The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, February 15

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Monday, February 11

• 2019 Grammy Awards: Complete nominees and winners list
  List from Grammys.com
• She Is The Music reveals partnerships and funding to further equality initiatives
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• Activision offers 'Guitar Hero Live' refunds after songs vanish
  Post from Engadget
• Get to know Omar Apollo and his first-generation love songs
  Feature from Pitchfork
• 50 must-read music books
  List from Albumism
• Robert Christgau on Alex Chilton's fragile love songs
  Column from Noisey

Tuesday, February 12

• The great music meme scam: How TikTok gets rich while paying artists pennies
  Feature from Pitchfork
• Will record labels soon have a Sirius problem?
  Post from Billboard
• Grammy awards show stops its ratings bleed
  Post from NY Times
• The spectacular failure of the world's only Hard Rock theme park
  Story from Noisey
• Fired MusiCares exec claims she was victim of Grammy 'boys club'
  Post from Variety
• Someone created an entire album using the crude sounds of a computer's motherboard
  Post from Gizmodo

Wednesday, February 13

• 21 Savage: Rapper wins release on bond ahead of US deportation hearing
  Post from BBC News
• Grandmaster Flash and Anne-Sophie Mutter win 2019 Polar Music Prize
  Post from The Guardian
• Tidal follows Spotify, adds block button for specific artists
  Post from The Verge
• Music supervisors to watch
  List from Variety
• Georgia wants to add a tax on Netflix, music streaming
  Post from Fortune
• The number ones: Isaac Hayes' 'Theme From Shaft'
  Column from Stereogum

Thursday, February 14

• Ryan Adams dangled success. Women say they paid a price.
  Story from NY Times
• YouTube's copyright claim system abused by extorters
  Post from BBC News
• Guild of Music Supervisors awards winners: The full list
  List from Variety
• Selling 20 million tickets per month in India and other challenges faced in global ticketing
  Post from Pollstar
• Why a stage times ban caused an outcry
  Post from The Guardian
• Qobuz takes on Tidal and Spotify by banking on sound quality
  Post from CNET

Friday, February 15

• Prosecutors are moving to indict R. Kelly, after the discovery of another videotape
  Story from New Yorker
• 21 Savage describes fears of deportation, says he was definitely targeted by ICE in his first interview since his release on bond
  Interview from ABC News
• Five things Spotify needs to fix in 2019
  Column from Rolling Stone
• Rapping fentanyl spray mascot star of drug company trial
  Post from NY Post
• Universal Music Group fuels 11.3% rise in Vivendi's 2018 revenues
  Post from Variety
• Pop, Prince and Black Panthers: The glorious life of Chaka Khan
  Profile from The Guardian