Tag: Music industry
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AmazeVR Raises $15 Million to Bring Music Fans Virtual Reality Concerts With Artists Like Megan Thee Stallion
AmazeVR, a West Hollywood-based virtual reality startup that allows users to experience musical artists’ VR concerts, has secured $15 million in new funding.The funding round was co-led by Partners Investment and Murex Partners and was oversubscribed …
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Behind the Scenes of The Rattle’s Secretive Artist Co-Op
The Rattle opened a studio in Silver Lake last year, which it operates as something between a startup accelerator, art co-op, coworking space and venture studio. Its goal is to rethink the way musicians and artists are compensated for creating somethi…
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Snafu Records Raises $6 Million to Replace Record Executives with AI
Social media has made it easier for musicians and producers to get discovered, but they still have to impress the industry’s gatekeepers to make it big — and those executives are typically white men swayed by their own biases, whether they intend it …
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Column: The Post-Label Music Industry Is Here. Here’s How Artists, Businesses and Investors Can Prosper
For decades, artists have had to rely on a music industry plagued with nepotism to reach their audiences.Since it has not always been necessary to possess real talent in order to become a well-known artist, the industry is fundamentally unequal. Gifte…
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Snap Strikes Multi-Year Deal With Universal Music Group
Snapchat users will now be able to use songs from Kanye West, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift after Snap and Universal Music Group inked a deal that gives the social media network access to the music giant’s expansive catalog. The deal underscores the ongo…
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Songtradr Secures An Additional $50 Million
Songtradr, a Santa Monica-based music rights and licensing startup with deep Aussie ties, has been gobbling up smaller competitors in the past several months. On Monday, it announced it raised $50 million in Series D funding.Since January, Songtradr …
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With In-Person Concerts Back, What Will Happen to Livestream Audiences?
In-person concerts are coming back. In California, venues have received the provisional go-ahead to open at full capacity by June 15 so long as statewide COVID numbers continue their downward trend. But 15 months after venues shuttered, the musi…
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Triller Strikes Deal with Universal Music Group
About three and a half months after Universal Music Group pulled its extensive catalog from Triller amid a licensing negotiation spat, the two sides have reached a new agreement, the companies announced Thursday. Triller users will now once again have…