German collection society GEMA’s revenues rose 8.4% YoY to $1.38bn in 2023GEMA to distribute $1.17bn to its members and rightsholders worldwide
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Music Industry Trends Q1 2024: TikTok, AI, VR, IPOs, Superfans & MoreWith the first three months of the year just behind us, Jesse Kirshbaum looks at the trends and technology that are already reshaping music and the music industry this year.....
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Simple video tricks for singer-songwriters that grab people’s attentionAfter studying the most and least popular singer-songwriter videos on TikTok, here is a list of tips and tricks that have proven to make content more successful.....
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How to pitch music to editors (for Musicians & Writers!)Music editors can get your music to the ears of your target audience, which can ultimately be a game changer for artists and songwriters. Here are some tested tips on how to nail your pitch and prove your stuff is worth listening to......
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Warner Music will not bid to acquire Believe [Full Statement]Warner Music Group announced on Saturday that it would not bid for independent music conglomerate Believe. No specific reason was given for the shift, but WMG was granted access to Believe financial data to guide their bid two weeks ago.....
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Confirmed: Warner Music Group won’t be making a bid for BelieveThe way now appears clear for Denis Ladegaillerie consortium's takeover
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Getting It Done: The Week in D.I.Y. & Indie MusicLast week, our tips and advice for the independent, do-it-yourselfers covered how to get to know your fans better, podcasts to help with musician mental health and more.....
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REWIND: The new music industry’s week in reviewLast week was a busy week by any definition; the music industry was no exception, with CD Baby and Downtown Music merging operations, Spotify changing how they allocate royalties the Records , and more.....
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Orange County Music & Dance awarded landmark gift to expand its music education offeringsThe City of Irvine and Orange County Music & Dance (OCMD) came to a landmark agreement providing 35 acres of land for the school to develop a new 70,000 square foot campus, allowing OCMD to double its student body.  

The approval came during today’s Irvine City Council meeting. Irvine will provide OCMD with a $1 per year ground lease for its site for 50 years, with optional extensions totaling 75 years. The lease along with $91 million the City has invested in preparing the land and bringing in utilities signifies one of the largest gifts from a municipality in the U.S. 

OCMD offers the highest quality education, training and performance opportunities for K-12 students and veterans, with an endowed scholarship program that ensures that children who want to attend can do so, regardless of their financial circumstances. 

Construction is expected to begin in January 2025 and is slated to be completed by Fall 2026.  

Sharing the full announcement below and I’d be happy to connect you with OCMD’s Executive Chair and CEO Douglas Freeman, who is the founder of National Philanthropy Day, for more information on what this expansion means for students wanting to learn more about music in the region.  

Renderings of the building can be downloaded HERE! 

From KISS’s $300m deal to Warner’s deadline for a bid on Believe… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
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An Independent Musician’s POV on the U.S. TikTok ‘Ban’ [Blake Morgan]“The vast majority of music on TikTok generates virtually no revenue for the musicians who made it," writes musician, entrepreneur, and fierce artist advocate Bllake Morngan, and "even more music on the platform is completely unlicensed (stolen), copied (stolen via AI), or pirated (stolen)"......
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Spotify claims rules now in effect will shift $1B to ‘Working Artists’This week, we learned that new Spotify rules are eliminating payments on the tens of millions of tracks that get less than 1,000 plays a year, and a crackdown on so-called "junk tracks" has been in full effect.......
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Lessons from $300M sale of the KISS brand, catalog: ‘This is the future, and the rules are being written now.’Pophouse, the company behind the Abba Voyage hologram live show, has acquired the music catalog, brand name, likeness, and trademarks of the iconic American rock band KISS for a reported $300 million.....
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No royalties and "junk tracks"

Leo Z Picks TELEFUNKEN for Handpan Virtuoso Davide FrielloGifted composer, pianist and producer Leo Z has employed his personal collection of TELEFUNKEN microphones to record Italian handpan virtuoso David Friello. The handpan consists of two metal half-shells welded together, a center tone field surrounded by a circle of at least seven tone fields on the upper side, with an opening in the bottom side.

Listen to a preview of Davide Friello's new album "Amplexus"https://www.davidefriello.com/telefunkenhandpan

Davide Friello, born in Florence, Italy, is an acclaimed handpan artist, known worldwide as a prolific touring and recording musician, composer, and percussionist. Friello has three previous studio albums: "Ritmatika", "Violin & Hang" and "5 Elements." The majority of the handpan selections on "Amplexus" were co-composed by Friello and producer Leo Z.

For the new "Amplexus" album, Leo Z employed two M60 FET pencil mics on the side of the pan, two ELA M 260 tube mics with omni capsules above the pan, and an M82 dynamic mic underneath the pan. "The combination of these Telefunken mics beautifully captures the spacious and ethereal sound of the handpan," says Leo Z, "while retaining the unique percussive qualities of this remarkable instrument."

Handpan is the term for a group of musical instruments that are classified as a subset of the steelpan. Several handpan makers and brands have emerged in recent years, resulting from a growing worldwide interest in the sound that is based on the physical properties of the Trinidadian steelpan, Indian ghatam, Thai gong and Indonesian Gamelan.

"The overhead ELA M 260's bring an airiness and transparency to the way we capture sound," says Leo Z, "especially for this type of impressionistic, acoustic, and intimate type of music." The 260 Stereo Set features two perfectly matched ELA M 260 microphones and a custom dual power supply powering both microphones. In previous recordings, Leo Z has used his 260s on piano, viola, violin, and woodwinds. 

Pictured at the Steinway grand piano at EastWest Studios in Hollywood is Leo Z with his matched pair of TELEFUNKEN ELA M 260 microphones. Photo by David Goggin.