The Walkman was just as big a change in the way we listened to music as the iPod was in the early 2000s.
The FT reports that Amazon had over 32 million subscribers at the end of April.
A new report from MIDiA Research fielded in partnership with digital music distributor Amuse says independent artists generated more than $643 million in 2018, a 35% jump from the year before.
A brief step by step of what you need to do to record, register and release your music.
Cherie Hu explores a new frontier for AI-fuelled music.
Music videos by Daddy Yankee, Rosalia and Maluma dominate YouTube's most-watched list for 2019.
In spite of tough competition from the likes of smartspeakers, smartphones and tablets, broadcast radio is proving to be the most resilient entertainment format in the United States.
The app, from Madison-based startup Live Undiscovered Music Inc., focuses on drawing emerging artists and listeners who want to discover new music.
Podcasts now represent almost 10 percent of audio listening among millennials, with podcasts replacing online video as a daytime escape.
Streaming services like Spotify are changing more than the way we listen to music - they are actually changing the way music is written.
The cloud has revolutionized the way we listen to music, unlocking millions of songs that we can access with the tap of a button.
The democratization of creativity might be one of the most clichéd phenomena underpinning the modern music business.
As the big global music-streaming services continue to mull their strategies for sub-Saharan Africa, local players are springing up to stake their claim to a piece of the nascent streaming market.
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