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Music Hits Turned into Multi-Billion-Dollar Investment Assets

Christiane Tager, 14/10 19:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The music industry is increasingly merging with finance as artists and investors tap into the lucrative market of securitized music catalogs. Following David Bowie’s groundbreaking “Bowie Bonds” in 1997, which allowed him to raise $55 million by turning his song royalties into tradable bonds, this market has grown exponentially. In 2025, it ...

Spotify Leads Industry Effort to Label AI Involvement in Music Creation

This is Beirut, 25/09 17:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Spotify on Thursday unveiled several measures to encourage artists and publishers to be more transparent about their use of artificial intelligence, as well as to limit certain abuses. The Swedish platform is recommending that musicians and producers comply with a new standard developed by the Digital Data Exchange (DDEX), a consortium of leading ...

AI Bands Signal New Era for Music Business

This is Beirut, 29/07 11:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A rising tide of artificial intelligence (AI) bands is ushering in a new era where work will be scarcer for musicians. Whether it's Velvet Sundown's 1970s-style rock or country music projects Aventhis and The Devil Inside, bands whose members are pure AI creations are seeing more than a million plays on streaming giant Spotify. No major streaming ...

AI-Generated Rock Band With Over 1 Million Spotify Fans Admits Truth

This is Beirut, 09/07 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The Velvet Sundown, a fast-rising rock band that gained over 1.1 million followers on Spotify in just a few weeks, has admitted it was generated using artificial intelligence. The revelation confirms growing suspicions surrounding the band’s meteoric rise and retro aesthetic. In an updated bio on Spotify viewed by AFP, the group confesses to ...

AI Is Not a Threat, It's The Future of Music, Says Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

This is Beirut, 28/05 18:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Artificial intelligence will encourage more people to create music in the future and is not a threat to the industry, the co-founder and CEO of streaming giant Spotify said. Artists using machine-learning tools to produce music have given rise to concerns about whether AI-generated music  - even entirely fake artists - could one day replace ...

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