Apple Music Base Seen Growing; Spotify Drops 'Hate Conduct' Policy; Kanye Skips Tidal Exclusivity

The service is winning subscribers as streaming landscape heats up

Three weeks after Spotify announced a new policy regarding hate content and hateful conduct on its service, the company is walking back one of its most controversial provisions.

The move is a blow for the artist-owned music streaming service

Tuma Basa, who in March left Spotify, has been appointed YouTube's Director of Urban Music. 

As Amazon and Netflix turn to the land of Bollywood in search of new users, they continue to face stiff competition from local giant Hotstar. The service, owned by media conglomerate Star India, offers a wide-range of sporting events in its catalog and boasted a 69.7 percent share of the local on-de…

While a lot of independent artists are familiar with music aggregators such as TuneCore and CD Baby, it appears the new Swedish startup Amuse is throwing its hat in the distribution ring, with a number of industry heavyweights at its helm.

Tencent Music and Entertainment (TME) has appointed Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merrill Lynch to lead its highly anticipated IPO, according to The Financial Times.

Prince’s estate is suing an Oklahoma man for alleged copyright infringement.

We tried out Google's revamped subscription service YouTube Music, which tries to take on Spotify and Apple Music with better recommendations from the Google Assistant.

Google will sell audio ads through DoubleClick, helping brands manage programmatic ad campaigns on Spotify, Pandora and other music streaming services.

The first four Saturday night shows of Dead & Company's 2018 Summer Tour will air live on SiriusXM's Grateful Dead Channel.

TDE CEO Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith explains how he expressed concerns about Spotify's hateful conduct policy, and how that led to the streaming service reversing its policy three weeks later.