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Cherie Hu

@cheriehu42
12 posts
2024-05-22
fact-checking myself — Suno's $125M round is: - the 11th biggest music-tech funding round of all time - the biggest music-tech round since March 2021 - the biggest round so far in music/audio AI (runner-up is ElevenLabs at $80M), and the only AI company in the top 15 [image]
2024-05-22 View on X
VentureBeat

Generative AI music startup Suno raised $125M from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Matrix, Founder Collective, and others

With ChatGPT-Style Prompts FinSMEs : Suno Raises $125M in Funding Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : Generative AI music maker startup Suno raises $125M in funding Stephanie Palazzolo ...

2023-03-28
is the metaverse the Quibi of corporate spending https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-03-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Disney eliminates its metaverse unit, cutting ~50 jobs, and ceases work on an Amazon Prime-like program integrating Disney+ and other Disney platforms

The unit, once seen as developing a new form of storytelling, had about 50 employees  —  Mickey Mouse has left the metaverse.

2022-08-01
so excited to share the latest web3 research drop @water_and_music: a data analysis of secondary sales, collector activity + lifetime value for several music NFT drops from late 2021 to early 2022, led by @mzhang13 + @ajflores1604. this piece is FREE. https://www.waterandmusic.com/ ...
2022-08-01 View on X
Water & Music

An analysis of music NFT secondary sales and trading activity from late 2021 to mid-2022, to provide a more in-depth and nuanced understanding of NFT markets

especially when fans' wallets are on the line. @water_and_music : In our latest research, we analyze collector and sales activity for 7 music NFT projects from @SnoopDogg , @matthe...

to provide a space for readers to interact with our data, @ajflores1604 built a dashboard visualizing particular metrics that give insight into the long-term health and earnings potential across music NFT collections. you can access the dashboard here: https://dashboards.waterandmusic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-01 View on X
Water & Music

An analysis of music NFT secondary sales and trading activity from late 2021 to mid-2022, to provide a more in-depth and nuanced understanding of NFT markets

especially when fans' wallets are on the line. @water_and_music : In our latest research, we analyze collector and sales activity for 7 music NFT projects from @SnoopDogg , @matthe...

especially under current market conditions, it is critical to understand what the secondary market really looks like for music NFTs, and to add accountability measures into public claims that artists and platforms make about it — especially when fans' wallets are on the line.
2022-08-01 View on X
Water & Music

An analysis of music NFT secondary sales and trading activity from late 2021 to mid-2022, to provide a more in-depth and nuanced understanding of NFT markets

especially when fans' wallets are on the line. @water_and_music : In our latest research, we analyze collector and sales activity for 7 music NFT projects from @SnoopDogg , @matthe...

2021-09-17
this is one of those culture / tech M&A deals where the price tag makes sense if you look at the platform's business model, but feels like it's lowballing on the platform's cultural influence https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-09-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Brooklyn-based Genius, a music-annotating startup that provides context for lyrics, sells its assets for $80M, less than the total funding it raised

> @Genius — one of the most unlikable tech startups of the past decade-plus, which promised to “debunk the myth of scientific journalism” with its “homiesourcing” — just got sold f...

2021-08-31
to my knowledge this marks the first acquisition of a niche music streaming service since the Songza days (2014-2015) https://www.apple.com/...
2021-08-31 View on X
Billboard

Apple acquires classical music streaming service Primephonic, giving users six free months of Apple Music, and will launch its own classical music app in 2022

Apple has acquired Primephonic, the classical music streaming service, for an undisclosed amount, the company tells Billboard. Source: Apple .

2021-03-31
Spotify in April 2020: “everything linear dies and on-demand wins,” terrestrial radio is irrelevant one year later: https://www.theverge.com/...
2021-03-31 View on X
Axios

Spotify buys app developer Betty Labs, creator of Locker Room, a live social audio app where fans can talk about sports, which Spotify plans on expanding

one way or the other! 🤷‍♂️ genius move or peak bubble moment—what do you think? https://twitter.com/... Gady Epstein / @gadyepstein : I'm working on a project combining various sub...

2021-03-05
one theme of the week is streaming underdogs potentially leading the way for the rest of the music industry in fintech/payment innovation https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-05 View on X
New York Times

Square acquires a majority stake in Jay-Z's streaming service Tidal for $297M; Jay-Z will join Square's board

What did Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey talk about when they went yachting around the Hamptons together last summer?  Perhaps only Beyoncé knows.  —  Maybe now we do, too.

2020-03-23
I filed this piece for @DJmag in early March (for the April print issue) before all the event cancellations poured in, so there's no mention of COVID-19. Hope it still offers a helpful look into how artists have already been using Twitch in their careers: https://djmag.com/...
2020-03-23 View on X
DJMag.com

Twitch is becoming an increasingly valuable way for independent electronic musicians to connect with their fans via live-streamed recording sessions

Cherie Hu / DJMag.com : Tweets: @djmag and @cheriehu42 Tweets: DJ Mag / @djmag : Video game live streaming platform Twitch has become an increasingly valuable way for electronic m...

2020-01-18
Episode #1094938423 of Spotify slowly peeling off its Halloween costume of “music company” and revealing itself as “traditional media company” https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-01-18 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Spotify in early talks to buy The Ringer, founded by Bill Simmons, which has a podcast network that had revenue of $15M+ in 2018

The Ringer, founded in 2016 by former ESPN commentator Bill Simmons, has over 30 podcasts  —  Spotify Technology SA SPOT -2.31% is in talks to buy sports …

2019-11-21
first spotted via my newsletter six months ago 😏 https://www.wsj.com/...
2019-11-21 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple launches Apple Music for Business, letting businesses play music in retail locations with Apple providing human-curated playlists and recommendations

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac :