Film and TV
Golden Globe Music Nominations: Songs Race Powered by Black Films, Streaming Services (Variety)
Films about major African-American personalities dominated the song category, with new tunes from “One Night in Miami,” “Judas and the Black Messiah” and “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” accounting for three of the five slots.
Top TV Song Last Week – January 26th: “Meaning (Choral Version)” by Cascadeur | February 4th: A Moment Apart by ODESZA (Tunefind)
The last two weeks have seen tracks from the French thriller Lupin and new Netflix teen drama series Fate: The Winx Saga top Tunefind’s trending songs chart.
It’s A Sin Soundtrack: the Best Music Moments in Russell T Davies’ Hit Queer Drama (NME)
Though it’s difficult to pluck out highlights from a soundtrack which includes Blondie, Joy Division, Erasure and Culture Club, these have to be the show’s most powerful musical moments.
Early Oscar Predictions: Best Song and Score Contenders (Billboard)
Billboard reveals its early predictions on the songs and scores that could be competing for an Oscar at the April 25 ceremony.
‘A Good Soundtrack Builds a World’ – How Music Transformed TV, from It’s a Sin to Bridgerton (Independent)
Recent television is proving that music supervisors – that person whose job it is to curate such pitch-perfect tracks and then get them licensed for use – are finding increasingly interesting ways of creating scenes that are more than just the sum of their audio and visual parts.
Hollywood Music in Media Award Winners Include Scores for Soul, News of the World, Minari, Queen’s Gambit (Variety)
Songs or scores from “Soul,” “Minari,” “Tenet,” “News of the World,” “”Euphoria” and “The Queen’s Gambit” were among the winners Wednesday night at the 11th annual (and first virtual) Hollywood Music in Media Awards.
Paris Hilton’s ‘Stars Are Blind’ Soundtracks Key Scene in Promising Young Woman: the Story Behind the Song (Variety)
The film’s Stars Carey Mulligan and Bo Burnham dance to the song affectionately while in a local pharmacy. The tango soundtracks the two characters’ budding relationship, before — spoiler alert — it all goes south.
Emile Mosseri on Scoring Minari (Composer Magazine)
Emile Mosseri has come a long way in a short amount of time. 2019 saw him burst onto the scene with The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and he followed that up with Miranda July’s Kajillionaire last year.
How Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The United States vs. Billie Holiday Maintained Authentic Narratives Through Music (Hollywood Reporter)
This season’s contenders for the Oscar for best sound include a pair of dramas, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The United States vs. Billie Holiday, that rely heavily on music but faced their own unique challenges to maintaining the authenticity of the narratives.
Gaming
‘Beat Saber’ Has Sold 4M Copies & 40M Songs, an Estimated $180M Revenue (and Accelerating) (Road to VR)
Oculus also confirmed the game has sold 40 million paid DLC songs, the equivalent of selling 40 platinum music albums on top of the game’s base music.
The Evolution of Music in Video Games (Electronic Beats)
Games are to the 21st century what cinema, pop, and TV were to the 20th century—the most important and most innovative entertainment medium of our time. Music has always played an integral role in video games.
Who Needs Real Life? Stars like Stormzy and Travis Scott are now Performing Inside Video Games (The Times)
The real world is waiting for venues to reopen, but in the “metaverse” of gaming, pop stars-turned-avatars are shattering attendance records. Last April, a month into lockdown, 12.3 million people concurrently watched an avatar of the rapper Travis Scott play a nine-minute set inside the video game Fortnite, the equivalent of 144 sold-out Wembley Stadiums.
Advertising
Songs for Screens: Lil Nas X, Shaggy, Dolly Parton — and Bruce Springsteen? — Lead Booming Year for Super Bowl Music Ads (Variety)
Artists sharing screentime with their songs will be a big theme this year, including Lenny Kravitz (“It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over” for Stella Artois), Lil Nas X (“Call Me By Your Name” for Logitech), Lil Baby (“Errbody” for Rockstar Energy) and Shaggy (an updated “It Wasn’t Me” for Cheetos).
5 Super Bowl Ads where the Music Stole the Show (Muse by Clio)
We asked Ian Dalsemer and J Bonilla, founders of music company The Elements Music, to dish on their five favorite Super Bowl ad music executions. The conversation swung from middle school dances to Tijuana night clubs to Go-Go grooves and beyond.
Shaggy Talks Revisiting ‘It Wasn’t Me’ for Cheetos Super Bowl Commercial (Billboard)
Shaggy advises Mila Kunis to recite the titular line of his decades-old hit “It Wasn’t Me” after getting caught orange-handed by her husband Ashton Kutcher in Cheetos’ Super Bowl LV commercial.
Watch Fight Club Director David Fincher’s Super Bowl Ad with Music from NIN’s Atticus Ross (Game Spot)
Famed movie director David Fincher has turned his sights to TV for his latest project: a beer ad for the Super Bowl. Anheuser-Busch recruited the Fight Club director to shoot the company’s first-ever Super Bowl ad that will play this weekend during the big game.
Business
Super Bowl Synch Report: Sony/ATV Walking on Air After Placing Most Ad Music (Billboard)
Sony/ATV landed a dozen synchs, followed by Warner Chappell and UMPG, during a game in which some major brands sat out.
Universal Music Group Pulls Catalog from Triller, says TikTok Rival has ‘Shamefully Withheld Payments’ to Artists (MBW)
Last summer, David Israelite, CEO & President of the US-based publishing body NMPA, said: “[Triller] boasts ‘millions of songs at your fingertips,’ however many of those songs have not been properly licensed.
Negotiating Deals in the App Sync Market (Synchblog)
When considering whether to issue a licence for your music to be used in an app, there are a few things to be mindful of. AIM’s Guide to Sync licensing addresses these in more detail and emphasises the necessity of End User License Agreement (EULA) review, amongst several other considerations.
Bridgerton Inspires Rise in Demand for Classical Pop Song Covers (The Guardian)
The success of Netflix’s Bridgerton has produced some unexpected trends, such as huge increases in people searching online for Regency fashion items including corsets. But the latest is a dramatic rise in the number of people streaming classical cover versions of contemporary pop songs.
Sony Music ups Jessica Shaw to sync licensing SVP (Music Week)
New York-based Shaw will serve as head of the Sony Music SyncShop, the centralised sync licensing team housed within the Commercial Music Group, and lead CMG’s sync-related creative and licensing activities across all entertainment media.
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