What’s been happening to the music catalogue-sales market in the last couple of years? Philippe Astor has been crunching the numbers.
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Kalshi trades spark Spotify investigation into fake streams
Spotify has been forced to remove more than 500k streams of a song that topped its US chart after – in the Financial Times’ words – “discovering that the surge in streaming coincided with a jump in suspicious wagers on prediction market Kalshi”.
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Spotify’s latest Afrobeats move is a festival partnership
The deal sees Spotify become the official ‘sponsor and exclusive streaming partner’ for the three-day Afrobeats-focused festival, which takes place this weekend in Portimão, Portugal. The streaming service will launch an Afro Nation hub on its service with an official playlist and “selected performance videos after the event” according to Nigerian news outlet Business Day.
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Impala outlines new five-step plan for the digital-music market
European independent-music body Impala is never shy about putting forward its views on how the music industry should develop.
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Tidal allows AI-generated music – but it won’t earn royalties
Tidal is the latest music-streaming service to set out its policies around AI-generated music, and it’s going further than many of its peers.
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Google has thoughts on AI and copyright regulation in the US
“The debate over AI governance is stuck in a false choice between over-regulation and no regulation. There is a middle way,” noted the tech giant in a blog post about its latest report.
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Suno launches grants, mentorship and support for indie artists who use the platform
Earlier this week, we reported on SZA’s fury with AI platforms like Suno, and the artists that collaborate with them. Her warning to other artists – all-caps tirade warning – was […]
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(Another) AI Roundup: indie artists react to YouTube AI claims; Facebook; ErosMusic Worlds; and Modulate
We’re being flooded with AI news this week, so for the sake of our sanity, we’ve once again rounded it all up for you to digest in one crispy AI nugget: […]
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UK competition watchdog levies £900k fine on StubHub UK and orders additional £590k refund to customers
The UK’s Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) watchdog has levied a £900,000 fine on StubHub UK for “drip pricing” and ordered it to also refund 50,000 customers to the tune of £590,000 – on average around £10 per transaction.
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AI Round Up: platform news, new marketing tools, and SZA, Jack Conte and Fenix Flexin
AI is in an unusual position where it sparks polarised public opinions, yet is simultaneously being used by everyone and their dog to do things that they couldn’t do before: […]
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Open letter: Musicians ‘must not be pressured into AI deals’ by rightsholders
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: the music industry wants permission, payment and transparency from AI companies.
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‘No Fakes Act’ takes its next step towards becoming US law
The ‘No Fakes Act’ is the proposed US legislation tackling unauthorised AI deepfakes, which was recently reintroduced for a third time in the Senate.
