The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, July 12

This week on the Daily Chord, a new royalty distribution organization was appointed, YouTube blocked stream-ripping sites, and we shared a good list of overlooked 2019 albums. Keeping up with the latest in music is a breeze if you check in with us each weekday. Sign up for our email blast and we'll send you the headlines.

Monday, July 8

• Stevie Wonder: 'I'm going to take a break'; will have kidney transplant this summer
  Post from Detroit News
• The DMCA bell did not toll for a beloved musician - thus, I could grieve for him
  Story from Ars Technica
• Why the US Copyright Office chose the Mechanical Licensing Collective
  Story from Billboard
• João Gilberto, an architect of Bossa Nova, is dead at 88
  Obituary from NY Times
• How music about space became music about drugs
  Essay from MIT Technology Review
• How the Haxan Cloak's Bobby Krlic brought unnerving beauty to 'Midsommar'
  Interview from The Fader

Tuesday, July 9

• YouTube users can't stop streaming Latin pop
  Post from BBC News
• Spotify Lite for Android gets official launch in 36 countries
  Post from TechCrunch
• Your guide to urbano's power players: The new stars, OGs and next class
  List from Vulture
• 7digital grows annual revenues but still needs $5.5 million investment to survive
  Post from Billboard
• James Henke, key figure at Rock Hall of Fame and Rolling Stone magazine, dies at 64
  Obituary from Variety
• 'Old Town Road' has been no. 1 for 14 weeks
  Item from Stereogum

Wednesday, July 10

• Eric Prydz is going to DJ inside a giant glowing sphere
  Post from The Verge
• YouTube revamps its copyright claims system for creators
  Item from Engadget
• How Pearl Jam took on the music industry and lost - but predicted the future
  Story from The Independent
• Great records you may have missed: Spring 2019
  List from Pitchfork
• 'We've hit the jackpot': How Universal turned around its market share
  Post from Music Week
• What's Scooter Braun doing?
  Column from Rolling Stone

Thursday, July 11

• YouTube 'blocks' popular MP3 stream-ripping sites
  Post from Torrent Freak
• 'This is the most exciting time the music business has ever known' - Mark Gillespie
  Interview from Music Business Worldwide
• Internet Creators Guild shuts down, hits out at music labels
  Post from Music Ally
• Diplo's 'Mad Decent Block Party' abruptly canceled
  Post from NBC 10 Boston
• Metallica to publish children's book, 'The ABCs Of Metallica'
  Item from The Guardian
• Bon Iver announce new album 'i,i' share 2 new songs
  Post from Pitchfork

Friday, July 12

• Amazon Music Unlimited is growing faster than Apple Music or Spotify, report says
  Post from Ars Technica
• Life without iTunes is sweet indeed
  Review from Gizmodo
• R. Kelly arrested on child pornography and other federal charges
  Post from NY Times
• UK music industry declares climate emergency, backed by Radiohead, Idles and Nadine Shah
  Post from NME
• UK competitions authority raises concerns about Live Nation/MCD merger
  Post from Billboard
• Kaina gives her soulful R&B the intimacy of real and chosen family
  Profile from Chicago Reader