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The music industry is broken: OpenWav’s new app aims to change that


OpenWav is building a direct-to-fan platform for music artists which lets them keep more of the profits.

Through the OpenWav app, launched over the summer, artists can drop new music and exclusives, connect directly with fans, sell merch, host concerts, pop-ups, and listening parties, and more. Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference this week, Jean, now Chief Creative Officer at OpenWav, had harsh words for the state of the music industry, particularly criticizing the business model of streaming services. In OpenWav, they plan to use AI to help artists the way a manager could, by suggesting things like tour locations or merch ideas, as well as providing tools to make album art or lyric videos, for example.

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