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THURSDAY 5.24.18 Music Business News From Around The Web  Updated continuously under our More News tab

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EDM Business Down Worldwide

The International Music Summit Business Report 2018 shows the global electronic music business took a 2% drop in 2017, fueled mainly by a dip in record sales, but added that. Continue reading

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Irving Azoff Calls Out ‘Liar’ Cohen, YouTube Over Payments

YouTube Global Head Of Music Lyor Cohen is making the media rounds touting the launch of YouTube Music as the dawning of new day for music discovery and promising bigger. Continue reading

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Pandora Adds Personalized Playlists With A Twist

Pandora rolls out personalized playlists to all Premium users today. Like Spotify and others, Pandora's individualized playlists begin with machine learning to match taste and mood, but then blend in. Continue reading

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ALTERNATIVE TAKE: How Recording Industry Hid A New Attempt To Expand Copyright

Some of the new music legislation currently sailing through Congress has received criticism from music rights advocates. Not so with the CLASSICS ACT.  But here, Mike Masnick of Techdirt shares. Continue reading

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A2IM Board Nominees Announced, Voting Begins

Voting for the American Association of Independent Music's Board of Directors election opened this week. The board is elected by A2IM’s label members with one vote per company.

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WED. BRIEF: YouTube Music Day 1 • Indies Question Sony+EMI • Latin Grammys Scheduled • More

WEDNESDAY 5.23.18 Music Business News From Around The Web  Updated continuously under our More News tab

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Intro To New YouTube Music Subscription Service [VIDEO]

Google is rolling out early access of the new YouTube Music in the U.S., Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea today. Here is an intro video and a list. Continue reading

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YouTube Music Is Rolling Out Now

YouTube's long promised new entry into the subscription music streaming wars, YouTube Music, is live. About Noon ET today, Google announced that they had started rolling out early access to the. Continue reading

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How We Crowdfunded 18K With No Experience, Fans [Part 4]

In this fourth of a five part series, Justina Grayman looks back on her successes (and failures) running a successful crowdfunding campaign, and outlines what others considering embarking on a. Continue reading

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