The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, November 30

Apply SXSW's Daily Chord filter on your music news intake - subscribe to our newsletter to survey the headlines of the day, and click through for the stories. This week we continued to look at the music business dispute with YouTube over proposed EU legislation Article 13, noted the rise of TikTok, and kept an eye on the ticket-reselling issue. Coming up in December - the best end-of-year lists and more.

Monday, November 26

• Will Article 13 really kill YouTube? Read it for yourself, it's only 240 words long
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• Rapper is jailed for 12 days in Russia as a culture war spreads
  Story from NY Times
• Taylor Swift strikes a blow for fellow artists as digital revenues soar
  Post from The Guardian
• New wearable tech lets users listen to live music through their skin
  Post from Ars Technica
• Mumford & Sons score third no. 1 album with 'Delta'
  Chart watch from Billboard
• The raw, rushed making of '808s & Heartbreak,' Kanye West's most influential album
  Story from Rolling Stone

Tuesday, November 27

• Bob Dylan and Neil Young co-headline UK festival
  Item from BBC News
• Viagogo to be forced to tell ticket buyers identity of touts
  Post from The Guardian
• Music festivals are gaining popularity in Asia. Just not with officials.
  Story from NY Times
• Lo-fi hip-hop is everywhere and meaningless
  Post from Buzzfeed
• Michigan professor unearths inmates' music from Auschwitz
  Story from AP News
• Ten years of Power Trip, Texas hardcore heroes
  Story from Noisey

Wednesday, November 28

• Social music app Playlist lets you listen to music with others in real time
  Post from TechCrunch
• Mixcloud and Merlin Network agree to multi-year licensing deal
  Post from Billboard
• Amy Shark and 5 Seconds Of Summer sweep the 2018 ARIA Awards
  Post from Sydney Morning Herald
• Spotify secures rights to booming Indian music market
  Post from Bloomberg
• Meta trends that will shape the music industry in 2019
  Post from Hypebot
• Brian Eno announces new app Bloom: 10 Worlds
  Item from Pitchfork

Thursday, November 29

• Reggae added to UNESCO's 'Intangible Cultural Heritage' list
  Item from Rolling Stone
• Beck pays tribute to 'SpongeBob' creator Stephen Hillenburg, who penned his early artwork
  Post from NME
• Music Men Ruined For Me collects stories of musical mansplaining
  Post from Now
• The rapid rise and sudden fall of 6ix9ine
  Story from NY Times
• How a label merger, the existence of U2, and the rise of nu metal altered the trajectory of one band
  Story from Vulture
• Hi-res music service Qobuz to launch in US in 'early 2019'
  Item from Music Business Worldwide

Friday, November 30

• TikTok is a short-form monetized musical meme machine
  Story from Wired
• We're all drowning in entertainment. Who's going to rescue us?
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Apple Music is coming to Echo devices next month
  Post from The Verge
• Billy Strayhorn archive acquired by Library Of Congress
  Post from NY Times
• New for '19: Ticketmaster International picks 10 artists to impact 2019
  List from Pollstar
• 'It was like working in a mill, but with drugs': How indie labels reinvented British music
  Post from The Guardian