TikTok may be shutting down its music service, but it will still compete with streaming

So, if you are an artist who is not making a lot of money on streaming, want to connect directly with your audience, and your audience by and large lives and engages on social – why not skip streaming altogether and release your music directly on social platforms?

Amazon Music takes its City Sessions livestreams to Europe

The likes of Kings of Leon, Nelly Furtado and the Black Crowes are among the artists to have played Amazon Music’s ‘City Sessions’ – its livestreamed concerts strand – in the US and Latin America. Now it’s expanding across the Atlantic for a run of performances in the UK, Germany, Spain and Italy this year.

Spotify expands AI Playlist feature to US, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand

This tool, which uses generative artificial intelligence to help users create personalized playlists, was first launched in beta in the UK and Australia in April. Now, the Swedish streaming company has extended the feature to users in the US, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand.

Apple’s Music Haptics Accessibility Feature Makes Music Accessible To All—Even If You Can’t Hear It

The feature, which is supported on iPhone 12 and later, is described by the company as a method by which Deaf and hard-of-hearing people can “experience music on iPhone with taps, textures, and refined vibrations that are synchronized with a song’s audio.”

‘Demon Box’ makes music out of drills, chainsaws, TVs and more using electromagnetic fields

Startup Eternal Research has developed Demon Box. It’s a musical instrument that can convert and transform the electromagnetic fields from objects into sounds for music-making.

Apple Album Booklets: 50K added to Classical but not Apple Music

Fans hungry for more information about their favorite artists and recordings can find ‘album booklets’ with images and information including lyrics, details about the musicians, songwriters, producers, and more.

AllTrack Launches Performing Rights API Tools For Creator-Centric Platforms

TIDAL becomes the first platform to integrate, enabling the ability for unaffiliated creators to manage their works catalogs and allowing creators to authenticate their AllTrack profiles through TIDAL Artist Home.

Audiomack and Groover partner up to extend their impact for artists

As a first step in this new collaboration, artists will now be able to send curators Audiomack links to the curators & pros of their choice on Groover, get listened to, receive guaranteed feedback, and coverage.

WARC Media: Spotify’s ad revenue projected to reach $2.1b in '24

The platform has shown consistent momentum in advertising revenue growth, achieving double-digit increases over the last six quarters.

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