MusicTech Rewinder - This week's industry news!

A wonderful Friday, dear reader.

Here comes your weekly digest with the latest news in music tech.

Since I had a pretty chaotic and packed week, there will be no long forewords in this edition. Just one cool thing I recently got into: Bionic Reading. Check it out and work our brain!

Enjoy reading and have a fantastic weekend.

Cheers,

Matt

Beloved stories can transcend time, not only in their messages or characters but in the format in which they are told.

SPOT stock is down 54% this year and continuing to slump as concerns grow over the company's lack of focus and stalled margins.

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The music industry is recognised as a frontier sector for the process by which platforms create markets linking sellers and buyers.

P2P and piracy-fuelled software are sailing the unexplored seas of Web3 – but will they bring about genuine change this time around?

'The Long Tail' was supposed to boost alternative voices in music, movies, and books—but the exact opposite happened. What went wrong?

Recording artists labor under an anti-worker exemption to California employment law that the labels wrote themselves.

The revenue flow from licensees to labels to artists is dependent on accurate data and efficient management of that data.

Ben Sumner shares seven key things that can be done to improve the way music is integrated in games.

Partnerships between the music and games industries go back decades, but in 2022 there’s a lot of talk about music and ‘the metaverse’ – a catch-all term that includes games, virtual worlds, and augmented reality.

More than 40 years since they were last on tour, Abba have returned as digital avatars. Is Abba Voyage, which debuted in London last month, the future of concerts?