Capital Records has signed robot rapper FN Meka. The first virtual artist to sign to a major label, he has 10 million followers and 1 billion views on TikTok.
FN Meka’s major label debut single “Florida Water,” cut in collaboration with Billboard chart-topper Gunna and professional Fortnite player Clix, is just out. The track was produced by Turbo (Travis Scott, Young Thug, Lil Baby) and executive produced by DJ Holiday (Gucci Mane, Nicki Minaj).
Ryan Ruden, Capitol Music Group’s Executive Vice President of Experiential Marketing & Business Development, told MBW the project “meets at the intersection of music, technology and gaming culture” and “is just a preview of what’s to come.”
SiA and visual artist David O’Reilly have collaborated on SOULS, an NFT collection of 10,000 unique interactive beings living on Ethereum. These colorful virtual objects can bounce, wiggle, dance, sleep, and speak in a musical language sung by SiA.
Each SOUL is born with a personality, name, voice, color pattern, and ambient sound. Users can rearrange them as much as they want with their unique traits listed in OpenSea NFT marketplace.
7,910 are considered common, 1,814 uncommon, 214 rare, 51 epic, and 11 legendary.
NFT-TiX, a New Jersey-based company specializing in blockchain-based ticketing solutions, has announced a partnership with United Music Events. NFT-TiX will now power the ticketing system for United Music Events’ major concerts and festivals, including Hardmission and Techmission, which are scheduled to be held in November.
Founded in Prague, the Czech Republic, in 2005, United Music Events is a major organizer of electronic music events in Central and Eastern Europe, where it says it has held more than 100 events to date.
Bruce Houghton is Founder and Editor of Hypebot and MusicThinkTank and serves as a Senior Advisor to Bandsintown which acquired both publications in 2019. He is the Founder and President of the Skyline Artists Agency and a professor for the Berklee College Of Music.
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