Amazon Takes Direct Aim at Jay-Z's Tidal; Techstars' 2019 Class of Music Startups Offers Look at Industry's Future

Amazon wants to offer a high fidelity service, which has been Tidal’s claim to fame. In a streaming industry that Goldman Sachs forecasts will reach $80 billion by 2030, does Tidal have enough in its arsenal to fend off Amazon?

Nine music-technology companies presented their creations at TechStars Music’s third annual Demo Day, the culmination of a three-month, mentorship-driven startup program held at NeueHouse Hollywood.

A planned sale of troubled direct-to-fan music marketplace PledgeMusic has fallen through and the company will go into bankruptcy soon.

Many people know Spotify as a music company, but soon it'll be something else. Spotify buying their 3rd podcast company is a sign of what's coming.

Here's a stat for the many who doubted that mainstream fans would ever want to watch a concert live on their computer or phone: YouTube’s live stream of Coachella's first weekend logged 82 million live views - an increase of 90% compared to 2018.

Website aggregates various datapoints from throughout the industry.

On behalf of the musicFIRST Coalition and the Future of Music Coalition, music attorney Rachel Stilwell submitted a comment to the FCC arguing against further deregulation of radio station ownership, and analyzing a correlation between consolidation and gender bias at country radio.

The drive of the music business intermediators is to keep as big a slice of the pie to themselves as possible. But just when they have scrambled back from years of online disruption, blockchain and cryptocurrency could turn their world upside down once more.

Time is moving on, as it tends to do, and iTunes—a media suite that made its debut in 2001, almost two decades ago—is potentially on Apple’s chopping block.

Mark Smotroff supports "edjumacation" for the aspirant music enthusiast...

AI - Artificial Intelligence - now combines predicting content with storytelling. It's a challenge and an opportunity for broadcast radio.

South Africa is second on the list of countries with most notable streaming growth.

Spotify has put its exhaustive playlist front and centre of a new global brand campaign which seeks to position the music streaming service as having the best content for any time, any place, any mood and any occasion.

From Sonos to AirPlay 2, Chromecast to Polk to Onkyo to HomePod, there's a good-sounding streaming speaker for you. Here's how to choose.

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