The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, April 27

This week in music, worldwide recorded music revenue continued to rise in 2017, ABBA reunited and Kanye stirred controversy again. Keep up with what is new and important in music with the Daily Chord, offering six assorted links each weekday. For an added reminder, subscribe to our email blast and get the headlines in your inbox.

Monday, April 23

• Tencent Music edges toward IPO
  Post from NASDAQ
• 'Now That's What I Call Music!' will be mankind's greatest relic
  Post from Quartzy
• How streaming will continue to change everything in the music business
  Analysis from Music Business Worldwide
• Facebook strikes more deals focusing on independent labels
  Item from Music Ally
• EDM DJ-producer Avicii dead at 28
  Obituary from Rolling Stone
• 'The Middle': Watch how a pop hit is made
  Feature from NY Times

Tuesday, April 24

• IFPI global report 2018: Music sales rise for third straight year as streaming becomes biggest revenue source
  Post from Billboard
• Spotify beefs up its free tier as Apple Music gains traction
  Post from TechCrunch
• J. Cole breaks Apple Music's first-day streaming record in US
  Post from The Verge
• 'Black Cowboys' sheds light on overlooked music of African-Americans who went west
  Story from WBUR
• Excellent folk albums from 2018 you might've missed
  List from Uproxx
• Watch Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen and Michael Stipe perform together
  Post from Pitchfork

Wednesday, April 25

• Meek Mill released from prison on bail, takes in Sixers game
  Story from Philadelphia Inquirer
• YouTube Remix could mean the end of Google Play Music
  Post from CNET
• Bloodshot Records: 25 years of independent music
  Interview from Hypebot
• Viagogo faces court for failing to protect UK consumers
  Post from The Guardian
• The innovator: How Jlin is altering dance music's DNA
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Bob Dorough, jazzman with a hit kid-music series, dies at 94
  Obituary from NY Times

Thursday, April 26

• Music Modernization Act unanimously passes US House of Representatives
  Post from Billboard
• Sonos files confidentially for IPO, could go public as early as June
  Post from Variety
• Germany scraps Echo Music Awards after anti-Semitism controversy
  Post from Deutsche Welle
• May contain masturbation: The woman weaponizing pop's Filthy Fifteen
  Post from The Guardian
• Lawsuit accusing Russell Simmons of rape is dropped
  Story from NY Times
• The Kanye West delusion
  Post from The Ringer

Friday, April 27

• ABBA reunite, announce new songs
  Item from Pitchfork
• The data security challenges facing the music industry
  Post from Magnetic Magazine
• HD vinyl is a promise, not a product
  Post from Engadget
• You asked: Is listening to music good for your health?
  Post from Time
• Sex, disco and fish on acid: How Continental Baths became the world's most influential gay club
  Story from The Guardian
• New Orleans legend Charles Neville, saxophonist for the Neville Brothers, dies at 79
  Obituary from New Orleans Advocate