Music - Issue #52 - Overwatch, Collab and Patreon Layoffs

Triller has been growing sharply in recent months and is starting to break tracks and acts in its own way. For now, the audience skews towards both the US and hip-hop, but the app has global ambitions and wants to go deeper into different styles of music. It is already making inroads into EDM and that cross-genre expansion will only continue this year.

For the second time, Bandcamp has announced it will be waiving its revenue cut on purchases made via its platform next Friday.

Amplifying artists’ fundraising with Spotify’s global reach and a $1M artist relief effort from Cash App.

Badu’s Quarantine Concert Series: Apocalypse, Live from Badubotron, is a live concert series from the intimacy of her bedroom in Dallas. She is charging fans to tune in, and is trail-blazing the future of paid concert streaming.

The COVID-19 pandemic may be turning the music business upside down, but that just means data management companies such as Audigent are more important than ever. That’s why tech investor/incubator Raised In Space, backed by music manager Scooter Braun, is doubling down amid all the uncertainty.

Launch new powerhouse Korean music company.

Amid coronavirus, dance music mainstays like New York club Nowadays and the label Mad Decent are diving headlong into streaming.

In a world where the playlist is king, it is hardly surprising that getting on New Music Friday (NMF) has become the be-all and end-all of music streaming marketing, an opportunity to get your track in front of 8m people worldwide, including the vast majority of the Western music industry. 

Now that Facebook is buying Giphy, how you send and receive GIFs on the internet could change forever. Some of the most popular apps and services rely on Giphy’s API and archives to let users share and post GIFs, and we’ve collected all of the services that we’re aware of in this post.

We’re bringing artist teams, labels and distributors to Spotify for Artists so you can manage your profile, see and analyze your data and pitch to playlists, together.