Feed adds 23M Downtown tracks to Adaptr startup music licensing service
B2B music licensing service Feed Media Group has added Downtown Music Services to its Adaptr subscription-based platform that simplifies how startups license music. Adaptr preclears both publishing and performance rights. Continue reading
Music Tectonics names music tech startup finalists for 2022
Four music tech startups worth tracking were named finalists in the Music Tectonics Conference’s Swimming with Narwhals competition last week. Each will pitch at the Music Tectonics Conference in Santa. Continue reading
Trouble at $1B Hipgnosis Songs Fund reports Financial Times
The Hipgnosis Songs Fund is struggling and can no longer raise funds, reports the Financial Times. Can it recover? by Stacy Simons Santos from Celebrity Access The Hipgnosis Songs Fund. Continue reading
Music event startup Pollen enters administration after raising $150M just 3 months ago
Just three months after raising $150 million, music travel and event company Pollen has been forced into the UK equivalent of bankruptcy. by Stacy Simons Santos of Celebrity Access The music-related. Continue reading
Condense raises $4.5M, opens live music to the metaverse studio
Music metaverse startup has raised a $4.5 million financing round to expand its first-to-market tech that enables streaming live performances into virtual worlds for viewing without the need for 3D. Continue reading
Groover expands mission ‘to help artists get heard’ to US, UK & beyond
Paris-based Groover promises to help artists take the difficult first step of getting their music heard by music curators and industry professionals, and their stats suggest that they are having. Continue reading
Goldman Sachs predicts the Music Business will grow to epic proportions
Despite war, rising gas prices, sagging economies, supply chain issues and everything else that has consumers feeling pinched, global investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts good times ahead for the music business. Not. Continue reading
Spotify acquires AI voice platform Sonantic used to simulate Val Kilmer’s voice in Top Gun Maverick
Spotify has acquired Sonantic, a London-based startup whose AI engine can create almost human-sounding voices from text. Sonatonic says that it can “reduce production timelines from months to minutes by. Continue reading
How to watch Spotify Investor Day 2022 [NYSE: SPOT]
Spotify (NYSE: SPOT) will host an Investor Day from its New York City office today Wednesday, June 8, 2022, starting at 10 AM ET. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, CFO Paul. Continue reading
QUICK HITS: Songtradr acquires Muiscube • Tunecore + Snapchat • Symphonic Canada expansion • Sleeping Giant launches music PR firm
Songtradr has acquired Musicube, a music metadata startup that offers metadata at scale for labels, publishers, and music supervisors and enables search for tracks, playlists and artists based on audiences,. Continue reading
