $2,000. The Instagram submission deadline is June 30th, 2024.

Reservoir and Chrysalis Records Win Marketing Awards for the De La Soul Campaign

This Spring, Reservoir and Chrysalis Records took home the Marketing Superstar Award at the 2024 Bizzy Awards, hosted by Music Biz, for the De La Soul Campaign. The Marketing Superstar Award recognizes a marketing campaign that was innovative and thought-provoking across any sector of the industry.

Merlin renews strategic partnership with Meta

Merlin’s members and their artists have seen significant engagement with Meta’s Reels feature on Instagram and Facebook. The renewal will make available a new suite of tools and features that enable fans to discover artists and boost the visibility of new releases. 

Elvis Presley could be next in line for avatar concerts

A little more conversation AND a little more interaction? That could be on the cards for the late Elvis Presley.

Music.AI Sets RoEx as Third Partner Integrated Into its AI Platform | by Platform & Stream

This builds on integrations announced earlier this year: Masterchannel’s spatial audio upmixing and Cyanite’s AI-based music tagging and search solutions. These partners bring specialized capabilities to complement Music.AI’s 50+ proprietary stackable AI modules.

Europe’s music tastes becoming more local, as royalties generated by European Union artists triple in 6 years

The amount of royalties generated by European Union artists on Spotify has tripled in the past six years, and listeners’ tastes are becoming increasingly local. So says Spotify’s inaugural European Union-focuded Loud & Clear report, which for the first time breaks down Spotify listener and royalty data specifically for the European Union.

So You Have a Sonic Strategy - Now What?

You’ve crafted the perfect sonic identity. Now, learn how to integrate it seamlessly across all aspects of your brand. Here are some key strategies for managing, scaling, and maximizing your music assets.

Musical AI, formerly Somms.ai, unveils new platform for ethical use of copyrighted material in generative AI

The platform is being marketed as a “secure go-between” for rightsholders and AI developers.

Meet Kyogu Lee, President of Supertone - the voice cloning AI company acquired by HYBE for $32m

AI technology is a big priority for HYBE, the South Korean entertainment giant behind K-pop superstars BTS.

Data marketplace Human Native AI raises £2.8m funding round

The latest AI-focused startup raising funding is UK firm Human Native AI. It has bagged £2.8m in seed funding ($3.6m at current exchange rates) led by investors LocalGlobe and Mercuri. This will be used to continue building what the company describes as a ‘fair AI data marketplace’. 

Spotify reveals new stats for Glow playlists and country music

Spotify said that since its launch in January 2023, ‘Glow’ playlists have “racked up more than 280 million streams and enabled more than 62 million discoveries” of artists. Orville Peck is one of the artists cited as benefiting, which gives us our bridge to country music on Spotify – the second announcement this week.

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