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Apple Music, Deezer, TIDAL pull down viral AI ‘fake Drake and The Weeknd’ track (update)

Ghostwriter's heart on my sleeve has now surpassed 625,000 plays on Spotify

This AI Drake rip-off already has 250,000 plays on Spotify. How will the music industry respond?

Ghostwriter's heart on my sleeve is bound to ignite intra-industry music biz tensions this week

Tencent Music, Billboard China launch ‘The One’ global original music contest

The competition will be divided into three categories: Musical Work, Fresh Face and Label, allowing songwriters, emerging musicians and labels to audition based on their respective fields

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As Universal clamps down on AI music copycats, China proposes new rules to restrict artificial intelligence development

China's government has drawn up proposals to take the restriction of the development of generative Artificial Intelligence in the country into its own hands

Analysis

Can Apple Solve Classical Music’s Streaming Problem?

Ryan Blakeley, a Ph.D. in Musicology candidate at the Eastman School of Music, on whether Apple's brand new app can solve complex issues for the genre

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Jen Ashworth promoted to Senior Vice President, Commercial Marketing and Streaming at Capitol Music Group

Exec was previously Vice President of Global Commercial Marketing for CMG

Analysis

Official: Latin music surpassed $1 billion in US recorded music revenue in 2022 (and claimed an 8% market share of streaming revenues)

According to data released today (April 12) by the RIAA, total revenues generated by Latin music in the States came in at just slightly below $1.09 billion last year, an increase of 23.8% YoY from 2021

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Analysts are starting to believe that AI may be an existential threat for the major labels. Is that overly pessimistic?

Why the majors' market share is stronger than you might think – just as so-called virtual idols come to prominence in China