Music Business News: Canada News Cutting Edge Group secures $500m to fund music rights acquisitionsCutting Edge said it has already identified a "circa USD $1.5 billion pipeline" of potential investments News Canada an unsung heavyweight of global music, but new Canadian content law could backfire: reportCanadian artists rank third behind only US and UK artists in their share of the world’s top 1,000 singles, a new report says News Joni Mitchell’s music is back on Spotify, a week after Neil Young’s music returned to the platformMove comes more than two years after both artists removed their catalogs from Spotify News Bandzoogle facilitated $16.4M in revenues for musicians in 2023, highlighting direct-to-fan sales boomMore than half of the revenue generated on Bandzoogle last year came from merch sales News Nine Canadian ‘streaming manipulation sites’ shut down in win for record companiesStreaming manipulation misleads music fans and interferes with the effective operation of music streaming sites, IFPI and Music Canada said News BeatConnect raises another $1.7m in funding for ‘gamified’ music creation platformThis spring, the company is relaunching its music creation platform, with elements inspired by gaming News Tuned Global and LyricFind team up on tech integrationThe collaboration will extend LyricFind's products to a network of music and media services globally where Tuned Global has partnerships News Drake’s OVO Sound partners with – and secures investment from – Todd Moscowitz and Sony Music’s Santa AnnaOVO Sound will remain a stand-alone record label distributed and marketed through Santa Anna Label Group1 2 … 34 Next
News Cutting Edge Group secures $500m to fund music rights acquisitionsCutting Edge said it has already identified a "circa USD $1.5 billion pipeline" of potential investments
News Canada an unsung heavyweight of global music, but new Canadian content law could backfire: reportCanadian artists rank third behind only US and UK artists in their share of the world’s top 1,000 singles, a new report says
News Joni Mitchell’s music is back on Spotify, a week after Neil Young’s music returned to the platformMove comes more than two years after both artists removed their catalogs from Spotify
News Bandzoogle facilitated $16.4M in revenues for musicians in 2023, highlighting direct-to-fan sales boomMore than half of the revenue generated on Bandzoogle last year came from merch sales
News Nine Canadian ‘streaming manipulation sites’ shut down in win for record companiesStreaming manipulation misleads music fans and interferes with the effective operation of music streaming sites, IFPI and Music Canada said
News BeatConnect raises another $1.7m in funding for ‘gamified’ music creation platformThis spring, the company is relaunching its music creation platform, with elements inspired by gaming
News Tuned Global and LyricFind team up on tech integrationThe collaboration will extend LyricFind's products to a network of music and media services globally where Tuned Global has partnerships
News Drake’s OVO Sound partners with – and secures investment from – Todd Moscowitz and Sony Music’s Santa AnnaOVO Sound will remain a stand-alone record label distributed and marketed through Santa Anna Label Group