Topliner: Tips for Pursuing Topline Songwriting
Topliner: Tips for Pursuing Topline Songwriting. A topliner is a songwriter who writes the melody and lyrics over a premade instrumental track. What Is a Topliner? A topliner, or topline…
Web 3.0 is a lane, not a highway
Facebook was not the first web 2.0 company, but it was the one that took it mainstream to a global audience. Consumers’ digital lives would never be the same again.…
C.R.E.A.T.E. An entertainment manifesto | Music Industry
When we first formed MIDiA eight years ago, we saw the new entertainment world was going to require a new joined up approach for entertainment businesses. With the start of…
The Weeknd and Binance Unite for Tour, $2 Million
The Weeknd and blockchain and cryptocurrency company Binance have joined forces to bring the world the first crypto powered world tour. The Weeknd’s “After Hours Till Dawn” tour, set to…
Forced TikToks or meta marketing: How virality is choking
It’s been a scary week for social media managers working in music. After sharing a TikTok claiming their label wouldn’t let them release a new track unless it came with…
Zara Larsson Launches Label; Fount Lynch Joins Warner
Activist Artists Management has announced an expansion into Asia. The Activist roster includes such acts as the Lumineers, Alec Benjamin, Empire of the Sun, Grateful Dead, Dead & Company* (co-managed…
Songtradr buys AI metadata and music search company,
Los Angeles-based B2B music licensing company Songtradr has acquired AI metadata and music search company, Musicube. Based in Hamburg, Germany, Musicube’s database includes more than 50 million song titles, as…
Music tech startup IndieFlow raises $4m
US-based music tech startup IndieFlow, described as an “Operating System for independent music creators”, has raised $4 million in new funding. The round was led by State of Mind Ventures,…