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  MAXIMILIEN MATHEVON Album “Near You” A Valentine Day message… Near You tells the beginnings of a love story: the first date, the first weekends, the first holidays, all the excitement and the happiness of being with the loved one. Near You on Spotify   For Near You, I sought an atmosphere of serenity, fulfillment and happiness, using orchestral sounds, the softness of the flutes, the nobility of the horns, the scintillation of the chromatic percussions, the sensuality of the cello and the voices. The last track (“The Walk Of The Little Clown Chicken”), a nod to the loved one, uses baby piano and takes the form of a “walk” inspired by Henry Mancini. Near You on Apple Music Near You on Soundcloud

  BENDING REALITY By Maximilien Mathevon Reality and Questions without answer… Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Bending Reality talks about the perception of reality, the faculty to interpret and manipulate this reality, to transform and sublimate it. What is true, what is wrong, what are the truths that exist behind appearances and how do they parasitize them?  Bending Reality on Spotify I wanted to create a constantly evolving sound universe, invaded by musical interferences which distort the appearances of the music. I have also used unusual rhythms on some tracks (7/4) to create a sense of shift and that something is not working in the usual way. This album is a constantly changing canvas, nourished by sounds and rhythms which add up, add to each other and evolve. Bending Reality on Apple Music -         01 – Point of View -         02 – Bending Reality -       ...

  TikTok is launching TikTok Radio, a full-time   SiriusXM   music channel going live this summer. The station will be available in vehicles and as a streaming channel on the SiriusXM App, desktop, and all connected devices. TikTok Radio will be presented by TikTok creators, tastemakers, and DJs, including influencers like Bella Poarch, Christian Shelton and Nick Tangorra. The station will be part of a new TikTok collaboration with SiriusXM and its subsidiary, Pandora, to jointly promote emerging talent. TikTok Radio is pitched as a radio version of TikTok’s For You page – a discovery tool for trending videos. The platform will also feature a weekly music countdown dedicated to TikTok’s trending tracks. In addition, Pandora is launching a TikTok Tastemakers series – a selection of exclusively hosted playlists featuring TikTok creators who will take listeners through their favorite songs with additional commentary. The TikTok Tastemakers series will allow TikTok influencer...

  The world’s biggest music publishing company is no longer called Sony/ATV. It’s now Sony Music Publishing. The re-brand of the US-headquartered pub co sees the Sony Music Publishing name return for the first time in over two decades, complete with a new logo. The move marks 25 years since Sony/ATV was first established in 1995 through a joint venture with Michael Jackson. That merger brought together the original Sony Music Publishing with Jackson’s ATV Music, which the late artist acquired in an astonishingly smart buy for just $47.5m in 1985. (ATV owned the Northern Songs catalog, including the majority of Lennon/McCartney songs written for The Beatles.) A process of modern unification at Sony Music Publishing began in 2016, when Sony acquired the Michael Jackson estate’s 50% share of Sony/ATV for $750m, making it a wholly owned Sony company. In 2018, Sony further consolidated its position at the largest music publisher – and further simplified its structure – via the purchase ...

Merlin, the global digital rights agency for the world’s independent label sector, has appointed Jeremy Sirota as the organization’s new CEO. Sirota joins Merlin from Facebook’s Music Team. While at Facebook, Sirota led the company’s efforts to license and acquire recorded music rights from independent record labels and distributors around the world, thereby enabling social music features across Facebook, Instagram, Oculus and Messenger. Based in both New York and London, he succeeds Charles Caldas who served as Merlin’s CEO since the agency’s founding in 2007. Sirota, a widely respected and experienced executive in music and technology, ‘has a proven track record for negotiating complex and strategic commercial partnerships, and for driving digital innovation across the recorded music business,’ according to the release announcing his appointment. Sirota also previously held a number of senior positions at Warner Music Group, culminating in his appointment as SVP and Head ...

Last week India-based Gaana claimed to be the country’s first music streaming service to hit 100 million Monthly Active Users (MAUs). Gaana’s Chief Executive Officer Prashan Agarwal then added that the platform expects to reach 200m MAUs in the next two years. Although Gaana’s latest milestone is impressive, it’s not alone: another hugely popular service in India, JioSaavn, has also surpassed the 100m mark, can reveal. According to sources close to the company, JioSaavn currently has  104m  MAUs as of today (April 29). Those same sources claim this figure is enough for the platform to stake its own claim as ‘India’s largest music streaming service’. For comparison’s sake, Spotify, today (April 29) that it ended Q1 2019 with 217m MAUs globally, and over 2m users in India. Within those 217m MAUs, Spotify counts over 100m paying subscribers. The JioSaavn platform in its present-day form is the result of a merger between Saavn and rival...

Entertainment One has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of UK-based Audio Network Limited (Audio Network) – a production music specialist and one of the world’s largest independent creators and publishers of original music for use in film, television, advertising and digital media. The buyout is being valued at approximately US $215 million. The announcement was made today (April 11) by eOne’s President and CEO Darren Throop, with Global President, Music Chris Taylor, and alongside Audio Network’s Founder & Chairman Andrew Sunnucks and CEO Robb Smith. Audio Network, with nine offices worldwide, boasts an expansive catalogue of over 150,000 fully-owned tracks, in addition to relationships with more than 1,000 composers, singer-songwriters and emerging commercial artists. Entertainment One says this talent will ‘benefit from [eOne’s] rich traditional record label services and extensive film, television and brand capabilities’. It adds: ‘The addition o...

Maximilien MATHEVON – Album “Monlight Navigator” Space Tempo Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd The Orchard CD Digital & Vinyl Collector Limited Edition Since 2002, Maximilien Mathevon has composed the original soundtrack of numerous documentaries for French TV channels (CANAL+, ARTE, M6, France Televisions....). In 2002 and 2003 he created new musical accompaniments for 12 famous silent movies as they were reissued in France on DVD ("20000 leagues under the seas", "Outside the law", " Way down east"....). Maximilien has also composed several Electronic / New Age albums, blending ethnic sonorities, classical and electro styles. Maximilien Mathevon - Album "Moonlight Navigator" on Spotify MOONLIGHT NAVIGATOR Side A 1.       Moonlight Navigator       3’56 2.       Among the Stars     5’28 3.       Follow the North Star  ...

Share price-watching Spotify investors have been starved of good news of late, but this week has brought them a welcome boost. The market cap of SPOT grew nearly 7% at the bell on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday (November 26) – largely, it appears, thanks to reports suggesting that the loss-making company’s expansion into India may be back on. The major labels have played hardball with licensing Spotify in India this year: Daniel Ek (pictured) is believed to have originally been plotting a soft launch in the market over the summer, which never arrived. But now, according to Variety and Di Digital, Spotify could launch in India “within six months”. (That target date should, coincidentally, arrive shortly after Spotify’s current deal with Universal Music Group comes up for renewal.) This is an understandably exciting prospect for Spotify’s Wall Street supporters. India’s 1.3bn population is approximately seven times bigger than the 191m monthl...

Universal Music Group is yet to sell any of its Spotify shares which, according to MBW’s calculations, are currently worth around $850m. That’s led to much discussion in the artist community about what will happen when UMG does bank its 3.5% stake in the streaming company. One question has been asked louder than any other: will Universal follow the lead of Sony Music and pay out its artists’ contractual share of this cash  without  withholding money owed by their individual unrecouped balances? Writing on Instagram to announce her new deal with UMG, Swift wrote: “There was one condition which meant more to me than any other deal point. As part of my new contract with Universal Music Group, I asked that any sale of their Spotify shares result in a distribution of money to their artists, non-recoupable.” “AS PART OF MY NEW CONTRACT WITH UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP, I ASKED THAT ANY SALE OF THEIR SPOTIFY SHARES RESULT IN A DISTRIBUTION OF MON...

SCIMIA – Ep “AWE” The Intersideral Ship Digital & Physical Distribution Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd The Orchard Scimia - Ep "Awe" on Itunes   Welcome aboard the Intersidereal Ship of Scimia, pilot of a musical company with only instrument on board An old augmented reality battery (pads and MIDI keyboard). The music-loving Gorilla embarked on a journey of exploration at the confines of the known electro universe, temporal edition Included, with Giorgio Moroder as chief mechanic, Charles Darwin as helmsman and Charlton Heston as cook. The simple desire to push the use of its instrument of and the limits of play offered by its activities in the Rock bands pushed Orso Samson to build a Synthetic universes based on loops, samples and sequences. The result is festive, dancing, heady. The first steps of the monkey-drum were made to the rhythm of from C2C and stuntman to drive him today to develop a sound that surfs between Kavinsky, Mr OI...