Category archives: Music industry

Vibe Music Arabia is looking to fill the many gaps that exist in the regional music ecosystem with a view to amplifying the voices of the incredible amount of talent in the Middle East.
Cairo Scene

At the end of the 19th century, Thomas Ava Edison invented a sound recording machine with a tinfoil format. Alexander Graham Bell took the idea one step further, invented a wax format and patented it. The manufacturing of gramophones didn’t pick up bec…

It is well known that musicians do not make very much on streaming sites, so should be stop using sites like Spotify all together? Artist and activist MegMarie thinks so.
HypeBot

2021 has been an incredible and record-setting year for the African music industry and everybody will agree that its music has never more been more popular around the world.
The Guardian Nigeria

Selon un dernier rapport publié par le BPI en cette fin d’année 2021, les vinyles ont représenté 23 % des ventes de disques au Royaume-Uni.
Les InRocks

La prisa por apoderarse de los lucrativos repertorios atemporales de los gigantes de la música continúa: el grupo estadounidense Warner Music anunció este lunes que había comprado los derechos de toda la obra musical del difunto rockero británico David…

The race is on to build music’s definitive metaverse. Could this virtual world be developed by a well established company like Epic Games?
Music Business Worldwide

Hindered for years by online piracy, China has morphed into the world’s seventh-largest music market, behind South Korea.
South China Morning Post

“Tik-a-Tok-a-Who?”, was Adele’s response to her management’s suggestion to promote her music to younger audiences on Tiktok, the video-sharing platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance.
The Conversation

Gerhard Behles, a founder of the music-production software company Ableton, had a polite answer to the venture capital power players on the Zoom: No.
Billboard