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Tag: A&R
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Behind The Campaign: Benson Boone
Benson Boone first pinged up on the industry’s radar in 2021 when he took part in American Idol, but he later withdrew from the competition to focus on his own […]
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SoundCloud global head of music Emmy Lovell: “To have zero plays is soul destroying for musicians.”
July 2024: Emmy Lovell, global head of music at SoundCloud. She discusses how, in an age of plenty, the mythical level playing field of digital is often a cemetery, why […]
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Tools :: LabelRadar
LabelRadar wants to benefit artists, labels, promoters and fans alike. For artists, it democratises access to key decision makers in the industry by streamlining the demo submission process. It helps […]
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Behind The Campaign: Daði Freyr
Daði Freyr was supposed to be Iceland’s entry for Eurovision 2020 and his track ‘Think About Things’ had already gone viral ahead of the event. AWAL had picked up on […]
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SoundCloud wants to develop more artists with A&R deals
SoundCloud continues its firm pivot back towards creator tools and direct relationships with artists. The latest news is a slate of what the company is describing as “A&R partnerships” to […]
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Avastars TV talent show will turn its contestants into avatars
Talpa Network is the company founded by John de Mol, the TV super-producer who developed formats including Big Brother and The Voice. His company’s latest show sounds pretty interesting: Avastars […]
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Meddling’s new songwriter discovery tool is for publishers
Meddling launched in 2015 as an A&R tool for labels, to help them spot emerging artists by crunching data from music consumption across the world. Now it’s trying to do the […]
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Apple predictions: VR/AR headset in 2022, AR glasses in 2025
Oh, and don’t forget AR contact lenses sometime after 2030. By which time nobody will remember the prediction or the predictor enough to check whether it was right. In fairness, […]
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A&R startup Andrson offers a new spin on Spotify Wrapped
Spotify’s annual year-end Wrapped campaign packages up people’s listening in best-of playlists, but now it’s being given a remix by AI-powered A&R startup Andrson. It has launched something called ReWrapped, which […]
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Apple TV+ show ‘For All Mankind’ gets a spin-off AR app
Rumours continue to swirl about Apple’s possible plans for an AR and/or VR headset, which may or may not launch this year, or indeed at all. But the company’s interest […]
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Jadu debuts ‘Curse of Calypso’ Palaye Royale AR experience
Jadu is one of the startups exploring the potential of augmented reality technology for music artists. Its latest experiment is with artist Palaye Royale, for whom it has created an […]
