Random music news for Thursday, January 30, 2025
Big changes are coming to the Costco food court--but don’t worry about the $1.50 hotdog. It stays. As for music news for January 30, 2025…
- How did that LA FireAid benefit come together so quickly? Like this.
- Spotify paid out US$10 billion to the music industry in 2024. That’s up US$1 billion from the year previous.
- Streaming music services are doing well with providing background music. However, this may be a short-term thing.
- Bruno Mars is the first artist to have more than 150 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
- Bruno followed up that announcement by making a crack about a gambling debt rumour. What’s that all about?
- A really important topic: What can be done about misogyny in music?
- Eminem is suing a Ford dealership in Michigan for using his music in a TikTok video without permission.
- How will music marketing change in the future? Let’s look at that.
- I gotta admit that the new Chinese AI tool DeepSeek is pretty cool. Just don’t ask it questions about Tiananmen Square. Go ahead. Try it.
- Sorry, Snoop. You’re still not forgiven. He lost half a million Instagram followers after performing at Trump’s inauguration.
- A full-size Lego Minimoog? Yes. It might even go into production.
- Madonna tried out her stand-up chops with a 30-minute set at the Comedy Cellar. There was a lot of anti-Trump material. Shocking, I know.
- A club in Detroit shut down a metal concert when owners realized that some Nazi-leaning bands were scheduled to play. Good.
- Podcasts are still hot. A new survey says that 44% of the US population has listened to a podcast over the last month. More here.
- Three words: Butt. Crack. Piercing.
- Well, this was an interesting data hack.
BONUS: Come ON, America! A Proud Boys burger?
