State of The Music Licensing Industry – 2013 – An infographic by the team at The Music Licensing Directory
Source: Music Licensing Directory
Tag: audio
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Now That’s What I Call Music documentary commissioned
The story of the Now That’s What I Call Music compilation series is to be made into a one-hour documentary.
ITV has commissioned Reef Television to produce the programme which will explore the history of music from and how the compilation series grew to sell more than 100 million records in the UK.
Celebrities and artists will be sharing their favourite memories prompted by a Now album on the show which will be transmitted this summer.
The Story Of Now was ordered by ITV’s commissioning editor for comedy entertainment Claire Zolkwer and is the first commission for Reef’s new head of specialist factual Ben Weston, who joined the indie at the end of last year.
Reef Television has negotiated exclusive access to archive, artists and those behind the brand from EMI.
Zolkwer said: “Every Now album evokes particular points in people’s lives. This show will take our viewers back through the soundtrack of their lives and help them relive many special moments.”
Richard Farmbrough, managing director of Reef Television said: “Now That’s What I Call Music is one of the phenomena that has infiltrated everyone’s lives at some point or another – we’ve all owned a copy and you can pretty much calibrate someone’s age by it. We’re thrilled to have been given this opportunity by ITV”.
The show will be executive produced by Ben Weston and the producer/director will be Matt O’Casey whose music credits include Nation’s Favourite Number One for ITV and the two part documentary, Queen – Days of Our Lives broadcast last year on BBC Two
Source: Music Week
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Twitter to enter music app business
CNET have revealed that Twitter is currently building a standalone music app, set to be launched this month.
The company reportedly bought fledgling music sharing service We Are Hunted, and are re-jigging and re-branding it as Twitter Music.
The service suggests tracks to Twitter users based on artists they already follow, using SoundCloud to stream these tracks to the app. It also offers up tracks that are tagged #NowPlaying by users you follow, suggests tracks that are trending on We Are Hunted, and contains an ‘Emerging’ tab for up-and-coming artists.
This move into the world of music streaming might be enough to bury Facebook, halt Spotify and do significant damage to other discovery services. That is, if it actually entices users to engage with it.
Source: The Music Network
