After careful planning and hard work, we are proud to announce the launch of our next product — Genesis Yield, a staking/farming platform for our own $UOP token. Therefore before it goes live (23rd June)we would love to introduce you to it in the easiest way so you can join…

A short guide in the endless field of non-fungible tokens, how to avoid myths, bad opinions and haters. NFTs — what are they? NFTs — everybody has heard about them, read an article, but still not entirely clear on what they are. NFTs have even been defined in the Dictionary. …

What does it mean to own a song? Does it simply enable you to collect royalties, or does it also grant you the right to protect and preserve your creative legacy? These are questions that have gained prominence in light of sampling and remixes. Ever since the inception of remix culture in Jamaican reggae music of the 1960s, through to the explosion of sampling in US hip-hop during the 1980s and its continued popularity in pop music today, samples have operated in a legal grey zone. This has led to a number of lengthy…

Hi Utopians, here at Utopia Genesis Foundation we are warming up for our next catalyst sale which will take place in a few weeks from now! As you may already know, we’re working hard in order to revolutionize the music industry by empowering decentralized ownership of music rights, bringing up…

After significant research and planning, we are at the final stages of realizing our latest product, Genesis Pool. Welcoming across the board genres, catalogs, and artists of various size and profile, Genesis Pool aims to provide funding via our own cryptocurrency, the UOP, for new music projects whereby the content/asset…

How much does it cost to record a hit record in 2019? You might be surprised to find out that the answer is not much. Take Grammy-winning music producer Oak Felder, who helped create a string of recent hits by artists such as Nicki Minaj, Alessia Cara and Demi Lovato. The equipment used on some of these tracks consists of a consumer-grade Apple laptop ($1499), an external sound card ($650), music recording software ($199), and a few software plugins ($600) — a combined cost of less than $3,000.

At 54 years of age, Willie Wisely has just released his eighth studio album and is on tour again. For Willie, success didn’t happen overnight, or through a YouTube discovery. Instead, he’s kept on a long journey of upskilling while balancing his act with music creation and performing. Fortunately, living in Los Angeles, the epicenter of the music business, has given him an advantage: he was an early adopter of new music technology, including digital distribution. So how did it start for this Minneapolis native, who at the age of 15 just wanted to “get on stage and…

What is the one thing that musicians and songwriters need to do to ensure they are being paid for their work? It is every musician and songwriter’s dream: rolling in royalty payments, signing endless sponsorships, recording theme songs for the next blockbuster and booking sold-out tours. Of course, this kind of success has always been the preserve of the privileged few. The digitization of music led to a massive decline in…

What does true success mean in music? Awards? Gold records? Platinum? Longevity? Impact? Fame? Relevance? There are many different interpretations, but the general consensus seems to be popularity and sustained sales over time. So while a one-hit wonder might get rich from their glory days, the true aristocracy are the musicians with decades of success and a star-studded list of collaborators. They are the names…