Apple launches Apple Music Connect, a new resource for music labels and distributors to manage promotional assets, upload press photos, and more (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/18/apple-music-connect-launched-for-labels/
"forget the “high” and “low” labels, lean into what comes naturally, study what you love, and hope for the best."
I heartily agree!
We have to stop calling some jobs ‘low skilled’ - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/9034d6d6-a333-487d-b4a7-de294be67e8b
discogs_label: Discogs label affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical labels and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. Edges represent that a label was involved in a production of a musical release of a given genre or given style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 270786 nodes and 4147665 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph
I'm currently working through a ridiculous pile of paperwork that has accumulated over the last turbulent months (handing in #PhD, birth of K2, etc.)
#Paperless, a good scanner (Epson ES-580W), and these¹ little ASN-QR-code stickers make digitization of anything paper a bliss!
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terrorists_911: 9-11 terrorist network
Network of individuals and their known social associations, centered around the hijackers that carried out the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Associations extracted after-the-fact from public data. Metadata labels say which plane a person was on, if any, on 9/11.
This network has 62 nodes and 152 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
Analysis: music copyright's global value rose 5.2% YoY to a record $47.2B in 2024; the revenue split favored labels and artists at 62%, above songwriters' 38% (Will Page/Pivotal Economics)
https://pivotaleconomics.com/undercurrents/music-copyright-2025
@… @… instead of record labels we need more OSS labels 😅
Apple Music introduces Transparency Tags, a metadata system for music distributors and labels to disclose AI-generated creative elements like artwork or lyrics (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinesswor…