REWIND – New Music Industry’s Last Week In Review: TikTok ban, bot farms, Pandora royalties, Music Cities & More!

t was another busy week by any definition, and the music industry was no exception, with more talk on the TikTok ban, the capabilities of bot farms, and more…..

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Bandlab passes 100 million users

BandLab has passed 100 million registered users of its flagship social music creation platform, up 40 million in a little over a year. Thirty percent of the platform’s creators are based in the US……

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Fast Company Names 10 Most Innovative Music Companies of 2024

Business journal Fast Company has released its annual list of Most Innovative Companies, including ten focusing on music, and it contains a few surprises…..

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TikTok & The ‘Unholy Alliance’ between Big Tech and China [Chris Castle]

As TikTok continues to fight bans worldwide, Chris Castle critically examines its backers and where all the money it generates goes…..

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Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Will Congress ban TikTok? • MusicWatch study• Vinyl growth • the dark side of Country Music • More

Episode 188 of the Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available here…..

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All ToneDen FanLinks are broken, says Eventbrite

Eventbrite sent a message to users that its ToneDen smart-link service, which is popular with musicians and music marketers, is not working due to “an issue with our domain provider, which is unfortunately out of our control”…..

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TikTok’s call to overwhelm Congress backfires

TikTok notified users of a supposed ban on the platform and encouraged them to call their representatives. But the campaign only seemed to make things worse…..

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QUICK HITS: Soundraw • BeatConnect • Splice • AmptUp • Tixr

SOUNDRAW, a royalty-free AI beat and track generator, has raised $3M in a round led by Carbide Ventures and individual investors such as Paul Rosenberg, CEO of Goliath Artists, Inc./President of Shady Records……

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Unofficial Guide to Music Industry Events during SXSW 2024

The Music Tectonics and Rock Paper Scissors team has pulled together an impressive list of official and unofficial music industry and music industry and music tech events happening next week in Austin during SXSW…..

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QUICK HITS: Hook seed round tops $3.5M • Pex modified audio study • Horus adds publishing

Hook, the legal music remix platform for fan use on social media, has extended its Seed Round to include investments from Natalie Massenet, Nick Brown’s Imaginary Ventures, and others…..

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