Are We About to Have Streaming Wars?; The War Over Music Copyrights; Tencent Files for $1 Billion IPO

Paul Wilson speculates about what will happen when Qobuz enters the US market...

The surge in music streaming means a surge in income for those who own the copyrights to songs, and the growth of entertainment in emerging markets, growing use in digital videos, and potential use of music in new content formats like VR only expand this further.

Tencent Music Entertainment Group, the online-music arm of China’s largest social-media company, filed for a U.S. initial public offering.

dotBlockchain Media has scored its first major label and music publisher partnership with Warner Music Group. Warner Chappell publishing and WMG labels will work with the startup to create new ways to track their assets on the blockchain.

Spotify is entering the next phase in its music streaming history, with new goals and challenges.

Another day, another blockchain startup promising to (in the words of its launch announcement) “revolutionise the global music industry”.

Growth stats as percentages without the actual before-and-after numbers can be misleading: if the original base is very small, the significance diminishes.

Spotify is one of the best music streaming services out there. While it is mostly being used on iPhone and Android devices, Spotify has a web player...

RIAA President Mitch Glazier expressed disappointment in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the new North American trade deal poised to replace NAFTA.

The Canadian Mechanical Reproduction Rights Agency has struck a deal with the just-launched premium music streaming service, Amazon Music Unlimited