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Beatport Leadership Changes

With the digital download company on track to have its best-ever financial year, "I just feel that my job is here is done," says McDaniels.

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New Music Releases: Tokischa, Nine Inch Noize, Jessie Ware

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Beatport Leadership Changes: Robb McDaniels Named Exec Chairman, Matt Gralen CEO & Helen Sartory President & CEO

With the digital download company on track to have its best-ever financial year, "I just feel that my job is here is done," says McDaniels.

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Deezer Says 75,000 AI Songs Are Now Uploaded Daily

The French streaming service claims that fully AI-generated content represents roughly 44% of daily uploads now.

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Beck Wants to “Ride Lonesome” on New Song: Stream

A folksy ballad revisiting the sound of Beck's 2014 album, Morning Phase. Beck Wants to “Ride Lonesome” on New Song: Stream Eddie Fu

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New Music Releases from Tokischa, Nine Inch Noize, and Jessie Ware

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Ceremony Return With “Other Hells,” First New Song in Four Years: Stream

The band returns to their hardcore roots with this direct rager. Ceremony Return With “Other Hells,” First New Song in Four Years: Stream Langdon Hickman

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New Music Releases from Tokischa, Nine Inch Noize, and Jessie Ware

Stream new releases from Tokischa, Nine Inch Noize and Jessie Ware

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New Music Releases from Tokischa, Nine Inch Noize, and Jessie Ware Available Now

Stream new releases from Tokischa, Nine Inch Noize and Jessie Ware

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New Music Releases from Tokischa, Nine Inch Noize, and Jessie Ware Available Now

Stream new releases from Tokischa, Nine Inch Noize and Jessie Ware

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Laufey Fortnite partnership extends to her own playable island

We reported last week on Laufey becoming the latest artist to headline a season of Fortnite Festival, the music game-within-the-game on Fortnite. But it turns out her activation on the platform goes further than this. Sony Immersive Music Studios has teamed up with AWAL to launch a separate creator-

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A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya reveals a music-making app called Bop

No need to look puzzled: A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is not, in fact, a vinyl-themed boozer in Tokyo’s youth-culture hotspot. It’s actually a “music software label” founded by Máuhan M. Zonoozy, who used to he head of innovation at Spotify. Although he did come up with the name in one of those bars. What

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A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya launches a music-making app called Bop

No need to look puzzled: A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is not, in fact, a vinyl-themed boozer in Tokyo’s youth-culture hotspot. It’s actually a “music software label” founded by Máuhan M. Zonoozy, who used to he head of innovation at Spotify. Although he did come up with the name in one of those bars. What

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UMG’s ‘Everything Jazz’ site focuses on sales and curation

Downloads may be well into a long-term decline that shows no signs of a vinyl-style revival, but there are still contexts where they are meaningful for individual artists and labels. Bandcamp is one, and Universal Music Group will be hoping that jazz is another. Specifically the Everything Jazz plat

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Reservoir-backed PopArabia acquires MENA label and distributor Viral Wave

PopArabia, Reservoir Media’s Abu Dhabi-headquartered partner focused on the Middle East and North Africa, has acquired MENA label and digital distribution company Viral Wave. The announcement on Monday (April 20) noted that the acquisition marks “an important milestone in PopArabia’s continued growt

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‘MOUSE: P.I. For Hire’ soundtrack is available to stream ahead of vinyl release

The 1930’s-inspired shooter is out now

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IngaRose is a hit as SIQA launches ‘AI Music Intelligence’ report

Actually, a quick public service announcement about ‘hit’ first. It may be high time we stopped using ‘is number one on an iTunes chart somewhere’ as a marker for success in the modern streaming age. With no disrespect to Apple, it doesn’t take *that* many sales to have an iTunes hit nowadays. A poi

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75,000 AI-generated tracks now flood Deezer daily, representing 44% of all new music uploaded to the platform, says streamer

The volume of fully AI-generated music being uploaded to Deezer has surged again Source

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Destin Conrad curates exclusive jazz playlist

The rising R&B star has chosen tracks by Kamasi Washington, Nancy Wilson, Quincy Jones and more

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Destin Conrad curates exclusive jazz playlist, titled ‘Jazzmin’, to accompany The Cover

The rising R&B star has chosen tracks by Kamasi Washington, Nancy Wilson, Quincy Jones and more