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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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Jan 7, 20222 min read
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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...

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Jan 6, 20222 min read
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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...

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Dec 11, 20211 min read
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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...

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Dec 5, 20212 min read
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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...

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Nov 17, 20212 min read
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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...

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Nov 14, 20211 min read
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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...

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Nov 14, 20211 min read
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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...

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Nov 14, 20211 min read
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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...

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Nov 7, 20212 min read
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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,...

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Nov 7, 20211 min read
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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’...

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Nov 7, 20212 min read
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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 31, 20211 min read
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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
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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,...

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Oct 24, 20211 min read
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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...

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Oct 24, 20211 min read
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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...

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Oct 24, 20212 min read
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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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Jul 24, 20212 min read
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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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Jun 25, 20212 min read
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