Unraveling the Music Industry's Digital Frontier: Streaming Wars, AI Scams, and TikTok's Indie Artist Expansion

In a recent episode, Let Me Get My Headphones discusses the user patterns of streaming services Apple Music and Spotify and what they may have to say about a platform’s titan ability to reach the massive one billion stream mark. Artificial intelligence continues to make major headway with a scam involving the fraudulent sales of AI-generated Frank Ocean music on popular platform, Discord. 

Also in MelaNews, LMGMHP looks at the newest developments in TikTok’s continued focus on artist expansion, ranging from distribution deals like the ‘Artist Impact Program’, allowing business to use an artist’s music for campaigns within the app — to the launch of #NewMusic, TikTok’s new hub for frontline music releases. What The Flick reflects on the final two episodes of RapCaviar’s recently released Hulu docu-series; this time centering artists like Coi Leray and Fivio Foriegn, in a conversation on female beauty standards, the transformation of hip hop’s “video vixen”, and the contention arousing criminalization of rappers. 

In Pass The Aux, LMGMHP considers the decline in media literacy and the irony of the actual faces behind popular culture blogs today. The team also welcomes new music from artists like Victoria Monet, Amaarae, and more.