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NFT music enthusiast? Then here is something you might be interested in. There is now an NFT music streaming player. YellowHeart is a Web3 marketplace for music. Ticketing, and memberships. The site accepts both crypto and credit card payments. In 2021, YellowHeart released the first-ever NFT album and tickets with Kings of Leon. Since then, the […]
David Clark-Joseph joins PIXELYNX from Liberty Gaming. Quick take: David Clark-Joseph led partnerships and crypto gaming investments at Liberty Gaming. He also handled corporate development and NFTs at Kraken. Prior to his career in Web3, he was CFO, VP of corporate development at Distributive. PIXELYNX, the music metaverse gaming platform founded by world-renowned electronic musicians […]
Ever since Huanhe, a digital collection platform owned by Tencent, stopped distribution on August 16, Tencent Music Entertainment’s digital collection platform has also attracted users’ attention. Some have demanded a refund like Huanhe, China Blockchain News reported on September 1. Recently, under the topics of “TME Digital Collection” and “Digital Collection” within the QQ Music […]
Music Ally has been covering the intersection of music with games and virtual worlds for a long time now. It’s been exciting to see the partnerships and experiments step up a notch in the past couple of years, with artists and labels alike keen to seek out inventive metaverse startups with music ambitions. This month, […]
Taiwanese singer and songwriter Jay Chou and music entertainment brand JVR Music, which he co-founded in 2007 with Vincent Fang and JR Yang, have set their sights on the music metaverse. According to an announcement released by JVR Music on August 29, it will cooperate with Mints, a digital collection platform, to create a music metaverse […]
Starting in September and continuing for the rest of 2022 Bandcamp is bringing back its Bandcamp Fridays promotion where it waives its cut of any money you spend buying music from artists or their labels on its marketplace. Historically, the company ran the promotion on the first Friday of every month, and that appears to be the […]
In just a few years, NFTs have gone from niche to mainstream. Now, they’re beginning to transform the music industry by providing artists with new revenue streams and new ways to connect with fans, as we explore as part of The Drum’s Audio Deep Dive. 2021 will be remembered as (among other things) the year […]
New platforms are enabling a more expansive and communal kind of fandom Kenny Beats, born Kenneth Blume III, is best known for his work with artists like Denzel Curry and Vince Staples. On his YouTube series, The Cave, he’ll produce a beat for artists in just 10 minutes. I’d been a fan of his music for some time, but […]
More recommendations, more organization Spotify has been working on a new design for its home tab that will create separate feeds for your music and your podcasts. The company says it’s part of an effort to give you more and better recommendations, but it also addresses a common criticism of the Spotify experience: with every kind of […]
At Coachella, drones were doing physical airdrops and there was an “Ether Egg Hunt.” If you’ve finally wrapped your head around the idea of artwork as NFTs—blockchain-based tokens that prove ownership of a digital asset—consider now how that concept could find its way back into the physical world. As quarantine restrictions lift, Web3 and NFT […]
