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4 Ways Brands Are Tapping Into the Booming Concert and Festival LandscapeConcerts and festivals are finally getting back to pre-pandemic levels. According to Live Nation’s Q1 earnings statements, the company sold more than 11 million tickets, driving over $115.7 million in brand sponsorship deals. (AdWeek)
NIVA Reveals The Featured Panels For The First-Ever NIVA Conference The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) shared a preview of the featured panels for the inaugural edition of their industry conference which will take place in Cleveland in July. (Celebrity Access)
What Charli XCX’s Roblox Concert Reveals About the Future of the Music IndustryTo understand why Charli XCX agreed to perform in this setting in the first place, consider this: Half of America’s children play Roblox, making it one of contemporary society’s most formidable youth culture engines. (Pitchfork)
The Notorious B.I.G. NFT Collection Revealed, Includes Audio of Freestyle Recorded at Age 17The crypto platform OneOf has unveiled a new NFT partnership with the Notorious B.I.G’s Christopher Wallace Estate, Sky’s the Limit: The Notorious B.I.G. Collection, after teasing the team-up back in March. (Complex)
Chris Webber Appointed To Lead New York's $200M Cannabis Social Equity FundIt’s no secret that Chris Webber has been active in the cannabis industry. So, it comes as no surprise that the former NBA star has been appointed to lead a cannabis social equity fund. (Afro Tech)
Snoop Dogg and Eminem’s Bored Ape Music Video Is Here To Try And Sell Us On TokensThe last couple of weeks have had a lot of bad news for some in the “web3” space, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at announcements in and around the recently-ended NFT.NYC and ApeFest 2022 events. (The Verge)
Web3 Music Needs Gatekeeping. Here's Why.Basically anyone can mint a music NFT, just like anyone can upload a song to YouTube or SoundCloud or have one distributed to Spotify. Are most people just going to listen to all music NFTs on the blockchain hoping to find a good one? (Music X)
33 Companies To Watch If You’re Interested In Music And The MetaversePartnerships between the music and games industries go back decades, but in 2022 there’s a lot of talk about music and ‘the metaverse’ – a catch-all term that includes games, virtual worlds and augmented reality. (Musically)
Post-Pandemic Festival Report 2022After two years of uncertainty, the 2022 festival season is in full swing. In the post-pandemic festival report, the music data analytics platform Viberate points out the most-booked artists, the top-ranked festivals, the trends, and the economic gain for 2022. (Viberate)
RIP Lead Singles: Why Hip-Hop Titans Are Dropping Full Albums All at Onceuture’s “Wait For U” has quickly become one of the year’s biggest hits, as the Drake– and Tems-featuring R&B track logs another frame in this week’s Hot 100 top five. (Billboard)
Jason Derulo Slides into the Metaverse with TerraZero Technologies, Inc.TerraZero Technologies Inc. ("TerraZero" or the "Company"), a Metaverse technologies firm and interactive experience development studio, has partnered with Atlantic Records and Jason Derulo for a new kind of immersive activation in the Decentraland Metaverse. (Digital Music News)
The Backstreet Boys’ WeChat Concert Attracted 44.2 Million Viewers, Organizers Say — Now the Group Is Planning a Chinese TourLast week, The Backstreet Boys partnered with Tencent’s WeChat to deliver a livestream show to fans in China. Now, organizers have revealed that the “performance of a lifetime” attracted nearly 45 million watchers. (Digital Music News)
BYTES
After a massive week inside the music industry, Dan Runcie had to bring Wall Street Journal music and entertainment reporter Neil Shah onto Trapital for an emergence podcast on Drake’s surprise “Honestly, Nevermind” album drop and Beyonce’s own announcement for her first album in six years, “Resistance.”
Whether you’re a music artist, a traditional artist or painter, there’s a lot of advantages in distributing your art or music on the #blockchain. In episode 10 of #MetaMoney host Stockz is highlighting some of these benefits.
For people who love discovering new sounds, there’s an intriguing new site that collects soundscapes from around the world.
Check out our carefully curated summer playlist for every bar-be-que, beach day, and happy hour of Summer 2022. Enjoy those long summer nights with Jesse K’s “Songs of the Summer.”
This week's newsletter was carefully curated by the Nue Agency staff and our editor Rachel Meisner. If you think we missed something this week or have any suggestions/comments for next week's newsletter, let us know!