MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #25

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Matt

Welcome to The Cheater’s Guide to Spotify, a series about the schemes that rack up streams, money, and infamy on the popular streaming service. If you’ve just discovered rising Dallas rapper Lil…

Lack of racial diversity in the music industry’s corporate and executive ranks is something that many of us feel intuitively. But we actually know surprisingly little, in terms of being able to point to concrete numbers.

By 19 May the game, Splash Music, had attracted more than 93,000 visitors, but it's been growing since. It has now had more than 1.1m visits, with more than 33,000 Roblox players having favourited it. "Who knew kids loved music so much?" tweeted Popgun boss Stephen Phillips

The broken record debate is happening because locked-down artists are learning what it feels like to be a songwriter.

Here’s what SOCAN and other PROs are doing — or not doing yet — to boost royalties for at-home pandemic shows.

With the advent of COVID-19, many events are being canceled as people are encouraged to stay inside. This of course is bad news to everyone, but to music festival and concert goers it’s even worse…

Art is indeed an empathy machine, but, like any machine, often it needs a tune up or a complete overhaul.

These tech giants are rolling out user-centric marketing initiatives that rely on the music industry — three examples of which popped up on the same day.

Black lives matter. Just posting slogans isn't going to help - and people are dying. What can make a difference? Music tech makers are proposing an actual plan of activities.

Midemlab has unveiled the four winners of this year’s competition across each of the categories.