Facebook to Finally Get the Rights to Show Music Videos; Ideas on the Future of Playlists

Facebook has completed a series of deals for the right to show music videos, according to people familiar with the matter, vaulting the social network into a medium dominated by YouTube.

There is no way to navigate this list of playlists in a practical way.

The COVID-19 pandemic’s continued impact on Spotify’s business was apparent in the results of the company’s Q2 2020 earnings.

Vivendi SA’s music business has held up through virus lockdowns, limiting the blow to the French media group from a drop in advertising and publishing revenue.

Bandsintown teams up with Koreatown-based label Red Kloud Society to convene the Joy Ruckus Club, a streaming festival led by and celebrating young Asian American artists. The festival will stream on Bandsintown LIVE August 1 and 2, 2020.

In 2019, Vanity Fair called French Malian singer Aya Nakamura “the most influential French musician in the world”. And she’s continued in that vein ever since.

Verzuz, a live-streaming internet show created by legendary producers Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, is a bonafide phenomenon.

Whilst CDs continue their drastic fall from grace cassettes are joining vinyl in a surprising resurgence of popularity.

Yes, the raw feeling of live music is missing, but being online gave this year’s fest a better chance to emphasize women, artists of color, social change and Chicago.

Yes, if you have a YouTube Music or Google Play Music subscription, you can listen to your playlists on an Echo speaker.