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After shutting down its website in early February, music NFT marketplace HitPiece has officially relaunched. After being widely disgraced earlier this year, music NFT marketplace HitPiece has returned. Back in February, the platform was called out by independent artists for copyright infringement when music on the website was allegedly being auctioned off as unauthorized NFTs. Recording Industry Association […]
Let’s face it: If the crypto winter has a temperature, it could plunge past sub-zero. While countless NFT communities continue to build and work to add value to their projects, they do so against a backdrop of harsh realities that are just too big to ignore. In July, OpenSea announced it was laying off 20 percent of […]
Dillon Francis is an electronic musician with a long list of accolades. In 2018, the platinum-selling DJ and producer received Latin American Music Award and Latin Grammy nominations for “Sexo,” a single he created alongside Residente and iLe — both world-renowned artists in their own right. Francis has also collaborated with T-Pain, performed at Coachella, […]
Forefront Journal publishes essays from the frontier of web3 social and tokenized communities. This is a guest essay from Azeem Khan, contributor at Gitcoin DAO. Anyone who’s been involved in the web3 space for the past 18 months has heard that music NFTs are going to take over. It’s been so persistent that it’s […]
Artists want to be heard. Whether it’s Spotify or TikTok – strategic partners share one goal: more fans. When it comes to music, record labels are the strategic partner that every aspiring artist strives to work with. There are three major labels in the music industry today: Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music Group (SMG) […]
Once you own an NFT, what can you do with it, exactly? If your NFT is under a CC0 license, the answer is pretty much whatever you want. For members of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, it’s a similar story. Owners of Bored Apes are very much free to commercialize whatever apes they currently have in their possession, turning […]
It turns out, Napster and Limewire were just the beginning. The music industry has undergone seismic shifts in the past 20 years, but it lives on today as a largely digital industry. And, since the music NFT marketplace Serenade partnered with Warner Records U.K., that trend will likely continue, at scale. Together, they’ve announced a new music format: […]
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BTIG announced today that the inaugural BTIG Music NFT Conference will be held on Tuesday, July 26, 2022. The one-day virtual event will feature fireside chats and one-on-one meetings with the leaders of more than 40 different music NFT platforms and organizations including blockchain-enabled music-streaming services, NFT marketplaces, Web3 record labels, royalty management projects, […]
