The streaming giant said 52,600 artists earned more than $10,000 (£7,500) from Spotify in 2021. Of those, 130 were paid more than $5m (£3.8m) over the last 12 months. - BBC
The Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps will employ and house multiple full-time composers, called "creators," to represent all musical genres. In return, the creators will regularly present new music for both the Louisville Orchestra and the community. - Louisville Courier-Journal
"It's difficult music to score. The performer has to truly feel my music, physically, before they can perform it. ... When other people want to do my work, I insist that they work closely with me or members of my ensemble before they even start." - The Guardian
"Modern digital storage is still expensive and data and audio/video can be lost when older websites are no longer technologically supported, when links become corrupted, when budgets run out, when new technology renders older storage systems obsolete, and much more." - San Francisco Classical Voice
"Try to imagine a mashup between a communist Kraftwerk and an authoritarian Abba." Classic "hits" include "Let's Defend Socialism", "Peace Is On Our Bayonet", "Longing for the General", "Pyongyang Cold Noodles Are the Best", and "Potato Pride". - Mental Floss
Revenues surged by 18.5% to $25.9bn (£19.5bn) in 2021, the highest level since records began in the 1990s. The growth was driven by streaming, with 523 million paid subscribers, up from 443 million in 2020. - BBC
Mya Bishop first launched her petition earlier this week, which has already received over 10,000 signatures, asking the public to "urge" the college to "cancel the play." - Newsweek
"Theories abound as to why non-commercial 'Classical 89.9' WDAV Charlotte suddenly went to No. 1 in Nielsen's January survey. Here are the numbers behind the improbable victory." - Inside Radio
On Friday, Universal's 10:22PM label said it paid $360,817 to purchase Bored Ape #5537 - a female character now known as Manager Noët All, to lead the group it founded in November called Kingship. - Reuters
"The voice is the oldest musical instrument of all – and the most complicated. At root it is just an exhaled breath, the noise made when the air rising up from the lungs vibrates against the glottis." The noise paused by COVID, and perhaps, cautiously, resuming. - The Guardian (UK)
OK, smash hit in that it was an absolute standard of the repertory for many orchestras - until it disappeared. "The variety of conductors who performed the Franck suggests that its longevity came partly from its uncanny ability to withstand a range of interpretations." - The New York Times
If either Artikal Sound System or Linzer and Brown win their case, songwriters may have even more to worry about. Will one measure of similar music be legitimate grounds for a lawsuit then? - Slate
A track titled “Bayraktar,” of indeterminate origin, has been receiving hundreds of thousands of plays online, and is in rotation on Ukrainian radio. Over a simple beat, a gravelly voice insults Russian President Vladmir Putin’s forces. - The Atlantic
Orchestral musicians have difficult jobs, yes. But they have notoriously low job satisfaction, and the workplace atmosphere can become fraught or even toxic. But orchestra personnel managers rarely have HR training, and few administrations have personnel professionals to manage the problems that inevitably arise. - Van
The reactions to people being banned and insisting, Oh, we’re not politicians, we’re artists, and therefore what we’re doing is not political—I think that musicologists are alert to that and raise an eyebrow and say, like, No, even if you think you’re not political, we’re all political actors. - The New Yorker
