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January 23, 2025 – Music Business Association to Present DDEX with 2025 Impact Award
Award will be given during the 4th Annual Bizzy Awards Dinner on May 14th in Atlanta January 23, 2025 — The Music Business Association today announces that Digital Data Exchange, LLC (DDEX) will receive its 2025 Impact Award for Technological Excellence. Recipients will be honored at the organization’s fourth annual Bizzy Awards dinner sponsored by Warner Music Group, happening Wednesday, May 14 during Music Biz 2025 at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly. DDEX is a not-for-profit membership organization formed in 2006 by a consortium of leading musical work CMOs,... Click Here To Read
January 15, 2025 – The Future of What Episode #242 — The State of Music Publishing in 2025
The past decade has seen a vast uptick in the importance of the music publishing sector. Publishing rights now account for roughly 30-40% of rightsholder revenue, thanks in part to both the adoption of consistent digital revenue streams and major investments from the financial sector that have bolstered the value of music catalogs. In our first podcast of 2025, we talk to Reservoir Media President & COO, Rell Lafargue about the evolution of the music publishing sector,... Click Here To Listen
January 14, 2025 – [Keeping Tempo With Music Biz] — Improving Metadata Management For All: An Interview with Noctil’s Jacob Varghese
Metadata continues to be a hot-button issue for the music industry, given its important role in ensuring that artists & rightsholders are properly paid when their works are streamed or purchased. In this conversation with Noctil Founder and Director, Jacob Varghese, we talk about some of the ways his company is streamlining & democratizing metadata processing tools for artists & music companies of all sizes, the applications & benefits of new AI tech in the metadata sector,... Click Here To Read
December 16, 2024 – The Future of What Episode #241 — Music & Tech’s Trajectory In The Year To Come
2024 was yet another transformative year for the music industry, bolstered by the widespread embrace of AI integration, challenges to the cornerstone that DSPs have become, and maturing integrations in gaming & VR. In our final conversation of 2024, we speak with Vickie Nauman of CrossBorderWorks about how as music consumption becomes more passive, more interactive experiences enabled by exciting new tech may define the music industry in the year to come! Click here to access our entire backlog of interviews on The Future of What Podcast!... Click Here To Listen
December 4, 2024 – The Future of What Episode #240 — Managing Artists In 2024 & Beyond!
With the ever-changing landscape of the music industry, as well as new expectations from today’s artists, it’s time for us to check in on how the management field has evolved to meet the needs of today’s music makers. In our latest podcast, we talk to 10 and 8 Management’s Nicholas Mishko about what managers can do to best support their artists in the 2020s, when artists should enlist a manager & for what reasons, what new tech &... Click Here To Listen
December 3, 2024 – Music Business Association Renames Scholarship Foundation In Memoriam of Staffer Braylin Campbell
Updated scholarship criteria will better align with Association’sB2B nature and support more future industry leaders December 3, 2024 — The Music Business Association (Music Biz) announces the renaming of the Braylin Campbell Memorial Music Business Scholarship Foundation, in honor of Music Biz’s colleague who unexpectedly passed away in August of 2024. Music Biz has unveiled a new visual identity to accompany the Foundation’s name change, incorporating a lighthouse to symbolize both Campbell’s illuminating energy and the safe harbor that financial assistance provides to today’s music business students.... Click Here To Read
November 19, 2024 – The Future of What Episode #239 — Ensuring Ethical AI Use With AI:OK’s Dr. Martin Clancy
The misuse of generative AI tech has already tested the status quo of music distribution & streaming, with DSPs being flooded with thousands of fraudulent tracks meant to siphon royalties away from rightful artists & rightsholders. AI:OK is a new initiative which takes a multi-pronged approach to ensuring that the music industry is ethical in its use of AI. In our latest podcast, we talk to AI:OK founder & CEO, Dr. Martin Clancy about the initiative’s origins and goals,... Click Here To Listen
November 18, 2024 – 2025 BIZZY AWARDS: Nominate Now Through Jan. 29th!
We’re thrilled to announce the 4th Annual Bizzy Awards, taking place Wednesday, May 14th as part of Music Biz 2025! Nominations for our seven crowd-sourced award categories are open now through January 29th, allowing you to name companies & executives you feel deserve recognition for the ways they’re advancing how our industry operates and supports its workforce! The 2025 Bizzy Awards will include the following categories: +Leading Light Award +Agent of Change Award +#NEXTGEN_NOW One To Watch Award +Maestro of Metadata Award +Frontline Innovator Award +Marketing Superstar Award +Music Educator of the Year Award!... Click Here To Read
November 4, 2024 – The Future of What Episode #238 — Music Research & AI-Detection Tech With Deezer’s Romain Hennequin
Research divisions within music companies often operate to advance the products & services they offer. In the case of Deezer’s most recent research on identifying & tagging songs, it may improve the ways our business fights against bad actors. This month, we talked to Deezer’s Head of Research Romain Hennequin about his team’s origins, its most recent paper which delves into how self-supervised learning (SSL) may help accurately identify AI-generated tracks uploaded to streaming services, and much more!... Click Here To Listen
October 31, 2024 – SAVE THE DATE: Let’s Talk Physical Returns November 12!
Music Biz’s Physical Business Action Committee is proud to present the latest entry of our Let’s Talk Physical series, your trusted source for open and candid discussions about the state of the physical music business! Join us next month for updates on the StreetPulse/Luminate sales chart partnership, and a discussion on the impact music retailers have on the artist release ecosystem. Visit our Let’s Talk Physical page today for the full agenda including speaker slate,... Click Here To Read
