Kings of Leon are releasing an album as an NFT
Kings of Leon returns after a four-year break with an exclusive album NFT sale. American rock band Kings of Leon is the latest music project to jump on the bandwagon on the non-fungible token, or NFT, industry.After a four-year break, including a delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nashville family band is back with something more than just their eighth music album.On Friday, Kings of Leon will release its new album, When You See Yourself, in the form of an NFT token, dropping three types of tokens as part of a series called “NFT Yourself,” the project told Rolling Stone. The album....
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Kings of Leon generated $1.45 million to $2 million in sales from their new NFT releases and will donate some of the proceeds to Live Nation’s Crew Nation Fund. The Kings of Leon’s tokenized album and NFTs sale that began on March 5 has generated at least $1.45M, or 820 Ether, in sales in its first five days according to figures on the Open Sea platform. However Rolling Stone reports that a band representative estimates the revenue is above $2 million, with $600,000 of that going to the Crew Nation Fund for supporting live music crews affected by the pandemic. The landmark reportedly event....
In December 2013, Snoop Dogg tweeted that his next album would be available for bitcoins. Now, one-year-and-a-half later, Snoop doesn't have to team up with Coinbase or BitPay to make his album available for bitcoins. Instead, he's just gotta do what he does best: make dope rhymes. The Bitcoin Community has got him covered. Now that Snoop Dogg's most recent album, Bush, produced by Pharrell, is available, it is indeed available for Bitcoin. Although the album is not available on Snoop Dogg's official website for bitcoins, CryptoCoinsNews lists here some other ways to buy the album using....
The Sacramento Kings NBA Franchise has officially launched a bitcoin-only marketplace on BitDazzle, a purchasing platform for online merchants that specializes in bitcoin. The news follows the announcement that the Kings would become the first US professional sports team to accept bitcoin this past January, when the team inked a deal with Georgia-based merchant processing specialist BitPay. The new website, KingsBitcoin.com, is a co-branded effort between the two organisations that will allow Kings fans to purchase gear, merchandise and tickets using bitcoin. In an official statement,....
In the first move of its kind in the professional sports world, the Sacremento Kings (an NBA team (National Basketball Association), will be accepting bitcoins in exchange for tickets and Kings merchandise, according to a number of reports. As mentioned, they're the first sports team of any to do this, so it's a milestone for the digital currency, without a doubt. The Kings have partnered up with digital currency payment processor BitPay to make this happen, and customers can visit the Kings' retail store in Sacramento, California right now to buy their wares. For those not in the area,....
SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, the Sacramento Kings announced they will become the first major professional sports franchise to accept Bitcoin, a popular online currency. The bitcoin purchases will be processed through BitPay – the world’s largest payment processor for virtual currencies. Since purchasing the Kings earlier this year, majority team owner Vivek Ranadivé has directed a business philosophy coined “NBA 3.0,” which focuses on investments in technology, globalization and deep community partnerships. The BitPay relationship marks another manifestation of the 3.0 philosophy in Sacramento.....