Music teaching platform Yousician started a collaboration with Billie Eilish below which all 10 songs from Eilish's latest album, Hit with hard and soft, will appear on the platform. Yousician users can now learn Eilish's new songs on guitar, bass, ukelele, piano and vocals, in addition to more than 20 additional Eilish songs already available on the platform. Yousician provides users with lyrics, chords, step-by-step tutorials and personalized real-time feedback. This marks Yousician's first deal with a major artist since his collaboration with Metallica in 2022.
Warner Music Group's ODA signed a worldwide distribution deal with 11:11 mediathe media and consumer lifestyle company founded by Paris Hilton, which recently announced the release of its sophomore album on September 6; INFINITY IMAGE. “ADA allows me to share my music with the world while retaining ownership of it – something that is so important to me as an artist and entrepreneur,” Hilton said in a statement.
Warner Music Group acquired a minority stake in the independent Croatian music label Bear dance music. As part of the deal, Dancing Bear artists will be able to use the services offered by ADA, Warner Music's global distribution and label services arm, with the opportunity to move to the top and become part of Warner Music's global roster . The agreement also includes a renewal of the companies' licensing agreement covering Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and North Macedonia. Dancing Bear has acted as Warner Music's licensee in Croatia since 1996, while its sister company, Dancing Bear Publishing, acts as Warner Chappell Music's local representative. Dancing Bear's roster includes Dalmatino, Bruno Pietri and Pete Spruce.
The BBC invested £500,000 Sum up, a live streaming platform that allows fans to experience live broadcasts in an immersive virtual space. The announcement follows BBC Radio 1 New music show with Jack Saunders hosting a series of Condense live streams featuring artists such as Gardna, Charlotte Plank and Sam Tompkins. Joe Sherlock, group rights and commercial director at the BBC, will serve as Condense's contact at the broadcaster. will help shape the development of the partnership as an observer on the Condense board. “By working together in this way, we can quickly explore new ways to engage younger audiences who don't regularly come to the BBC,” said the BBC's head of operations. Jeremy Walker in a blog post.
Juan Munozits independent label Night Stone Records signed a worldwide distribution deal with PERIVOLI. Night Stone's roster includes B. Howard, Otti, RMB Justize, PRIVATEHOUR, Kris Hollis, DJ So Cole and Million$. All will have access to The Orchard's suite of services, including global distribution, DSP and digital partner promotion, marketing, syndication licensing, video services, data analytics, advertising and radio promotion. Night Stone also announced the launch of Night Stone Games, an independent game studio that he will lead Ken Foxco-founder of Warner Brothers Games San Francisco;
It was created by humanswhich aims to create a marketplace where creators can license their intellectual property directly to AI companies, has raised a $5 million funding round led by Craft Ventures and Floodgatewith participation from START-UP Fund, Slow Ventures, Gary Tan and Walter Isaacson.
Business to Business Distributor owned downtown FUGA formed a partnership with two labels: independent label based in Paris Disc manufacturers and Potion Records, founded by DJ/producer The Magician. Record Makers, whose roster includes Sébastien Tellier, Kavinsky and Dita Von Teese, has inked a global distribution and marketing deal with Downtown that will include expanded services across Downtown's marketing strategy and marketing account offering, as well as sync . Potion Records will utilize FUGA's marketing strategy and digital account offering along with syndication and licensing services. Potion's roster includes The Ashton Shuffle, Soda State and Aevion.
Sony Music Entertainment India and Maddock Films collaborated to produce music projects that will span both film soundtracks and independent pop projects with Indian talent. The deal starts with soundtracks for upcoming movies Chava Starring Vicky Kaushal and Rashmika Mandanna with music by AR Rahman, Dealer with Ibrahim Ali Khan and Ikkis starring Agastya Nanda with music by Sachin-Jigar. The soundtracks for Louka Tsoupi 2, Sector 36 starring Vikrant Massey, Sarvagun Saban starring Vaani Kapoor and Rumi And Sarafat starring Radhika Madan also come under the collaboration.
Leading Bulgarian music event organizer Festival team signed preliminary contract to acquire Eastern European promoters, talent buyers and artist agency Charmenko, which includes Charm Music and Charmworks. With the acquisition, Fest Team hopes to expand its regional presence and operations across Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, the Baltic regions and more. The acquisition is expected to be finalized later this summer.
