Adaptr Shakes Up Music Licensing with New Platform; Triller, Music Publishers Reach Deal; HBO Celebrates Tina Turner Doc With Radio Shows

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4 min readMar 26, 2021

Adaptr Shakes Up Music Licensing with New Platform for Developers — platformandstream.wordpress.com

It’s been an exciting start to 2021 for Feed Media Group. They raised the curtain on the new year by partnering with WMG to launch Adaptr, a platform that fosters the growth of innovative new apps by allowing developers to easily and legally integrate music into their experiences on an interactive basis.

HBO Celebrates Tina Turner Doc With Five Hours of Radio, Featuring Arlo Parks and Dawn Richard — variety.com
HBO celebrates its Tina Turner documentary with five hours of NTS radio programming about the singer, featuring Arlo Parks and Dawn Richard.

Study: Be The Change: Women Making Music 2021 — www.midiaresearch.com

TuneCore and Believe Partner with MIDiA for First of its Kind Global Study.

Triller Finally Forges Licensing Agreement With Music Publishers — variety.com
After months of discord, the video app Triller has struck a licensing agreement with the National Music Publishers’ Association.

AI-powered robot rappers: a 100 year history — www.musicxtechxfuture.com

The word ‘robot’ is 100 years old. Czech playwright Karel Čapek coined the term in his play Rossum’s Universal Robots which premiered in January 1921.

Creators, Creators, Creators, Creators: Why Clubhouse Is Winning — www.forbes.com
Somewhere there is a founder of Clubhouse doing the infamous Steve Ballmer monkey dance. But instead of a sweaty, hoarse “developers, developers, developers, developers,” Clubhouse founders Davison and Seth are jumping around a virtual (sound) stage shouting “creators, creators, creators, creators.”

Sony Music’s 4th Floor Creative debuts Mood Playlist creator — musically.com

Spotify is a dab hand at curating playlists for a wide range of moods and contexts, but labels are keen to get into that game too.

Spotify and Pro Music Rights founder who sought over $1bn in damages settle lawsuit — www.musicbusinessworldwide.com

Case against the music streaming company first began in 2019.

Dutch music channels expand to Bulgaria — www.broadbandtvnews.com

The originally Dutch music channels NashvilleTV and SchlagerTV, part of the Muziekkiosk TV package, can now also be received in Bulgaria.

Streaming Audio Is the Perfect WFH Partner — www.mediavillage.com
Within the last year, new audio consumption habits have been developed. Pandora, Mindshare and Edison Research have launched a pivotal study on how the pandemic has reshaped audio consumption.

Spotify rolls out redesigned desktop and web apps — techcrunch.com

Spotify today announced it’s rolling out a new look for its streaming service on the desktop, with the launch of a redesigned app for both Mac and Windows, as well as an updated web app.

LyricFind Expands into China through Agreement with Kanjian — lyricfind.com

The partnership with Kanjian is part of a series of expansions into new key regions, including sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. LyricFind now offers accurate and verified lyrics in 33 languages spoken and sung by billions of the world’s music fans.