Ad Tech Streams Into Audio; iHeartRadio Opens Playlists to All Users; Apple Music’s Hip-Hop Boss Exiting for Spotify

Pandora and Spotify are offering new tools ... if brands are ready.

Carl Chery, Apple Music’s head of artist curation overseeing hip-hop and R&B, is leaving for Spotify, home to popular playlist RapCaviar.

The company is adding a new feature for all users – both free and paid – that blurs the lines between streaming radio and the typically premium-only option of using playlists: Playlist Radio.

Radio isn't dead yet, but its future isn’t exactly healthy.

Qobuz, the European high resolution music streaming and downloading service, has named music-industry veteran Yann Miossec as its new CEO.

Up until this point, it's been extremely difficult to detect fraud in music industry royalty statements.  That's about to change in a very serious way.

Some audio is not eligible for monetization via Content ID on YouTube.

For the first two weeks of its release, Jason Aldean's 'Rearview Town,' out Friday, will be available only on the premium tier of all subscription services, Billboard has confirmed.

As the music creation process turns more digital, smartphone apps have started to help songwriters, composers and producers make music. Here are our faves.

Spotify's first seven days as a public company have gone better than expected, but there's still plenty more it needs to prove before the real celebrations can begin.

"We don't want to have World War III, let's just get everybody on the straight and narrow."

The singer believes streaming actually turns people into more loyal fans who turn up to concerts. "I think it's great," he told Cheddar's Jon Steinberg.