Firebird Music Holdings has a new $750m fund for acquiring music catalogues, following its investments in management firms and labels.
Author Archives: Stuart Dredge
Music Ally's Head of Insight
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Notes·fm launches its open music-credits database Credits·fm
Rights-tech firm Notes·fm has launched its new Credits·fm “free and open music credits database” this week.
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Live Nation to livestream Pitbull’s bald-cap world-record attempt
Pitbull’s BST Hyde Park concert this July in London won’t just be a collection of bangers from Mr Worldwide’s back catalogue.
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Openstage is connecting fan-data to Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT
Beyond the heated debates and dealmaking around GenAI music, use of chatbots and other AI tools is growing rapidly across the music industry.
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Beatport Greenroom is a B2B dashboard for artists and labels
Today’s the day (1 July) for Beatport’s leadership transition, with CEO Robb McDaniels handing over the electronic-music brand’s reins.
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Misheard ‘Doobie Scoot Canoe’ lyric fuels a big TikTok surge
Excuse me while I kiss this guy… All the lonely Starbucks lovers… Parrot, parrot, parrot eyes… and now Doobie Scoot Canoe.
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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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Musician Dave Rowntree loses appeal in PRS for Music battle
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has received another, seemingly-final setback in his battle against UK collecting society PRS for Music.
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Lume to offer fans ‘the world of an album’ – and Lorde is on board
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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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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Innovate UK launches £10m funding competition for ‘createch’ startups – music included
Innovate UK’s latest competition will see it invest up to £10m in ‘createch’ startups. The good news is that music is included.
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Report: There are now more than 400m Gen-Z fans of esports
It’s been a little while since we checked in on the esports market, but y’know who’s checking in regularly on professional gaming tournaments? Gen-Z, that’s who. At least, that’s a […]
