Innovators in the tech world have spent years trying to become the first to win over the masses with a private listening experience that doesn’t require traditional headphones. Sony’s Future Lab group tried it in 2016 with its “Concept N” product, which used miniature directional speakers and looked like a …
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American music fans racked up an unprecedented one trillion streams in 2019, drawing in $28.2 million per day for the U.S. music industry. Yet that’s still not enough to take the industry back to its CD-era glory days. The Digital Music Association (DiMA) — a trade body whose membership comprises …
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Can Neil Young successfully sue Donald Trump over the usage of his music at rallies? As with so many recent controversies in music, it all comes down to a tricky copyright issue. Young filed a lawsuit against Trump’s campaign Tuesday, claiming that the president and his campaign team lack the …
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Logic has signed an exclusive deal with Twitch to become the company’s first musician signing, the video game livestreamer announced on Monday — the latest milestone in Twitch’s growing music presence that has expanded amid the coronavirus pandemic. Without getting into specifics, Logic told The Verge the new deal is …
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Will music business icon Jimmy Iovine become fashion’s next mogul? Iovine announced this week that he and his wife Liberty Ross, a model and actress, have made a majority investment in ready-to-wear women’s fashion brand The Vampire’s Wife. The news comes three months after FaZe Clan, an online retailer of …
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TheRecording Academy, the organization behind the Grammy Awards, announced Wednesday amid a number of rule changes that it is renaming the “Best Urban Contemporary Album” category. The category — which was added into the Grammys in 2012 and whose name has been the subject of increasing criticism — will now …
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Following continued criticism over their refund policies, Live Nation has amended its previously announced plan for concerts canceled or postponed by the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Times reported Saturday. “Fans, we hear you. We don’t want you to be waiting in limbo while shows are being rescheduled,” Live Nation …
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UPDATE (3/16): iMarkkeyz, the producer of “Coronavirus,” has confirmed that he is in contact with Cardi B‘s management team, and this story has been updated to include his comments when reached. Last week, Cardi B began to worry about coronavirus and took to Instagram to zealously announce that “shit is …
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In a neck-and-neck finish, Selena Gomez‘s Rare debuts at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart, knocking Roddy Ricch‘s Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial off its perch by 2,000 album units. Rare, Gomez’s third studio album, moved 108,600 units during the week of January 10th through …
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Genius filed a lawsuit against Google in Brooklyn court on Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal. Genius, a site known for crowd-sourcing hip-hop lyrics (and related annotations) from listeners and occasionally artists, is accusing the massive search engine of “misappropriating content from Genius’s website” and using it “for [Google’s] …
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