Tencent Music Entertainment (TME), the largest music company in China, will launch a new joint-venture record label with Warner Music Group (WME) the two labels announced Monday afternoon. Along with the formation of the new label, TME and WMG said they have secured a new licensing deal to keep WMG’s …
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Six months after first launching in India, YouTube is bringing the beta for Shorts — its TikTok-style verticalvideo format — to the U.S., the company announced on Thursday. This drops yet another competitor into the Western music market’sincreasingly crowded short-form video space — albeit one whose relevance to the music …
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Even as live music massively struggled, the recorded music industry saw another booming year out of 2020, according to a year-end report from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) released on Friday. In line with video-streaming services’ boom during the year of quarantine, the RIAA found that paid music-streaming …
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You may not have heard of Lyra yet, but the music video for their eponymous debut single, which dropped two days ago, already has more than two million views on YouTube. Early Friday morning, Universal Music Thailand announced that the major label entity has partnered with leading Thai music company …
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As music fans continue to shelter in place, indie rock band Real Estate has decided the show must go on — just a little differently. Real Estate was originally supposed to tour venues through April and May in support of their newest album, The Main Thing, which dropped via record …
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Coachella is on hold for six months. Concert giants Live Nation and AEG are pausing all tours. As festivals, shows, and other music events flounder due to the global coronavirus outbreak, many in the music business are scrambling for answers from tour insurance — only to find that insurers don’t …
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Spotify is launching a new feature called Songwriter Pages that aimsto give listeners a better look at the creators behind their favorite songs. The streaming service has roped in hit writers includingMeghan Trainor, Fraser T Smith (Adele, Sam Smith), Missy Elliott, Teddy Geiger (One Direction, Shawn Mendes, 5 Seconds of …
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This is the second installment of Rolling Stone’s series At Work, in which we explore the fast-changing music business from the perspective of a different industry leader each week. Read the first here. Emily Lazar has mastered, without hyperbole, nearly 4,000 albums. The founder, president, and chief engineer of her …
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All hail the era of the media bundle. Days after Verizon announced that millions of its wireless subscribers will receive a year of the forthcoming Disney+ streaming service at no cost and Spotify teamed up with Google to offer free Google Homes, Apple is unveiling a bundle of its own: …
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The iTunes brand is no more. Nearly two decades after introducing the world to the digital store-library hybrid, Apple announced at its annual global developers conference on Monday that it will shutter the iTunes software this fall, replacing it with three standalone programs for music, television and podcasts. While core …
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