Music Tech News: Tunecore, MashApp, Miami Music Tech, Subvert & Audius
In the latest Music Tech News, TuneCore has added an Advanced Trends & Analytics dashboard designed to equip self-releasing TuneCore artists with deeper insights and performance metrics to help drive growth.
Features include:
- Cross-Platform Performance Tracking
- Real-Time Engagement Data
- Comprehensive Audience Insights
- Actionable Growth Metrics
TuneCore also named Kevin Ferguson as the company’s new Senior Vice President, Technology. Prior to joining TuneCore, Ferguson led the engineering team at BentoBox – a restaurant marketing and commerce platform.
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• MashApp has signed licensing deals all three majors and more.
MashApp makes it simple for music fans to reimagine popular hits while providing artists, songwriters and rightsholders with content attribution for all user creations.
Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group (including Warner Chappell Music and Warner Recorded Music), Kobalt Music and Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) have all signed for select tracks.
• The Miami Music Tech Summit has Matias Solari, manager of red hot artist Rauw Alejandro and Jorge Brea, the founder and CEO of Symphonic Distribution to its speaker list alongside Bandsintown’s Fabrice Sergent and more,
The first Miami MusicTech Summit and Startup Competition is set for Tuesday, March 25 at the Silverspot Cinema in Downtown Miami. The conference will showcase the city’s exploding music tech and innovation scene. Learn more here.
• Bandcamp alternative Subvert has signed on 4,000 artists, labels, and supporters as members of the user-owned platform and shared some updates:
- Their dual entity structure is now in place, with the establishment of our Delaware Public Benefit Corporation, Subvert Inc.
- They have drafted the initial licensing agreement between the co-op and corporation
- Artists and labels have been contributing to their fundraising effort by purchasing Platform Fee Voucher
The next step is more fundraising. Bandcamp’s early funding was the equivalent of $5-6M… Now we need $365k to support a 6-month runway that will allow us to fairly compensate our team and take us through platform development and launch.”
Learn more, become a member and contribute to Subvert here.
• Audius has surpassed 250 million onchain streams as it begins to ramp up its artist monetization program powered by Solana.
Artists and labels including Skrillex, deadmau5, Disclosure, Zedd, Dillon Francis, Diplo, bitbird, Coop Records, College Music, Headroom Records, Anjunadeep and more are “hardforking the music industry with decentralized economics to create new incentives and opportunities for all. “
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Bruce Houghton
