Sitemap - 2020 - MUSIC x CORONA (moved)

😷 Spotify's virtual events feature; Daily livestreams pay the bills; Viagogo takes out $330 million loan; Indie venues worry of having to sell; What's up with the VMAs?

😷 Techstars Music startup accelerator goes virtual; The future of techno tourism; France axes social distancing for small events; NY Philharmonic restarts in pickup trucks

😷 Bandsintown data on livestreaming; NTIA publishes return-to-live roadmap; Please stop partying; Going to an illegal rave brought 'a bit of normality' to my life; Government grants only go so far

😷 State of the stream; pop stars on mental health; quarantine sex jams; French government extends ban on major events; Trivium's Twitch effect; Catalog acquisitions weather the pandemic

😷 Splice and locked down musicians; Vinyl sales rock on; Major labels generate $1m p/h from streaming; Band shirts into face masks; Singing no riskier than talking; 13 dead in Peru disco stampede

😷 Can COVID-19 make us rethink live music?; Taylor Swift boosts record stores with signed CDs; Singing softly reduces spread risk, says study; Toronto venues get tax cuts

😷 Inside the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally; 10,000cap arena concert in Taiwan; Zoom-based opera for pre-schoolers; Is this the end of clubs?; Music-tech startups reshaping post-pandemic music industry

😷 Quarantine trends that are here to stay; How COVID-19 changed hiphop; Safety study into musical instruments; Virtual nightclub turned 40k people away; Contact tracing app for Berlin nightlife

😷 China partygoers at Wuhan water park; Impact of COVID-19 on Beyoncé's Black is King; Illegal rave organisers to be fined up to £10,000 in UK; Lawsuit filed against Viagogo over refunds

😷 Cardi B spent $100k on COVID-19 tests to film WAP; The terrible plight of music event staff; Sam Fender on playing the UK's newly opened socially distanced venue

😷 Digitizing Burning Man; Switzerland scraps event capacity limit from Oct 1; Crew Nation raises $15M for out-of-work technicians; The Weeknd's TikTok show reached 2M viewers

😷 Wuhan hosts music festival; WHO: Stadium events “unrealistic” in most countries in 2020; Former Beatport boss launches livestreaming guide OnNow·tv; 10,000 person rave in France briefly in lockdown

😷 The tech helping fans stay safe at shows; Indie music thriving in India; Inside America's first live awards show; Mörk Borg, the metal role-playing game rocking lockdown; The UK summer of crisis

😷 Verzuz Effect; Artists challenge Jeff Bezos on Twitch royalty practices; Singing together not safe; Indie record stores resilience; The good & bad with live music; The switch to quality livestreams

😷 Live Nation prepares to expand global footprint; Fractal Fantasy's digital club concept Virtua; Streaming festival to encourage US voter registration; Telematic music - streaming from 1998 until now

😷 Gig directors explain what it takes to put on ticketed livestreams; The new online rap communities; Munich clubs sue state government; Minecraft as a music platform

😷 Pricing livestreaming; Live Nation second quarter revenues drop 98%; Christian music tours' drive-in success; Wacken World Wide counts 11 million views; On Melissa Etheridge’s livestreaming succes

😷 Artists usually draw "0.5% to 2%" of their Instagram follower count to livestreams; Sony Music sees double digit revenue drop; Pictureplane says DJing secret rave was "not worth the risk"

😷 Audio quality & livestreaming; Driift aims to establish livestreaming for the future; UK live music ecosystem in the balance; Kabuki theater reopens; Music instrument market set for growth

😷 COVID-19 proves Universal's profitability; Changes to credit agreement give Live Nation breathing room; How Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' was filmed while social distancing; Opera goes on in Salzburg

😷 Major labels ask staff to work from home until 2021; Daniel Ek talks Covid-19, artist incomes; UK production pros launch working group; Launching a roadie support group in quarantine

😷 Spotify's Covid-19 quarter earnings; UK pilots goverment-sanctioned socially-distanced show; UK emergency arts fund explained; Mental health questions rise up (again)

😷 Tomorrowland paid artists at least €0.01 per stream; Why rappers are using the deluxe edition release model; Masked bands like Slipknot and GWAR talk Covid-19 masks; Spotify's party mode goes remote

😷 Chainsmokers drive-in concert controversy; How a 75-seat jazz club became a dominant livestreamer; French biz pushes for full capacity shows; Report reveals economic loss from festival cancellation

😷 Boxscore charts provide snapshot of industry in crisis; English music venues receive £2.25m in aid; Vertical concerts entertain fans in Ukraine; Salzburg holds music festival despite coronavirus

😷 COVID's marketing implications; How the Chinese music biz is innovating; Viagogo refusing refunds; What went wrong with Rave Family Block Fest?; D.Live drive-ins attract 100k fans

😷 Asia's first arena shows sell out rapidly; Irving Azoff & Michael Rapino talk COVID-19; Tomorrowland unveils virtual stages with over 280k virtual people each; Senators introduce Save Our Stages act

😷 Swizz Beatz & Timbaland talk streaming challenges; Indie album rollouts in 2020; Socially distanced luxury concerts; Virgin Fest sues WME over deposits; UK venues announce redundancies

😷 Instagram battle series 'Verzuz' partners with Apple Music; Las Vegas reopens; Music orgs ask congress for songwriter relief extension; Numerous UK venues close in 1 day; A virtual choir of 17k+

😷 Dance clubs & festivals to lose 75% of income in 2020; The rise of the digital avatar; Americans start listening to music 75 minutes later than before; Met Opera tries to monetize digital streams

😷 PRS warns of royalties hit to come; Canada music consumption up 5.7%; Covid-19 study to help performers back on stage; German promoters to get cut of livestream; Music streaming up 35%

😷 Festival sector losses estimated at $16,8bn; Blockfest announces second postponement; Mood Media, owner of Muzak, files for bankruptcy; Secondary ticketing execs talk Covid-19 effects

😷 That Minecraft music festival is off to a dismal start; How rap is profiting off hand sanitizer & masks; Mark Mulligan on recovery economics; Serbia's Exit Festival reduces capacity by 90%

😷 Streaming scams; Minecraft's biggest virtual music festival; Arabian Prince on music tech investing during pandemic; Charting livestream activity; Venues closed as cities go back into lockdown

😷 Music streaming and sales rebound; US lends millions to indie labels and bands; Mike Shinoda about making an album on Twitch; UK industry asks gov't for clarity on support scheme

😷 Forecasts for the recorded music industry are getting worse; BTS' touring alternative; Global Radio confirms downsizing is needed; NIVA fighting to save live music; NZ continues live music revival

😷 UK government announces $2bn funding package for the arts; Hackers target Israel Philharmonic Orchestra livestream; Mariachi under threat from COVID-19; Social-distanced arena planned in UK

😷 COVID-19 sparks streaming growth in Japan; Arrests over illegal raves in UK; UK live biz calls for VAT exemption, timelines, support package; Quadrupling reach through drive-in concerts

😷 New reality for concerts: VR; Future of music: monetized livestreams; Rise of virtual livestreaming 'tour'; Projected €4.5bn loss for French music industry; social distancing in the vinyl racks

😷 The shocking return of raves; Piano sales unaffected by pandemic; Livestreaming's good, bad, and ugly; Chris Janson concert organiser says precautions were made; Switzerland quarantines club-goers

😷 An unprecedented mid-year; BET Awards goes virtual; Streaming pay during a pandemic; A need for new ways to break artists during lockdown; Artists turn to ice cream deals and sponsored livestreams

🦠 New event formats emerge in Sweden; Choir performs maskless at Pence event; Tennessee concert causes outrage; Concertgoers seek clickrates for Ticketmaster's ToS; Music and the Facebook boycott

🦠 Why opening up gigs for people with antibodies is a bad idea; Investor John Acquaviva on music tech in the pandemic; Sonos lays off 12% of staff; Pandemic's impact on sync

🦠 Is livestreaming sustainable?; A look inside the first French arena show; Covid-19 impact on Britain's music industry; Austin musicians of color & the pandemic's outsize impact on their communities

🦠 Music tech investor David Dufresne about pandemic and recession; Pandemic sparks return to local line-ups; A "herd immunity" festival is happening; Minecraft-based music festival delayed

🦠 Live Nation: 'Artists will be paid the same'; Music streaming traffic rose 20% but growth has halved; Tokyo nightclubs & venues reopen; Paris partied; Green cultural recovery strategy

🦠 Fans find online alternative for LA's biggest K-Pop festival; Film scoring gears up as Hollywood reopens; Live Nation UK announces drive-in show series accommodating up to 2,100 people

🦠 The ethics of concerts during a pandemic; RIAA and NMPA set sights on Twitch; exploring subscription models for live music; Virtual 'Live From Out There' festival grosses $600k

🦠 US festivals sue health dept; A&R in the time of Coronavirus; Live Nation shifts risks to artists; Which EU countries are still backing live; Sweden rules vouchers not valid compensation

🦠 MusiCares relief fund's new boss talks challenges ahead; Retooling Bandsintown for a world without tours; World's nightclub capital faces existential crisis; L.A. underground rave causes concern

🦠 BTS gross $18m+ with biggest-ever paid live stream; Can New York’s arts scene evolve and survive?; Twitch take-down notices explained; Summer of raves in the UK

🦠 Closed music venues provide havens for protesters; Minecraft festival Electric Blockaloo's artist payments under the loop; Pollstar creates livestreaming charts; Primavera 2021 sees record sell-out

🦠 Coachella cancelled; Best music marketing campaigns during lockdown; US independent agencies form advocacy group NITO; Eventbrite sued over refunds policy

🦠 Roskilde Festival 2020 goes ‘DIY’; French PRO Sacem launches a royalties scheme for livestreams; UK orchestras may not survive coronavirus pandemic; Ibiza clubs remain closed

🦠 Twitch reports influx of copyright claims; YouTube reveals stats for tipping economy; 90% of US indie venues expected to close; ID&T swaps dance festivals for camping holidays; AEG lays off 15%

🦠 Japan's music industry looks to monetize livestreaming; UK musicians' fund runs out of cash; The science behind orchestras' comeback; Australia's AUD345m plan to rebuild live performance industry

🦠 Can lockdown save the download?; MMF UK launches relief fund for managers; Jordan's indie music scene under lockdown; Virgin Fest & WME argue over artist deposits

🦠 The pivot from free to paid streaming; Jazz Foundation of America launches relief fund; Dance music festivals create virtual worlds; More countries start allowing live events

🦠 Wuhan's punk scene; The global music industry will decline in 2020; Post-Covid-19 opportunities for the sync sector; Concerts returning & the case of classical music; Pride parties stay vigilant

🦠 Facebook launches live events app; New Zealand industry receives recovery package; Artists redirecting royalties to artist relief funds; US national TV advertising fell 27% in April

🦠 Black Out Tuesday: #TheShowMustBePaused

🦠 Is Exit Festival declaring the pandemic over?; future of virtual concerts in games; UK Music asks for extension of support measures; event producers pivot to venue disinfection

🦠 Instagram announces rev share with creators; Music streaming shows comeback according to Nielsen report; DICE share 20 livestreaming landscape lessons; Pearle* creates live music map of Europe

🦠 Coachella: postponed again?; Covid-19's economic effects analysed; Covid-19 protective concert suit; 'Plamping Hard': earning a buck online; Coronavirus is making record labels scrappier

🦠 Post-lockdown concerts in Spain; Chartmetric analyses live streaming impact on artists; The new normal is not looking great; Music & mobility after COVID-19

🦠 Fans want their money back; Making video clips in lockdown; Live performance producers are giving up on 2020; Summer festival tickets sell fast despite local-only lineups

🦠 Spotify employees to WFH until 2021; Europe's Exit Festival goes ahead; Ticketed livestreaming's moment; Coronagrifting & leveraging the crisis

🦠 Vinyl record industry squeezed; Goldman Sachs predicts live recovery by 2022; Virtual tipping in post-pandemic music biz; Bike-in concerts; Ticketed Minecraft festival announced

🦠 How the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting music royalties; Concerts to include temperature screening, contact tracing, social distancing; Musicians making it work during Covid-19

🦠 UK #SaveOurVenues campaign saves 140 venues, for now; Italy to bring back live music events; Spanish nightlife fights to save summer; Face masks as the ticket of the future?

🦠 Covid-19’s impact on China’s music industry; America's first socially distanced concert; 19% of UK musicians consider abandoning careers; The future of music streaming; Music industry helping out;

🦠 Live Nation furloughs 20% of staff; artists turn to brands for livestream sponsorship; MusicCanada's survey into reopening live music; some Berlin clubs reopen with no-dancing rule (as beer gardens)

🦠 Sony warns of COVID-19 hit; PRS expects decline in payouts for 2020; South Korean venues remain open despite spike; Mexican workers return to venues for paid livestreams; Live Nation to raise $800m

🦠 #BetterMusicCities; Will music survive Brexit and Covid-19; Solo for Flute, Airport Terminal and One Listener; Audio streaming diverts to video; More than a game,Minecraft Festival is a blockbuster

🦠 Scooter Braun on post-corona future; Artists about Spotify's tip jar feature; New outbreak in South Korea with club at epicentre; Opera to relaunch in Italy, in open air

🦠 Rescheduled Primavera Sound 2020 cancelled; Could COVID-19 reshape music streaming services’ share of ear?; iHeartMedia & Tencent earnings; Industry reacts to UK government plan on easing lockdown

🦠 First US drive-in tour announced; Live Nation's Rapino about the future of the concert business; Record labels designing marketing strategies from scratch; Seoul closes nightclubs after infections

🦠 Post-lockdown clubbing in China; Pay-per-view tours, crowdless concerts, virtual merch; Initiative to 'Reopen Every Venue Safely' launches in US; African artists take on COVID-19

🦠 Music venues open in US states; concert organisers renegotiate artist contracts; UK festivals talk social distancing; the 1918 pandemic's influence on music

🦠 Ireland to open up concerts, festivals in August; virtual concerts beyond Fortnite; fifth of artists fear COVID-19 will end career; SoundCloud launches Twitch channel; RIP Dave Greenfield

🦠 Fans paid artists $7.1 million on Bandcamp last Friday; state of livestreaming discovery; artists are organizing a musicians' union; music piracy is going old school; Indian benefit raises $7m

🦠 Live music returns to Spain in May; throwing a festival in Minecraft; drive-in concerts; MusiCares temporarily suspends new aid applications; some record deals being fast-tracked

🦠 Daniel Ek discusses COVID-19's impact on Spotify; IMPALA's post-corona recovery plan; planning virtual world tours in lockdown; can venues disinfect concertgoers?

🦠 Spotify's Russia, South Korea launches delayed; merch companies up against wall; only 27% of Americans would go to concerts pre-vaccine; what are wedding singers up to now?

🦠 Facebook to let pages charge for livestreams; UK's PPL to make advance payment; Covid-19 to hit music app revenues; Insane Clown Posse's pandemic leadership

🦠 Music gear sales soaring; royalty loan companies filling financial gaps; 1918 pandemic similarities; concerts from cars

🦠 COVID-19's effect on genre popularity; 12.3m fans gather for Travis Scott's first Fortnite concert; "Spotify's 'tip jar' slap in the face for musicians"; Sony / ATV donates $500k to songwriters

🦠 Spotify launches artist donation tool; Patreon lays off 13% of staff; iconic video games as virtual stages; is anyone getting paid for DJ livestreams?; how A&R is adapting to COVID-19

🦠 Copyright claims are ruining livestreams; EU says festivals, concerts last to reopen; 5 major music-tech pivots; is the crisis putting more power in the hands of indie artists?

🦠 Bandcamp goes for round 2; Mixcloud announces video livestreaming platform; Travis Scott turns to Fortnite; UMG braces for physical, ad streaming downturn; turning merch into masks

🦠 Livestreaming after the crisis; One World raises $127.9M; the need for streaming services to adapt; UK nightlife names & shames insurers; scoring a no. 1 album in locked down Italy

🦠 Distributors report more music released; Live events companies as pandemic responders; Why Instagram is hip-hop’s quarantine destination; Essential music startups for quarantine

🦠 Advertising slump hits YouTube revenues; European music tech orgs launch #NextStageChallenge hackathon & accelerator; inside Sweden's ongoing nightlife; A2IM, RoadNation start concert series

🦠 Will festivals return before autumn 2021?; iHeartMedia cuts costs by $250m; Nashville's fragile studio business; consumers willing to pay more for streaming during pandemic

🦠 What Apple Music's fund means for indies; the musicians being listened to more (& less) during lockdown; Live Nation slashes costs by $500m; the power of artist archives; TikTok commits $375m

🦠 Instagram planning to monetise livestreams?; US Live Events Coalition requests $800bn bailout; IMPALA launches mapping tool for knowledge exchange; ins & outs of legal implications of livestreaming

Eventbrite cuts 45% of staff; Resident Advisor announces Streamland hub; Virgin EMI on their three-day livestream festival; rocky post-COVID-19 recovery

🦠 Apple Music's $50m advance fund; livestream pioneer chats 'hybrid touring'; StubHub sued over coronavirus refunds; Spain's album charts paused; Charli XCX making quarantine album

🦠 Erykah Badu's blueprint for online concerts; immediate disruption in ASCAP member payments; AIM launches crisis fund; why Warner is still releasing big albums

🦠 SoundCloud enables direct fan support; scientists turn coronavirus structure into music; metal stars teach music to kids; legal guide to livestreaming; SOCAN launches $2M fund

🦠 Startups battered; nightlife teams up with landlords; how a digital festival made $100k; Sony launches $100M fund; publicists on why the crisis is making their jobs hard

🦠 iHeartMedia furloughs staff, CEO gives up salary; Spanish labels raise funds for hospitals; Eurovision announces non-competitive show; Encore starts offering commissioned musical video performances

🦠 K-Pop moves forward; record companies not safe from economic fallout; Live Nation launches $10M fund; livestreaming into the abyss; queer nightlife moves online; Spotify listening trends in lockdown

🦠 Should artists be delaying albums?; radio DJs switch to home-broadcasting; disaster after choir continues rehearsing; Bobi Wine criticizes African leaders; Universal details plans to support artists

🦠 Why is music streaming down?; UK artists request recoupment holiday from labels; Indian music industry hit hard; WMG joins MusiCares relief fund; why ticket companies won't survive

🦠 StubHub layoffs; Radio booms, streaming stalls; PRS for Music, Help Musicians UK launch relief funds; BMG, CD Baby, Absolute Label Services weigh in on crisis; Germany's €50B package for culture

🦠 Spotify to let artists add fundraiser links; is the scene worth saving?; VR concerts are coming; Mixcloud, Songkick, Sofar Sounds step up; Impala's 10-point recommendations

🦠 Remote work transforming music biz?; COVID-19 claims Manu Dibango, Mike Longo; Streaming giants donate to MusiCares fund; Iran and Italy's music scenes struggle

🦠 Troy Carter starts daily panel discussions; Bandcamp sales were 15x usual amount on Friday; can livestreaming really help?; Brian May teaches Bohemian Rhapsody solo; COVID-19 and media industries

🦠 Netflix, GEMA set up relief funds; UK musicians lose £13.9m so far; live agency Paradigm lays off staff; COLORS launches 30 day YouTube stream; Soundcloud partners with Twitch

🦠 Today: Bandcamp's COVID-19 fundraiser; Coronavirus hurting music streaming?; Robbie Williams goes karaoke; practice of jazz being devastated; Resident Advisor's #SaveOurScene initiative

🦠 Korean musical theatre triumphs; Charli XCX's quarantine diary; Patreon launches support fund; venues experiment with chequerboard seating; can we Save the Summer?

🦠 Chinese band STOLEN reflects on quarantine; Amazon halts orders of CD and vinyl; Bandcamp to waive rev share; relief funds being formed across US; Berlin clubs band together to livestream events

🦠 A2IM, Sound Royalties exploring relief; classical music to stream at home; music's behind-the-scenes workforce; UK Music's CEO calls for "urgent clarity"; Apple, Hulu employees test positive

🦠 UMG Chief Lucian Grainge Hospitalized; Moog & Korg make their apps free; lockdowns and entry bans; Coronavirus as a music business turning point

🦠 Virtual music biz event calendar; UK Music calls for compensation fund; China's club scene learns to livestream; Universal Music closes LA office

🦠 Concert giants form taskforce; Italian music company POV; Glastonbury; Recession; Wash Your Lyrics

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