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Big company
NetEase Cloud Jingyun AI arrangement was first applied to video music scene
·On October 2, the micro-film "Home Under the Bridge" produced by Xinhua News Agency was launched, and NetEase Cloud Music Audio and Video Laboratory Jingyun AI provides customized video music solutions for the film. This is also the first practical application of Jingyun AI arrangement in video music scenes.
NetEase Cloud Music Audio and Video Laboratory layout covers music content analysis, automatic arrangement, AI arrangement, singing synthesis, singing vocal beautification, audio and video interaction, etc. Jingyun AI can understand video content through video sample and text script, and match music that matches the plot, character emotions, and environmental atmosphere of the video, including keyframes, music cutting in and out, and music cutting for transitions.
TikTok ranked first-selling app with quarterly revenue of US$9144 billion
·October 2 News, TikTok maintained its position as the highest-paid non-game app in the App Store and Google Play for US$914.4 million. As the most downloaded non-game app, TikTok has a total of 196.5 million installations in both app stores. About 67% of American teenagers said they were using TikTok, and 16% of them "have been using TikTok all the time". The latest report from
Sensor Tower shows that TikTok (including TikTok) has brought the largest share of revenue to ByteDance, and is expected to bring about $6.3 billion in total revenue since its launch.
SoundCloud announced a cooperation with music data company Session
·October 4, German online audio platform SoundCloud announced a cooperation with startup data company Session to extract song audio and metadata digitally from Session Studio application.
Session was formerly Auddly. ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus, senior producer Max Martin and songwriter Niclas Molinder created this platform in order to improve the metadata of the music ecosystem, hoping to solve the long-standing "black box" royalties problem in the music industry.
As one of the world's largest music streaming service platforms, Soundcloud and Session cooperate to enable musicians to connect accounts on both platforms. After the track is released in Session Studio, the work can be launched immediately in SoundCloud's profile.
Meta provides a royalty-free music library to Reels advertisers
·October 5th news, Meta is opening a series of royalty-free high-quality songs to advertisers with short video features Reels on Instagram.
In the second quarter of 2022, Meta's Reels users on Facebook and Instagram increased by 30%. Today, the platform hopes to provide advertisers with a series of royalty-free, high-quality audio music libraries to improve user stickiness of Reels. Enterprises can select a song from the music library, or have the app recognize the most suitable music to the ad based on the content.
At the same time, Meta has also launched a post-loop ad test, including independent video ads that can be skipped in 4 to 10 seconds. They will be played after the Reel is finished. After the ad is played, the original Reel will continue to play in loop. Meta is also testing Reels' "carousel"-style image ads, which are displayed at the bottom of Facebook Reels through horizontal scrolling of 2 to 10 images.
HYBE Launches K-Pop NFT Platform through joint venture LEVVELS
·October 5th News, HYBE Launches a new K-Pop digital collection platform called MOMENTICA through a joint venture LEVVELS operating in Los Angeles with Korean blockchain and fintech company Dunamu, which is described as a "leading platform for fans and artists to interact with based on sustainable blockchain technology."
The company was founded in January 2022 to “enhance the fan experience by leveraging blockchain technologies including Web3 and NFT”. On MOMENTICA, K-Pop fans will be able to access digital collections called “TAKE” that exist in image and video formats and are only accessible through the platform.
MOMENTICA's pre-registration event promotion starts on October 5, fans of five superstar K-Pop groups including SEVENTEEN, fromis_9, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, ENHYPEN and LE SSERAFIM can get the first digital collections of these groups for free.
LEVVELS said future updates will provide fans with "more advanced ways" to trade and personalize the collections, and the service will be officially launched in mid-October.
Apple Music 11 library scale exceeded 100 million
·On October 5, Apple announced that the number of Apple Music music libraries has exceeded 100 million .
Apple Music debuted in 2015. Last year, Apple launched a high-quality music library, adding lossless and songs that include Dolby Atmos. The number of
1 billion songs is significant, it is a number that will continue to grow or even grow exponentially. Of course, it is not just a number, but also a huge change in the music production and distribution industry.
Only, more than 20,000 new albums were released every year, and today, anywhere in the world, in 167 countries and regions where Apple Music is located, musicians of any type can create, record songs and release them around the world.
On a day, more than 20,000 musicians provide new songs to Apple Music, which makes our library better and better. One hundred million songs prove that a more democratic space, and anyone, even new musicians in the bedroom, can become the next king queen."
Apple has not disclosed Apple Music's latest number of paid subscribers. In July this year, Apple revealed that the number of paid subscriptions for all services such as App Store, Apple TV+, Apple Music, cloud services, etc. has reached 860 million.
As early as June 2019, Apple Music confirmed that its service has exceeded 60 million subscribers’ milestone. In June this year, JPMorgan said it expects Apple Music to reach 110 million users by 2025.
Multiple certified Twitter accounts of "TikTok Music" were exposed
·October 6 news, and at least six certified "TikTok Music" Twitter accounts were found.
Previously, there have been various news about TikTok's launch of music apps in the market. Currently, at least six verified "TikTok Music" Twitter accounts have been found with the same information.
In addition, there are five certified accounts, namely "TikTok Music Malaysia" (entered in May), "TikTok Music Australia and New Zealand" (entered in May), "TikTok Music LATAM" (entered in January), "TikTok Music Singapore" (entered in May), and "TikTok Music Asia" (entered in May) appear on Twitter. The existence of multiple accounts in
more than
markets all have the same news, implying that TikTok Music may be released globally. Brazil , Indonesia and India have no specific accounts, which may mean Resso will continue to operate in these markets.
Apple Music for Artists launches new features
·October 6th news, Apple Music has launched several personalized and customized new features for Apple Music for Artists.
The new Artist Profile section allows musicians to introduce themselves to fans more personalized, and customize self-introduction through new information such as band membership and collaborators. The role permissions of the musician agent’s agency team can be refined according to needs, and the program where the musician submits lyrics to Apple Music has also been simplified.
. In the new Measure section, musicians can see the performance of their music works on Apple Music. By drawing a performance chart of music works, they can monitor the playback volume, average daily listener, and purchase volume to more carefully observe the trend of the works.
Apple believes: "This information can help musicians better develop strategies to promote the next release or tour schedule."”
data control
PPL paid $16.4 million in international revenue to performers and rights holders in the third quarter
·October 4th news, British music licensing company PPL paid $16.4 million to more than 33,000 performers and rights holders in the third quarter's international revenue distribution.
PPL is responsible for collecting adjacency rights usage fees for radio or television broadcasts, cable broadcasts, public performances, private copying or mixed recordings overseas.
PPL said that its total payment in the third quarter was from 73 CMOs (Collective Management) Organization) consists of international revenue collected, including payments from CMOs from Belgium , Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands , Spain and the United States.
TikTok's European business grew 477% in 2021, but lost $896 million before tax
·October 4, the financial results of TikTok's European business in fiscal year 2021 (as of December 31) showed that its operating income in the 12 months of last year was US$990.46 million, a year-on-year increase of 477%, higher than US$171.62 million in 2020.
In addition to the UK and Switzerland, TikTok's European business represents its user business in the European Economic Area (EU countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway ). TikTok believes that the growth in turnover in these regions in 2021 is mainly driven by the continued growth of its user base.
However, TikTok also disclosed 895.58 million in the document. The annual operating loss of the US dollar increased by 37% year-on-year compared to the $654.2 billion loss in 2020. TikTok believes its losses are mainly due to the increase in staff costs, with the platform's monthly average number of employees in Europe increasing from 1,302 in 2020 to 4,396 in 2021.
The company's sales cost more than tripled year-on-year, reaching $1 billion in 2021.
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In addition, TikTok also pointed out in the document that "advertising is an important source of revenue for its platform", and in 2021, its advertising business in Europe generated US$802.3 million, compared with US$152.4 million in the previous year.
In terms of live streaming, the platform's live streaming business in Europe had revenue of US$151 million in 2021, compared with US$16.6 million in 2020.
is divided by region. Among TikTok's European business revenue, the EU accounts for US$532 million in 2021, compared with US$114 million in 2020; the UK accounts for US$279 million, compared with US$52 million in 2020; and the geographical market, listed as "other" by TikTok, generated US$179 million in 2021, compared with US$5.7 million in 2020.
100,000 new songs are uploaded to Spotify and other music streaming services
·October 6, at the end of September, Lucian Grainge, CEO and Chairman of Universal Music Group, revealed at the "Music Matters" forum held in Singapore that about 100,000 new songs are uploaded to the music streaming platform every day, and bluntly stated that in the face of such a huge amount of music, coupled with the additional "related content" on social platforms, it makes it increasingly difficult for musicians to stand out on the Internet and gain a large number of listeners.
data shows that in the first half of 2018, Spotify said that 20,000 songs were uploaded to the platform every day; in April 2019, this number became nearly 40,000; in February 2021, Spotify announced that more than 60,000 songs were uploaded to the platform every day. Just 18 months later, this number reached 100,000 titles per day.
That is to say, from 2018 to 2022, the number of songs uploaded to streaming platforms such as Spotify has increased by five times every day.
Capital Market
Explorer1 Music acquires crowdfunding platform Music Benefactors
·On October 3, Los Angeles-based Explorer1 Music Group (EX1) acquired the US Securities and Exchange Commission-registered crowdfunding platform Music Benefactors.
EX1 plans to re-launch Music Benefactors as a new technology and marketing platform.
Music Benefactors was founded by President Matt Lutz, who told media V13 last year that Music Benefactors’ goal is to “turn ordinary music fans into music investors.”
Music copyright investment company Hipgnosis received a revolving credit line of $700 million
·On October 3, music copyright investment company Hipgnosis announced that it had obtained a new revolving credit line of $700 million to refinance its existing $600 million debt.
The new borrowing plan will last five years until September 30, 2027, and will be used to fully refinance the company’s debt and enhance its working capital, and discloses news that it has addressed most interest rate risks through an interest rate swap agreement.
Nearly three months ago, Hipgnosis issued a warning that it is "reviewing its leverage structure to reduce interest rate risks and control costs." After it announced its debt "successful refinancing" on October 3, Hipgnosis's stock price rose slightly, and Jim Irvin, senior vice president of National City Bank, also expressed optimism about the prospects of Hipgnosis in a statement.
Spotify acquires content review startup Kinzen
·October 5th news, Spotify officially acquired Irish content review company Kinzen four months after introducing the Security Advisory Committee.
In June 2022, Spotify announced the establishment of a "Security Advisory Committee" including Kinzen. As a content auditing company, Kinzen can help customers avoid threats such as dangerous misinformation, hateful content, violent content, violent extremism and dangerous organizations. Spotify hopes to provide the world with a "safe and pleasant experience" through the newly acquired business.
Spotify said the current collaboration with Kinzen began in 2020 and is “critical to strengthening our platform’s security approach.” It added that the technology developed by Kinzen is “exceptionally suitable for podcasts and audio content, making its value to Spotify clear and unparalleled.”
HYBE acquired Supertone
·October 5th news, South Korean entertainment company HYBE acquired Supertone for 45 billion won (calculated at the current exchange rate of , which is approximately US$31.75 million).
Pulse reported that HYBE acquired 18% of Supertone's shares in this previous investment, and now it has acquired the remaining 82% of the company.
Supertone was founded in March 2020 and claims to be able to create "a surreal and expressive voice that is indistinguishable from a real person" and debuted in the field of singing synthesis (SVS) technology for the first time. SVS technology allows computers to "sing" with lyrics, melody and beat information, and can also separate the singer's unique tone from the vocals in any music sample.
This technology was used to "resurrect" the voice of Korean folk superstar Kim Kwang-seok in the Korean variety show "Century Competition: Artificial Intelligence and Humanity". It not only learned 10 specific songs of Kim Kwang-seok, but also learned 100 songs of 20 singers to perfect the presentation of its voice. Choi Xidao, chief operating officer of
Supertone, believes that this technology has many scenarios that can be applied, such as BTS, a group under HYBE, can use SVS technology to dub movies, TVs, and animations. In this way, artists can earn income from it without directly participating in the work.
Atwater Capital received investment from Goldman Sachs and KKR
·On October 5, Atwater Capital, an investment company focused on media and entertainment, attracted financial support from investment giants Goldman Sachs Group (Goldman Sachs) and KKR.
The company said the funding will increase the total capital commitment of Atwater Capital Fund I, LP, to more than $100 million.
Atwater Capital's portfolio includes American music company 88Rising, Swedish royalty-free soundtrack supplier Epidemic Sound and independent studio wiip Productions.
The investment company was founded in 2017 by Vania Schlogel, who was taken over by Andrew Fisher after serving as chairman of Epidemic Sound from 2017 to January this year and is currently on the board of directors of Epidemic Sound.
American music data analysis company Chartmetric acquires OneSheet
·On October 6, American music data analysis company Chartmetric acquires OneSheet, an artist marketing technology startup, and the terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
UK-based onesheet was co-founded by Stevie Elsworth and Mike Miller, claiming to be able to “extract data from Spotify and the network and build a latest-status artist data form within seconds”.
This acquisition will give OneSheet a Chartmetric data support, giving you better insight into trends. Chartmetric said it plans to integrate OneSheet into its own platform in the coming months.
In the past, generating electronic news information bags (EPKs) was a very time-consuming process. OneSheet makes it simple by collecting existing data from the network, including Spotify and social statistics, recent YouTube videos, tour dates extracted from Bandsintown, and more. At the same time, each OneSheet can be edited to select the data to be displayed. Currently, this app is available for free for everyone.
Chartmetric was founded in 2016 and provides a one-stop solution for the music industry by tracking data from more than 20 streaming and social media platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, Pandora, Instagram and Facebook.
Currently, the company has monitored and collected data on more than 8 million artists, 11 million playlists and 70 million tracks. Its global customer base includes over 3,000 companies, over 50,000 paid customers, and “a large number of artists” using free tiers.
Music copyright company Primary Wave received $2 billion investment
·October 6 news, music copyright investment company Primary Wave reached a multi-billion dollar deal with Brookfield Asset Management to invest in music copyright.
As part of the deal, Brookfield will acquire a significant minority stake in Primary Wave reported by the Wall Street Journal ; at the same time, it will also invest $1.7 billion in the fund to purchase music copyrights - a large amount of money managed by Primary Wave.
By 2022, Primary Wave's music library has included more than 800 top 10 singles on the list and more than 400 top-ranked hits, including the music copyrights of Bob Dylan, Julian Casablancas and Def Leppard.
Artist Dynamics
ColdplayBrazil Tour cancelled due to Chris Martin's lung infection
·On October 5, Coldplay posted a statement on its official social media account to cancel the Brazil tour and expressed their deep regrets.
statement said that doctors asked Chris Martin to take a three-week break and the band is determining a new tour date as soon as possible, and the performance will be rescheduled in early 2023.
Drake cooperates with SiriusXM to exclusive live broadcast
·On October 5, SiriusXM announced its cooperation with Drake, and will exclusively broadcast Drake's performance at the Apollo Theater in New York on November 11.
This is the first time Drake appears in the theater as a guest of SiriusXM's "Small Stage" event series. This Apollo Theater's performance will accommodate about 1,500 people, which will be one of the "biggest" small events ever. Fans can get tickets to the event by scanning the QR code on the official website of SiriusXM. The winning ticket event will last until October 26.
Michael Jackson Heritage Management Company and Sony Music jointly released the documentary of "Trizzle" on October 5, forty years after the release of Michael Jackson 's "Thriller" album, the legacy management company of the music legend and Sony Music Entertainment jointly released a new official documentary, showing unprecedented footage and interviews during the album production process.
According to the Guinness World Record, Thriller remains the best-selling album of all time, with an estimated at least 67 million copies sold worldwide.
This album was released by Epic Records on November 30, 1982. It is the sixth studio album of Jackson and the second album by Jackson as the solo artist of Epic Records, a division of CBS Records.
This album has produced several hit songs, including "The Girl Is Mine", "Beat It", "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", "Human Nature" and "PYT (Pretty Young Thing). Meanwhile, Thriller also received a record 12 Grammy nominations and a record eight awards, including album of the year. This is also the first album to be certified by the American Recording Industry Association Three Diamonds.
Park Jae-bang serves as GEN music consultant
·On October 7, South Korea's Gen.G e-sports club announced that Park Jae-bang will serve as the club's music and entertainment consultant.
At the same time, the club announced that Park Jae-bang's first work as an advisor, "Rollin'" is composed with the main achievements made by the newly formed Gen.G League of Legends team this year and the challenges launched to the world champion. The song is presented by new rap singers Mirani and GEMINI, and produced by powerful producer GroovyRoom. "Rollin'" has been released on major platforms.
Live Entertainment
·October 2, An Pu ( hanging ) will hold a 10th anniversary concert at the Taipei Dome on Christmas this year.
"Respond to your life with a concert, so that strong people can be vulnerable and fragile people can start to be strong." At this concert, An Pu, as the concert producer, artistic director and singer, personally conceived and hand-drawn concert posters. She will respond to the entire era with the perspectives of words, poetry, music and image. In addition, An Pu will also release a new album "9522".
·October 3 news, the Philippine station lineup of the HEAD IN THE CLOUDS Music Festival will be announced and will be held in Paranak, the Philippines from December 9 to 10. In addition to familiar faces such as Joji, Rich Brian, Niki and Wang Jiaer , Zhu Jingxi and Jinx Zhou also joined the lineup of this music festival.
·October 4 news, the Waves Forest Music Festival will be held at the Taiwan Libao Park Resort from December 2 to December 4. The lineup includes Yang Naiwen , Guwu, Meixiu Group, Fruit and Blood Juice Machine, Constant's Change Ball, etc.
· On October 4, the Xinhua News Agency's "Voice in China" column team and Baohulcha Music Studio jointly held the "Grassland Music Party".
Musician Huang Xiaoyun , NINEONE Naiwan , Fu Longfei, Chen Linong , Fu Jing , Zhao Xiaotang and other more than ten artists attended the event to help. The entire concert performed 16 songs in the form of an outdoor stage, looking forward to promoting national songs to the world. Among them, rapper NINEONE Naiwan combined hip-hop popular elements with traditional folk songs and collaborated on "Meeting Aobao".
· On October 6, Eason Chan Fear And Dreams Hong Kong Red Hall concert was issued. The stage was a traditional three-sided stage, with ticket prices of HKD980, 680, 480, and 58,000 tickets (a total of 18 concerts) were sold out on the same day.
Music variety show
· On October 7, the full lineup of the fourth season of " Our Songs " was announced. Lin Zhixuan , Rainie Yang , Da Zhangwei, Huang Xiaoyun , Zhang Yuan, Zhan Wenting , Deng Jianchao , Xu Jingyun, Jiao Maiqi joined our song group B and fought against the singers of Group A ( Chen Huixian , Yang Kun , Zhou Chuanxiong , Xiao Jingteng , Zhang Qi , Ma Jiaqi , Lu Hu, Meng Huiyuan). According to the competition system, the two groups A and B will form four teams to compete for the championship next time.
· On October 7, the tutor of the 11th season of the Korean large-scale rap program "ShowMeTheMoney" was released, with the lineup being Park Jae-bang X Slom, The Quiett X Leeellamarz, Lil Boi X GroovyRoom, JUSTHIS X R.Tee.
· On October 8, the 11th season of "The Voice of China" officially announced the top five lineup. Liang Yuying from Li Keqin's team, Wang Zepeng from Coco Lee team, and Liang Jingru's Pan Yunqi from team each took one seat, and Li Ronghao's dark horse from Li Chuchu broke out and advanced with Cai Ziyi.
Recommended this week
· On October 2, Chen Linong launched the RB hip-hop love song "None of They Understand", with rapper h3R3 being specially produced by lyrics and music, and young producer Alan as the arranger.
· On October 2, sokodomo, Park Jae-bang, MVP, and BIG Naughty jointly produced and sang the single "Deja Vu".
· On October 3, Higher Brothers member KnowKnow announced his return with the new single "Playboy Playing Boy (prod. TQ)", which will be the first leading single of the third solo album "LONG TIME KNOW SEE".
· On October 4, Zhou Bichang sang the original music work "Ciqing" for Henan Radio and Television Station's "2022 Double Ninth Festival Tour", written by Jiang Ke/Jin Lingyi and composed by Sun Wei.
· On October 5, Wang Junkai released the promotion song of the same name for the movie "0,000 Miles Return ", which was released by Huace Music, lyrics written by Tang Hanxiao /Xiaodao, and composed by Tang Hanxiao.
· On October 5, Lao Fan next door to released the emotional single "I Like the Night Time", and once again co-produced by Yan Jin, and composed the lyrics and music by Ji Mou.
· On October 6, Nicki Minaj teamed up with eight powerful rappers Spice / Destra Garcia / Patrice Roberts / Lady Leshurr / Pamputtae / Dovey Magnum / Lisa Mercedez / London Hill to collaborate on the latest lead single "Likkle Miss (THE FINE 9 REMIX)".
· On October 6, Aire released the single "Yan Shu", which was jointly produced by NetEase Hurricane x NetEase Radio, and Ouyang Qingyu and Chen Ke also co-created the lyrics and music.
· On October 6, Dok2 released the single "God's Science", by Tablo feat.
· On October 6, PSY.P sampled the classic song "Carmen" by Glen and released the song "Great".
· On October 6, the Low Absination Band launched a live commemorative special for "I Love You", which fully included 19 live audios from Hangzhou, the last stop of the national tour of "I Love You".
· On October 7, Charlie Puth's third studio album "CHA RLIE" was officially launched, with a total of 12 songs included, and the album's main album "Loser" was also released simultaneously.
· On October 7, Stray Kids, a boy group under South Korea's JYP company, released the new mini album "MAXIDENT" and the title song "CASE 143", which returned after 7 months. The new album "MAXIDENT" is headed by the internal production team 3RACHA, and all members participated in the lyrics and composition.
· On October 7, Adam Lambert released the new single "Mad About the Boy", released by Warner Music.
