Beatchain, Songtrust Partner Up; rightsHUB Debuts Music Rights Data Tool; Tencent Buys Into Pex

As of February 2021, members of Beatchain’s service will receive 20% off of the Songtrust registration fee, allowing them access to the one-stop-shop royalty aggregation tool that is used by just-breaking artists and GRAMMY-award winners alike.

Music rights data and asset management platform rightsHUB has added DataDoktor to its suite of music management tools.

Andrson, an A.I.-powered music discovery platform, has launched #ReWrapped - a new feature which allows users to connect their Spotify profile to the Andrson platform, helping to discover new artists influenced by their musical taste from last year.

Seven-month Music Tech Europe Academy co-funded by the EU aims to develop Europe’s music-tech ecosystem.

Investment to help company scale its Attribution Engine (AE) licensing technology.

Soundstripe, a leading provider of royalty-free music, stock video, and sound effects for use in videos, podcasts, and other media projects, has announced that it reached several significant business milestones in 2020.

Senior execs from the three big music streaming companies will face the DCMS Committee next week.

Vevo launches Moods, an artificial-intelligence tool that groups music videos into specific moods to improve the targeting of ads that run alongside them.

UK rapper Central Cee will join Spotify’s global emerging artist programme as the fourth UK & Irish act since the launch of Radar last year.

Video calls became a regular part of everyone’s life last year. But musicians were left to struggle with clunky, uninspiring video chat apps.

Last week my music buddy Frank pinged me about a special deal on Amazon for a live album by the remaining Monkees.