Denis Ladegaillerie on AI, streaming royalty models, Believe’s game plan… and moreThe Believe founder and CEO joins MBW's Tim Ingham on the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast
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Head of trade body representing UK songwriters switches to run US trade body representing Spotify, Amazon, and Pandora (who not so long ago were fighting to cut songwriters’ pay)Davies is filling in the role left by Garrett Levin, who stepped down as DiMA’s top executive after relocating to Geneva, Switzerland
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Flock Audio launch DX Bridge DX Bridge allows settings for the Flock Audio's digitally controlled patchbays to be saved and recalled with a DAW session.

Annie Mac tells MPs about the music industry’s “tidal wave” of sexual abuse casesAnnie Mac has spoken to MPs about cases of sexual abuse in the music industry, claiming that it has a “tidal wave” of sexual abuse.

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The DJ met with a House of Commons committee, and told them that an “unbelievable” number of stories are yet to come out.
At present, the Women and Equalities Committee is conducting an investigation into misogyny in the music industry, and both Mac and singer Rebecca Ferguson have given evidence.
Mac described the industry as a “boy’s club” that’s “kind of rigged against women”, according to the NME. The BBC reported that Mac also expressed the need for “some sort of a shift in women feeling like they’re able to speak out without their careers being compromised.
“It’s infuriating, the amount of women who have stories of sexual assault that just kind of buried them and carried them. It’s just unbelievable.
“So I do think if something were to happen, like if one person was to speak that had enough profile where it got media attention, I think there could be a kind of tidal wave of it. Definitely.”
Mac explained that, while she hadn’t experienced or witnessed sexual misconduct herself, her long BBC career gave her a “shield” to discuss these issues. And she said that she’d spoken to a range of female DJs, artists, managers, producers, photographers and agents before speaking to the committee.
Meanwhile, Ferguson, who finished second on The X Factor in 2010 and has criticised the show, as well as ITV and Simon Cowell in recent years, said that “bullying and corruption is being allowed to happen” in the industry, and described the misogyny in music as “the tip of the iceberg of the things that are happening behind the scenes”.

She continued, “There are plenty of times when you’re placed in situations where you are being compromised and where people are abusing their level of power.
“But as well as that, the thing that worries me the most is the rapes that are going unreported. That’s what concerns me the most – the fact that women feel like they can’t speak up.”

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RELEASE DETAILS
Release title:
Ghey
Main artist name:
Sina Arpa
Release date:
13th Apr, 2019
https://publme.lnk.to/Ghey
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Deezer and Universal team up to produce new “artist-centric” streaming modelUniversal Music Group and Deezer are teaming up to launch a new “artist-centric” music streaming loyalty model.
It’s designed to reward artists with established fanbases, stop fraud, and de-prioritise non-musical content, like white noise.

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Deezer will double the payout per stream for “professional artists”, which it defines as those with 1000 or more streams per month from at least 500 unique listeners.
Songs that fans actively search for, as opposed to those played automatically through playlists or radio, will also get a bonus. This marks a change from the previous model, in which subscribers’ fees were divided between all artists in proportion to the number of streams they received.
The aims of these policies are to give more money to established artists, and tackle audio like white noise, which has become more popular on streaming platforms over the last few years with people using it while sleeping, working, or studying. Deezer will stop payouts for non-music content, and replace them with its own versions.
In a press release, Universal said: “The current music streaming model needs to be re-imagined. While streaming has been the most significant technology advancement in music in many years, a flood of uploads with no meaningful engagement, including non-artist noise content, has necessitated reassessment of the approach that platforms, labels, and artists take to foster a thriving music ecosystem.
“There is no other industry where all content is valued the same, and it should be obvious to everyone that the sound of rain or a washing machine is not as valuable as a song from your favourite artist.”
While this new artist-centric model will be welcomed by many, however, and should stop bots, it may have a negative effect on musicians early in their career who are looking to gain a wider audience and earn a small amount of income from streaming at the same time.
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Spotify adds paid Showcase banners and free Songwriter promo toolsSpotify For Artists has added Showcase, a paid Home screen marketing banner, as well as new free marketing tools for songwriters. Why more ads? An analysis by MBW offered a. Continue reading
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25th Anniversary edition of Fatboy Slim’s You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby remastered at half speed at Abbey RoadA 25th anniversary re-issue of Fatboy Slim’s You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby album, remastered at half speed at Abbey Road Studios, is set to be released. And, to avoid confusion – it’s since been sped back up.

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The album, originally released in 1998, features some of Fatboy Slim’s most iconic tracks, like Praise You, Right Here, Right Now and The Rockafeller Skank. It reached No.1 on the UK album charts, broke the US Billboard Top 40, and played a pivotal role in bringing UK dance music to global prominence.
The anniversary edition, due out in October, has been remastered at half speed at Abbey Road Studios, as the sleeve reveals, aiming to pay homage to the album’s legacy while elevating its audio quality to modern standards.

In this remastering process, the tracks on You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby would’ve been cut onto the master lacquer disc at half the usual speed. This meticulous approach allows for more accurate and detailed reproduction of the music, resulting in improved audio quality.
The album was remastered at London’s Abbey Road Studios, known for its exceptional audio engineering and mastering facilities. It’s in good company – The Beatles’ aptly-named Abbey Road (1969), Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) and Radiohead’s OK Computer (1997) were all recorded at the studio complex.
Fatboy Slim is not the only artist to be celebrating a 25th-anniversary album. On 8 September, Beastie Boys released their own 25th-anniversary re-issue of their pivotal body of work, Hello, Nasty.
Talking of anniversaries, Pink Floyd put out a 50th-anniversary edition of The Dark Side of the Moon in February, Daft Punk of course released a 10th-anniversary edition of Random Access Memories in May. A limited-edition Crosley turntable, in collaboration with RZA, was also launched in July to honour the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.
Keen to hear the re-mastered version of Fatboy Slim’s You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby? The album is out on 13 October 2023. Pre-order at recordstoreday.com.
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Spotify launches new Daylist feature based on daily listening habitsSpotify has debuted a new customised playlist feature based on users’ daily listening habits.
The new Daylist feature involves the platform analysing a user’s daily listening trends, which it uses to create a playlist that is updated several times a day. The playlist it creates is unique to every user and is designed to match their mood as the day goes on.
The feature is the streaming giant’s latest move into customised playlist offerings. For some time now, it has curated five daily mixes for listeners based on genres and artists they listen to frequently, and offered recommendations in the form of its Discover Weekly and Release Radar features.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced the new feature on his personal social media by sharing his own personal Daylist.
“Today, we launched our newest feature Daylist, a playlist that evolves with you throughout the day. What did I learn from mine? Well, for starters, my best days start with early morning hip-hop and apparently I manifest tropical vibes as the sun goes down. Who knew? What’s your Daylist looking like?” he wrote.

Today, we launched our newest feature daylist, a playlist that evolves with you throughout the day. What did I learn from mine? Well, for starters, my best days start with early morning hip hop and apparently I manifest tropical vibes as the sun goes down. Who knew? What’s your… pic.twitter.com/94Ux7vKcTp
— Daniel Ek (@eldsjal) September 12, 2023

Spotify has also incorporated emotional analyses into users’ annual highlights and playlists with its popular year-end feature Spotify Wrapped.
Users can find their new Daylist through the app, searching ‘Daylist’ within Spotify or by following this link.
Meanwhile, it was recently reported that Spotify is missing out on an estimated $38 million by unknowingly steering listeners towards less cost-effective white-noise podcasts.
According to a report by Bloomberg, white noise podcast creators might be earning up to $18,000 per month through advertising. They account for three million daily consumption hours on Spotify as of January 2023, a number that’s been propelled by the platform’s algorithmic push for ‘talk’ content.
Spotify considered removing white noise podcasts due to their popularity, Spotify told Bloomberg, directing users to more cost-effective programming, which could increase the company’s annual gross profit by $38 million. However, this proposal did not come to fruition, and white noise podcasts continue to be available on the platform.
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Brian Eno has 25 new tracks “built entirely out of stems and samples from his own material” coming your wayAmbient legend Brian Eno has announced the upcoming release of 25 (yes, 25) new songs “built entirely out of stems and samples from his own material”.

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Described as “the first of its kind from Eno”, the release features tracks that are retrospective and totally new at the same time, pieced together from the massive catalogue of sounds and songs the producer has built over the last 50 years.
As Eno explains, his archive features “a lot of sonic experiments that I didn’t think anybody else but me would be interested in hearing – such as, for example, a sine wave that slides through an octave in 30 minutes, or several attempts to synthesize the sound of rain or the soundlessness of snow.”
Sharing how the whole thing came together, Eno says that it began after his longtime colleague Peter Chilvers wrote a new archive software to replace his iTunes — which he previously used to review his archive.
“I can play randomly picked items from the archive one after the other — whole tracks, or slices as small as a second (or 2, 3, 5, 10, 20, 30, 60 seconds),” Eno explains. “It can choose to start at any point within a track, and it remembers what it has played so I can trace them. That way I get to review my archive, sometimes hearing things I haven’t listened to for many years.”
More importantly, the software allows him to play (up to 5 tracks) “simultaneously, one on top of the other”, which lends to some pretty interesting results.
“As you would expect, this can be a tangled car crash, but it often produces entirely new pieces of music that I would never have dreamed of making,” he says, adding that, “The works that result are collages from the last 40 years or so of my musical life. I hear them as new pieces but they may contain a piece from 1992, another from 2011, a third from 2014, and a fourth from 2022.”
“In my mind I think of this process as ‘chunking up’ – simpler systems intertwine to make more complex ones, like the interaction between prokaryotic cells that Lynn Margulis proposed.”
The tracks will be released via Eno’s Sonos Radio station, The Lighthouse. The station is available exclusively for Sonos Radio HD listeners via the Sonos app.
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What do music publicists and PR campaigns cost? It depends…You may not know too much about publicity if you’re an indie artist. Luckily, this quick guide takes you through three differently priced tiers based on where you are in. Continue reading
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If UMG Gets Its Way, Smaller Indie Artists Won’t Get Paid As Much From StreamingLast week, UMG and Deezer made an announcement that is set to be the biggest upheaval to the recorded music industry payment structure since the launch of streaming.

Everything we know and don’t know about AI in Music [Mark Mulligan, MIDiA]This post from Mark Mullihgan of top consultancy MIDiA may help calm any nervous moments you’re having about AI in music and the music industry as well as help you. Continue reading
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RELEASE DETAILS
Release title:
333 (Diss Track)
Main artist name:
Sina Arpa
Release date:
10th Nov, 2018
https://publme.lnk.to/333DissTrack
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