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Sony Music is now planning to purchase the Michael Jackson Estate’s share of its joint music publishing venture, Sony/ATV. The 50% stake will be purchased for a massive $750 million, according to official statements, with a clear-cut agreement expected by the end of the month. Sony Music predicts that the deal will be closed by late 2016/early 2017. […]
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Great news for indie artists: Tunecore has revealed a 47% increase in publishing revenue last year, fueled by a handsome 57% jump in sync revenues. Conventional methods for earning revenue from music dried up ages ago, and the industry’s magic time machine is showing little promise of revitalizing CDs and iTunes downloads. That means trusty mechanical […]
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Instagram has seen significant growth since its launch in 2010, and now boasts more than 400 million active users. The app is one of the most engaging out of the bunch, with users spending a large amount of time scrolling and uploading images and short videos amongst friends . With such market power, brands, marketing […]
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Flipagram has been around since late 2013, and a big deal for years. Basically, it’s an easy-to-use photo app that allows users to create fun slideshows, usually accompanied by popular, top-charting music. It’s a lot of fun to use, and makes infinite sense given the extreme amount of photos people take every day — often […]
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Jay Z’s Tidal streaming service has been at the brunt of some negative headlines recently. There’s been the alleged lawsuits for copyright infringement and unpaid royalties, the leaking of Rihanna’s ANTI album, and Kanye’s latest album, ‘The Life of Pablo,’ not even charting because of a refusal to send vital streaming information to Neilson Music. […]
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When it comes to horrible timing, this one takes the cake. It has now been confirmed that the co-founder of SXSW, Louis Jay Meyers, has died aged 60 just as the festival was kicking off its 30th edition. According to the Austin American-Statesman, Meyers was admitted to St. David’s South Austin Medical Centre on March 10th, and […]
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Update: (March 14. at 12:54). A SXSW representative asked that we change the title of this piece from ‘demanded’ to ‘asked’. In response, we offered to change the title to ‘insisted’ to match Muhammad’s characterization. At the SXSW Festival in Austin, TX on Saturday (March, 12th), Ibtihaj Muhammad — an American Muslim Olympic fencer — was […]
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The Eagles of Death Metal are a band desperately trying to recover from the horrific events of November 13th, with a public apology from frontman Jesse Hughes revealing a tormented post-traumatic struggle. Last week, Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes dropped an accusatory bombshell by implicating Bataclan security officials in the bloody attacks of November 13th. “When […]
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Live365 is already dead, thanks to the elimination of special rates for small webcasters. Now, a surviving group of struggling internet radio stations will likely follow suit within 60 days. On December 16th, 2015, a panel of Copyright Royalty judges issued a written determination of royalty rates and terms to apply to internet radio broadcasters, specifically from January 1st, […]
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