June 9, 2017

The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, June 9

The revitalization of the music business via streaming services continued to make the news this week, with Taylor Swift’s return to the market and discussion on the topic at MIDEM. Artists in this week’s stories include Bob Dylan, UGK, Bryson Tiller and Cidney Bullens. The Daily Chord aggregates the best stories each weekday to be your handy briefing. Subscribe today and get the stories in your inbox.

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Monday, June 5

• One Manchester benefit raises $3 million, draws massive audience
  Story from NPR
• Concord Bicycle acquires Imagem, creating one of the world’s largest music companies
  Post from Variety
• Germany’s Rock Am Ring festival reopens one day after bomb scare
  Post from Billboard
• Nigeria’s Afrobeats music scene is booming, but profits go to pirates
  Story from NY Times
• Forty years gone: I was 12 when a Led Zeppelin concert turned into a riot
  Post from Ars Technica
• How Gregg Allman and Cher stunned Canisius High ‘assembly’ in 1976
  Post from Buffalo News

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Tuesday, June 6

• In creating a haven for artists, Ghost Ship operators built a death trap, prosecutors allege
  Post from LA Times
• Blockchain could help musicians make money again
  Post from Harvard Business Review
• Mayday – This band can sell out ten shows in one city
  Post from CNN
• Bryson Tiller earns his first no. 1 album with ‘True To Self’
  Post from NY Times
• Go-go music wants to go mainstream. Can it?
  Post from PBS Newshour
• Bob Dylan – Nobel lecture
  Post from Nobel Prize

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Wednesday, June 7

• MIDEM Day 1: Streaming’s evolution, voice control, hi-res audio and more
  Post from Hypebot
• Apple is pitching the HomePod as a super-high-quality speaker. That’s going to be a tough sell
  Post from Recode
• Trans singer-songwriter Cidney Bullens brings his amazing life story to the stage
  Post from LA Weekly
• Stem raises $8 million to get music artists paid more seamlessly
  Post from TechCrunch
• Meet Shawn Everett, indie rock’s new go-to sound engineer
  Profile from Pitchfork
• Choose love: 10 years of ‘Int’l Players Anthem’
  Story from MTV News

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Thursday, June 8

• Inside the industry’s long, slow embrace of streaming music
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Muslim artists band together to make music, break barriers
  Post from 9News
• Why pop-punk is country music’s next frontier
  Post from Pitchfork
• Def Jam’s Steve Bartels talks A&R, artistry and the ultimate 80’s DJ tracks in Midem
  Post from Billboard
• You say you want a sexual revolution: Why 1967 is the year pop came out
  Post from The Guardian
• The 50 best albums of 2017 so far
  Post from Stereogum

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Friday, June 9

• Taylor Swift returns her music catalog to streaming services
  Post from NY Times
• SiriusXM sets $480 million investment in Pandora
  Post from Variety
• What does the future hold for MIDEM?
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• Atlanta gone viral: How rap’s premier city used memes to crack the pop charts
  Post from Fact Mag
• Tripping Daisy gets another day in the sun
  Story from Houston Chronicle
• The schoolgirl thrash metal band smashing stereotypes in Indonesia
  Post from The Guardian

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