Plus de 225 M$ pour consolider, faire briller et propulser le milieu culturel 

Le 1er volet du plan, totalisant 123,3 M$, viendra stabiliser le milieu culturel québécois en offrant un filet de sécurité aux organismes fragilisés par la pandémie; le 2e volet du plan prévoit 79,5 M$ pour mettre nos artistes, nos artisans et nos entreprises culturelles sous le feu des projecteurs; le 3e volet du plan permettra aux créateurs et créatrices, ainsi qu'aux artistes et artisans, de se projeter dans l'avenir, de faire preuve d'audace et d'innover.

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Budget fédéral 2022-2023 : l’ADISQ déplore un manque de soutien face à une crise qui se prolonge

L’honorable Chrystia Freeland a déposé le budget 2022 qui prévoit 50 millions de dollars à partager entre Patrimoine canadien, le Conseil des arts du Canada et Téléfilm Canada. Bien que des détails demeurent à préciser, le milieu musical accueille cette annonce avec une vive déception. Pourtant, l’industrie de la musique et du spectacle demeure parmi les plus affectées par la pandémie et avait présenté des demandes structurantes pour lui permettre de s’attaquer à l’exigeante reconstruction de son secteur qui s’amorce et qui s’étendra sur plusieurs années.

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How much of Spotify's $7bn 2021 payout was for new artists?

The most relevant stat is for the artist category that Spotify calls ‘Breakthrough’: artists who had fewer than 1m streams before 2020, but who are now in the top 50,000 artists on the platform. Spotify said that 21,600 artists fell into this category – just over 43% of the top 50,000 – and that the average recording and publishing royalties generated on Spotify by their music in 2021 was $90k each. That means around $1.94bn of royalties – 27.8% of Spotify’s total payouts.

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Coincidence or theft? Rise of music streaming can make it hard to judge

In an age of YouTube and Spotify, how do we know if one artist heard another artist’s song, especially if they are relatively unknown, or if they both had the same idea?

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Synthèse de l'enquête Accros de la Musique 2022

La 12ème édition de l’enquête annuelle « Accros de la musique » a été réalisée en Janvier et Février 2022 avec la participation d’étudiants de l’Institut des Métiers de la Musique. Elle a pour objectif de mieux comprendre des consommateurs qui ne peuvent concevoir leur existence sans musique. Ce sont 215 personnes de ce type que nous avons interrogées.

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TikTok’s Fingerprints Were All Over The Grammys

TikTok is now a go-to platform for discovering new music, with songs both organically gaining popularity and becoming hits through influencer-driven marketing. The social media app—which is now the world’s most popular website—allows creators to attach snippets of songs to their videos, a feature that can make some tracks inescapable when turned into lip syncing or dance trends.

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Canadian songwriters made $67 on average from streaming last year. Would Bill C-11 change the game?

Bill C-11, which is now being debated, would make digital platforms including Spotify and YouTube promote Canadian music in the same way as traditional radio stations, which have to give Canadian music allotted airtime.
But because digital platforms and radio work differently – with platforms allowing people to select what they listen to and when – the bill is likely to give flexibility about how to promote Canadians’ work.

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Basic income scheme unveiled to support artists

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will give 2,000 eligible creatives selected at random €325 / £270 / $354 a week for three years.
Participants will be selected randomly, while maintaining geographical, gender and artform balance, and a control group of 1,000 eligible but unsuccessful applicants will inform the research. Basic income for the lucky 2,000 will be taxable but not means tested. There will be devil in the detail, including who is eligible.

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The Music Catalog Boom May Be Coming to an End

But this isn’t the early days of the music boom anymore when Merck Mercuriadis frustrated his peers by paying huge multiples. Assets that once traded at 10 or 12 times their NPS (or net publisher share) are already trading for 20 times, if not more. New players that have aggregated thousands of copyrights must now figure out what to do with them.

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The Weeknd-backed personalized song creation firm, Songfinch closes $5m seed round

In this round, Songfinch also adds to its list of investors, Craig Kallman (Atlantic Records CEO), Rob Price (School of Rock, CEO), Michael Keiser (Founder of Recycled Paper Greetings), Pat Vihtelic (Founder of HomeChef) and David Kalt (Founder of Reverb.com).

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Instagram upgrades its DM inbox with music sharing, statuses, polls, silent messages and more

Instagram is rolling out over a half dozen new messaging features, following promises late last year that its DM (direct message) inbox would get a significant upgrade in 2022. The changes include the ability to share music previews in DMs, the ability to send a message silently, the ability to see who’s online to chat with, the ability to reply to messages while you browse your feed and more.

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The Metaverse and NFT Boom Is About to Go Bust

The world is already getting bored of the apes.
12 months in, the new digital future hasn’t quite played out as planned. Since the end of January 2022, interest in both projects has rapidly declined, with all signs pointing to a crash. Worse, it could be the bursting of the digital-only bubble.

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