UPDATED: American Association Of Independent Music’s annual Indie Week invades New York City on June 17 – 20. The usually very smart team at A2IM have foolishly invited me to participate on a panel titled Streaming Manipulation "The Ethics of Streaming." I hope to see you there. The details: "The…
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Watch BTS Recreate The Beatles On Ed Sullivan With Stephen Colbert
K-Pop icons BTS stopped by the Late Show With Stephen Colbert this week which included a recreation of the Beatles famed appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show with BTS dressed in Fab Four style suits and Colbert as Ed Sullivan. photo: BTS performs on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert…
Facebook Adds Ticketing Powered By Eventbrite
Facebook has added ticketing to its Events platform, powered by Eventbrite, Ticketing On Facebook allows anyone with a Facebook Page to ‘Create Tickets’ in the initial event setup. U.S. roll out begins today. "700 million people use Facebook Events each month," Pat Poels, SVP of Platform at Eventbrite, "and partnering…
Midem Adds Marsha Vlasic , Rebecca León Keynotes
Midem has added keynotes with Rebeca León, themanager of Juanes, Rosalía, J. Balvin and Marsha Vlasic, agent to Neil Young, Elvis Costello, PJ Harvey for its 53rd conference, June 4-7 in Cannes. León, CEO and Co-Founder of Lionfish Entertainment and Vlasic, President of Artists Group International, will join a list…
NME, Uncut Acquired By BandLab Technologies
Top UK music sites NME and Uncut have been sold to Singapore-headquartered BandLab Technologies. The music tech company’s lead product is a social music creation platform. After 66 years, NME stopped printing its weekly magazine in March of 2018, but continued to publish online at NME.com. Both titles, acquired from…
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PledgeMusic Lost Almost $11 Million In The Last 3 Years
Two copies of a PledgeMusic presentation apparently designed to attract investors show that the crowdfunder lost nearly $11 million dollars between 2016 and 2018, despite generating more than $77 million in revenue during the same period. Weird Al Yankovic sold $1.45 million worth of music and merchandise using the platform,…
YouTubNow Offline As Music Industry Scores Two Wins vs Stream Rippers
After months of court delays and losses to overseas based streaming ripping sites, the music industry is finally notching some wins. Ripping MP3’s from YouTube, Spotify and other streamers is believed to be the #1 source of music piracy. YouTubNow As for Thursday morning, notorious YouTube stream ripping site YouTubNow…
Project Music Showcases 14 Top Music Tech Startups
Nashville’s Project Music, a year long accelerator program for music tech startups, named its 2019 class this spring. Now in its 5th year, the 14 startups, which come from across the country, benefit from a year of support and a music industry immersion which connects them to industry leaders alongside…
Eurovision To Bring Its Weird, Wonderful Song Contest To North America
The successful and weird phenomenon known as the Eurovision Song Contest reportedly will see a North American version in the near future. The song competition, which pits European countries and others including Israel and Australia, against each other for the campiest song possible, could launch in the U.S. in 2021….