Digital music

Music-streaming platform Zvooq raises $5 million in equity funding

November 16, 2016

Earlier this week Russian music-streaming platform Zvooq announced it secured an investment of $5 million in a round led by Ulmart, Russia’s leading online retailer, with the participation of ther unnamed investors. The terms of the deal, which was reported earlier this week by Vedomosti, have not been disclosed. The investment went through Dream Industries, a holding company which comprises …

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VKontakte and Warner Music Group settle legal battle out of court

April 15, 2016

Last week VKontakte (VK.COM), the leading social network in Russia and a property of LSE-listed Mail.ru Group, announced the settlement of its legal battle with Warner Music Group (WMG) through a confidential out-of-court agreement. Under the agreement, VK users will be provided with legal access to WMG content though UMA, a Russian supplier of music content, and other authorized platforms. …

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Midemlab music startup contest: A call to Russian startups (application deadline: March 30)

March 30, 2016

The 10th edition of Midemlab, the leading international music startup competition, will take place on June 3-6, 2016 in Cannes, France, in partnership with East-WestDigital News. This is an opportunity for startups from Russia and other CEE countries to find new business partners, raise funding, gain international visibility and recognition from the industry.

Russian torrents website strips copyright holders of their rights

February 7, 2016

Rutracker.org, the world’s largest Russian-language torrents website, has deprived copyright holders of the ability to delete illegal downloads, the IT-website Roem.Ru reported Tuesday. “It has been announced officially (…) that all CNA-accounts [which granted copyright holders the authority to delete links to illegal downloads] have been switched to regular user mode,” Oleg Yashin from the intellectual …

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Ukrainian band tops ranking of most popular YouTube music video in Russia

December 14, 2015

YouTube has released a list of the music videos that were most popular in Russia in 2015.  At over 41 million views, a song by Ukrainian band “Vremya i Steklo“is number one, far ahead of all its competitors. Following Vremya i Steklo in the ranking were the following videos: Polina Gagarina’s Eurovision song “A Million Voices“ (number 2 …

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iTunes removes “extremist” songs to comply with Russian regulator’s order

February 12, 2016

Apple’s music service iTunes has deleted songs by the groups Korroziya Metalla (Corrosion) and Tsiklon-B (Cyclon-B), which Russian courts previously recognized as extremist, according to a press release by Roskomnadzor, the Russia’s government’s media watchdog agency. On October 26, Russian censors blocked several pages of iTunes that contained music by these two bands. By removing …

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Universal and Warner Music groups win case against VKontakte

February 12, 2016

Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group have claimed an important victory in their fight to stop copyright infringement by VKontakte, Russia’s largest social network and the country’s most popular provider of music. A Russian court has ruled that VKontakte must introduce technology to effectively prevent the unauthorised upload of the companies’ sound recordings on to …

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Yandex launches new media player service “Yandex.Radio”

February 18, 2016

Last week Yandex presented its new media player service christened “Yandex.Radio.” With more than 100 stations, Yandex.Radio allows users to tune in to a variety of music styles – energetic, sentimental or fun; music for travel, jogging or a romantic date; songs from the 1950s, or timeless hits from different decades. Yandex.Radio comes as Yandex’s second …

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