#1 Free News Source for the New Music Business, Music Tech & Indie MusiciansBillboard, Music Business Worldwide, Variety, Music Ally, Digital Music News, and other outlets covering the music business, music marketing, and music tech are increasingly putting some or all of their content behind a paywall.....
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This weekend, trailblazing UK producer James Blake addressed this, too: “If we want quality music somebody is gonna have to pay for it. Streaming services don’t pay properly, labels want a bigger cut than ever and just sit and wait for you to go viral, TikTok doesn’t pay properly, and touring is getting prohibitively expensive for most artists. The brainwashing worked and now people think music is free.”
“And by the way,” Blake continued, “since it’s cheaper to produce fast, synthetic music to drop on streaming every week to capitalize on the strengths of the model, watch how the model is preparing you for AI-generated music that pays musicians nothing at all.” #MusicIndustry #MusicBusiness #Spotify #majorlabels

Hipgnosis Songs Fund’s assets are now valued at $690 million less than they were before. Blackstone must be licking its lips.JP Morgan analyst says the likelihood of a Blackstone takeover just increased, thanks to Shot Tower's re-valuation of HSF
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Arjun Pulijal exits role as President of Capitol Music GroupThe news follows the departure of Michelle Jubelirer as Chair & CEO of Capitol Music Group at the beginning of February
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Composing & Arranging for Voice: From Pop to OperaThe original instrument! Join us for a deep dive into techniques, strategies, and philosophies for crafting compelling vocal music and accompaniments. We'll explore arranging and orchestrating preexisting songs, as well as composing original material. In addition, we'll take some time to break down specific voice types and discuss setting words to music, syllable by syllable.

Adding an element of text to music creates wonderfully unique opportunities to evoke emotions, storytelling, and world building. If time permits, we'll also discuss working in arts administration as a creative.

Presenter: Spencer Edgers

Spencer Edgers (class of 2020-'21) is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Juneau, AK who has lived, studied, and been steeped in music in both Philadelphia and Seattle. His most recent film credit as composer is Poison Crue, which premiered at the 2022 El Paso Film Festival. Spencer has premiered two short operas; The Dust Gets in Your Eyes and Everything After with Seattle Opera, and has orchestrated & arranged two songs in collaboration with Taylor Vidic for The Juneau Symphony.

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Live Nation to continue $1500 per show On The Road subsidies in 2024Live Nation will continue its On The Road Again tour subsidies well into 2024, multiple sources tell Hypebot.....
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un:hurd expands automated Music Marketing Toolkit, adds fundingMusic marketing platform un:hurd has raised a new funding round to expand its suite of data and AI-led features to help artists build, nurture, and monetize their audiences.....
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An updated guide to YouTube’s best practices in 2024YouTube is essential to the ever-evolving digital music landscape, and The Orchard shares their 2024 YouTube Best Practices, where to learn about new features, branding tips, and how to reach goals successfully.....
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Getting It Done – The Week in DIY & Indie Music: Indies rule Spotify • Show marketing • paid marketing • MoreThis week, our tips and advice for independent musicians covered how to impress music bloggers, market music on Spotify, and much more.....
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REWIND: New music industry’s week in review – UMG vs TokTok • modern A&R • cassettes • moreLast week was a busy week by any definition, and the music industry was no exception, with ongoing TikTik troubles, A&R tactics, more on music AI, cassettes making a comeback, and more.....
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CCC Webinar: A.I., Creators, and The Future Of Copyright"Legal Update: AI, Creators, and The Future Of Copyright"Tuesday, March 12, 2024ZOOM WEBINAR2:30 PM PST - 4:00 PM PST

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The rapid emergence of AI technologies raises a host of issues, challenges, and perhaps opportunities for creators and rightsholders.  In this session, discuss transparency in identifying AI-generated v. human created music; whether and to what extent consent can be required to enable music to be exploited for AI training; how music licensing may be impacted by AI-generated works; how songwriters and composers can leverage AI in their creative works; and whether the copyright law is equipped to address the various legal issues that the emergence of AI has raised.Moderator: Wayne Josel | Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs, ASCAP Panelists: Abby North | Principal, North  Music Group, LLCHenry W. Root, Esq. | Senior Partner, Counsel LLPLucas Cantor Santiago | Composer/Producer/AuthorShannon Sorensen | Senior Vice President, Legal & Business Affairs, NMPA

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S Club at the OrpheumWho would guess the year would be 2023 and Aqua and S Club were back right?? You can leave that out haha. This was scheduled for Nov at the Dolby and they cancelled their 5 N America shows. Hopefully they'll do what Aqua did and come back again for a bigger tour. By way the met the incoming associate editor last night at Extreme. Had no clue Mark retired and you're the editor now. In my 12 years with MC never saw an associate editor move up. Glad it got to be you. Marks a legend and tough to have to follow.

“There ain’t no party like an S Club party,”  and it was quite a party at the Orpheum Theatre February 27th when S Club played the final show of their Good Times tour. This show was originally scheduled at the Dolby Theater in November along with four dates in Toronto, Boston, NYC, and Chicago were postponed to February. British Pop group S Club 7 was founded back in 1998  by Spice Girls’ manager Simon Fuller who was in attendance for this show. The group consisted of 4 female and 3 male vocalists: Tina Barrett, Jon Lee, Paul Cattermole, Hannah Spearritt, Bradley McIntosh, Jo O’Meara, and Rachel Stevens. In five years they released four albums with a number of hits and iconic music videos and had three tours. S Club 7 had four number one hits in the U.K. and another seven that were top five. The whole group would not reunite until 2012 for a medley of hits on a BBC Children in Need telethon and their greatest hits album was reissued. The group would tour one more time as all seven members only in the U.K. for their Bring it All Back Tour. 

S Club 7 first became S Club in 2002 when Cattermole departed the group and their fourth album Seeing Double was the only one to be released as S Club. Previously Cattermole, O’Meara, and McIntosh had performed as S Club 3 in 08. Just a year ago the group announced a two week anniversary tour that would take place in October. Sadly, Cattermole passed away at the age of 46 on April 6th and Spearitt decided to not take part in the reunion. S Club as a five piece released their first single in nearly 20 years “These Are The Days” as a tribute to Cattermole and the group’s legacy. The group worked with Musical Director/Keyboardist/Producer Simon Ellis on the single who was a producer on all but the group’s first album and worked with the Spice Girls on all their tours/performances through 2012. 

S Club, now a five piece, gave their first reunion show since 2015 October 12th, 2023 in Manchester England which would conclude October 27th in Liverpool, England. S Club kicked off their first ever North American tour February 16th in Toronto, Canada. Following the east coast dates, S Club made their way to Los Angeles, CA. The show kicked off just before 8:30 P.M. with the opening song being none other than “S Club Party '' and sure brought a lot of memories back for the audience who would have been in elementary or middle school when S Club 7 released their debut album. The 18 song set included all the hits like “Don’t Stop Moving,” “Two in a Million,” “Bring It All Back,” and “Reach”. McIntosh and Lee performed "Good Times" as a tribute to Cattermole. S Club returned for an encore of “Never Had a Dream Come True,” and “S Club Party” for a second time but as a remix and outro.

From Universal Music’s cost-saving ‘redesign’ to Warner’s superfan app… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-UpThe five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
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UMG Publishing and TikTok send dueling messages to Songwriters [Full Text]With thousands of songs by major and independent artists who are not signed to Universal for recording or publishing now muted in the battle between the music giant and TikTok, both sides stepped up to the bully pulpit with dueling messages to songwriters and the music industry this week.....
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Social Media as an extension of artistry, not a disconnected facadeA strong social media presence is essential for every musician, writes veteran music marketer Melissa d'Engelbronner of FUGA, but its music be an extension of the musician’s artistry, not a disconnected facade.....
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