SongBits

Thrilled to partner with the legendary @MarkusSchulz on his latest release, "Only The Dark Knows" from In Search Of Sunrise 21! 🎶🌅 This marks a groundbreaking moment as fans can now own a piece of this iconic track through SongBits.com Here's to revolutionizing music ownership and deepening the connection between artists and their supporters. #SongBits #MarkusSchulz

A fantastic Substack on the death of Spotify — exactly as Jimmy Iovine predicted years ago. Spotify’s model has been absolutely brutal for the “middle-class” bands that used to make a real living. Now we’re seeing these artists push back by building private “walled gardens” for their fans — direct relationships, no platform middleman. As AI keeps automating and commoditizing more industries, you might expect this same dynamic to play out everywhere in the economy. Creators will go direct. Platforms that treated them as commodities will get left behind. joelgouveia.substack.com/p/the-death-of…

To the upcoming artists who see this 🚨 Streams don’t pay bills; fans who believe in you do. Build them first.

@Cooopahtroopa Keep building

I feel like now more than ever I really understand why there's so much hatred towards NFTs and coins in the world From an outside POV it looks like a short cut, cheat code or bypassing years of grinding to reach a baseline level of monetary or social success Its easy to understand why it all feels "made up" and to completely dismiss the entire sector as being smoke and mirrors The reality is crypto still hasn't proved it serves a legitimate purpose or value beyond stronger financial rails and that's a tough pill to swallow for someone who's spent their entire career onchain Good motivation to change this in the years to come!

We’ve been saying this for a while! There is unmet demand for direct-to-fan patronage models with exclusive access

LaRussell just sold an album for $18k. Someone else paid $11k. Others paid $10k. (Nope, not an NFT!) It’s a pay-what-you want campaign. You can only hear the record by contributing at least $1, but hundreds of fans have paid $100 or more. LaRussell has already made more in one month than he’d get from 100 million streams on Spotify. And it’s not even available on streaming yet. We’ve been saying this for a while! There is unmet demand for direct-to-fan patronage models with exclusive access and scarcity.

🎵 We're excited to announce: Unchained Licensing is LIVE. Our whitelabel licensing infrastructure is now powering @UnchainedMusic's new platform, built on @campnetworkxyz's Origin. Verifiable provenance. Transparent rights. One unified system. licensing.unchainedmusic.io 🧵👇

Camp is partnering with Unchained Music, alongside @NoiseEcosystem, to power Unchained Licensing using Origin. Unchained is using Camp’s infrastructure to track music rights, licenses, and derivatives in one system - from release through reuse. Music distribution and licensing now run on modern infrastructure designed for the AI economy. ↴

. @erinlecount has released her new single 'I BELIEVE' today, along with a live perfomance of the song from her sold out show at London's KOKO last month. Listen to the song and watch the live video below🪽 youtu.be/GCoQnDlIlt8?si…

the year of the stack

@ThatEricAlper God only knows what i'd be without you

⭐️ BEST ALBUM OF 2025 ⭐️ 1. @jim_legxacy, ‘black british music’ 🏆 Full List 📲 bit.ly/4rWQG11

Ownership or nothing

@kkyurosene Black British Music

i need to diversify my music taste everyone give me a non-kpop album rn

TL;DR Warner x Suno = peace treaty + new AI platform dropping 2026 Artists can opt in & get paid 100M+ Suno users about to get a massive upgrade Did the future of music just went from dystopian to “actually kinda fire” 🔥? Or more of the industry really ignoring the artist? Who’s agrees? 🎤 5/5

This is the 2nd major label flip in a week (UMG did the same with Udio). Sony still holding out. The era of suing AI music companies is over. The era of licensing your catalog to them just started. 4/5

🚨 BIG NEWS: Warner Music just settled its AI lawsuit with Suno… and they’re now launching a joint venture together 🤝 From enemies to partners in 24 hours. The music industry just flipped the script. 1/5

OPERATOR is our first application for Apple Vision Pro that turns the process of music production into a spatial modular experience. Make spatial sound sculptures with intuitive interactions everywhere. Read more on our website and explore design research behind the software — the link is in the reply.

This ruling is one of the first in Europe to confirm that generative-AI companies must obtain licences when training on or reproducing copyrighted works—music included. It strengthens creators’ rights and may reshape how AI datasets are built and how models operate across the EU.

The court rejected OpenAI’s arguments that text-and-data-mining exceptions applied, stating that ChatGPT’s ability to output lyrics means the underlying works were copied and made available without permission. Full story: musicbusinessworldwide.com/gema-wins-land…

🚨 Major AI & copyright news: Germany’s music rights society GEMA has won a landmark ruling against OpenAI. A German court found that ChatGPT unlawfully reproduced copyrighted song lyrics from GEMA’s repertoire without a licence.