The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, May 11

What is currently making news in music? Live music, recorded music, the artists, the businesspeople, the technology, the history and the future of music all have a spot in the Daily Chord. Check out this week's headlines below, and subscribe to the email update for headlines each weekday.

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Monday, May 7

• Post Malone's 'Beer Bongs and Bentleys' breaks streaming record, debuts at no. 1
  Item from Billboard
• Goldenvoice cancels FYF Fest
  Post from Variety
• YouTube is using a new deal with Vevo, the music labels' video venture, to boost ad sales
  Post from Recode
• Seven Nation Corny: A check-in on prestige TV's questionable music choices
  Post from The Ringer
• I'm not black, I'm Kanye
  Essay from The Atlantic
• Country punk pioneer Tony Kinman dead at 63
  Obituary from Pitchfork

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Tuesday, May 8

• The big music companies are selling big chunks of their Spotify stakes
  Story from Recode
• Ticketmaster hopes to speed up event access by scanning your face
  Post from Engadget
• "Big data is about to become a very big problem for the music industry"
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• Music Biz marks 60th anniversary amid great change
  Story from Billboard
• The 20 hottest music tech startups of 2018 (according to Midemlab)
  List from Music Ally
• Music industry organization protests Canadian Music Week panel
  Post from Ottawa Citizen

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Wednesday, May 9

• Instagram's code reveals upcoming music feature
  Post from TechCrunch
• Tidal accused of deliberately faking Kanye Westand Beyoncé streaming numbers
  Story from Music Business Worldwide
• How Johannesburg's young black artists are shaping the future they want
  Story from Noisey
• Pop's new bilingual moment
  Story from Rolling Stone
• Guns N' Roses remove song with homophobic and racist language from reissued album
  Item from The Guardian
• 5 buzz-building tapes that set the stage for an iconic debut
  List from Pitchfork

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Thursday, May 10

• Childish Gambino's 'This Is America' and the new shape of protest music
  Post from Wired
• Then the censors came for rap music
  Post from The Atlantic
• Post Malone and Rae Sremmurd, hip-hop impressionists shaping the stream
  Post from NY Times
• Spotify removes R. Kelly music from its playlists as part of new hate content and hateful conduct policy
  Post from Billboard
• The 36 richest musicians in Britain
  Post from Business Insider
• Iceland's Secret Solstice festival is offering a million-dollar VIP ticket
  Post from Uproxx

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Friday, May 11

• Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison: A songwriter who found humanity in our flaws
  Obituary from The Guardian
• Senate introduces Music Modernization Act
  Post from Variety
• A war is brewing between Billboard and YouTube over music charts
  Story from Rolling Stone
• America is still afraid of heavy metal
  Story from Noisey
• What next for influencer marketing in the music world?
  Recap from Music Ally
• Do the saddest songs win Eurovision?
  Post from BBC News