J Balvin isn’t the star of his latest video; barbers, gift shop owners, florists, and street vendors are. In a content partnership with UPS — yes, the mail service, which funded, filmed, and branded the video — the Medellín-born star is highlighting the entrepreneurial spirit of his roots. “The Latino …
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Celebrity art dealer Avery Andon will unveil a new platform for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) called ArtGrails on Friday morning — with help from his brother, street artist Alec Monopoly, and Latin music star Ozuna, who collaborated on a line of digital art collectibles for the launch. The “Uncle Richie Ozuna” …
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Björn Ulvaeus has written more than 150 hit songs and shows, co-founded one of the most commercially successful acts the music business has ever seen, and been recognized as one of the greatest songwriters in history — but one role the Swedish hitmaker never expected to be in was that …
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Apple is among a growing list of companies who are canceling their plans to participate at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas amid coronavirus concerns, Variety reports. The annual music, technology and entertainment festival’s 2020 event runs from March 13th-22nd. Apple TV+ SXSW events included the premieres of Spike Jonze’s …
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Breland is not yet a household name, but he and his recently assembled Atlantic Records team are confident that will change quickly. Earlier this month, “My Truck,” the singer-rapper’s country-trap ode to the titular vehicle, reached Number One on Spotify’s Viral 50 chart. His Spotify profile has more than 1.2 …
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The day that everyone in the vinyl-manufacturing world has been worried about for years finally arrived. Earlier this month, Apollo Masters Corp., one of the two places in the world that produce the lacquer discs needed to assemble master plates for pressing records, burned down. The blaze reportedly took 82 …
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Most aspiring artists know there’s a one-in-a-million chance of success, but if the newly launched Snafu Records has its way, it’ll be one in 150,000. That’s the lofty number of songs the label sifts through each week to find their new artists. Their talent scouts, though, aren’t doing it alone; …
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On the day after music’s biggest night of the year, we’re pleased to welcome readers to the first branch of RS Pro: a dynamic email newsletter for readers obsessed with the music business. What is this? RS Pro is for insiders who run — or aspire to run — the …
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The timing of this year’s USC Annenberg music report, which for the past several years has cleanly benchmarked the long-whispered-about-but-rarely-quantified demographic imbalances of the music business, couldn’t be more fitting. In addition to capping a year of newly transparent discussions about gender equality in the industry, it comes amid ongoing …
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Home speaker company Sonos on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the tech giant took Sonos’ patented technology for its own products, the New York Times reports. According to lawsuit documents obtained by The Verge, Google got access to Sonos’ patented technology through a 2013 partnership and has …
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