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Are algorithms the new talent scouts?
As streaming rockets to account for more than 80% of the music industry's revenue, algorithms are rapidly becoming the new, savvy, talent scouts. Sending demos to labels is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Instead, hundreds of thousands of new artists are successfully building global fan bases on their own by ...
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Kurt Cobain MTV Unplugged in New York guitar sells for $6m
The guitar used by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain during the band’s famous MTV Unplugged in New York concert has sold for more than $6m (£4.8m) at auction. The 1959 Martin D-18E guitar featured in the grunge group’s performance in November 1993, just five months before Cobain’s death aged 27. There was huge ...
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