KobalTMUSIC will be sold, HKUST Xunfei pushes virtual singers

Organize people | Editor in Liying | Fan Zhihui

08.22-08.28

big company

>> Sony Music is virtual human business

· August 22 news, Sony Music Entertainment Japan (SMEJ) is currently carrying out two major virtual talent projects -one of them is called "the largest virtual human development and management project in history".

SMEJ recently launched a global talent audition, allowing creators in real life to play virtual roles through the "Prism program" in Tokyo, and described in the press release as members of the "Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) virtual talent brand".

On the "Prism program" website, it is called "the future multinational VTuber agent". According to SMEJ, Prism plans will be backing with Sony Music's industry -leading professional knowledge in talent management, dubbing, music production, activity production and digital technology, breaking the boundaries of virtual talent space, and finding industry growth opportunities.

It is reported that the prism is officially launched in January 2021. At present, it has cooperated with 12 so -called "virtual talents", including Iku Hoshifuri, Aoi Tokimori, Meno Ibuki, Rita Kamishiro, Luto Araka, Shiki Miyoshino, Nia Suzune, Yura Rikudou, PinaDou, PinaDou Pengin, Naki Kamizuki, Sara Nagare and Non Anon.

>> Audiomack launched the premiere access function

On August 23, Audiomack, the music sharing platform, launched a new Premiere Access feature, enabling some fans of the musicians to visit the music that has not been officially released in advance.

The musician can choose this feature when uploading the work to Audiomack, and at the same time, the window duration of these super fan groups to access music can be selected, so that fans can listen to uninterrupted music through Premiere Access.

Musicians must participate in the Audiomack monetization plan (AMP) to be eligible to experience the "Premiere Access" function.

Fans who want to unlock this access right must become the "SUPPORTERS" of the musician. "SUPPORTERS" is a feature launched by Audiomack with partners such as Warner Music Group at the end of last year. It allows fans to provide reward support for their favorite musicians' songs and albums.

>> Republic Records Establishs Children and Home Service Department

· On August 23, the record company of Global Music Group, a record company, set up a children's and home service department to expand to the field of family entertainment.

The new department will be led by Bree Bowles, and he will be the vice president of marketing and strategic marketing and strategic vice president of republic records. According to a statement issued, Republic said it will soon announce the main issuance content and partnership of the department.

>> East Goes Global launched the new distribution department

· On August 23, the American entertainment company East Goes Global launched a new distribution department to release the music of Western musicians to Chinese DSP companies.

The news was announced last week that East Goes Global has completed a $ 1 million seed round financing. The company said the company is currently worth $ 10 million.

As part of this new expansion, East Goes Global said it will provide music to China's largest platform, including TME's QQ music and cool dog music, and NetEase Cloud Music. As part of the new distribution service, East Goes Global has also reached cooperation with ACRYLIC Label, a record company focusing on instrumental music.

>> "Stone Project" Season 4 works together to be online

· On August 23, the "Stone Plan" of the original musician support plan "Stone Plan", which was initiated by Netease Cloud Music, was officially launched.

This series contains the musicians who stand out from the "Stone Plan" in the fourth season of the eleven group. They cross the style definition and reconstruct their romance by themselves, and dedicate 11 romantic fusion to the fans.

These eleven groups of young musicians have different growth backgrounds, and their music styles are not the same, but they all dedicated their outstanding works with distinctive and unforgettable works this time. This includes: after the time is not enough, the flower wall, Browni, Shark, Manling, Baibai Endlesswhite band, I ’ll call u. Band, sea tail, sea demon band, Yuan Jingxiang and Y.U.

>> Sony Selected Hi-Res Music launched DXD Streaming Music Service · August 23 news, Sony Selected Hi-Res Music announced the first to launch DXD streaming music services, supporting as high as 384kHz / 24bit music online. Sony said that the DXD (Digital Extreme Definition) technology further improved the sampling accuracy of the sound signal. The amount of music information was greater, making the audience hear more realistic, and the user's experience was more immersive.

>> IHEARTMEDIA launched "IHEARTLAND" and will host the Charlie Puth concert

· On August 24th, the US Broadcasting Corporation IheartMedia launched the virtual space "IHEARTLAND" in the popular game Fortnite of Epic Games. The company describes virtual space as "the most advanced and eternal entertainment space of music and game collisions."

The company said "IHEARTLAND" was developed by Atlas Creative, a game developer developed by Fortnite Islan. After the launch of IHEARTLAND, Grammy's nominated singer, songwriter and producer Charlie Puth will host a virtual concert. IHEARTMEDIA said that this is Charlie Puth "the first concert in the virtual world"; virtual performance will be held in the "State Farm Park" of IHEARTLAND at 7 pm on September 9, Eastern time.

IHEARTMEDIA said that in the next year, "State Farm Park", located in Iheartland, will hold 20 major events in the field of music and podcasts, including the "unique musician fan experience" that can be unlocked through games.

After the concert, Charlie Puth will also hold an album distribution party. The party will perform his upcoming album "Charlie".

>> SM Entertainment expand to Saudi Arabia to develop the Middle East market

· On August 24th, South Korea Entertainment SM Entertainment expanded to Saudi Arabia. The company's chief producer Li Xiuman and MINSTMINT SAUDI ARabia (MISA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOUMARANDUM of Unders) , To enter the local market.

The signing ceremony was held at the headquarters of the SM Entertainment Company in Seoul, South Korea. SM CEO Sung-Su Lee, SM SEA, and Mena Branch Kyung Jin Han and Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister of Investment Fahad Al-Naeem attended the ceremony.

Through this cooperation, SM stated that it will actively discover and cultivate local musicians, actively promote S-POP (Saudi Pop Music), and also plans to establish "a Yuan universe platform to share South Korea and Saudi Culture." At the same time, SM also plans to open a music venue along the Red Sea coast, saying that it will "be able to hold a music festival throughout the year", and it will also plan to create various content and products.

>> Francisco Partner may acquire Kobalt Music Group

· August 25 news, Francisco Partners of the United States Science and Technology Investment Corporation is currently negotiating on the acquisition of most equity of Kobalt Music Group and may sign an agreement in the next one or two weeks.

Francisco Partners acquired most of the equity of the music creation platform Native Instruments earlier this year, and the cost was not public. Since its establishment, Francisco Partners has set up offices in San Francisco, London and New York. It has raised more than $ 24 billion in commitments and has invested in more than 300 technology companies.

According to files submitted in the British Companies House, Kobalt Music Group's total revenue (excluding asset management fees) in fiscal year (12 months as of June 2021) was US $ 519.4 million. Compared with 465.9 billion US dollars in the same period last year, a year -on -year increase of 11%.

>> QQ Music 11.9 new version is launched, the industry is the first to launch the "loudness adaptive" function

· August 25 news, the new version of QQ Music 11.9.0 was officially launched, and launched functions such as adaptiveness, vinyl player style, music index list and other functions. At the same time , Smart piano scores, guitar spectrums, Yuxili spectrum and other instruments are available.

The most striking upgrade in the new version is to launch the "Rose Adaptive" function in the industry. This function is based on human ear hearing perception characteristics, which can dynamically adjust the loudness of the song, so as to adjust the sound of music so that fans can always maintain The gentle and natural song experience, this is another new feature that enhances the continuous playback of users since the previous version of the "volume balance" function was launched. Users can set up customs on the "Settings" page. >> deezer is testing health applications

· August 25 news, Music Streaming Corporation Deezer is testing his healthy application, named Zen By Deezer, and is planned to be launched in early 2023.

Deezer said the application will contain functions such as music and sound, yoga guidance, breathing exercises, and meditation. The application is currently only applicable to iOS and Belgian users, and plans to develop Android versions in the near future.

When DEEZER's Zen is more widely promoted, the application will enter a dominant dominant field from Calm and Headspace.

Deezer said that it "is still developing several other applications to further expand its diversified product portfolio and promote more sales opportunities."

>> Global Music Copyright Group China Company Signed NCR Nomadic City Brand

· On August 26th, China Company announced that the Global Music Public Public Public Public Public Public Public Public Public Public Public Public Publicual Public Public that the music brand "NOMAD City Records" (NOMAD City Records "(NOMAD CITY RECORDS) announced the copyright agency agreement , Will act as an agent of the lyrics of all works worldwide in the future.

The NCR nomadic city label was established in 2020. It was co -founded by Guo Caijie, Electronic Nomadic Idel and text and visual creative workers Wang Jiaqi. "VOL.13-1986" is the first show of the NCR nomadic city electronic music label. NCR nomadic cities use the base of traditional folk music, blend and change with various modern musical instruments and electronic synthesizers, and create mysterious and romantic music styles.

NCR nomadic city labels have now accumulated several albums and vinyl record releases, and continued to carry out the theme tour of the "Nomadic City" and "WWW.COME Whenever you are in the desert" global music human online creative plan.

>> Hatsune Miku "Listening" Music Plan Chapter 6- "Sheep Dancing" is about to go online

· August 26 news, the sixth chapter of the Miku of the Miku "Listening" Music Plan of the Music Creator Service Plan — "Sheep Dancing" will be launched recently. The sound line and the experimental electronic collision, re -interpreting this unique ethnic song "Sheep Dancing".

Musician A Duo once again invited 3ASIC, a powerful electronic music producer with both technology and art aesthetic aesthetic, as arranging and production. 3ASIC cleverly blended ethnic musical instruments, original ecological sampling, and ASMR to create a very distinctive pop dance "Sheep Dancing".

"Sheep Dancing" original song "咩" was composed by A Duo. This time, the reorganized "Sheep Dancing" incorporated more ethnic and natural elements, and jointly performed in the future with Hatsune. The sound of sexy charm, with the dynamic tone of Hatsune Miku, has given each other, giving the song a full soul.

>> HKUST Xunfei pushed out its first virtual singer Luya

· August 26 news, HKUST Xunfei pushed its first virtual singer Luya. As the first virtual singer under HKUST Xunfei, the birth of Luya is closely linked to AI technology. Its sweet tone is created by AI. This technology can create and the image based on image settings and technical experience. The highly integrated exclusive voice makes the character's voice more affectionate and unique. In addition to the full professional skills, as a singer, Luya also hopes to bring vitality and happiness through music.

>> Blockchain Music Platform OPULOOS launches music copyright acquisition funds

· August 26 news, according to reports, OPULOUS, the blockchain music platform, announced the launch of the first music copyright acquisition business "OPULOUS ROYALTY VAULT" and launched a new token OVAULT to acquire the music copyright of "sustainable income".

These curved libraries will be added to the "OPULOUS copyright library" and casts OVAULT token. Investors with music copyrights can buy OVAULT and then pledge these token to get "daily rewards".

Lee Parsons, the founder and CEO of OPULOUS, said that the OVAULT project has spent millions of US dollars to acquire the copyright of the music library. Although there is no information about the relevant artist information, it is reported that there are Grammy nominated.

>> Apple online musician service application

· August 26 news, Apple quietly launched an application called "Platon for Artists". Platoon is a launch and creative service company born in London. It was founded by the co -founder of Denzyl Feigelson and Lovefilm, a veteran of the music industry, and was founded in 2016 by Apple in 2016.

Platoon is famous for discovering a large number of early artists in the UK and the United States, such as Billie Eilish, and these artists later became global stars.

The brief introduction of this invited application on the App Store is as follows: "Manageing your artist's career is never so simple. Platoon for Artists is the base of your management content, streaming media, income, etc." It is also described as "based Artist -centered mobile one -stop store ".

Data control

>> Deezer lost 300,000 paid users in the first half of 2022, but the income increased by 9.9%

On August 25, due to failure to attract and retain users other than the French local market, the streaming platform Deezer lost 300,000 paid users in the first half of the year.

Deezer recently responded to the cold in the Pan -Europe Exchange. As of the end of June, the total number of users decreased by 2.9%from 9.7 million in the same period last year to 9.4 million.

According to Deezer's public listing in July, with its first financial report, its French user base increased by 10.7%, offset the impact of its number of users in other parts of the world by 18.1%. In addition to its local market, the user base of Deezer has shrunk because of significant reduction of expenditures in the non -core market. The company withdrawn from the Russian market at the end of the first quarter, which only caused 104,000 paid users to lose.

Deezer said that "B2C (enterprise to customers) user base is steadily growing in France, while in other parts of the world," this is consistent with the company's new strategy. The new strategy refers to the key market that the company is more concerned about, because Deezer tries to lead its efforts to attract attractive large markets through a partner priority model.

Despite the decline in user bases outside France, Deezer's overall sales in the first half of the year increased by 9.9%year -on -year in the first half of 2022 to 219 million euros. Deezer's revenue outside France increased by 8.1%year -on -year, from 76.6 million euros last year to 87 million euros, which was almost a year -on -year increase in 11.1%in France during the same period.

As B2C ARPU (average monthly income of each user) rose from 3.40 euros to 3.90 euros, the global direct B2C revenue increased by 10.8%(constant currency) to 155 million euros year -on -year.

>> American Music Calling Copyright Copyright Create a $ 4.7 billion income in 2021

· On August 26th, according to the National Music Public Public Publishes's Association statistics, the American music orthodox copyright business created $ 4.7 billion in revenue in 2021. This number increased compared with US $ 4.08 billion in 2020 Less than $ 700 million.

In 2021, the growth of the American music orthodox copyright business was insignificant compared with the rapid development of the record industry in the same year.

The U.S. Records Association (RIAA) confirmed in March that the total revenue of the US record industry reached US $ 9.8 billion in 2021. Compared with US $ 8 billion in revenue in 2020, US $ 9.8 billion in 2021 increased by $ 1.8 billion year -on -year.

capital market

>> Three Six Zero Acquisition Management Company FORWARD MOTION Artist

· On August 25, the global artist brokerage company Three Six Zero has established a cooperative relationship with the Jaz SPINDER brokerage company Forward Motion Artists.

Forward Motion, headquarters in Los Angeles, London, and Iveza, has joined the "Expansion of Global Management and Entertainment Cooperation" by Three Six Zero. As part of the transaction, Three SIX Zero has acquired the shares of FORWARD MOTION Artists.

Artist dynamics

>> Blackpink "PinkVenom" MV clicks to 90.4 million times within 24 hours

· August 23 news, Blackpink's regular 2 series of the first publication song "PinkVenom "'s MV's clicks within 24 hours of YouTube refreshed the world's highest record in female artists.

According to official statistics published by YouTube, Blackpink's "Pink Venom" MV was released on the 19th, with a click -through rate of about 90.4 million times a day, surpassing the score of the Blackpink's popular song "How You Like That". "PinkVenom" successfully exceeded 100 million clicks at a rate of 29 hours and 35 minutes, and the MV has ranked first in the most video of YouTube watching the number of videos for 4 consecutive days. The release of Blackpink's "Pink Venom" also helped this group to consolidate its position as the official artist channel as the most subscriber in YouTube history, surpassing BTS's official YouTube channel Bangtantv and Justin Bieber, Marshmello, ED Sheeran, Ariana Grander , Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, and Katy Perry channels.

>> The right band of reshaping the statue with Mercedes-Mercedes-Benz reached cooperation

· On August 24th, at the new EQE listing conference, the right band of the statue of the statue re -interpreted the classic track "At Most Here", showing the audience a pioneering and unique performance. This is also the first cooperation between Mercedes-Benz and Chinese independent band.

In this cooperation, reshaping the song "AT Most Here" based on the new EQE's product concept "This is for All the Senses". It is worth mentioning that this online conference film is the director of the well -known artist Liu Di, and the art director is responsible for reshaping the artist Tian Curry that has been co -produced, realizing the strong union of music, art, and brand.

>> Coldplay announced the tour of the European and British tour in 2023, and sold 1.4 million tickets

· On August 25, Coldplay announced the tour of the European and British tour in 2023, and sold 1.4 million tickets to make it one of the biggest tour ever. Among them, the demand for tickets for Portugal, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom is very large, and it has added additional venues to meet the needs.

Music variety

· On August 26, the campus community show "Boiling Campus" produced by Tencent Video is about to be launched, gathered 20 dance clubs from different universities, and competed for the title of "the strongest community" in the next two months.

Central University of Finance and Economics Bankrs Crew, Macau University of Science and Technology Instinct Dance Troupe, Fudan University Student Dance Troupe, HD Crew of the University of China, 56 ORCA CREW of Central University for Nationalities, Password Street Dance Club, and Pu'er College cheerleading team will Decover with a youthful blood confrontation.

The show was served as "boiling producer" by Cai Xukun. Yang Yanlin, Tan Jianci, and Meng Jia were the "boiling counselors" to help the community better play the director. They will also participate in stage creation and complete their works with students.

Live entertainment

· August 24 news, the official unit of the official unit of the Korean Music Ceremony MAMA Awards CJ ENM officially announced that this year's awards ceremony will also be held on November 29th and 30th. The K-POP influence has been expanded from Asia to the world, and it has changed the original name of Mnet Asian Music Awards to "Mama Awards".

>> "Little Red Flower Public Welfare Concert" "Unexpectedly Meeting Song · Patrol Patrol Concert" is about to open

· August 26 news, Tencent Music Entertainment Group joined hands with Tencent Public Welfare to jointly create a special plan for music public welfare- "Small Red Flower Public Welfare Concert" "Unexpectedly Meeting Song · Patrol Public Welfare Concert" is about to open. Guests participating in the concert are Chen Chusheng, Luhu, Awakening Allensu, Zhang Yuan Bird, and the concert will be held at 19:30 on September 2.

· August 27 news, due to the notification of the epidemic prevention department, the local epidemic flow was found to be close to the agglomeration activities. Therefore, the Anaya Shrimp Music Festival will be suspended on August 28.

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