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Stuart Dredge

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United Kingdom

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Past:
  • MusicAlly
  • The Guardian
  • Medium
  • Creative Review

Past articles by Stuart:

Spain’s recorded music revenues grew by 12.4% in 2022

Spanish music industry body Promusicae has published its annual figures for the country's recorded music market. → Read More

US recorded music revenues grew 6.1% to $15.87bn in 2022

Industry body the RIAA has published its annual figures today, showing that the value of recorded music grew by 6.1% in 2022 to $15.87bn. → Read More

Spotify’s new artist tools: Clips, Countdown Pages, Showcase ads and more

Spotify held its ‘Stream On’ event in Los Angeles tonight, and while one of the big announcements leaked out early, there was other news. → Read More

EC narrows its Apple music-streaming investigation to 'anti-steering' issues

The European Commission launched a pair of formal antitrust investigations of Apple in June 2020. Now there's a development. → Read More

Report: TikTok is working on a new paywalled posts feature

Rightsholders may be energetically seeking a slice of TikTok's advertising revenue in its next set of music licensing deals. → Read More

UMG just found a streaming service to work with on 'artist-centric' payouts

Universal Music Group boss Sir Lucian Grainge thinks that “the economic model for streaming needs to evolve”. → Read More

Bandzoogle hits $100m music, merch and ticket sales milestone

More than half of that $100m has been generated in the last five years, while 75% of the total has come from merchandise. → Read More

Moj parent company ShareChat holds another round of layoffs

In the wake of TikTok's ban in India, Moj prospered. However, its parent company ShareChat is having to make cutbacks now. → Read More

Calvin Harris taps Wave for a virtual concert on TikTok

Electronic music star Calvin Harris is the latest artist planning a livestream on TikTok, with 'The Calvin Harris Experience' on 13 January. → Read More

2023's the magic number: De La Soul's first six albums hit streaming services in March

Since the dawn of the streaming economy, De La Soul's back catalogue was a say-no-go area for music services. That's now changing. → Read More

7 reasons why AI music was fascinating AND controversial in 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made great strides in recent years, and one area where it is beginning to have an impact is music. → Read More

38 key music/tech funding rounds in 2022

Today's 2022 roundup article focuses on funding rounds for startups (and bigger companies) in and around music/tech. → Read More

DAACI, Hawkr, Volta XR, Biiah, Curve and Music Health win Music Ally SI:X

It’s time to announce the winners of Music Ally SI:X, our new global showcase, contest and mentorship program for music/tech startups. → Read More

Meta set to host a Notorious B.I.G. ‘VR concert experience’

Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can't you see? Sometimes your posthumous virtual reality projects just hypnotise me... → Read More

HIFI Labs outlines plans for its Neume web3 music data layer

In May we reported on startup HIFI Labs spinning out a project called Neume, to create a data layer for web3 music platforms. → Read More

Anything World raises $7.5m from investors including WMG

Startup Anything World has big ambitions to make it easier for people to create 3D worlds. Now it has a big new round of funding. → Read More

Live Nation posts strong Q3 but Biden tweet spells trouble ahead

Live Nation has hailed "record levels" of demand for concerts in the third quarter of this year, but there may be some regulatory clouds gathering for its ticketing business in the US, encouraged from the very highest level of US politics. → Read More

Believe reports 36.9% growth in its Q3 2022 financial results

Business continues to be very good for distributor Believe, which announced its Q3 2022 financial results yesterday. → Read More

AI music roundup: Holly+ does Dolly, Emergent Drums...

"Your algorithm's like a breath of spring, your code is soft like summer rain..." These are NOT the lyrics in a new cover of Dolly Parton's 'Jolene', we hasten to add: it's very faithful to the original. → Read More

Opulous litepaper reveals ‘Royalty Vault’ and advances plans

“Q4 is product time. Let's make history,” tweeted Opulous, the web3 spin-off from distributor Ditto Music, yesterday. → Read More