Music Biz Weekly Podcast looks back on 13 Years and 600 EpisodesCelebrating dual milestones of 13 years and 600 episodes, Music Biz Weekly co-hosts Micahel Brandvold and Jay Gilbert look back at what the internet, social media, and music marketing were like when their popular podcast launched.....
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How are Musicians & Songwriters paid? Two short Spotify videos explainHow do artists and songwriters get paid? As part of its annual Loud & Clear report on payments to musicians, Spotify has created two short videos to explain.....
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A second look at using Spotify Marquee to market music [Brian Hazard]Now that time has passed, and the platform has been adequately tested, Brian Hazard gives his updated review on Spotify's Marquee artist feature.....
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20,500 Artists made $50K+ from Spotify last yearSpotify just revealed its annual Loud and Clear report revealing some top level numbers with some granular insights from 2023.

ADAM Audio relaunch Authorised Listening Centre programme Those interested in investing in some new ADAM Audio monitors are now able to demo a huge range of the company's products at stores around the world. 

Textural Memories for Imaginando’s Visual Synthesizer Textural Memories is a new VS preset expansion pack created by Perplex On, a German media artist renowned for his inventive audio-visual performances.

“AI has totally humiliated me whenever I’ve gone and asked it to impersonate myself”: James Blunt says he won’t be using AI to write lyrics in the futureLike many artists, James Blunt has asked AI to create lyrics in the style of his own writing out of sheer curiosity. It seems though, the results he got back have taught him “not to use” the tech again, and also that he “must do better” as a lyricist, according to the pop artist.
Outside of his music, Blunt is certainly not one to take himself too seriously, so it’s not surprising that he’s of course experimented with the likes of AI tools for a bit of a laugh. With that said, the Goodbye My Lover singer has some interesting observations on the current limits of its role in music.

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Appearing on the I Never Thought It Would Happen podcast, he says, “Every single one of us must have, having heard of [AI], typed in and then written ‘Give me a verse based on this, in the style of, in my case, a James Blunt lyric.’
“The truth is, either AI comes up with something very, very generic or my lyrics are just absolutely mundane,” he laughs. “So AI has totally humiliated me whenever I’ve gone and asked it to impersonate myself. It’s taught me, if anything, not to use AI and [that I] must do better.”
On a more analytical note, Blunt goes on to add: “The thing about songwriting and music generally is, it is your flaws and your failings and your mistakes which make it have character.
“Character is something that is not formulaic or generic and even if I have written something before and I say ‘Let me write it in the style of me again,’ it will be boring to myself, I need to go out and test myself and push myself to do something different. And some of those things I would make by mistake and I don’t think AI can do that yet. I don’t think it can bring in true character flaws and mistakes at this stage.”
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Life & Beth Music Supervisor on Placing Music and Getting the JobBrittany Douziech is a film and TV music supervisor with 20 years of industry experience. She has a knack for supervising projects that become festival darlings including the feature film, The Long Game, which won the SXSW Audience Narrative Award in 2023; and the documentary, Body Parts, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca and AFI Film Festivals. Additionally, Brittany has worked alongside veteran music supervisors Frankie Pine and Joe Rudge on a variety of TV projects, including Netflix’s From Scratch, Hulu’s Life & Beth, Amazon’s A League of Their Own and Daisy Jones & the Six, which was Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Music Supervision.

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Over half of the artists who generated at least $10,000 on Spotify last year are from countries where English is not the first language"The music industry today is a more diverse and accurate reflection of the world we live in"
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Polyverse announce Filterverse early access The final instalment in Polyverse's 'filter trilogy' packs in a wide range of filter types and some powerful modulation capabilities.