MusicTech Rewinder - Issue #9

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Thanks a lot for subscribing to my Weekly MusicTech Digest. I hope you enjoy reading it. This is the last edition for 2019.

See you in 2020.

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Matt

Today's stars partner with global companies to maximize distribution, but it places hip-hop's entrepreneurial efforts in a dependent cycle.

Today I'm launching MUSIC x GREEN. 🚀 It is a directory to create more visibility for organisations and initiatives that make the music industry greener, less

Fender is betting on machine learning and apps for the future of the storied guitar company.

As artificial intelligence continues to grow and develop, its presence is affecting more and more industries. In this piece, Becky Holton explores the impact AI is having on the music business, as well as looking at some of the AI-based tools at play on the music market today.

Data has always played an important role in the media and entertainment industry. TV and radio programming lives and dies based on ratings generated from viewers and listeners. Long before newspapers were monitoring clicks and social media shares, they were carefully tracking subscriptions and analyzing the demographics of their readers.

What’s the overall state of sampling right now? How common is sampling in today's music? What's being sampled? The Tracklib team dug deep into statistics from 2019's music to answer all of your questions.

Music publications are no exception, as nearly all of them at this point have openly reflected on the biggest musical moments and trends not just from the past year, but also from the past decade. For my last essay of the year, I want to do something slightly different: I want to focus on what didn’t happen in the music industry in 2019.

In this report MIDiA Research analysts present their predictions for what will be the big trends in digital media and tech across music, video, media, brands, marketing, games and sports in 2020 and the coming decade.

Looking for trending music? We'll let you know what's already new and cool for 2020 as well as provide some predictions of music trends to come.

A singer with a vision for a new single is looking for a producer. She asks around, finds a guy who’s a friend of a friend and sounds promising. They come to terms, she pays him--only to get ghosted. She’s got no track, and now she has to raise money from scratch, doubling the cost…

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