Random music news for Monday, March 4, 2024
How’s this for a piece of TV memorabilia: The restaurant booth from the final scene of The Sopranos is up for auction on eBay. And how’s this for music news for March 4, 2024?
- U2 wrapped up their run of 40 dates at The Sphere on Saturday. Larry Mullen Jr. was there.
- How useful are the various services when it comes to finding new artists? Here’s a study.
- Rhianna was paid US$5 million to perform at a pre-wedding party in India. She took a lot of luggage.
- And fans say that she pretty much phoned it in.
- Apple Music has a new personal “Heavy Rotation” mix feature.
- Meanwhile, there’s something new called “Spotify Sound Psychic.” Here’s how it works.
- Imagine Dragons now have ten songs with more than one billion Spotify streams.
- Interesting: Three radio vets look at the state of Canadian radio.
- There is real concern that the British live music scene is on the verge of collapse.
- This kid is 11. ELEVEN!
- A new study find that 38% of songs on TikTok are “modified.” That means they’re pitch- and speed-altered. Why is that a big deal? Because this technique is often used to obscure the real song so royalties can be diverted to somone else.
- A legitimate question: Could Swifties or Trekkies decide the US president election?
- Why is Taylor Swift only playing Singapore when it comes to all of southeast Asia? Oh.
- No surprise: Taylor Swift is the highest-grossing female touring artist of all time. But who are her closest competitor? Here you go.
- If it weren’t for concert films by Taylor Swift and Beyonce, AMC Theatres would have struggled. (AMC is also tweaking the way we watch movies.)]
- Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead has announced an eight-hour organ composition. Yes, eight hours. It’s called “268 Hours of Reverb.”
- When Elton John and Bernie Taupin are awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize, one of the performers honouring at the ceremony will be…Metallica.
BONUS: Is this real? You never know these days.
