Author archives: Bruce Houghton

CD Baby Partners With CloudBounce For Mastering

A new partnership with CloudBounce means that CD Baby users can now instantly master music from within their CD Baby dashboard for just $4.90 a track. The startup is an Abbey Road Red music tech incubator graduate. “A large segment of the indie artist community is drastically changing how they…

Sofar Sounds Adds $25M While Musicians Make $100 A Show

Sofar Sounds has announced $25 million in new funding led by Battery Ventures and Union Square Ventures with participation from existing investors Octopus Ventures and Virgin Group. That brings total investments in Sofar to $31 million. Three months ago, former Spotify and The Echo Nest executive Jim Luccesse was name…

Jay-Z , Timbaland Sued Over 1990’s Copyright Infringements

Jay-Z and Timbaland are being sued by soul singer Ernie Hines for copyright infringement over the use of his 1970 single “Help Me Put Out the Flame (In My Heart)” on two separate songs released 20 years ago, documents filed in U.S. District Court in New York reveal. In the…

Sony/ATV, Music App Developer Gismart Ink Content Deal

Sony/ATV Music Publishing has signed a global content licensing deal with music app maker Gismart. Titles from music apps and games publisher have over 350 million downloads and 17 million monthly active users across its product portfolio. The new deal will allow Gismart apps, such as Karaoke Face, gain access…

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Music WorX Startup Accelerator Opens Applications

Music WorX Accelerator 2019, the start-up funding program of the German Ministry of Culture and the Media and the Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft, is accepting applications. Music WorX Accelerator helps music and music tech founders from all over Europe. In this accelerator program, up to four start-up teams are supported for…

The Day Hattie Webb Broke Into The PledgeMusic Office

PledgeMusic owes independent artist Hattie Webb $6876. She’s not alone. Hundreds of artists are owed thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars. But Hattie did something we’re not aware of any other artist doing. When she learned that the crowdfunder was in financial trouble, she stormed their London office and…

Apple, Amazon, Google Sued For ‘Massive’ Music Piracy

Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Pandora are being sued for selling and streaming unauthorized recordings of Harold Arlen, the composer of Over the Rainbow and other classic songs. The lawsuit accuses the companies of running “massive music piracy operation” involving more than 6,000 pirated recordings. The lawyers say that the…

TickTok Owner In Talks To Launch Music Streaming Service

ByteDance, valued at $75 billion thanks in large part to the huge popularity of its TikTok app, is in talks with major labels and publishers to launch a music streaming service, according to multiple sources. The Chinese conglomerate could launch its Spotify competitor as soon as the end of this…