4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (451+ words) Nordic collecting societies TONO, Teosto and Koda have been collaborating on research for more than a decade now, surveying people in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland about their digital music habits and opinions. The latest report, based on a YouGov…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1012+ words) It’s been quite a journey for music-intelligence firm MusiMap. The company was founded in 2008 by a group of Belgian musicologists, drawing on research dating back to 1986. Its goal was to analyse music to understand its emotion and meaning, adding a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (245+ words) Given their bitter, ongoing legal battle, Musixmatch and LyricFind won’t enjoy being grouped into the same news story. However, both made announcements in the last 24 hours, and together they show the companies’ product direction. Musixmatch’s news is a new hub,…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago   (1653+ words) Are you an early-stage music startup? Apply to Music Ally SI:X, our global showcase, contest and mentorship support programme. Entry is FREE and there are a host of benefits. Find out more here. Don't miss out: entries close 14 September…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (257+ words) Billboard promised “greater transparency around the use of artificial intelligence in music, including identifying songs on its charts and in its editorial coverage that use AI”. How exactly will it do that? Well, that was left carefully vague in its…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (159+ words) We wrote about Quantizr when it emerged last November as a startup building an “AI-powered entertainment operations platform” for the live-music sector. Now it’s raised $5m of seed funding to continue that work. YouTube’s latest recap of its chart trends notes…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (244+ words) German startup Cyanite was early in to the use of AI for music-metadata creation: we first wrote about it in July 2019, when its auto-tagging tech was a spin-off from an existing firm called Groovecat. Just over seven years later, the…...