MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #41

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If you feel like watching a mini-documentary about the last real disruption of the music industry, I can highly recommend the three-part series "System Shock" from Bloomberg.

Enjoy the latest news and have a fantastic weekend.

Cheers,

Matt

An author creating the great American novel would never be required to share their royalties with the platform they created it on, whether it’s an Underwood typewriter or word processing software like Scrivener or Microsoft Word. Similarly, musicians using artificial intelligence software (AI) to create music do not pay the AI software companies any royalties.... Read more »

Happy new year everyone! Let’s start 2021 by sharing what we would like to see this year in the music & data world. Here are our goals: Develop data literacyTell more data stories about e…

Rally recently launched a cryptocurrency dubbed Creator Coin that will help influencers, content creators, and streamers run their own virtual economies. And today, it is announcing that Grammy-winning artist Portugal.The Man has joined as a coin partner.

Bandcamp has expanded its in-house vinyl pressing service and will now manufacture and ship vinyl for 10,000 indie artists on the platform.

Shazam, the music discovery and identification app owned by Apple, today shared a Shazam Predictions 2021 playlist that's available on Apple...

UGC & social media are being pegged as the industry's next big opportunity. But are rightsholders, technology systems & licensing infrastructures prepared?

The attention economy defines and shapes today’s digital world. However, we have long since reached peak in the attention economy with all available free time now addressed. What this means is that previously, when digital entertainment propositions grew, they were often using up users’ free time. Now though, every minute gained is at someone else’s…

And: Instagram tests creator monetization; vaccine passports; how the US industry lobbied for pandemic relief; how Jeezy used augmented reality to get voters out

For decades artists and record labels have used the various music charts as a measure of success, but they may not be measuring true popularity.

John Nicolson responds to Universal Music UK chair after he says artists ‘very happy’ with payments