Remember the metaverse? No? Well, you’re not alone. It seems but a faint memory now, but before AI mania swept Silicon Valley, the concept that everyone would soon be strapping on headsets and logging on […]
Photo Credit: Fix the Tix Coalition 30+ Music industry organizations urge ticketing reform to replace ‘nightmare fans and artists currently navigate’ with the Fix the Tix plan. Fix the Tix, a coalition of more than […]
Photo Credit: Turntable LIVE Ahead of its public launch, social music platform Turntable LIVE has officially acquired JQBX, a self-described “Spotify plugin that allows for real-time music sharing.” Turntable LIVE founder and CEO Joseph Perla […]
The value of Spotify stock has grown by almost 62% since 2023’s beginning. After plummeting to an all-time-low price in November of 2022, Spotify stock (NYSE: SPOT) has now turned in an almost 62 percent […]
Photo Credit: Tidal As it continues to collaborate with Universal Music Group (UMG) on an updated streaming-compensation model, Tidal has officially launched “Live,” which execs are billing as “a new way for fans to spontaneously […]
Photo Credit: Raluca Seceleanu Once a corporate darling in the metaverse frontier, Decentraland is a ghost town as investors abandon the metaverse. Decentraland was hailed in 2021 as one of the first instances of an […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Walking through Roku City on Sunday afternoon, you’d hardly know the namesake company was having an unusually stressful weekend. Sure, the faux metropolis — a several-story re-creation of Roku’s beloved screensaver, set up […]
Photo Credit: Roman Martyniuk Meta has announced an additional round of 10,000 layoffs and a pivot away from NFTs. CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote the move is one to streamline the company in terms of efficiency. […]
Photo Credit: Brandon Jean Does the future of music lie with web3, NFTs, and virtual world technology? Maybe. Digital Music News is cutting through the hype during the Digital Music Summit at Country Radio Seminar […]
Bandcamp has curated an 11-track playlist for Fortnite. Photo Credit: Vlad Gorshkov Nearly one year after Epic Games acquired Bandcamp, the indie music platform is officially curating tracks for Fortnite’s “Radio Underground” station. Epic-owned Fortnite, […]
Decentraland’s Vegas City area, where Lickd is offering users access to music from Empire and Kobalt. Photo Credit: Lickd UGC music licensing platform Lickd has announced a deal to bring the catalogs of Kobalt and […]
Photo Credit: Roblox Roblox released its fourth-quarter, year-end financial earnings for 2022, which show jumps in revenue and bookings while losses continue to deepen. The company saw a 16% increase in revenue year-on-year, with $2.2 […]
Photo Credit: Napster Napster has acquired NFT marketplace Mint Songs following its ‘wind down’ in late 2022. Napster is helmed by former Roblox music executive Jon Vlassopulos, who moved to acquire Mint Songs. Mint Songs […]
Saweetie has had a quiet year so far, but the Bay Area rapper is set to make a splash as she confirms her first big performance of the year will be at the Super Bowl […]
BMG CFO Thomas Coesfeld (pictured) is expected to begin as CEO in 2024. Photo Credit: Julia Schoierer BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch is officially set to step down at 2023’s end, and the Berlin-headquartered company has […]
Orfium CEO Rob Wells, who previously served as Universal Music Group’s president of global digital business. Photo Credit: Orfium Music-tech platform Orfium has officially announced the acquisition of 23-year-old Soundmouse, which claims to have established […]
Photo Credit: WBLS / CC by 3.0 Mariah Carey’s perennial holiday favorite “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has broken Spotify’s single-day global streaming record. This latest commercial feat for the nearly 29-year-old track, […]
Every week, I put 3 million of my hard-earned coins into an enterprise that I know will result in disappointment: the Eorzean housing lottery, where the odds have, so far, never been in my favor. […]
Photo Credit: Fresh On The Net / CC by 2.0 A couple hates “Last Christmas” by Wham! so much they’re trying to buy the song rights so they can take it off the air forever. […]
Morgan Stanley has once again sliced its Spotify stock (NYSE: SPOT) target price, this time to $105 per share. New York City-headquartered Morgan Stanley recently disclosed its updated Spotify stock target price (which decreased from […]