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Pentatonix, an acappella group from Texas and two-time grammy award winner, attends Music Matters Singapore

Here’s How Pentatonix Gained 1.5bn Views on YouTube

With over 11 million YouTube subscribers and an accumulated 1.5 billion views on their music videos, Pentatonix’s career were heavily pushed via YouTube and direct fan engagement. Their first ever music video, recorded from an iPad, became an instant sensation on YouTube reaching over 300,000 views in the first week. The two-time grammy award-winner stressed the importance of social media and how it was one of the most important medium for them to engage with fans. “Content is king…or queen” Dropped straight after being signed with a major label after…

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Laneway Festival Returns to Singapore

Chet Faker, KOHH to Perform at Laneway Festival

Laneway has been growing from strength to strength and it was not a surprise to see that they have already confirmed the date for their seventh edition for 21 January next year. With growing number of festival goers and more tie-ups than ever – they have gained some diehard collaborators too that saw value in putting their brands out there. Last…

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Tencent reveals QQ Music's total number of users in China at Music Matters.
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Tencent Reveals QQ Music’s Influence in China

Music Matters first day wraps up with some of the biggest names from the Chinese music industry discussing topics that are affecting regionally and at a global scale. The subject of streaming and China popped up at every opportuned-discussion pulling and tugging at each other like an engaged couple; a rather new, anticipated and predictably accurate union which got people…

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Music Matters to host music executives from Netflix, Live Nation, Tencent and more.

Music Industry Executives Converge at Music Matters Singapore

For those of us from the music side of things, we are in for another big treat. Music Matters is not a stand alone conference anymore; delegates and conference attendees get to attend music related discussions happening at Digital Matters, Marketing Matters and Sports Matters. These conferences happen simultaneously next door includ some of the most prestigious venues surrounding Marina…

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Midem To Host Music Industry Executives In Cannes

Last year, Midem celebrated its 50th year as the platform that connects people in the music industry. It boasts of a tradeshow, conferences, competitions, networking events and live performances – a go-to place where technologies, international brands, talents and music makers meet and discuss new businesses. Midem 2016 attendance was down 20% from 5500 to 4400, according to the event’s…

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FUGA signs deals with Fire, V2, Benelux, Sounday and Earth Recordings

FUGA Expands International Footprint, Signs Deals with Fire, Benelux

FUGA, Amsterdam-based digital music distribution and services company, has added V2 Benelux, UK-based labels Fire Records and Earth Recordings, plus leading Italian distributor Sounday to its roster of international clients. FUGA will take over the global digital distribution for Fire Records’ entire catalogue, including fellow independent, but closely related label, Earth Recordings. Its existing label partners include Domino, Epitaph Records, Ultra…

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Giglifeasia Launch New Travel Service, Partners with Wonderfruit

Giglifeasia, Asia’s first festival guide and one stop gig portal, has recently launched its new travel and booking service in partnership with Thailand’s third edition of Wonderfruit Festival. Festival goers can now find useful information about gigs, travel trips for featured city across Asia including Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, India, China, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines.…

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Believe Partners With DRM NZ

Believe Expands Label To New Zealand, Partners with DRM

The partnership will see DRM and their clients benefit from Believe’s distribution technology, analytics and extensive global network of 36 offices and 350 international digital music industry experts. This will not only develop international reach and visibility of New Zealand artists and labels but will also give a boost to the NZ music industry. “We’ve long admired Believe’s commitment to…

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SoundCloud appointed Holly Lim as its first ever Chief Financial Officer

New Appointment: SoundCloud Hires Google Executive

New Appointment: Finance Holly Lim has been appointed as SoundCloud’s first ever Chief Financial Officer, will officially begin her role on September 6. This announcement comes six months after SoundCloud hired Alison Moore, Chief Revenue Officer based in New York. In a statement released by SoundCloud, the ex-Google executive will be tasked to ‘maintaining our financial health’ when they announced Lim as their first…

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Andy Ng, GM of QQ Music Tencent.

Tencent QQ Music Executive Andy Ng to Keynote at All That Matters

The conferences in the day will see some of the most attractive keynote speakers ever invited to the event. Dubbed “TED Meets SXSW” by Jason Mraz, Music Matters has grown into a global platform representing the Asia-Pacific music industry and a gateway for up-and-coming artists looking to break into the region. Some of the most attractive keynote speakers attending All…

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