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A TikTok Three Body Problem; Taylor Week; NMPA v. Spotify

LINKS
Taylor Smashes Records:
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/04/21/taylor-swift-ttpd-spotify-most-streamed-album-one-day/?mc_cid=0adb85f2d6&mc_eid=e6e936dd58
 
BillBoard TikTok Politics
https://www.billboard.com/pro/tiktok-universal-talking-congress-decide-fate/
 
The Three Body Problem explained
https://www.vox.com/culture/24108638/3-body-problem-science-physics-theory-explained-how-real-is-it
 
Tik Tok Taylor
https://www.billboard.com/business/tech/taylor-swift-tiktok-promo-campaign-1235661359/
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/taylor-swifts-return-to-tiktok-includes-an-in-app-experience-for-the-tortured-poets-department-with-first-of-its-kind-features/
 
NMPA-Spotify
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/nmpa-accuses-spotify-of-attacking-songwriters-as-it-changes-how-it-pays-mechanical-royalties-in-the-us/

Our Taylor-themed exercise, the big Hipgnosis twist, diving into UMG's books

LINKS:
 
Hipgnosis Drama
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/04/18/hipgnosis-songs-fund-stock-price-jump/?mc_cid=8b15b06c9f&mc_eid=e6e936dd58
 
Cutting Edge Raises 5 Rods
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/cutting-edge-secures-500m-to-fund-music-rights-acquisitions/
 
UMG's Books Explained
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/universal-music-group-generated-51-of-2023-recorded-music-annual-report/
 
Believe Deal Going through
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/believes-board-backs-takeover-bid-from-ladegaillerie-led-consortium1/
 
Bootleg Merch is Killing the Record Industry
https://www.billboard.com/pro/bootleg-music-merch-ripping-off-artists-taylor-swift-kiss/
 

Stubhub going pub, a Tiktok partership for AXS, Come out to the desert, there's plenty of space.

LINKS
Coachella and Festivals
https://news.pollstar.com/2024/04/12/is-the-festival-market-soft-are-genre-fests-the-future/
 
StubHub IPO
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/stubhub-eyeing-ipo-aiming-for-165b-valuation-report/ar-BB1lFZva
 
Justice Dept/Live Nation
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/04/16/justice-department-live-nation-antitrust-lawsuit/
 
AXS/TikTok
https://news.pollstar.com/2024/04/16/tiktok-axs-announce-global-ticketing-partnership/
 

Crossing the TikTok picket line, Vanilla Viral Week, the sweet fresh air of being out of beta.

Belloni on Taylor
Article in his email (paywalled)
https://puck.news/newsletters/what-im-hearing/?_cio_id=f6c60601cbc201fcac03
 
Mnuchin
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/04/16/steve-mnuchin-tiktok-takeover/?mc_cid=7b30c4ef46&mc_eid=e6e936dd58
 
Billboard TikTok 50
https://www.billboard.com/charts/tiktok-billboard-top-50/
 
Spotify Viral 50
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZEVXbLiRSasKsNU9
 
Cindy James
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/cindy-james-promoted-to-general-manager-of-virgin-music-group-north-america/
 

Will Udio disrupt Spotify, the first AI rap beef, and Elvis Act or Patriot Act?

LINKS:
Anne Steel on Taylor TikTok
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/taylor-swift-songs-return-tiktok-9febcf85?
 
Berger On Udio
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/udio-llms-fair-use-push-ai-laws-virginie-berger-r07oc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via
 
Rolling Stone on Udio
 
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udio-ai-music-chatgpt-suno-1235001675/
 
Kevin Roose on AI Standards
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/technology/ai-models-measurement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
 
Billboard on The ELVIS Act
 
https://www.billboard.com/pro/elvis-act-legal-experts-opinion-tennessee-ai-law-conseqences/
 
The Verge Spotify Hack
 
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128584/spotify-music-pro-lossless-audio
 

A Taylor TikTok Take, A bigger Byte(dance), market share, market share, and more market share

LINKS:
Taylor TikTok
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/taylor-swift-has-a-laudable-history-of-standing-up-to-big-tech-tiktok/
 
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/04/11/taylor-swift-back-on-tiktok-universal-music-group/
 
Label Market Share
https://www.billboard.com/business/record-labels/record-label-market-share-q1-2024-universal-warner-1235655068/
 
ByteDance Earnings
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/04/11/bytedances-2023-profits-surge-60-to-40-billion-report-shows
 
Beyond Yandel
https://www.billboard.com/business/business-news/yandel-sells-catalog-beyond-music-first-latin-deal-1235654221/
 
Superfans Again
https://www.billboard.com/pro/secret-selling-superfans-ask-grateful-dead-k-pop/
 
CAA Tea Leaves
https://www.billboard.com/business/business-news/caa-new-managing-directors-agency-board-1235654494/
 
Old School Managers
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/08/scooter-braun-and-the-twilight-of-the-music-manager
 
 
 
No Doubt Coachella
https://www.musictimes.com/articles/102385/20240414/coachella-2024-no-doubt-gwen-stefani-reunion-triumph.htm
 
 
 
 

A music ETF; A straight line from AI prompts to Superfans; Bushwick parrot heads?

Finance Friday LINKS:
Trillions Podcast: David Schulhof https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trillions/id1318276878?i=1000652118932
Spotify
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-plans-to-let-subscribers-speed-up-songs-and-pay-rightsholders-when-those-modified-tracks-are-streamed-report/
Udio
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/new-ai-powered-instant-music-making-app-udio-raises-10m-launches-with-backing-from-will-i-am-common-unitedmasters-a16z/
EVEN
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/superfan-app-even-launches-with-10000-artists-onboarded-in-app-sales-to-count-towards-billboard-charts/
Superfan Challenges
https://www.billboard.com/pro/reaching-music-superfans-wont-be-easy/
VEVO Africa:
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/amapiano-and-afrobeats-videos-saw-nearly-4-billion-global-views-on-vevo-in-2023/
Khruangbin
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/magazine/khruangbin-mood-music.html
Dan WIlson
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/im-not-going-to-get-embarrassed-or-feel-awkward-if-someone-begins-weeping-when-they-start-talking-about-a-story-that-becomes-a-song-if-they-start-to-cry-i-dont-try-to-stop-that/
 
 

Eclipse on fire, Newport is jazz ish, and the who sells out.

Touring Thursday

20th century indie virals, UMG TikTok workarounds, we're just reporting the facts.

20th century indie virals, UMG TikTok workarounds, we're just reporting the facts.

Lawyers will buy yachts, more nine toed cats, and InstaTok?

Lawyers will buy yachts, more nine toed cats, and InstaTok?