Random music news for Friday, January 10, 2025
An AHL hockey team had a teddy bear toss for Christmas. Any guesses as to how many teddy bears were tossed? Higher. Higher. Hiiiiiiiiigher. As for music news for January 10, 2025…
- The US Supreme Court hears the TikTok ban appeal today. The ban is scheduled to go into effect on January 19.
- If TikTok gets banned, then the backup might be something called Lemon8.
- Facebook is censoring stories about Facebook censorship.
- NFTs aren’t dead, but they’re not feeling well.
- Danny Elfman (Oingo Boingo, film composer and writer of the theme for The Simpsons), is in a lot of trouble with a lawsuit.
- Music sales hit a 20-year high in the UK in 2024.
- Meta’s new chatbots can imitate Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and others. What could possibly go wrong?
- Why do dead artists make more money dead than alive? Let’s investigate.
- Robert Plant is still making millions in songwriting royalties every year. See?
- I wonder what happened at this birthday party.
- These 300 artists are fighting against copyright protection. Here’s why. It’s a righteous cause.
- Bad Bunny as a news anchor? For one morning, anyway.
- There’s a new “DIY drum machine craze.” It involves an FM radio and a flashlight.
- A welcome sign of spring already: Early details on Record Store Day 2025.
- Kanye is going after Adidas again. Give it a rest, dude.
BONUS: Which streaming music services pay out the most per stream? This video looks into the situation.
