Top executives at Sony Music Entertainment were told of former Sony Australia CEO Denis Handlin’s abusive behavior over 20 years before Handlin was fired, according to a new report from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The documentary from the broadcasting corporation’s investigative program Four Corners is just the latest report detailing …
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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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To all the artists and songwriters who’ve voiced their candid criticism of Spotify and its payout system to music creators over the years, the music streaming giant has a message: It’s heard you, loud and clear. That’s the name of the company’s new website and initiative, which it launched Thursday …
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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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Sea shanties are mainstream now. Just a few weeks after TikTok creator Nathan Evans helped kickstart the impeccably random sea shanty trend with his viral rendition of New Zealand standard “Wellerman” — in which many other TikTokers layered their own vocals one after another over his initial performance — Evans …
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Just as the music livestreaming space has quickly grown saturated with competition as stay-at-home restrictions have kept concertgoers homebound, new livestreamer BeApp, launching on Thursday, is bringing a star-studded set of performances to the app. Among the many high-profile acts slated to perform through the two-month series, EDM DJ Kaskade …
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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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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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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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