This week, the Daily Chord shared stories about festival bubbles, biometric ticketing, dominant streaming, and yet another shady, canceled event. Keep current on what’s new and what’s important in music news with our updates each weekday. Subscribe to the email update and the headlines will come to you.
Monday, July 9
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Rap is leading the music industry’s resurgence
Post from Rolling Stone -
Avett Brothers cancel show after man with gun enters venue
Post from Pitchfork -
Has the festival bubble popped?
Post from Pollstar -
Billboard’s charts used to be our barometer for music success. Are they meaningless in the streaming age?
Analysis from Washington Post -
China’s largest music streaming is planning a US IPO
Post from TechCrunch -
Drake’s ‘Scorpion’ pulls in over 1 billion streams in its first week
Post from The Verge
Tuesday, July 10
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Biometric venue ticketing firm gets $1.5M in seed funding
Post from Find Biometrics -
With ‘Beast Mode 2,’ Future reminds us how goddamn good he is
Essay from Noisey -
5 under-the-radar rappers from Memphis you should know about
List from Fader -
The best metal albums of 2018 (so far)
List from Pitchfork -
Can Kobalt’s AWAL rewrite the rules of A&R?
Post from Music Business Worldwide -
Buddy Holly movie ‘Clear Lake’ in development
Item from Variety
Wednesday, July 11
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XO Festival, a new music event in the East Bay, draws controversy before it begins
Post from SF Chronicle -
How music fans built the internet
Book excerpt from Wired -
How one tweet about Nicki MInaj spiraled into internet chaos
Post from NY Times -
Why Atomic Kitten and Earth, Wind & Fire became England’s World Cup chants
Post from The Guardian -
Dave Grohl picked the worst time to throw a rock festival – But that’s exactly what makes Cal Jam great
Post from Uproxx -
50 greatest Latin pop songs
List from Rolling Stone
Thursday, July 12
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Pop super-manager Scooter Braun: ‘I was not going to let Justin Bieber die’
Interview from The Guardian -
How the ticketing world is taking on scalpers and bots
Post from CNET -
Top executive leaves Billboard amid examination of coverage
Post from NY Times -
Streaming is now 75% of US music consumption
Item from Hypebot -
Boots Riley’s radical vision
Interview from Fader -
XO music fest, featuring T.I. and Ludacris, canceled
Item from Variety
Friday, July 13
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Music analytics in 2018: Data will tell you what’s hot, but not what is good
Post from Music Ally -
‘We grew up breathing music’: How Puerto Rico became a pop superpower
Story from The Guardian -
‘I find acts that play to nobody… and I convince people to book them’
Interview with Tom Windish from Music Business Worldwide -
Childish Gambino and the search for the summer anthem
Post from Wired -
Sennheiser’s 3D audio headphones are amazing, for the few who want them
Review from The Verge -
Wollongong band Ruby Tuesdays in stoush with US restaurant giant over use of name
Post from ABC News
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