Kids’ audio platform Yoto, which is behind the screen-free Yoto Player and Yoto Mini, signed an industry-first settlement with Universal Music Group (UMG) to carry music titles and artists from its labels and catalogs to the platform for the primary time. Founded by Ben Drury and Filip Denker, Yoto permits youngsters to entry music with out being uncovered to promoting or unsuitable content material. The UMG partnership kicked off this month with the launch of Queen’s Greatest Hits: Volume 1 as a “Yoto Card.” That can be adopted within the coming months by releases from artists like Bob Marley & the Wailers and labels together with Motown Records and Disney Music Group. The Queen playing cards can be obtainable on Yoto webstores within the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and the European Union; Yoto Amazon shops within the United States, United Kingdom and Canada; and the Queen on-line retailer.
Round Hill Music acquired Linus Entertainment, the Canadian impartial music firm that features the recording and publishing catalogs of Borealis Records, Mummy Dust Music, Solid Gold Records, Stony Plain Records, The Children’s Group and True North Records, in addition to the distribution firm Independent Digital Licensing Agency Inc (IDLA). The acquisition encompasses over 3,000 songs and greater than 20,000 grasp recordings. It consists of recordings from Buffy Sainte-Marie, Gordon Lightfoot and Taj Mahal, amongst many others.
Reservoir Media and PopArabia collectively acquired the catalog of Cairo-based content material manufacturing and distribution firm RE Media, encompassing sub-labels Moseeqa and Moseeqa TV and several other of RE Media’s owned and operated YouTube channels. The acquisition consists of greater than 6,000 recordings and compositions from artists reminiscent of Amr Diab, George Wassouf, Dalida and Mohamed Mounir. Reservoir and PopArabia moreover acquired the grasp and publishing rights for the catalog of Egyptian rap duo El Sawareekh.
Timbaland acquired a stake in life-style and vinyl model 12on12, the place he’ll function a strategic accomplice and curator. According to a press launch, 12on12 permits “cultural icons” to curate soundtracks of 12 songs “that have inspired, affected and influenced them,” that are then pressed on 12″ vinyl. Timbaland is at present engaged on his personal 12on12 launch that can drop at first of subsequent yr. His Verzuz accomplice Swizz Beatz beforehand acquired a stake within the firm in February 2022; since then, 12on12 has expanded into releasing restricted version advantageous artwork prints and life-style items that includes co-curators’ paintings. The firm has already collaborated with Run DMC, Swizz Beatz and Travis Scott x Saint Laurent, amongst others.
Apple Podcasts added a number of new internet hosting suppliers that can help Delegated Delivery, which permits creators to publish subscriber episodes immediately from their collaborating internet hosting supplier dashboard. The new companions are Audiomeans, Captivate, Podbean, Podspace and Transistor, all of which can help Delegated Delivery by the tip of 2023. Elsewhere, the corporate revealed an unique integration with Linkfire, which is increasing into podcasting this fall with a toolkit constructed particularly for podcasters. Using that toolkit, podcasters on Apple Podcasts may have the flexibility to generate a vast variety of good hyperlinks with touchdown pages for his or her podcasts and measure how listeners have interaction with them utilizing the Linkfire Insights dashboard.
The Salzburg Festival is making its operas, orchestral concert events, lieder recitals and chamber music completely obtainable on the not too long ago launched Apple Music Classical streaming platform. More than 100 such recordings are already obtainable at launch.
Matthew Berry‘s fantasy sports and sports betting media company FantasyLife closed a $2 million dollar friends and family round from investors including John Legend, YouTube co-founder/former CEO Chad Hurley and Wasserman Media Group chairman/CEO Casey Wasserman, among many others. Hurley, Wasserman and The SpringHill Company co-founder/CEO Maverick Carter (also an investor, with LeBron James’ LRMR Ventures) will even be part of the FantasyLife advisory board. Fantasy Life moreover introduced new partnerships with manufacturers together with Epic Seats, Webex by Cisco and Buffalo Wild Wings.
Believe‘s world dance and digital imprint b:digital signed Berlin-based home and techno label mobilee information and Feathers & Bones, the brand new label from digital artist Rodriguez Jr.
The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University and E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt’s TeachRock schooling program introduced they might staff as much as assist lecturers carry American standard music into the curriculums of lecture rooms throughout the United States. Future collaborations will embrace trainer workshops, pupil internships, seminars and conferences, curriculum growth and joint analysis actions. The efforts between the 2 organizations will start at Asbury Park Middle School and High Schools in New Jersey with the Harmony Student Wellness Program, which makes use of “popular music as a springboard” for classes round self-awareness, self-management, relationship abilities, accountable decision-making and social consciousness, based on the TeachRock web site.
Absolute Label Services partnered with Prestige Management for the discharge of Busted’s forthcoming Greatest Hits 2.0 compilation. Absolute will present a spread of providers for the discharge, together with distribution, advertising and challenge administration. The album compiles newly-recorded variations of all of Busted’s largest hits, fan favorites and stay staples, with deluxe codecs that includes plenty of beforehand unreleased collaborations with artists together with McFly, James Arthur, You Me At Six, The Vamps, Bowling For Soup, Dashboard Confessional, Deaf Havana, Wheatus and Charlotte Sands.
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