Nas is selling NFT shares in his streaming royalties on the ROYAL platform
Today, Royal, co-founded by Justin Blau, aka musician and producer 3LAU, has revealed that one of those backers, hip-hop legend Nas,...
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Songs That Work
Jan 6, 20222 min read
CD Sales Are Up for the First Time in 17 Years — Thanks to Adele, BTS & Taylor Swift
$$ from CD and Vinyl Sales-the power of CLASSIC As our live get faster and more ridiculous, people long for stability and what they used...
Songs That Work
Dec 11, 20211 min read
Deadmau5 and Richie Hawtin raise $4.5m to build ‘the leading music metaverse’
The race to build the best and most useful metaverses is on! Obviously Facebook now Metaverse, Roblox, Decentraland are all leaders in...
Songs That Work
Dec 5, 20212 min read
Joyner Lucas, Nas join $55m funding round in 3LAU’s blockchain-based music investment platform Royal
Electronic dance music producer and DJ Justin Blau, better known by his stage name 3LAU, has officially announced the launch of a...
Songs That Work
Nov 17, 20212 min read
TuneCore launches service for INDIE artists to push music to socials for Influencer use!
The company has introduced a new service for artists to distribute their music directly into the music libraries of social media...
Songs That Work
Nov 14, 20211 min read
Twitch launches The Collective, a livestreaming incubator program for ARTISTS
Amazon-owned live-streaming platform Twitch has launched a new incubator program called The Collective. Twitch will be working with what...
Songs That Work
Nov 14, 20211 min read
Reverbnation aquired by Singapore's BandLab
Big News if you use ReverbNation for email marketing, pushing new song releases to social, Distribution or most importantly, using their...
Songs That Work
Nov 14, 20211 min read
EMPIRE to Offer Artists Advances in Bitcoin
Money Man, a rapper hailing from Atlanta, is the first to accept the payment through Cash App. The Atlanta MC has a long history with...
Songs That Work
Nov 7, 20212 min read
Mexico, Brazil Consume More Music on Average Than Any Other Markets: IFPI
According to data culled from the IFPI's recently released "Engaging With Music" report, which dug deep into the music consumption habits...
Songs That Work
Nov 7, 20211 min read
Live Nation Stock Has Doubled in the Last Year (LYV)
Q3 numbers are revealed for Live Nation. Within the filing, the company reports quarterly revenues of $2.69 billion across all divisions,...
Songs That Work
Nov 7, 20212 min read
Lil Pump royalty shares sell out in two hours via Opulous partnership, raising $500,000
Blockchain-powered financial platform Opulous has partnered with rapper Lil Pump and EDM star KSHMR to let fans invest in the artists’...
Songs That Work
Oct 31, 20211 min read
TuneCore strikes partnership with Peloton Music
TuneCore, one of the OG DIY music distribution platforms, has struck a partnership with connected fitness brand and luxury exercise bike...
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Oct 24, 20211 min read
Jay-Z's VC Firm Makes Investment to Help Create the Metaverse
Marcy Venture Partners (MVP), the venture capital firm co-founded by Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter, Roc Nation vice-chairman Jay Brown and...
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Oct 24, 20211 min read
Latin music gaining marketshare in US
Latin music continues its winning streak with U.S. recorded music revenues growing 37% to $407 million for the first six months of 2021,...
Songs That Work
Oct 24, 20211 min read
Snapchat to Offer $25K 'Prizes' for Top Videos From Creators
Starting in November, TikTok will launch Spotlight Challenges, named after Snapchat's user-generated platform that mimics TikTok's for...
Songs That Work
Oct 24, 20212 min read
Big Investment Dollars Consolidating and Purchasing All the Music Copyrights They Can
What does this mean? New York-based Apollo Global Management is investing up to $1 billion in HarbourView – a new music rights and media...
Song That Work
Jul 24, 20212 min read
Sony Music wipes out unpaid recoupment for qualifying artists
New Program called "Artists Forward" Major is a signal that Sony will “prioritiz[e] transparency with creators in all aspects of their...
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Jun 25, 20212 min read
Independent Artists upstreamed to Believe
Indie artists on TuneCore are now being upstreamed to French major artist services and development firm Believe in the ongoing Signed By...
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