A suggestion made last week during the music industry’s ‘Black Out Tuesday’ is gathering momentum. As reported on Rolling Stone earlier this week, the likes of Kelis, Eryka Badu and John Legend manager Ty Stiklorious have all shared a…
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LANDR launches Creator tool, enabling ‘almost infinite’ number of sounds for producers
Firm says that combination of Creator tool with LANDR Selector creates “no feasible limit” for music-makers
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Scooter Braun joins $30m investment in avatar-based virtual concert startup Wave
Wave recently hosted concerts with John Legend and Tinashe
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Warner Music Group worth over $16bn after a full week of trading on Nasdaq
Firm’s market cap is up by $3.5bn on the price it set last week
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Raft of senior execs call for removal of ‘urban’ descriptor, anti-racism training at major UK music companies
Execs from all three majors and influential independents sign letter addressed to UK business leaders
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Republic Records dumps the word ‘urban’ from its company vocabulary
Management company Milk & Honey ‘eliminated’ word from its company dealings yesterday
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Sony Music Group launches $100m fund to support social justice and anti-racist causes
Rob Stringer: “We stand against discrimination everywhere and we will take action accordingly with our community fully involved in effectively using these funds.”
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Universal commits $25m fund to support the black community in ‘first phase’ of global company Task Force
Jeff Harleston and Ethiopia Habtemariam head up company Task Force aiming to enact “lasting change”
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Warner Music Group started today with a $12.8bn valuation. It’s now worth $2.6bn more.
Warner Music Group’s first day on the Nasdaq couldn’t have gone much better for the company and its new shareholders. Earlier today (June 3), the major music company went public, making 77 million Class A shares of common stock available at…
Hipgnosis, with a catalog worth nearly $1bn, is becoming less reliant on songs from the past decade
New trading update from Merck Mercuriadis’ company reveals much about its performance in the past year
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