Tag Archives: music

Fake Friends: Coldplay Performs With a Virtual BTS (LiveDesign)

The season finale of NBC’s The Voice featured a joint performance of "My Universe" between Coldplay and South Korean boy band BTS, but with a twist—BTS were represented with 3D... More

Pirate Flags: Music Business says Piracy Still Threatens Its Future (Forbes)

As far as the record industry is concerned, the existential (and the literal) threat of piracy has not been negated by the rise of streaming. Legal action continues and studies cla... More

Sydney’s Forbes Street Studios Introduces Dolby Atmos (TMN)

Forbes Street Studios has introduced Dolby Atmos/spatial mixing capabilities as part of its suite of assets. Artists and producers can create three-dimensional soundscapes in an ob... More

Music Piracy Has Plummeted in the Past 5 Years – But in 2021, it Slowly Started Growing Again (MBW)

Music streaming has long been hailed as the killer of music piracy.While there’s no that doubt that streaming has transformed the fortunes of the major labels, and that subscript... More

Dolby Links With Derek ‘MixedByAli’ Ali, EngineEars Platform (Variety)

Engineer Derek ‘MixedByAli’ Ali, whose credits include music by Kendrick Lamar, Roddy Ricch, SZA, Summer Walker and the late Nipsey Hussle, and his Los Angeles-based music-tech... More

Apple Music Officially Launches on the PS5 (The Verge)

Apple Music is coming to a gaming console, and it’s the PlayStation 5. The new app lets Apple Music subscribers stream music on Sony’s latest console, similar to what was alrea... More

20 Years of the iPod: How it Shuffled Music and Tech Into a New Era (The Guardian)

In October 2001, the music industry was riven by piracy and had no idea how to solve it. Enter Steve Jobs, whose new device created a digital music market – and made Apple into a... More

UK’s Antitrust Regulator to Probe Music Streaming Market (TechCrunch)

The UK’s antitrust watchdog will take a close look at the music streaming market. The Competition and Markets Authority announced that it will be conducting a market study of mus... More

Dolby, Justin Bieber Team Up to Go Inside the Story of His Latest Single ‘Ghost’

Dolby teamed up with global superstar Justin Bieber to celebrate his latest single “Ghost” and a new era for music in Dolby Atmos, which is transforming how music is created an... More

Dolby, Olivia Rodrigo Team Up to Share an Intimate Look at Her Hit Song ‘Traitor’

Dolby teamed up with multi-platinum singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo to celebrate a new era for music in Dolby Atmos, which is transforming how music is created and enjoyed. Fans l... More

Dolby Teams Up With The Weeknd to Explore How He Creates Worlds With Music

Dolby teamed up with The Weeknd to celebrate a new era for music in Dolby Atmos, which is transforming how music is created and enjoyed. The long-form commercial explores how The W... More

Dolby Teams Up With The Weeknd to Explore How He Creates Worlds With Music

Dolby teamed up with The Weeknd to celebrate a new era for music in Dolby Atmos, which is transforming how music is created and enjoyed. The long-form commercial explores how The W... More

The Impact of TikTok on the Music Industry (Rightsline Blog)

Over the past few years, few brands have grown as much and as quickly as TikTok. As a result, it has taken the world by storm and had a lasting impact on many aspects of pop cultur... More

Dolby’s Ashim Mathur: Dolby Atmos on Apple Music Will Transform How Music is Created, Enjoyed (IT)

This may not be the only integration for Dolby as it plans to provide an enhanced music streaming experience to users and meet the increased demand for high-quality audio experienc... More

Streaming, Music and Rights Management (Rightsline Blog)

The change in how media is consumed has brought up quite a few questions about how streaming affects data management, rights management, ownership and copyright, and how software s... More

UK Streaming Inquiry Report Calls for ‘Complete Reset’ of Market (Music Ally)

Rather than give the streaming services a kicking over the royalties they generate for musicians, the committee has trained its fire on rightsholders and how that money flows throu... More

British Music Exports Grow to Record High as Streaming Hits the Right Note (City A.M.)

The value of British music sales and streams surpassed half a billion pounds for the first time last year thanks to the growing popularity of streaming services such as Spotify. Gl... More

Dolby Atmos: How the Immersive Sound Technology is Revolutionising Music for Artists, Fans (MW)

Dolby Atmos is taking audio streaming to the next level. The immersive audio format from Dolby Laboratories is becoming more widely adopted across the industry, including smart spe... More

Turning Fan Data Into Hits (Billboard)

Analytics from streaming services and the major label groups are increasingly able to deliver numbers-backed answers to questions that once required gut calls.... More

Dolby Spotlighted for Innovation in Music

Dolby chosen for democratising and innovating music and mastering tools in Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021. (more…)... More