Record Labels Reap Billions From Tunes on Social Media; Trqk in the Spotlight; SyncFloor, Bodega Sync Partner

Warner Music signs accord with TikTok, the newest in a series of pacts with social platforms

Plus, how brands and musicians can best work together.

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Portable music players — in whatever form — have been a part of popular culture for more than four decades now.

During COVID-19, has work from home worked for radio?

Over 176 different songs exceeded 1 billion video views each as TikTok sounds.

Spotify gets kudos for its AI-enhanced music-discovery features, but Pandora music analysts past and present say their two decades of work on the Music Genome Project paved the way for today’s music recommendations.

Even a generic company name and logo can be effective when the product is good.

With reopenings and recovery far off, the coronavirus pandemic is likely to hasten consolidation and digitization in the music industry.

This past week, Chris Strachwitz’s life’s work was honored at a virtual 60th anniversary party in which noted Arhoolie enthusiasts such as ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Taj Mahal, and Bonnie Raitt.

Here’s how musicians can start live streaming and fine their virtual audiences amid the COVID-19 pandemic, while avoiding the pitfalls.

When I look over the landscape of our beloved hobby these days, I get the pervasive feeling there is a schism brewing between the historic and modern day.

It took three years, three different cities, and four different producers, but ‘Car Wheels on a Gravel Road’ is a perfect album.