Business Frame Weekly – Beyonce Foots $100,000 After Major Concert Delay / YouTube Celebrates 50 Years of Hip-Hop

Beyonce Foots $100,000 Bill to Keep Washington, DC Metro Open After Major Concert Delay

Capitol Music Group/Motown Records Announce Glass Window Entertainment Partnership with Rylo Rodriguez as Inaugural Signing

YouTube Celebrates 50 Years of Hip-Hop with ‘FIFTY DEEP’ Campaign

In this newsletter:

• Capitol Music Group/Motown Records Announce Glass Window Entertainment Partnership with Rylo Rodriguez as Inaugural Signing
• Beyonce Foots $100,000 Bill to Keep Washington, DC Metro Open After Major Concert Delay
• State of Montana vs. TikTok Escalates as Tech Giants Apple, Amazon, Google Weigh In
• Travis Scott Brings Out Kanye West During Rome Performance — First Concert Appearance Since Anti-Semitic Meltdown
• TikTok Announces ‘Gimme The Mic’ Music Competition for Unsigned Acts — Here Are the Details (and the Prizes)
• YouTube Celebrates 50 Years of Hip-Hop with ‘FIFTY DEEP’ Campaign

August 15, 2023

Capitol Music Group/Motown Records Announce Glass Window Entertainment Partnership with Rylo Rodriguez as Inaugural Signing

Capitol Music Group and Motown Records announce a partnership with Glass Window Entertainment, with Rylo Rodriguez as their inaugural signing. Capitol Music Group and Motown Records have partnered with Glass Window Entertainment, the label founded by Dominique Jones (pictured center), better known as the artist Lil Baby. Rylo Rodriguez (pictured center right) is the first artist signed to Glass Window Entertainment/Motown Records.

Beyonce Foots $100,000 Bill to Keep Washington, DC Metro Open After Major Concert Delay

After severe weather caused delays at Beyonce’s latest Renaissance World Tour performance, the superstar paid $100,000 to keep the DC Metro open for an extra hour to allow fans to get home after the show. Beyonce paid $100,000 to keep all 98 trains in the Washington, DC Metro system operating for an additional hour on Sunday after her second Renaissance World Tour performance at the FedEx Field in Maryland was delayed due to heavy rain and lightning.

State of Montana vs. TikTok Escalates as Tech Giants Apple, Amazon, Google Weigh In

The State of Montana vs. TikTok case escalates as two tech groups with backers, including major tech giants Google, Amazon, and Apple, weigh in. On Monday, two tech groups weighed in, backing TikTok in its lawsuit to prevent enforcement of a statewide ban on the short video-sharing app in Montana. The national trade association NetChoice and tech industry coalition Chamber of Progress contain major tech platforms among their members, including Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Twitter, and (unsurprisingly) TikTok.

Travis Scott Brings Out Kanye West During Rome Performance — First Concert Appearance Since Anti-Semitic Meltdown

Travis Scott brought out Kanye West during his recent Rome performance, Ye’s first on-stage appearance since his anti-semitic meltdown. Travis Scott’s first Utopia concert since the album’s release took place today at Rome’s Circus Maximus, a public park once that was once the Roman Empire’s largest chariot racing track. The performance marks the first for Travis Scott’s latest album since plans for his launch concert in Egypt fell through — and the show also marks the first public appearance of Kanye West since his string anti-semitic meltdowns.

TikTok Announces ‘Gimme The Mic’ Music Competition for Unsigned Acts — Here Are the Details (and the Prizes)

Weeks after debuting a music streaming service as well as a program ostensibly designed to provide financial support to emerging artists, TikTok has announced and kicked off a “global music competition” for unsigned acts. Evidently undeterred by threats of a flat-out ban in the United States and elsewhere, the ByteDance subsidiary unveiled its latest music-centered expansion today, via a formal release that was emailed to Digital Music News. Through 2023’s initial seven or so months, the highly controversial video-sharing app has quietly inked a major pact with Warner Music Group and expanded its New Music hashtag into “a global music discovery hub,” to name just a couple initiatives on the music side. And it’s against this backdrop that TikTok is now looking “to discover new musical talent and support aspiring music creators.” According to the app’s release about the corresponding “virtual talent show,” dubbed Gimme The Mic, “anyone” age 18 or older can participate by completing the appropriate in-app registration and posting a 30-second (or longer) submission video to TikTok.

YouTube Celebrates 50 Years of Hip-Hop with ‘FIFTY DEEP’ Campaign

YouTube is celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop with its FIFTY DEEP campaign featuring an archive of 2,000 music videos showcasing the artists who have defined the genre, “from Ice T to Ice Spice.” To celebrate fifty years of hip-hop, YouTube is honoring the stars who have defined the genre from the beginning with the launch of its FIFTY DEEP campaign, which features an archive of 2,000 music videos spanning the history of hip-hop.

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