The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, February 9

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Monday, February 5

• Apple Music set to overtake Spotify in US subscribers, WSJ says
  Post from CNET
• Best Buy to pull CDs Target threatens to pay labels for CDs only when customers buy them
  Post from Billboard
• Why is James Brown's estate still unsettled? Ask the lawyers
  Story from NY Times
• Is the greatest hits album dead?
  Post from BBC News
• Hidden tracks: The unreleased music from major stars we may never hear
  Post from The Guardian
• Dennis Edwards, a Temptation who stood nine feet tall
  Tribute from Detroit Free Press

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Tuesday, February 6

• Top female executives send rebuke to Grammys leadership
  Story from NY Times
• Apple Music now has 36 million subscribers
  Post from Variety
• Don't give Spotify too much credit for adding credits
  Opinion from Pitchfork
• Myanmar's metal scene stands strong in the midst of political upheaval
  Story from Noisey
• How 5G could change everything from music to medicine
  Post from CNN Money
• Ask an indie-rock veteran: How important are drugs to a music scene?
  Column from AV Club

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Wednesday, February 7

• Chinese music industry reacts to government's hip-hop ban
  Story from Billboard
• 'Nashville celebrates songwriters more than anywhere else in the world'
  Interview from Music Business Worldwide
• Google 'tightens standards' on secondary-ticketing search ads
  Post from Music Ally
• Inside music merch's gold rush
  Story from Rolling Stone
• Apple's Shazam acquisition to be examined by the European Commission
  Post from The Verge
• Stage Management 101: Communication is everything with multi-act productions
  Recap from Pollstar

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Thursday, February 8

• John Perry Barlow, internet pioneer, 1947-2018
  Obituary from Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Leon (Ndugu) Chancler, versatile drummer, is dead at 65
  Obituary from NY Times
• Significant 2018 tax changes for music publishers
  Guest post from Hypebot
• Concord Music acquires venerable film music label Varèse Sarabande
  Item from Deadline
• Sharon Osbourne: 'Shame on AEG' for demanding O2 Arena and Staples Center block booking on Ozzy tour
  Item from Billboard
• Well being in the music industry: 'It's a global myth that mental illness is a weakness'
  Post from Music Ally

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Friday, February 9

• Why music festival culture is playlist culture
  Post from Forbes
• BBC Music bringing new artists to SXSW
  Post from BBC News
• Alexa can build Amazon Music playlists for you
  Post from Engadget
• Songwriter Justin Tranter performs hits, talks female artists at YouTube music night
  Post from Variety
• The end of Slayer, the greatest metal band still going
  Story from Pitchfork
• Is Microsoft's Paul Allen the new Jimi Hendrix? An investigation
  Post from Stereogum