Apple Music Adds More DJ Mixes, Shazam Features; The Next Phase of Music Plagiarism Battles; The Impact of TikTok on the Music Industry

Now you can stream DJ sets with track IDs, while DJs, labels, and musicians can get paid.

Spirit Bomb's Ian Simon on why he believes avatars can change the music biz – all for the better.

What the performance of Drizzy's new studio record tells us about a growing trend in the music business.

In the post–"Blurred Lines" legal landscape, artists like Lorde are treading extra carefully when their music ends up sounding similar to someone else’s. But our brains can’t be trusted to notice when we steal an idea—and the problem is likely getting worse.

Country singer/songwriters Kimmie Rhodes and Willie Nelson are bringing their acclaimed album Picture in a Frame to vinyl for the first time ever, with a limited edition pressing powered by Qrates’.

Earlier this year, Apple officially discontinued Music Memos, an iPhone app that allowed musicians to quickly record audio and develop new song ideas.

Spotify’s new Enhance feature will automatically recommend new songs to add to your playlists based on the existing songs and artists in them, helping to build out your music collection even more.

Over the past few years, few brands have grown as much and as quickly as TikTok. As a result, it has taken the world by storm and had a lasting impact on many aspects of pop culture -- perhaps most notably in the music industry.

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The service is using the code from Spleeter, an audio separation tool developed and released by Deezer in 2019, to do its work.

The new MS-3 Music Streamer enables native control of streaming services from RTI Systems.

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