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What the $424M MLC royalty ‘black box’ means for musicians In this article, Christ Castle breaks down the legal and financial implications of the MLC’s $424 million black box it recently received from digital service providers. Guest post by The Circular Awards Ceremony has begun anew and the corporate media wants someone to adore, dang it! Cue “It’s a Pleasure Being Sad.” The MLC received $424 million of “inception to date black box” as required by the statute enacted October 18, 2019. It didn’t just happen by accident that most DSPs paid the money around February 15, 2021...

Rupert Neve Changed Audio Recording Forever Rupert Neve, the pioneering designer of audio recording equipment, whose creations play a fundamental role in the modern recorded music industry, died on February 12th at his home in Wimberley, Texas. He was 94. His company, Rupert Neve Designs, announced his passing: “It is with great sadness that we announce that Rupert Neve, whose name is synonymous with quality audio recording equipment worldwide, has died. He remained in great spirits to the end, enjoying his life in Wimberley, Texas, where he and his wife Evelyn have lived for 27 years. At ...

Good news for music tech startups: DLC alters fee structure for blanket compulsory licenses In what will come as good tidings to many music tech startups out there, the Digital Licensee Coordinator is changing the structure for blanket compulsory license use. Guest post by Title I of the Music Modernization Act established a blanket mechanical royalty license, the mechanical licensing collective to create the musical works database and collect royalties, the Digital Licensee Coordinator (which represents the music users under the blanket license) and a system where the services pay for the m...

Pandora Thumbprint Radio Turns 5 with 50M Users, 2B+ Listening Hours Pandora’s Thumbprint Radio has been the streamer’s most popular station by total listening hours since launch 5 years ago and over that time its logged some impressive stats. Thumbprint Radio takes songs that thumbed-up across all the user’s stations and mixes them with new songs to create a station that evolves every time the user thumbs up or down. In the five years since Thumbprint Radio launched:  50 million Pandora users haver listened to a Thumbprint stationm They collectively spent over 1 billion thumbs.  4...

Music Business Worldwide December 17, 2020 Hazel Savage To illustrate the importance and potential of AI-based A&R, Musiio co-founder and CEO Hazel Savage refers to the origin story of one of the biggest breakthrough UK artists in recent years, Lewis Capaldi. Her point isn’t that the self-effacing Scottish superstar was discovered via data, because he wasn’t. Her point is, What if? She refers to him as the one who got through, as opposed to the thousands who got away. She says: “With millions of creators posting new music to UGC sites around the world, the job of listening to it all has...