Apple Music, Spotify Battle Heats Up; Are Playlists the New Album?

While Spotify continues to be the darling of the music industry in terms of providing superior marketing tools to labels and artists, as well as having the ability to create a buzz among music fans, Apple Music's streaming service is coming on strong.

Music streaming has brought music from every time and every corner of the globe into our homes, but it's also changing the ways we experience music.

Speakers and receivers that once offered built-in Spotify streaming have lost the feature.

Stocked with essays, photos, artwork, and previously unreleased excerpts from archival recordings, the Cleveland Orchestra's ongoing "Prometheus Project" centered on Beethoven's orchestral music constitutes a truly rare treat for the insider and casual fan alike.

Following Justin Timberlake's second Super Bowl performance, Spotify streams of Janet Jackson's music significantly increased.

We’ve seen a few blockchain-music startups in our time, but Choon is the first one named after what you might shout at the DJ when feeling over-excited

The Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) and the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA) have appealed to the European Council to implement tough measures that forbid users to upload copyrighted content for streaming on sites such as YouTube and Facebook.

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s “Despacito,” featuring Justin Bieber, continues to make history. This time, the global hit has reached 1 billion streams on Spotify -- the first Spanish-language song to reach the milestone.

Mark Smotroff goes down to the crossroads of analog and digital.

Music streaming service Pandora has promoted David Gerbitz, who previously served as the company's executive VP of revenue operations, to the chief operating officer (COO) role

The Austrian music market saw revenue of 145.4 million euro in 2017, up over 6 percent from the previous year, according to a new report by IFPI Austria.

Musicoin is an ambitious project – so much so that its current white paper has the coin’s fourth stage of development titled as ‘Life on Mars’. They want to make what was previously thought impossible, possible. Musicoin’s developers need to be ambitious, as do music industry incumbents and their competitors.