PeerTracks & ‘Blockchain 3.0’ Platform MUSE Set to Transform the Music Industry
There are many people who believe the music industry is broken. With physical sales plummeting to non-existent levels, digital and streaming music is the way the system operates today. However, artists are receiving only pennies for millions of plays and as much as 70% or more goes to the labels and distributors. A service called PeerTracks and a....
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Cryptocurrency exchange CCEDK announced today that its Bitshares 2.0-based platform OpenLedger and a music streaming company PeerTracks have partnered with a new blockchain-based platform called MUSE to offer unique opportunities for monetising music. MUSE suites for variety of music-related payments such as royalties, music sales, merchandise and concert ticket sales. Moreover, it is easy to use not just for cryptocurrency users but for anyone as OpenLedger offers a fiat gateway that allows consumers to buy music and artists to sell it for USD, or to be correct for crypto-USD. MUSE....
Ever consider what the future of the music industry looks like with the advent of blockchain technology? Cédric Cobban certainly has. Co-founder of PeerTracks and member of the BitShares Music Foundation, Cédric seems to have a clear vision when it comes to music's role in the emerging decentralized economy. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Cédric about the PeerTracks P2P music platform and his outlook on the future of music and what it means for both artists and fans. Also read: Bitshares Out to Make P2P Music Profitable. Listen, The Future Of Music. What is PeerTracks and why....
The time has come for starving artists to finally make real money from their music. As the Internet disrupted the way record labels make their money, the blockchain is taking this another step by threatening to render them useless. PeerTracks is matching the artist up with the audience and allowing them to both make money, all the while spreading knowledge of the blockchain to the mainstream. I got a chance to speak with Cédric Cobban, the individual who, along with Eddie Corral, is orchestrating the unique Peertracks effort. What is Peertracks? PeerTracks is a music streaming/retail....
Will of the People, the upcoming Muse NFT album, is the newest chart-eligible album format to be added in seven years. The upcoming Muse NFT album will be the latest chart-eligible album format since 2015. Prior to this album concept, the last format to be accepted by international charts was album streams. Nonfungible token (NFT) albums are now eligible for both United Kingdom and Australian charts. ‘Will of the People’ is the British rock band’s 9th studio album and will be released on August 26th. It will be the flagship “Digital Pressing” album from the Web3 marketplace....
Bittunes has a simple approach to how the blockchain can transform the music industry. While other music oriented startups in the field remain very focused on technology driven solutions, Bittunes wants to initially focus on the problem: the way the music industry is today. "We have tried from the beginning to keep things as simple as possible," Bittunes managing director Simon Edhouse tells CCN. "This has been for a number of reasons. Ultimately we believe the challenge for adoption of 'new to market' systems like this is not so much a technical one but rather, it is related to developing....