Accelerating the Future of Music; Bob Dylan's Spotify Streams Up 500% After Nobel Win

Following Bob Dylan's win for the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature, the singer-songwriter's music has increased by more than 500 percent on Spotify.

The partnership is the first that The X Factor’s Aussie show has made with a music streaming service, and is the first of its kind for Spotify since launching in Australia in 2012.

Bas Grasmayer take a look at the types of accelerator programs that exist for music startups and artists, the underlying trend, and where it’s all leading.

A new study shows Netflix only counts with 39 of the top 250 IMDB movies. But the bigger question is, why is Netflix making money when Spotify can't?

With most of phase one of the dotBlockchain Music project sitting in GitHub and phases two and three underway, I thought it might be a good idea to write something more practical for songwriters, artists and their managers.

On Wednesday evening Amazon unveiled its music streaming service Music Unlimited in the US, while announcing that the UK launch will happen later this year.

Not content with having TV's last standing musical competition in The Voice, NBC is adding another — albeit a slightly unconventional one.

The future is almost here.

Leonard Cohen is releasing a new album, You Want It Darker, Friday (October 21) via Sony.

The U.K. arm of Spotify bounced back into profitability last year, fueled by strong growth in subscription sales.