Conservative MP Damian Collins has voiced concerns over the control that TikTok allegedly has on British musicians. Collins, a former Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy, shared his views on the app with The Telegraph after TikTok launched a trial in Australia last month that limited the amount of
Popular video sharing app TikTok piloted an experiment this month aimed to investigate the importance of music to its platform and users. The experiment, which targeted TikTok’s Australian market specifically, limited the number of songs available to users for use in videos. Speaking to Bloomberg, TikTok said of the experiment,
Announced last week by Universal, the new partnership between the world’s biggest music publisher and streaming service TIDAL has been formed with the intention to research and devise a new streaming model that better supports the value of artists and their work, while encouraging more engagement from subscribers. Head of
Spotify added 10 million new Premium subscribers to its platform in the final three months of 2022, bringing the total number of Premium users for the streaming titan to 205 MILLION. The Q4 stats far exceed those projected for the streaming service, who gained a total of 33 million new
Spotify has introduced a new playlist feature called ‘Playlist In A Bottle.’ Based on the concept of a time capsule, the feature allows users to create playlists that are then sealed for 12 months. With this new feature, users are encouraged to select songs based on their current mood, for
The term ‘progessive house’ has come a long way since it was first coined in the 90’s to describe a new sound coming out of Britain that fused UK house with touches of techno and trance, being formulated by the likes of The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, but most significantly,
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Only six people attended a Metaverse rave organised by The EU’s foreign aid department. Set up to educate and inform people about the EU’s Global Gateway investment plan, the whole event reportedly cost the European Commission’s foreign aid department a total of €387,000 to develop and promote. According to Devex
According to a recent investigation by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), streaming services and associated record labels are not making excess profits, and can therefore not afford to pay artists more money. The CMA, who acts as the UK’s competition watchdog, will take no further action against streaming
The journey that I.JORDAN has been on lately has been a deeply personal one. It’s a gift then that they should choose to share the intimacy of this moment with us, as they have done through their recent string of double single releases. We’ve essentially been witnessing their coming out,
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German duo Schwefelgelb have always preferred to refer to their techno as ‘body music.’ Indeed, theirs is one of the most programmed to propulsive to come out of Berlin, full of heart pounding bass and incessant, relentless beats. Their body music takes no prisoners, and has always done so by
