Spotify shares Hip-Hop stats, top markets, and local to global growthHip-hop accounts for nearly 25% of all streams on Spotify, led by artists like Drake, Nicki Minaj, 21 Savage, Ice Spice, and Metro Boomin, the DSP shared as part of. Continue reading
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How musicians can make money on TwitchThe popular live-streaming app, Twitch, may not seem like the first choice for music marketing, but plenty of features can even make musicians a profit. Keep reading to learn more…. Continue reading
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The Chainsmokers to sponsor a year of rent for an aspiring artist in New York CityHere’s your chance to get The Chainsmokers to pay your rent at a luxury apartment in New York City for a year.

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This one-in-a-lifetime opportunity will go to the winner of an artist-in-residence program co-sponsored by the duo. To enter, all you have to do is upload some basic information and submit a TikTok video.
Launched in collaboration with The Blumenfeld Development Group, The Chainsmokers’ JAJA Tequila, and creative agency NOISE, this initiative aims to help an emerging artist focus on music without worrying about rent.
The lucky winner will be provided with a free apartment equipped with a recording studio at apartment building The Smile. Developed by The Blumenfeld Development Group and located in Harlem, the building was designed by architect Bjarke Ingels and is named for its curved design.
The 794-square-foot apartment unit was designed by The Chainsmokers themselves, and features dining, working, sleeping and living room spaces.

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“We started our careers in New York City and our experiences living in the city really shaped us into who we are today,” The Chainsmokers said in a statement. “The city is fun and inspiring, but we also know all too well how expensive it can be to live there, especially as a new artist.”
“For the longest time we worked out of a shoebox-sized apartment making music every day,” the pair said. “We’re so excited to offer a talented artist the chance to thrive by providing a free apartment with a music studio at The Smile for a year.”
“At NOISE we love working with clients who are willing to think outside the box. Especially those who are not only willing to push boundaries in their respective industries but also are excited to create culture-forward and impactful campaigns – David [Blumenfeld] and the entire team at BDG are one of those clients,” says Joe Laresca, founder and CEO of NOISE.
“This is definitely out of the norm for a real estate company, and of course, partnering with The Chainsmokers is iconic, but being able to change an artist’s life and career trajectory is something we’re really proud of.”
Geared towards creatives in the music industry, the contest will run from now till 5 September. Winners must be 21 and older, a US resident outside of Alaska and Hawaii and be a musician, singer, song writer or a “participant in the music industry.”
Learn more and check out the swanky apartment at thechainsmokersgiveaway.
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“You have to be defensive and offensive at the same time as a creator”: ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus on the “mind-boggling” potential of AIABBA legend Björn Ulvaeus has opined on the “mind-boggling” potential of AI in music, and the need for creators to be both “defensive and offensive” in dealing with the technology.

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Speaking to Rick Beato, Ulvaeus admits to being “blown away” by an AI model demonstration he was shown recently by “one of the really big tech companies”.
“The potential of what they showed me was mind-boggling,” he says. “And what you’ve heard so far, it’s nothing against what’s coming.”
Discussing some of the anxieties surrounding the technology, Ulvaeus argues that one has to be “defensive and offensive at the same time as a creator.”
“[AI] is a fantastic tool, it will be the most fantastic co-writer you will ever have. But on the other hand, these AI models will be training on music that people have written, right? I don’t know if it’s too late, but certainly, we have to fight for the writers of that music so they get remunerated in some form or other.”
“I don’t know if [artists] will be able to opt-out if they don’t want [AI] to be trained on [their music],” he says. “But I suspect that it’s going to be very difficult to prove whether a model is trained on ABBA music or not… From what I heard [during] that demonstration, if you ask it to write an ABBA-like melody, you would never be able to recognise that. You’ll never be able to hear that it [came] from Benny and me, if it’s sung by someone else, which in this case it was.
“And then, it’ll be so difficult to trace. Hopefully, these big companies will be good guys. And I think some of them want to be on the side of the creators, rather than against [them].”

The use of AI to aid (or even replace) human creators in music-making has been a topic of fierce debate lately. Paul McCartney, for one, has jumped on the artificial intelligence bandwagon, revealing earlier this year that AI has been used to extract John Lennon’s voice from old audio, and strip it from its instrumental background to help create “the final Beatles record”.
Amidst confusion and speculation about the song’s origins, the bassist then made a statement saying that despite the use of AI, the song had not been “artificially created.”
“Seems to be a lot of guess work out there,” he said. “Can’t say too much at this stage but to be clear, nothing has been artificially or synthetically created. It’s all real and we all play on it. We cleaned up some existing recordings – a process which has gone on for years”
Elsewhere, will.i.am recently made comments which echo Ulvaeus’s about the future of AI in music. He said: “Are you using this tool to make songs? You know it’s gonna make better songs than you. It’s Pac-Man right now, we ain’t even got to Halo. We’re in freakin’ Super Mario Bros., we ain’t even got to Call of Duty yet. This thing’s gonna make better songs than you soon.”
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PRS for Music and PPL are using Audoo’s audio meters to detect songs at public spaces for fairer royalty paymentsBritish music copyright collectives PRS For Music and PPL have joined forces with music technology company Audoo, to improve music royalty detection and distribution for creators, using Audoo’s audio meters.

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The installation of Audoo’s audio meters in businesses including cafés, bars, hair salons, restaurants, and retail locations across Great Britain, aims to help drive forward and accelerate accurate and transparent royalty distribution to music creators. The device works by identifying the background music being played and reporting this usage back to PRS for Music and PPL.
According to Audoo, the audio meters installed are designed to be GDPR-compliant and use smart plug-in technology to securely track and report the music being played in quasi-real-time, without capturing any non-music audio such as private conversations.
The move will help PRS for Music and PPL enhance distribution efficiency by delivering optimum payments for their 300,000 collective members – including artists, recording rightsholders, music publishers, writers and composers.
“We are continually investing in new technologies and services to ensure we can pay out royalties more quickly and accurately, delivering the best possible service to members,” said Tim Arber, PRS for Music’s Director of Operational Improvement.
“We have been working with music recognition technology for many years and are excited to see how this collaboration with Audoo can support our ambition to pay out over £1 billion annually in the next few years. Helping businesses across the UK to report the music they play through smart data capture will be integral to reaching this milestone and maximising our members’ public performance royalties.”
Russell Chant, PPL’s Head of Distribution, said: “At PPL, we’re always working to ensure that performers, record labels and self-releasing artists are fairly and accurately paid for the music they create. This initiative with Audoo will complement our existing suite of advanced technological tools and public performance music usage data, offering us a further way to check that our distributions are as accurate as possible.”
Ryan Edwards, Audoo’s founder and CEO, said: “This collaboration with PRS and PPL is a milestone in the evolution of the public performance royalty space, for creators, performers and rights holders, as well as licensees delivering an enhanced experience for customers through the joy of music played in public spaces.”
Learn more at Audoo.
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Bugs in transportation app Moovit gave hackers free ridesHackers could have hijacked the user accounts of a popular transportation app and used them to get free rides and access people’s personal information, according to a security researcher.
Omer Attias, a security researcher at SafeBreach, said he found three vulnerabilities in the Moovit app, which allowed him to collect new Moovit user’s registration information from all over the world — including cell phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses, and the last four digits of credit cards. Worst of all, the bugs could have allowed him to take over other people’s accounts, and consequently their credit cards, to pay for his own rides.
This whole chain of exploits could have been performed without the target ever finding out, apart from seeing unwanted charges on their credit card. Attias called it “the perfect attack.”
“We can fully impersonate accounts, without disconnecting them. It’s crazy, we actually have the ability to perform all the operations on behalf of different accounts, including ordering train tickets,” Attias told TechCrunch in an interview ahead of his talk at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas. “And additionally, we can access all of their personal information.”
To demonstrate the impact of the bugs he found, Attias created a custom interface that allowed him to take over other people’s accounts with a couple of taps. And while Attias said he tested his exploits only in Israel, he said he thinks it could have worked in other cities given that Moovit operates all over the world.
Moovit is an Israeli startup that was acquired by Intel in 2020 for $900 million. The app allows users to find routes and view public transportation systems’ maps, as well as to purchase and use tickets. The app and its underlying technology are widely used worldwide: Moovit claims to serve 1.7 billion riders in 3,500 cities across 112 countries.
While the impact of these vulnerabilities was potentially massive, Moovit said there is no evidence that malicious hackers found and exploited these bugs. Attias said that he reported all the bugs he found to the company in September 2022, and the company subsequently fixed them.
“Moovit was aware of and rectifying the issue when it was reported, and took immediate steps to finish correcting the issue,” Moovit spokesperson Sharon Kaslassi told TechCrunch. “The vulnerabilities have long since been fixed and no customer action is required. It’s important to note that no bad actors took advantage of these issues to access customer data. Additionally, no credit card information was exposed as Moovit and Moovit-Pango do not keep credit card information on file.”
Kaslassi also said that “ticketing service relevant to these findings is active in Israel only.”
“According to our records, neither Safebreach or anyone else took advantage of any customer data in or outside of Israel,” the spokesperson added.
In response to Moovit’s comments, Attias said that he and his colleagues “believe we could have charged any customer not limited to Israeli customers. We haven’t seen any differentiator between Israeli and non Israeli customers in their API requests.”
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