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YouTube launches new music streaming services.

YouTube Music Will Replace Google Play Music

Google doesn’t seem to have enough of streaming services, following its recent announcement revealing two new products: YouTube Music and YouTube Premium. This announcement will still get you access to plenty of ad-free content, including YouTube originals although ad-based consumption will still be implemented. But wait, what’s more confusing is that YouTube has already launch a paid subscriptions, which is why just need to pay attention to YouTube Music and YouTube Premium (a revamp of YouTube Red). When YouTube launched YouTube Music, it will also soon reveal a premium service…

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Moogfest attracted over 6,000 attendees this year alone.
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Moogfest Stirs Durham Economy

This proves that a long-lasting music festival and conference can be an advantage to the local economy.  Moogfest, the annual celebration of the legacy of inventor and synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog, lit up downtown Durham this weekend in the festival’s third year with a fresh look, renewed energy, and major contribution to the city’s economy. Presented by United Therapeutics, American Underground, WRAL, and…

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Wired Music Week aims to educate a newer generation of electronic music enthusiasts and open up opportunities for talent directly connected to labels.
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Malaysia Welcomes Wired Music Week

Malaysia is finally taking a stand as part of a growing demand to satiate the interest for electronic music as the RBRN IDEAS team prepares to take over Tamarind Square at Cyberjaya debuting its very first Wired Music Week [WMW] come this weekend. Led by Malaysia-based and founders John Beh and Michael Mah, WMW is tarring the reeducation of the…

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Rightsify is Pasadena-based tech company in California

How To Monetize Your Music Online? Rightsify Pays Directly To Artists

Rightsify, a music licensing and royalty collection agency based in Pasadena, California, and with authorised licensing agents in over 20 countries, provides a new way for artists to make money from their music. Rightsify operates a music streaming service for businesses that is available globally and includes all licensing rights needed for a business to legally play music. With over…

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Steinway & Sons Opens New Headquarters in Shanghai China. Music Press Asia

Steinway Opens New HQ in Shanghai

Dubbed the finest piano makers in the world, Steinway & Sons has recently opened a new facility at the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, marking it as Steinway’s third largest global operating center after New York and Hamburg. China is part of Steinway’s global development, following the opening of the Steinway Hall Beijing in 2017. And the new Asia Pacific…

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Spotify is now listed on the NYSE

Spotify’s First Day At NYSE Closed At $149.01

While some of us are still in the celebratory mood of Spotify’s launch in new territories such as South Africa, Vietnam, Israel and Romania, many more of us waited to see the reaction of the world, more specifically when Spotify started trading at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) yesterday. When Spotify filed its F-1 for 2017, it stated that…

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Fenix Cash

FENIX.CASH Launches ICO Tokens

FENIX.CASH is a platform that eliminates the numerous layers between music artists and their fans to facilitate a more direct and meaningful interaction between both parties and a win-win situation in which artists receive a larger share of proceeds from merchandise and music and fans gain access to a more complete and focused range of music and music-related offerings from…

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Spotify goes IPO at NYSE

Streaming: Spotify To Go Public On 3 April

When it was just talk in the past, it’s now real. The streaming music business is seeing one of the most important day in the history of the music industry where Spotify will officially go public on 3 April, 2018. Just days ago, Paul Vogel, Spotify’s Head of Investor Relations announced that the company will publicly list shares on the…

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Blockchain is a record-keeping tool that is secure and accessible to everyone online. Micropayments directly to artists is a huge possibility cutting out labels and middle man.
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How Blockchain Will Disrupt The Music Industry

Over the last 12 months, we’ve asked some of the most technologically insightful nerd and entrepreneur at music and tech conventions about blockchain, and summed up some of the most common problems related to licensing and royalty tracking affecting rightsowners, recording artists, music publishers, and record labels. And if you think you have an opinion about blockchain, I would recommend…

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QQ Music is a freemium music platform only available in China. Owned by Tencent, it has reported over 700 million users with over 120 million paying subscribers.

Leading Free Music Streaming Platforms In Asia 2018

While most of you may already be using a music platform somehow or rather (via an app on your smartphone or on your PC or Apple computer), there are still some uncertainty to what may be more readily accessible in Asia. While Google Play and Amazon Music may not be available to some markets in Asia, there’s definitely more than…

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