It’s a year since the release of Lorde’s fourth album, ‘Virgin’, and she celebrated the anniversary by dropping 49 demos.
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Lorde warns fans about the ‘demented struggle’ of touring
Lorde sold nearly 20,000 tickets to her recent London concerts, which makes her one of the artists who’s keeping her head above water.
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Google’s latest search feature is official posts from musicians
The question of what appears in Google search results when people look for their favourite music artists has sparked controversy in the past: rightsholders regularly attacked Google for returning links to illegal downloads.
They’ll be happier about Google’s latest search feature, which has been announced tonight. It’s called ‘search posts’, and will offer social network-style updates from musicians that appear when they are searched for.
“The next time you’re wondering about Lorde’s upcoming tour dates or Steve Aoki’s new music video, you can hear the update directly from them – plus Sia, Son Little, Sofi Tukker, Shakira, and Kygo – through a post in Search,” explained Google’s blog post.
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SoundCloud revamps its iPhone app and hints at plans for music payouts (Interview)
“There was witch-hop, of course, and then mermaid. And I’ve created a brand new genre called churchstep…”
SoundCloud co-founder and CTO Eric Wahlforss – aka Forss in his musician guise – is whizzing Music Ally through his feed of tracks from friends and fellow artists on his company’s revamped iPhone app, which launches today. I’ve never heard of witch-hop, mermaid or churchstep, but Wahlforss, thankfully, is far too polite to comment on my panicked out-of-my-musical-depth facial expression.
Anyway, he’s got an app to show off.
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A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA
What if Lorde’s Royals had been written by a thirty something?
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Songs Music Publishing’s Matt Pincus talks Spotify, YouTube, Lorde and digital disruption
Music publishing is changing. It’s the longest established sector of the music industry, but in the last decade it’s also fielded a lot of criticism from within the industry (i.e. labels) concerning publishers’ appetite for supporting new digital innovations.
The thing is, as soon as you group all publishers together – “Publishers are X” or “Publishers do Y” – you’re showing yourself up, not least because there are a growing number of younger, fleeter-of-foot publishers helping to redefine how the sector works, particularly around digital.
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Lorde releases new single on iTunes only
It’s not just Beyoncé releasing surprise tracks on iTunes this month. Flavour-of-the-year Lorde debuted a brand new track on Apple’s store on Friday too.
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Spotify was ‘the first spark’ that made Lorde a star
Forbes has an interesting piece today on how Lorde’s ‘Royals’ track became a global success, with her label pinpointing Spotify as one of the key factors.
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Vevo publishes its latest stats for the UK
Music videos service Vevo has published its latest Music Video Viewership Report, covering the UK’s first six months of 2013.
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Spotify launches artist Spotlight feature with Haim and Lorde
Streaming music service Spotify has been under pressure in recent months to prove its value to artists of all sizes, not just the biggest acts. The company is hoping its new Spotlight feature will contribute to answering some of the criticism.
It’s launching today as “a new home and editorial voice within Spotify for new, exclusive and hand-picked content from both new and established acts”, with Haim and Lorde first to get the treatment.
