The electronic music industry saw significant growth globally in 2021, a new report from the International Music Summit (IMS) reveals. This is up from 2020, when the industry saw a massive decline due to the pandemic. In 2019, the industry was valued at $7.9 billion. The pandemic’s effect on the global
Spotify has reportedly shut down its Greenroom creator fund, according to The Verge. The fund, which was launched in June last year, was designed to attract content creators to Spotify’s freshly launched live audio platform. Creators were offered weekly payouts and incentives based on performance and audience engagement. A competitor
Apple Music has launched DJ mixes available to stream in spatial audio with Dolby Atmos. Apple’s Spatial Audio, which takes Dolby Atmos, 5.1, and 7.1 audio frequencies and adjusts them so that they can be heard virtually anywhere in 3D space, was launched in March with a number of albums
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FKA Twigs has released a new music video for the song Oh My Love off her latest mixtape, Caprisongs. One of the most effervescent and pop leaning tracks on the mixtape, the video sees Twigs at her local nail salon taking advice from her technician, cut with fantasy sequences of
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Charli XCX has released a music video for the song Used To Know Me, off her latest album Crash. The track interpolates Robin. S’s seminal 90’s house classic, Show Me Love. In the video, XCX performs as various avatars, including a dominatrix, cheerleader, and Marie Antoinette style character. Used To
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It’s difficult to discuss audio production without Native Instruments or iZotope entering into the equation at some point. It’s almost like one of those word-association games that unexpectedly bury their way into your mind, which is why it made significant news when the two joined forces in 2021. Today, we
Arca has announced the release of a limited vinyl box set for the KICK cycle. Titled KICK: The Complete Cycle, the 5xLP vinyl box set will include all five KICK albums, and features exclusive new artwork for KiCk i. The set will be released on May 20 via XL Recordings.
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The Museum of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM) had its long awaited opening in Frankfurt on April 6th following multiple delays. The museum, which was first announced in 2015, looks to celebrate the history and future of electronic music through multiple exhibits and immersive installations. The museum opened with an exhibition
A new music startup called Songfinch recently closed its first round of seed funding with over $2 million raised from investors. Notably, a number of high profile musicians have invested in the startup, including The Weeknd, Quincy Jones, and Doja Cat. Led by Corazon Capital, the seeding round looked to
Universal Music plans to launch an unrecouped advances program for legacy artists to receive royalties without having recouped their initial advance payments. Universal is the last of the major three labels to unveil this type of plan, with Sony and Warner having already laid out similar schemes. Plans for Universal’s
