Blockchain

TikTok has taken a step towards uncovering what that future might actually look like for everyday artists.

Serenade founder Max Shand described the platform's model as being "punk rock ethics built into a product".

The blockchain streaming service will allow artists to upload their tracks to the TikTok Sounds library for use in videos across the platform.

BlockPlay will allow artists to sell their music as NFTs while retaining all copyrights and commercial control over their intellectual property.

Alison Wonderland's NFT project has already generated over $2 million in sales.

The NFT's owner will also get lifetime access to Melodie and Viddyoze's platforms.

The NFT live concert series will spotlight 10 emerging Australian acts.

Metadata is the most uncool, complicated, laborious necessity in music right now. Without the correct metadata to tell collecting societies which songwriters are owed what, artists can miss out on…

Cohen's EMC keynote looked into the future at the problems facing musicians and labels .

Disruptive technologies arrive and affect the music business almost daily. Evaluating, debating, and mapping out a strategy for how to deal with them is essential in the new and connected music…