De La Soul Protests Streaming Deal for Its Classic Albums; SoundCloud's Urban Culture Streams Into Spotify, Apple Music

De La Soul's classic hip-hop records are finally coming to streaming. But the band members claim label Tommy Boy isn't paying them enough.

Artist first platform SoundCloud has thrown their hat in the ring for music distribution, by adding its own tools to premium accounts. With the top streaming artist being from the hip hop genre, SoundCloud will need to entice more indie rappers to join its platform.

Spotify is letting Indian music fans play any song on-demand from the free smartphone app, a feature it doesn't offer anywhere else.

new app called Record Radar scans your Spotify playlists to find those tracks on vinyl in stores, using Discogs' database.

iHeartMedia today announced it acquired Athens, Greece-based online audio technology company Radiojar Information Technology.

The focus on growing its ad business comes as most of Spotify’s revenue comes from the ad-free, subscription product.

12 steps for creating an intimate radio brand.

With all three major labels having published their financial results for the final quarter of 2018 – and thus for the year as a whole – we can get a picture of how their digital businesses grew.

Top Of The Spots has a simple premise: choose which of two randomly chosen tracks on Spotify got the most cumulative plays. Playing this free game is truly addictive, particularly for us music junkies, and far harder than you'd think. Play Top Of The Spots here.

AudioCoin, Musicoin, Opus, Aventus, Musiconomi and more… Music Ally has written about a variety of startups exploring the crossover between blockchain technology and the music industry, with several of these companies having launched their own ‘tokens’.Now there’s a site for keeping track of AND trading those tokens. It’s called MyMusicTokens.

Music streaming revenue is way up and growing, but will it be enough to offset the loss of physical sales?