Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop!

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You Can Now Buy Shares in Songs by Taylor Swift, Beyonce & Adele

The JKBX platform recently launched with over $1.7B in royalties, including songs from Taylor Swift, Beyonce and Adele. JKBX allows fans to invest in artists' tracks through royalties. Artists sell parts of their songs to JKBX, which obtains SEC approval for these deals. Investors receive income as songs earn royalties. The catalog includes hits from numerous artists such as U2, Bruno Mars, Stevie Wonder and other famous artists.

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Unheard Before Joy Division’s Ian Curtis Audio in a NFT?

Joy Division’s drummer Stephen Morris and "Unknown Pleasures" artist Peter Saville, in collaboration with Pace Gallery, have unveiled an unexpected NFT audiovisual project that will include previously unheard vocal samples. This NFT series (“CP1919”) consists of two NFT drops, featuring a soundtrack created by Morris as well as archival vocal samples from late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. “CP1919” will include animated 3D artwork produced by Saville, a multidisciplinary artist who worked between 1979 and 1993 on projects for both Joy Division and the band New Order.

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Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop in the Metaverse!

People of Crypto (POC) Lab teamed up with Walmart to launch “The Cultureverse”, a virtual world inside Spatial - a metaverse platform- that “pays homage to hip-hop pioneers and delves into their journey and impact.” Inside, users can discover exhibits like the Art of Sound gallery, featuring digital hip-hop art and artist stories.

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Sound.xyz introduces new Artist Picks feature!

A new way for artists to feature their music on Sound, which will be showcased at the top of your profile! You can select any song you released or were featured on and collectors can listen and collect directly from your profile.

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Opportunities

Trax just launched its referral system!

Refer friends and artists to the TRAX platform and earn 5% of earnings from anyone you bring into the TRAX ecosystem.

Are you a DJ in the Metaverse and & looking to establish your brand and grow your fanbase?

You can book events within EntertainM’s hyper-realistic venues to perform in front of 100+ people! Just open a ticket in their Discord or contact me.

Add yourself to the biggest artist directory in web3 at Tuning In!

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Satwik is a 23-year-old singer, songwriter, artist, producer, and engineer from Indore, India. Satwik entered the NFT space in January of 2022. He is the founder of Digital On-chain Records, a label focused on educating artists about Web3 and also the founder of h00ks, a creative beat/hooks store built on Web3.

His first Music NFT was an EP with 8 songs called "never mine, nvm", made in collaboration with various artists from all over the world, through Astrals label. “never mine, nvm” was the first pay-what-you-can mint on the XRP chain and the biggest Music NFT drop at that time. He followed that with “Won’t Give Up” on XRP, then on ETH using Sound.xyz, which is still available to mint here.

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