RCA detects larger ChinaA department of Sony Music Entertainment, signed a strategic partnership with Chinese indie -label and music collective Iris ChengduFounded by Chengdu, China-based producer, DJ and recording artist Andre Grant, alias Harikiri. During his career, Harikiri has worked with artists, including American rapper Jay Park and the Chinese hip-hop group higher brothers. Over the next year, five albums will be spawned from the partnership, including new releases from the female Chinese rapper Vinida Weng, rapper/singer/songwriter Haysen Cheng and Harikiri himself, among others. According to a press release, Chengdu has “been widely considered the episent of China’s evolving hip -hop music scene and declared the city that raised China’s new generation of rappers.”
EMPIRE formed a partnership with automated music marketing and promotion platform FN: HURD MUSIC It includes an investment in the UN: HURD to support the development of new tools and will give Empire access to the UN: HURD’s tools and services. The partnership came in the middle of the UN: HURD’s ongoing fundraise that has drawn investors including Willard AhdritzAt Dan Runcie‘s Trapital Ventures and Mindset Ventures Musictech. According to the UN: HURD CEO/FUNDER Alex BreesThe platform boasts a community of more than 125,000 artists and record companies.
BriaA generative AI platform for visual images claiming to be built on 100% licensed data closed $ 40 million in Series B financing, which brought its total capital increase to $ 65 million. The money will be spent to scale the company’s visual generative AI platform and expand the use of its patented attribution engine for music, video and text generation. The company says its attribution engine “bridge over the generative output and the training data set, so that data owners are compensated programmatically according to their overall influence on each generated output,” according to a press release. In a statement, Bria -founder/CEO Dr. Yair Adato Added, “Companies can use our source code and API platform to integrate visual generative AI into their products and access previously premous Premium -Branded content. By expanding our attribution offers to all types of content, including music, video and text, we help initiate a truly sustainable creative economy. “
Japanese talent management and production company Asobis system merged BlackxDescribed as a leader in music investments in Asia, to help expand the J-pop genre globally. According to a press release, the companies “expand artist portfolios, go beyond traditional music to explore innovative IP, such as cross-industry collaboration, introduce J-POP to new global audiences and strengthen Japan’s leadership in the entertainment sector.” Asobisystem’s program list includes Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Atarashii Gakko!, Fruits Zipper and Yasutaka Nakata.
Sync platform SourceAudio Beat an appointment with AI-driven music analysis platform Cyanite How to integrate Cyanites AI music labeling and search functions directly into the sourceAudio license system. Through the agreement, Sourceaudio’s music libraries and content owners can choose to access Cyanites AI -Tagging and Search System within their existing workflows. Cyanit has also chosen sourceAudio as its delivery platform for new and existing customers, which means that all cyanite users can now benefit from sourceAudio’s hosting and license solution, enabling their audio files to automatically be labeled and optimized for search, discovery, pitching and monetization.
Celebrity coachA provider of luxury transport services for the entertainment industry, acquired Bandwagon RV Rentalswhich specializes in medium -level tournament. The conditions for the transaction were not published. The acquisition is expanding Celebrity’s fleet to more than 120 vehicles.
Nightlife and entertainment company Ministry of Sound signed an agreement with DICE It will see it utilizing the latter mobile first ticket technology. Through the agreement, the SOUND MINISTRY will have access to DICES analysis and marketing tools, which allows for real-time insight into public behavior, event benefit and sales attribution.