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Music Charts in 2024: Industry Dinosaurs or Still Relevant?

Are music charts still the ultimate measure of an artist's success, or have they lost their relevance in the age of streaming?

Are fan-co-created visuals the future of live music?

Livepeer grant recipient ORIGIN STØRIES is enabling fans to contribute to the visuals of live shows from anywhere in the world.

Spotify is no longer just a streaming app, it's a social network

With Spotify’s recent launch of comments on podcasts, the streamer is taking yet another step toward building a social networking experience in an app primarily known for music. With comments, podcasters can now engage with their listeners directly within Spotify, as they can with other interactive features like Polls and Q&As

IDOL Partners with Details & eddy to Streamline Artist Royalty Calculations

Distributed labels and artists using the newly integrated royalty companies can now have monthly sales data automatically exported to those companies in the formats they require. The integration will remove the need to manually transfer the data, which both saves time and minimises risk of error for IDOL’s partners.

Apple Music has added requirements for all new uploaded music

Apple Music has added requirements for all new uploaded music designed to enhance the listener experience. The changes Apple has shared with digital music distributors that all songs uploaded must include both lyrics and one or more of the roles in each of its three contributor groups.

Music isn’t getting worse; genres are

What if music isn’t getting worse, but instead, the limitations of traditional genres are what is holding back creatives?

Genies launches a music-focused creator and partner network

The initial lineup of partners includes 3D-animation startup Anything World; AR outfit Superfan Studio; and AI music firm Soundful.

Virgin Music Group partners with Japan’s Frontier Works for anime music projects

The two companies say the move comes “in response to the growing global demand for Japanese culture and content, including animation and gaming,” and will give Frontier Works the opportunity to strengthen its presence worldwide.

PRS celebrates 110th anniversary with commemorative publication in partnership with MBUK

Collection society reflects on over a century of working on behalf of songwriters around the world.

Amuse launches ‘Stream Check’ artificial-streams dashboard

It has launched a feature called ‘Stream Check‘ aimed at artists. It analyses their catalogues and shows a ‘health bar’ indicating whether that music may be having its streams inflated.

BBC aims to appeal to younger viewers with immersive music gigs

The BBC has partnered with Bristol-based tech company Condense to engage with younger audiences via immersive live gigs. Over the last year, BBC Radio 1’s New Music Show with Jack Saunders has been hosting an innovative series of immersive live gigs with artists like Gardna, Charlotte Plank and Sam Tompkins.

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