The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, July 13

This week, the Daily Chord shared stories about festival bubbles, biometric ticketing, dominant streaming, and yet another shady, canceled event. Keep current on what's new and what's important in music news with our updates each weekday. Subscribe to the email update and the headlines will come to you.

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Monday, July 9

• Rap is leading the music industry's resurgence
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Avett Brothers cancel show after man with gun enters venue
  Post from Pitchfork
• Has the festival bubble popped?
  Post from Pollstar
• Billboard's charts used to be our barometer for music success. Are they meaningless in the streaming age?
  Analysis from Washington Post
• China's largest music streaming is planning a US IPO
  Post from TechCrunch
• Drake's 'Scorpion' pulls in over 1 billion streams in its first week
  Post from The Verge

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Tuesday, July 10

• Biometric venue ticketing firm gets $1.5M in seed funding
  Post from Find Biometrics
• With 'Beast Mode 2,' Future reminds us how goddamn good he is
  Essay from Noisey
• 5 under-the-radar rappers from Memphis you should know about
  List from Fader
• The best metal albums of 2018 (so far)
  List from Pitchfork
• Can Kobalt's AWAL rewrite the rules of A&R?
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• Buddy Holly movie 'Clear Lake' in development
  Item from Variety

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Wednesday, July 11

• XO Festival, a new music event in the East Bay, draws controversy before it begins
  Post from SF Chronicle
• How music fans built the internet
  Book excerpt from Wired
• How one tweet about Nicki MInaj spiraled into internet chaos
  Post from NY Times
• Why Atomic Kitten and Earth, Wind & Fire became England's World Cup chants
  Post from The Guardian
• Dave Grohl picked the worst time to throw a rock festival - But that's exactly what makes Cal Jam great
  Post from Uproxx
• 50 greatest Latin pop songs
  List from Rolling Stone

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Thursday, July 12

• Pop super-manager Scooter Braun: 'I was not going to let Justin Bieber die'
  Interview from The Guardian
• How the ticketing world is taking on scalpers and bots
  Post from CNET
• Top executive leaves Billboard amid examination of coverage
  Post from NY Times
• Streaming is now 75% of US music consumption
  Item from Hypebot
• Boots Riley's radical vision
  Interview from Fader
• XO music fest, featuring T.I. and Ludacris, canceled
  Item from Variety

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Friday, July 13

• Music analytics in 2018: Data will tell you what's hot, but not what is good
  Post from Music Ally
• 'We grew up breathing music': How Puerto Rico became a pop superpower
  Story from The Guardian
• 'I find acts that play to nobody... and I convince people to book them'
  Interview with Tom Windish from Music Business Worldwide
• Childish Gambino and the search for the summer anthem
  Post from Wired
• Sennheiser's 3D audio headphones are amazing, for the few who want them
  Review from The Verge
• Wollongong band Ruby Tuesdays in stoush with US restaurant giant over use of name
  Post from ABC News