“I don’t f**k with Spotify anymore”: Snoop Dogg to cut ties with Spotify in favour of Web3 platform Tune.FMWhat with him selling “virtual cannabis goods” in the metaverse and claiming to run an NFT-loving social media account, Snoop Dogg has been intrigued by the blockchain for quite some time. Now, the rapper has decided to take the plunge and move his work over to blockchain-based streaming service Tune.FM.
Despite currently having nearly 30 million monthly listeners on Spotify, Snoop plans to gradually migrate his entire catalogue over to Tune.FM. “I don’t fuck with Spotify anymore,” he reveals in a Billboard exclusive. “I’m only on Tune.FM.”

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The decision comes after a long-spanning dispute with Spotify over royalties. In December 2023, Snoop told the Business United podcast that the payout for hitting a billion streams was ridiculously low. “They sent me some s**t from Spotify where I got a billion streams,” he recalled. “My publisher hit me. I said, ‘Break that down, how much money is that?’ That s**t wasn’t even $45,000.”
In response, a Spotify spokesperson told TMZ that “it’s well documented that a billion streams on Spotify generates millions of dollars to rights holders. It’s unfortunate to hear that Spotify’s payments didn’t make it through to Snoop.”

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Musicians are increasingly coming forward claiming they have receives low payouts from Spotify’s. However, the streaming giant claims its royalty payments are fair. “Spotify paid out $10 billion to the music industry last year and has paid out $60 billion all time,” the company told Guitar.com last month.
“Our music subscription competitors haven’t reported their subscriber figures or music industry payouts in years, because they pay far less,” Spotify concluded.
Regardless of Spotify’s claims, Snoop is still jumping ship. His new streaming home Tune.FM is built on a promise that “when a tune gets played, the artist gets paid”.
According to a Tune.FM spokesperson: “Tune.FM operates under non-exclusive licensing agreements, enabling us to unlock new revenue streams for under-monetised catalogues and artist IP on both our streaming platform and marketplace.”
The Web3 streaming platform has its own native cryptocurrency (JAM) which has instant micropayments per second streamed. Once a user signs up, they can spend JAM tokens to stream tracks, invest in artists and earn royalties. Tokens can also gain access to exclusive content.
One such track users can stream is Spaceship Party, Snoop’s first project being streamed exclusively on Tune.FM. The track even features a violin performance from Tune.FM’s founder, Andrew Antar.
Antar and Snoop first crossed paths at the Crypto Ball, a celebration that marked President Donald Trump’s inauguration back in January. It didn’t take much to convince Snoop of the platform’s perks.
“We are thrilled to welcome Snoop Dogg as the face of Tune.FM,” Antar tells Billboard. “Snoop is the OG pioneer who is always on the cutting edge of technology and new ways of doing business. He totally gets it, and we are ready to take on the world together.”
In the future, Billboard reveals that Snoop plans to use Tune.FM to host fan giveaways, including “a private event at his house and VIP prize tiers”.

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Head to Snoop Dogg’s Tune.FM page to find out more.
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Bandcamp Friday matters even when you’re not releasing musicBandcamp Friday matters. The last Bandcamp Friday on December 6th, 2024, was the biggest since February 2022 with fans spending more than $3.1 million in a single day. Later this Spring, Bandcamp Friday's return for at least five editions in 2025.
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Live Music Industry News: Dayglo Presents • Eventim tickets • EVA • LIVE • Green Events ConferenceIn the latest live music industry news, Peter Shapiro's live music and media company Dayglo Presents, have announced three promotions: Stephen Grybowski as VP Marketing & Family Programming, Bradley Tucker as VP Business Development, and Sarah Graber as HR & Administrative Director.
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Deadmau5 sells his catalogue for $55 million: “We inherit a legacy that changed music forever”deadmau5 has sold his catalogue to Create Music Group for $55 million. The deal also means Create acquires the rights to the mau5trap Records catalogue, meaning the company now owns more than 4,000 new songs in total.
The deal also marks the beginning of a new partnership between Create Music Group and deadmau5 – real name Joel Zimmerman – who will work together on future deadmau5 records and mau5trap label releases.

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The deal means that CMG now owns all of Zimmerman’s musical work over the past 26 years, from hits like Ghosts ‘n’ Stuff and Strobe to the 2013 Grammy-nominated Album Title Goes Here.
Equally, the acquiring of mau5trap also means CMG owns rights to the label’s entire catalogue. In 2017, Mixmag readers voted mau5trap among the Top 50 Labels of the Decade, placing it at number 9. That means the company now holds stakes in a plethora of electronic records.

For example, mau5trap was an early supporter of Skrillex, releasing the producer’s second EP, Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites. CMG now owns copyrights for the record, as well as other records like Rezz’s 2017 debut record, Mass Manipulation.
Speaking about the deal, deadmau5 says: “I have worked closely with Jonathan [Strauss, CEO of CMG] and Alex [Williams, COO of CMG] for nearly two decades now, building my own career as well as the artists on mau5trap. We didn’t need to look far when we were considering a partner to help get it all to the next level. With Create, I feel the music is going to reach more.”
Strauss is equally as enthusiastic about acquiring the deadmau5 brand. “When deadmau5 put on that helmet, he didn’t just create a brand – he sparked a movement,” he says. “His vision redefined electronic music, pushing boundaries and reshaping the industry.”
“Now, as the stewards of deadmau5 and mau5trap’s legendary catalogue, we inherit a legacy that changed music forever. Joel’s influence reaches far beyond sound – his mastery bridges music, gaming, and technology, inspiring a new generation to think bigger. This is more than an acquisition; it’s a responsibility.”
Looking forward, the plan is to expand and build upon the deadmaus5 and mau5trap legacy. Plans are in the works for CMG and Zimmerman to work together on remastering and re-releasing key deadmau5 records, as well as launching exclusive new content across a range of platforms.
There will also be discussions surrounding new collaborative work, brand partnerships and ventures into gaming. What with Zimmerman’s proven love of glitch music and video games, with tracks like Professional Griefers making it onto FIFA 13’s soundtrack, it only makes sense that he involves himself in more gaming projects. CMG even hint at VR as a potential avenue of interest.

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Mexican tourism board has “no knowledge” of Fyre Festival 2 – is the ill-fated event doomed once again?Last week, convicted fraudster Billy McFarland announced dates for the second edition of Fyre Festival, insisting that this time it will be “real”. Only the Mexican tourism board says it has “no knowledge of this event”, and that it “does not exist”.
For anyone who hasn’t seen Netflix’s FYRE documentary, the original Fyre Festival in 2017 fell apart spectacularly, with guests promised a luxury experience in the Bahamas arriving to find disaster relief tents, cheese slices on white bread, and their luggages tossed around a car park.

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The second edition of the festival has now been announced for 30 May to 2 June at Isla Mujeres, a tropical island off Cancún, Mexico. Tickets went on sale this week, with prices ranging from $1,400 to $25,000, and premium packages being sold as high as $1.1 million.
The trouble is, Edgar Gasca, from the tourism directorate of Isla Mujeres, says his team has no knowledge of the event – which is supposed to happen in just under three months.
“We have no knowledge of this event, nor contact with any person or company about it,” he tells The Guardian. “For us, this is an event that does not exist.”
Per NME, Gasca confirms he has spoken to the minister for tourism in the state of Quintana Roo – where Isla Mujeres is located – as well as hotels listed as accommodation options for the festival, and no one from these bodies has been approached about the event.
Impression Isla Mujeres, one such hotel, was contacted by The Guardian, and claimed it had not received “any approach or enquiry with regards to the event”.
“The organisers didn’t even bother to approach the authorities,” says Gasca. “It’s very strange, because any manager knows that if you’re going to hold an event, let alone a massive event, you need municipal authorisation.
“I think they thought they would just announce it and see if it got traction, then ask for the permits halfway down the path,” Gasca added. “It’s a bit of a naive way to think.”
Elsewhere, no acts have yet been announced for the festival which, again, is set to take place in three months’ time. Billy McFarland says Fyre Festival, this time, is “real”, but it certainly looks to bear all the hallmarks of history repeating itself.

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Classical Highlights for February 2025Several recent releases that we found to be very satisfying cover music from the Baroque, specifically for church use. Among these were the solo vocal debut album Seelentrost by Isabel Schicktanz and the contemporaneous work Bach's Leipziger Choräle, which Masaaki Suzuki (pictured) starts on as part of his cycle covering Bach's organ music.

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Amazon reportedly forms a new agentic AI groupAmazon has formed a new group within AWS dedicated to creating AI agents, systems that help people automate parts of their lives, Reuters reported on Tuesday. In an email to staff seen by Reuters, AWS CEO Matt Garman said agentic AI has the potential to be “the next multi-billion business for AWS.” A longtime AWS […]
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Interposer Helps GPS Receiver Overcome Its AgeWe return to [Tom Verbeure] hacking on Symmetricom GPS receivers. This time, the problem’s more complicated, but the solution remains the same – hardware hacking. If you recall, the previous frontier was active antenna voltage compatibility – now, it’s rollover. See, the GPS receiver chip has its internal rollover date set to 18th of September 2022. We’ve passed this date a while back, but the receiver’s firmware isn’t new enough to know how to handle this. What to do? Build an interposer, of course.
You can bring the by sending some extra init commands to the GPS chipset during bootup, and, firmware hacking just wasn’t the route. An RP2040 board, a custom PCB, a few semi-bespoke connectors, and a few zero-ohm resistors was all it took to make this work. From there, a MITM firmware wakes up, sends the extra commands during power-on, and passes all the other traffic right through – the system suspects nothing.
Everything is open-source, as we could expect. The problem’s been solved, and, as a bonus, this implant gives a workaround path for any future bugs we might encounter as far as GPS chipset-to-receiver comms are concerned. Now, the revived S200 serves [Tom] in his hacking journeys, and we’re reminded that interposers remain a viable way to work around firmware bugs. Also, if the firmware (or the CPU) is way too old to work with, an interposer is a great first step to removing it out of the equation completely.

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