Random music news for Thursday, November 20, 2024
Before you make a New Year’s resolution to set a Guinness record, you’d better review this article about things they no longer monitor. Meanwhile, I’ve continued to monitor music news for November 20, 2024.
- Ed Sheeran’s copyright battle over “Thinking Out Loud” just won’t go away.
- A constant problem: How fake music targets real artists on Spotify.
- YouTube is now a bigger distributor of podcasts than Spotify or Apple.
- A report says that TikTok parent company is worth at least US$300 billion.
- Katy Perry is doing a nice thing for small venues in the UK.
- Liam Gallagher is talking about a new Oasis album again.
- Another Offspring song–their second–has reached a billion streams on Spotify. Care to guess which one?
- Will we soon be able to buy concert tickets from Ticketmaster via Alexa? It looks like it.
- Amazon Music is now bundling audiobooks from Audible, but they’re doing it a bit better than Spotify.
- Ever wonder how law enforcement can unlock a secure phone? Check this out.
- Morrissey is whinging again.
- Ya think, Mark?
- This might help explain the results of the US presidential election. Concerning, no?
- Will the US Department of Justice force Google to sell Chrome? Maybe.
BONUS: If you didn’t think emo was back, this should convince you. My Chemical Romance’s stadium tour is already sold out.
