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04/20/2020

Qrates is supporting artists with 100 free vinyl records towards their next crowdfunding project.

COVID-19 is putting vinyl's progress on pause, though Qrates is developing smart manufacturing and distribution workarounds to keep growing the format.

04/15/2020

Very cool D'Addario and Co. 👏👏👏
D’Addario is turning its Evans G2 drumheads into face shields to help front-line healthcare workers.

D'Addario has found a way to make face shields for front line workers from their drum heads with FDA approval and they'll be offering them this month.

03/04/2020

Streaming is getting bigger in Japan, claiming 19.3% of Japan’s audio music market revenues in 2019, with the likes of Spotify generating over $380m in market last year.

Industry audio streaming revenues grew 33.8% in Japan last year, shows MBW analysis

10/01/2019

Vevo sees itself as the largest ad-based business in today’s music industry.

Vevo sees itself as the largest ad-based business in today’s music industry, the company’s SVP of sales, Jesse Judelman, told Tubefilter during an interview at the second annual NewFronts West, which took place earlier this month in Los Angeles. And looking to the future, Vevo -- which was found...

08/28/2019

Streaming revenues in Japan grew slightly faster year-on-year in H1 2019 than they did in H1 2018.

Audio subscription revenues made up 12.4% of Japan's total recorded music revenues in H1 2019; physical audio formats contributed 53.3%.

07/01/2019

More than 98% of the growth in US music streaming last year came from tracks that never broke into the top 500.

Indie labels and artists are quietly winning as streaming takes over the world.

06/05/2019

Qrates interview on Goldmine Magazine.

One of the founders of Qrates, CMO Taishi Fukuyama, comes on the Goldmine Magazine Podcast to describe his vinyl-centric company that benefits musical artists as well as vinyl consumers and record stores. QRates.com certainly is a one-stop for vinyl recordings, their production, sales and distributi...

04/28/2019

New app update from artificial intelligence powered songwriting assistant, Amadeus Code.

New feature, BEATS now includes rhythm patterns from various genres.

Introducing our brand new Beats update! Download Amadeus Code now to access the new rhythm channel for genre-defying song inspiration.

http://bit.ly/2UDCxVK

04/08/2019

Will Engrish ever become Japenglish though?

Pop fans in the Anglosphere are growing more tolerant of different languages

02/01/2019

Japan should look towards the success of Tencent Music in China as an example of how to ‘monetise fandom’ in the streaming world.

Japan may be the world’s second-largest recorded-music market, but in terms of music-streaming, it is still early days for a country where CD is still the prime format.

01/29/2019

2018 Streaming Price Bible! Per Stream Rates Drop as Streaming Volume Grows. YouTube’s Value Gap is Very Real.

01/23/2019

Guest column by Taishi Fukuyama on billboard: Entering the Artprocess Era: How Influence, Ownership & Creation Will Change With AI (Guest Column)

Art used to be done, finished and discrete. The artist stepped away and there was the final artwork. This finished product -- be it a painting, sculpture, book or sound recording -- could be bought and sold and, in more recent human history, reproduced for a mass market.