An early application of artificial intelligence is in production music. This involves the creation of music databases that can be used by...

Spotify was one of the first streaming services to use AI technology to successfully persuade users to use its service. However, Spotify has also been accused of misusing AI to create fake artists in order to get a bigger slice of the streaming pie. The misuse of AI to manipulate music streams is the dark…

Spotify was one of the first streaming services to use AI technology to successfully persuade users to use its service. However, Spotify...

One of the most important applications of artificial intelligence in the music industry is music recommendation in music streaming services such as Spotify. The history of music recommendation goes back to the early 2000s, when LastFM’s Audioscobbler and Pandora’s Music Genome Project transformed internet radio into music streaming.

One of the most important applications of artificial intelligence in the music industry is music recommendation in music streaming...

Music recognition was one of the first applications of artificial intelligence. Music recognition software therefore belongs to the first or second wave of AI technology in the 2010s, which also saw the development of well-known chatbots such as Siri or Alexa. It therefore corresponds to ‘weak AI’ or Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI), which has been…

Music recognition was one of the first applications of artificial intelligence. Music recognition software therefore belongs to the first...

Music recognition was one of the earliest applications of artificial intelligence in the music industry. Back in the early 2000s, AI was being used to identify songs and categorise genres. The pioneers in this field were the open-source project MusicBrainz and the companies Gracenote, Shazam and SoundHound. Here is the story of these four pioneers…

Music recognition was one of the earliest applications of artificial intelligence in the music industry. Back in the early 2000s, AI was...

In part 1 of the “AI in the music industry” series, we defined artificial intelligence, which will lead us in a second step to explain the basics of how AI works. Part 2 of the series will therefore highlight which AI systems are already in use in practice and what potential they have for the…

In part 1 of the “AI in the music industry” series, we defined artificial intelligence, which will lead us in a second step to explain...

2023 will go down in history as the year artificial intelligence (AI) was recognised as a game changer in the music industry, after the song ‘Heart on My Sleeve’ had surfaced on social media. The AI-generated voice clones of the rap superstars Drake and The Weeknd interpreted the song, which was also written by an…

2023 will go down in history as the year artificial intelligence (AI) was recognised as a game changer in the music industry, after the...

The boom in the music rights market continued in 2023. In January of the new year, Primary Wave announced that it had acquired all the recorded music rights and income streams from the Atlantic years of the British rock band YES, as well as the music rights of the two former members of the US…

The boom in the music rights market continued in 2023. In January of the new year, Primary Wave announced that it had acquired all the...

Reservoir Media Management is a new type of music publisher, launched in 2021 through the financial vehicle of a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) on the NASDAQ. Reservoir has grown by acquiring legendary recording and music publishing catalogues such as Chrysalis Records, Shapiro Bernstein and Tommy Boy Records. The following blog post tells the story…

Reservoir Media Management is a new type of music publisher, launched in 2021 through the financial vehicle of a Special Purpose...

For several years, Hipgnosis made headlines with spectacular acquisitions of music rights catalogues worth hundreds of millions of dollars. It bought the music catalogues of Shakira, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young and other superstars, and in 2018 went public as Hipgnosis Songs Fund Ltd. in the largest IPO on the London Stock Exchange. The weakening economic…

For several years, Hipgnosis made headlines with spectacular acquisitions of music rights catalogues worth hundreds of millions of...

. Volume 12, no 2, October 2023 Editorial by Peter Tschmuck, p. 45 Dan G. Hodges Jr.: Nashville: The Creative Business Cluster and its Life Cycle, pp. 47-56 Zarja Peters & Phillip Cartwright: A Perspective on NFTs in the Arts-and-Music Industry, pp. 57-77 Book review by Benjamin Morgan: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of…