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      Warner Music Group launches new Brazil HQ and creative hub in Rio de JaneiroThe new hub houses the operations of Warner Music Brazil, Warner Chappell Music Brazil, and ADA Brazil
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        The Legal Beat: Blackpink Members Go Solo South Korean K-pop super-group Blackpink announced that they were re-signing with their record label as a group, but not as solo artists. 

        Blackpink members Jennie, Jisoo, Rose, and Lisa will pursue their solo careers after they decided not to renew their individual contracts with their record label, YG Entertainment. YG issued the following statement: 

        “Blackpink recently renewed their contracts with YG for their group activities, and we have agreed not to proceed with additional contracts for [the members] individual activities... We will do our utmost to support Blackpink’s activities, and we will cheer on the members’ individual activities with warm hearts.” 

        YG’s statement was interesting in that one would think they would have preferred to keep them signed for their solo careers because of the success of the group. But apparently the members were free not to resign as solo artists. 

        YG formed Blackpink in August of 2016 and they have gone on to win such awards as the 2023 MTV Video Music Award for the Group of the Year. They also became the first K-pop group to headline at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. 

        The individual members of the group have embarked on solo projects before. But they spent most of 2023 on their worldwide concert tour supporting their 2022 album, Born Pink. 

        Jennie recently announced that she has founded a new company called Odd Atelier (OA). It is basically a record label that will be “a space that aims to create new things that attract attention in a different way from is usual or expected.” 

        In 2021 Jennie and Rose released solo albums and Jisoo did so in 2023. 

        There is a long history in the music industry of members of groups branching out to pursue successful solo careers. For instance, the solo careers of the Beatles John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison. Or the individual careers of Beyonce, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Justin Timberlake, and Harry Styles. 

        But why do artists decide to go solo when they have been in very successful groups? There are several possible reasons: 

        1. Creative control. Artists may feel like they can do more of what they want to do. For instance, George Harrison felt like Lennon and McCartney treated him like a little brother (he was a little younger than them) and they only gave him a few songs on each album while contributing the lion’s share with their own compositions. George felt he had a tremendous amount of good material so when he went solo after the Beatles broke up his first release was a three-album masterpiece All Things Must Pass in November of 1970. 

        2. Financial incentives: Why split the income with a group when you can receive more of the pie as a solo artist? 

        3. Group friction: As time goes by often friction arises among the members leading to the dissolution of the group and the pursuit of individual careers (think Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young). The post The Legal Beat: Blackpink Members Go Solo first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

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          A year after he took charge as CEO, Robert Kyncl has quietly transformed Warner Music Group’s leadershipKyncl has hired multiple execs from his former employer, Google/YouTube; others have been handpicked from Disney, Instacart, Mastercard, and Justworks
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            AI-made music can now be easily uploaded to SoundCloud, thanks to a trio of new dealsCompany inks deals with Fadr, Soundful, and Voice-Swap
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              Spotify signals Superfan Clubs are coming soonSpotify is signaling the addition of in-app “superfan clubs” that would enable artists to monetize their most loyal fans. The news came in a Spotify blog post celebrating the changes. Continue reading
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                How Artist-Fan relationships can make or break an ArtistAt the core of every discussion about superfans is the importance of the direct artist-fan relationship. Marketing expert Jason Lekberg shares strategies and tools that empower artists and their teams. Continue reading
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                At the core of every discussion about superfans is the importance of the direct artist-fan relationship. Marketing expert Jason Lekberg shares strategies and tools that empower artists and their teams. Continue reading

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                  Everything you need to know about X (FKA Twitter) heading into 2024Twitter may have died in 2023, but despite all the turmoil, the renamed X is alive, well-trafficked, and making major changes and improvements as we enter the new year. by. Continue reading
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                  Twitter may have died in 2023, but despite all the turmoil, the renamed X is alive, well-trafficked, and making major changes and improvements as we enter the new year. by. Continue reading

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                    "...allowing artists to lock individual pieces of audio content, and charge for access to it, could be a new way for Spotify to let artists generate potentially significant additional revenue from superfans."
                    https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/did-spotify-just-confirm-that-superfan-clubs-are-coming-to-its-platform/

                    Superfans, superfans, superfans... When market is changing but #majors want to continue their domination position.
                    #MusicIndustry #MusicBusiness #decentralization

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                      Audeze Announces Dolby Atmos Integration, to Host Workshops at NAMMAudeze, premium headphone manufacturer, has announced the official release of the head tracking integration for their Maxwell headsets, expanding support for Dolby Atmos® binaural rendering at NAMM 2024.

                      Audeze will also host interactive workshops throughout the show with Grammy winning recording engineers and artists, building on the growing interest in using headphones for mixing, mastering and spatial audio.

                      NAMM attendees will have the opportunity to learn from and interact with legendary recording engineers who’ve worked with the likes of Beyonce, Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more.

                      Space is limited for these workshops that run from Thursday January 25th to Saturday January 27th, 12PM-4PM.

                      For the detailed schedule check the Audeze website.  

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                        Rick Gerson’s Alpha Wave Global, backer of Elon Musk and X, has invested in GammaGamma's logo started appearing on the section of Alpha Wave's homepage reflecting its investments earlier this month
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                          Did Spotify just confirm that ‘superfan clubs’ are coming to its platform?Spotify appears to have revealed this information in a blog post
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                            Searching for Superfans: Forget the numbers; concentrate on communityAs we continue Superfan Week on Hypebot, Janelle Borg weighs in with a piece on how Superfans are particularly important in this era of algorithms and a stark reminder that. Continue reading
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                            As we continue Superfan Week on Hypebot, Janelle Borg weighs in with a piece on how Superfans are particularly important in this era of algorithms and a stark reminder that. Continue reading

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                              The crumbling of music media is a disaster for the music industry [Tatiana Cirisano]Tatiana Cirisano of MIDiA Research looks at the gutting of Pitchfork, the state of music reviews and music journalism, and its effects on the future of the music industry. by. Continue reading
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                                Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s Chairman is determined to abolish Merck Mercuriadis’ ‘call option’. He was less bothered when Round Hill Music Royalty Fund’s investment manager had a near-identical clause.A tale of two call options...
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                                  ANNA DUBOC AT THE MINTPhoto credit: Megan Thompson 

                                  One of the more interesting personal facts noted in 17-year-old musical multi-talent AnnaDuboc’s bio is the fact that the incredibly gifted, prolific and stylistically diversesinger/songwriter is an A student maintain that average in her second year of high school APcalculus. She probably doesn’t need higher math to keep track of her social media numbers, butthey’ve been pretty crazy, adding up to some 45 million streams on all platforms via a flurry ofdynamic singles since launching her career at 13.Writing about her life with the same emotionally expressive wit, narrative bite and vulnerabletenderness as culturally impactful icons like Taylor and Billie, Anna has amassed 220,500followers and over 1.2 million likes on TikTok, 26 million views and nearly 40,000 subscriberson her official YouTube partner channel and over 31,000 followers on Instagram. Amazingly, allof her success to date are via tracks she produced with her mom, veteran pop songwriter and jazzvocalist Carol Duboc.

                                  The release of her upcoming single (set to drop Valentine’s week) marks a unique turning pointin that she wrote and co-produced “One Touch” – which was written when she was 14 – withJuan Ariza (Harry Styles). It’s the first release of an upcoming batch she calls the UnreleasedSeries, featuring songs from her archives which she didn’t feel were right to share when she wasyounger but seem appropriate now. Gearing up for this next phase of her career, the singer madean impressive headlining appearance with a full, high-energy band at The Mint in mid-January.She follows with a gig at Genghis Cohen February 3.When young artists are so successful so quickly in the streaming and video realm, one maywonder if they’ve got the goods live, vocally and performance wise. The great news is that Annais as charming, soulful and engaging a performer onstage as she is a masterful vocalist/producerin the studio. Though she showcased it well into the set, one of the most fascinating revelationsabout the seductive, infectious “One Touch” is that in both lyrical content and driving slowgroove, it’s up there with anything magical the Swifties are digging these days – and remember,Anna was 20 years younger than Taylor when she wrote it. The emotional core of Anna’s set wasthat one as the follow-up to her latest single “Poetry,” which allowed her to showcase her tenderskills as a piano based balladeer and the powerful range of her voice, from a soft tenderheartedcoolness to a towering emotion that sears the heart.Anna’s ten song set, a run through some of her biggest streamers from 2021 to present, offered adynamic range of rhythms and vibes, from the mid-tempo lite funk R&B/pop simmer of “80 in aFlood Rain” and plaintive, stripped down “Flowers and Graves” (backed only by the acousticguitar of MD Enzo Iannello) to one of her most compelling songs “Plot Twist” (another heart-tugging piano ballad) and the sassy, moody pop-rocker “Mystery Lady.” She closed with songstitled “Sinking Feeling” (which displayed the angelic, Billie-esque side of her voice) and“Promises from Hell,” but all her fans were too full of her lively, charismatic sunshine by thatpoint to give into the themes of darkness.

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