Amazon and Google spent the best part of a decade putting smart speakers into homes around the world. Amazon now says there are more than 600 million Alexa devices in existence. That is an extraordinary…
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Doechii’s “Anxiety” is built around “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye featuring Kimbra. If the instrumental instantly sounds familiar, that’s why. But there’s another twist. Doechii originally made “Anxiety” years before becoming a…
Instagram is making it clearer when an account represents an AI-generated person. The platform is replacing its previous “AI creator” description with an AI-generated profile label. For musicians creating virtual or AI-powered artists, this is…
DistroKid and UnitedMasters both offer unlimited distribution and 100% streaming royalty retention on their standard paid artist plans. But they feel like very different products. DistroKid DistroKid starts at $24.99 per year in the US.…
Sync licensing can produce some of the largest individual payments an independent song receives. A placement might involve music appearing in: But there is no single fixed sync rate. What determines the fee? Several factors…
For decades, the music industry has largely made money when people consume music. Buy a record. Download a song. Stream a track. Watch a music video. But artificial intelligence could create an entirely new type…
UK songwriters, composers and music publishers are set to keep more of their royalties. PRS for Music has announced reductions to several of the administration rates it deducts before distributing royalties to members. The changes…
Zara Larsson’s “Midnight Sun” is essentially a love letter to Swedish summer. More specifically, it’s about the strange freedom of summer nights when the sun barely disappears. Larsson has explained that she wanted the song…
Getting a song into Grand Theft Auto might be becoming one of the most powerful music promotion opportunities in the world. Bob Moses and Elderbrook’s track “Inner Light” saw its global Spotify streams increase by…
Universal Music Group is taking another major step into AI music. The world’s largest music company has announced a multi-year partnership with ElevenLabs to develop a new licensed AI music platform where fans will be…
