Warner Music Brazil invests in DSP and distributor Sua Música

Sua Música has often been described as ‘the Brazilian SoundCloud’ because it’s a music service whose catalogue is uploaded by users, with a strong focus on independent artists.

Magdalena Kožená, Golda Schultz, Peter Mattei, Milan Siljanov Headline Medici.tv's Verbier 2024 Streaming Slate

Medici.tv has announced that it will stream over 25 concerts at the Verbier Festival this summer. Here is a rundown of the vocal showcases that will be streamed.

TikTok to ‘fast track’ official artist account creation for DistroKid members

The latest collaboration grants DistroKid members access to a suite of artist-specific features through DistroKid’s dashboard to help them connect with fans on TikTok.

Ed Sheeran is the big winner from UK charts’ streaming era

It’s now 10 years since the UK’s Official Charts Company added streaming to its flagship singles chart.

LANDR's 'Fair Trade AI' Program Lets Musicians Earn Money by Contributing to AI Training

This program aims to offer a solution to the pressing issues of artist consent and compensation in the AI training process.

Kenny Ochoa joins Splice as Senior Vice President of Content

Ochoa’s remit will also include responsibility for Splice’s content pipeline, which according to Splice will include “building out robust Artist partnerships and driving the platform’s overall industry outreach”.

From Kraftwerk to AI – Berlin’s love affair with music technology

Like zuckerguss on a zimtschnecken, Berlin and electronic music are perfect companions. For decades, the city has been synonymous with multi-day raves, synth savants, and software start-ups.

Maximizing Impact of Artists Collaborations on Spotify Recommender Algorithms

According to Spotify, the successful collaborations led to a notable uptick in streams, listeners, search volumes, and other engagement metrics on the platform, in some cases leading to a listenership uplift of up to 50%.

AI headphones will soon change the way you hear the world

New technology is turning headphones into reality-editing machines that can reshape how you hear the world.

FiiO Announces Its First Discman Style Portable CD Player

The FiiO DM13 is a portable CD Player with aptX HD Bluetooth, balanced headphone output and USB Audio. The launch of probably the first new portable CD player in more than a decade is an indicator of the resurgence of the CD format which is enjoying an increase in popularity like the popularity of vinyl.

Russell Elevado: The Importance of Sound

With a list of credits and Grammy awards with artists such as D’Angelo, The Roots, Kamasi Washington, Common, Angélique Kidjo, Alicia Keys, and Jon Batiste, one might assume Russell Elevado is a hard-working producer/engineer/mixer. That assumption would be correct.

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