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MusicTech Rewinder - News from Soundcloud, AI and music in the future, the Tik Tok dilemma

Hi!

Today's newsletter comes with a bit if a delay. I was stuck in traffic almost all day.

Besides this week's news in music tech, here is something cool, I stumbled upon recently on coincidence.

It is never too late to learn something new. A guy named Sébastien (aka Seb) created a holistic, accessible, and very beautiful website where you can learn everything about music theory and music production. Check out muted.io! It's a real gem.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Cheers,

Matt

What kind of world does Spotify—through its algorithmic sorting of millions of users’ desires, through our aggregated listening—produce for us to hear?

Whether we’re talking songs that are popular on Spotify or were Billboard hits through the ‘40s up to recent years, popularity cannot be attributed solely to quantifiable acoustic elements.

Life is perpetual change, so it is perhaps overdoing it to suggest that the music business is at a cultural pivot point.

Repost artist services platform renamed 'SoundCloud for Artists'

Imagine how much more exciting a Call of Duty clutch match could be when you have your own personal soundtrack playing in the background.

One of the hottest areas of computer research involves teaching artificial intelligence to make credible, creative, and engaging music. Science may be further along than you think.

Non-DSP streaming was one of – arguably the – differences between steady growth and stellar growth for the music business in 2021. With three billion dollars of retail revenues in 2021, non-DSP has quickly become a key source of revenue, but not without bringing its own set of challenges.

New US financial data, combined with comments from UMG boss Sir Lucian Grainge, suggest that tension is growing over TikTok’s payouts to the music industry.

There has been talks for some time now of TikTok parent ByteDance launching a music streaming service in Western markets. It already has Resso in Indonesia, India, and Brazil, but has spiked interest recently with trademark registrations, new Twitter accounts, and reports that ‘more than a dozen new markets are being prepped.

Artists are finding a fanbase in niche subcultures & so it may be more beneficial for record labels to redefine what “breaking out” means.

Hello, hello. A bit of promo to kick off the week. If you’re in New York City on November 9th, I’ll be hosting a five-year anniversary party for this newsletter, where we’ll be doing a dual live podcast recording with Money 4 Nothing and Art & Labor.

Streamers' Lack of Local Cultural Contribution Look at Spotify’s “Global Top 50” playlist on any day and the world’s biggest music service will show all or nearly all English language songs.