Glassnote Sues Donald Glover Over Streaming Royalties; Tencent Plans Spinoff, U.S. Listing of Online Music Biz; Apple Music Overtakes Spotify in U.S. Subscribers

TMZ reports that Glassnote Records has filed a lawsuit claiming that Glover has received over $700,000 in streaming royalties since 2012 and hasn’t paid them their percentage of the earnings.

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. is planning to spin off its online music entertainment business and list its shares in the U.S. through a public offering, the company said in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange Sunday.

Thanks to a Wall Street Journal report in February, we knew Apple Music was poised to overtake Spotify in terms of US subscribers this summer. Well, it reported...

Kobalt Music announced  that Rian Liebenberg will be taking over as CTO, as Richard Thompson has decided to step down from the position. However, Thompson will continue to advise the company as emeritus CTO.

Fueled by a 45 percent rise in on-demand streams, the amount of music Americans either bought or streamed during the first half of 2018 increased by 18 percent over the same period a year earlier, a report out Friday revealed.

Imogen Heap is trailblazing blockchain technology to redress the imbalance many musicians suffer. Actually getting paid for their work.

A recent survey by KaKao, the operator of the nation’s largest music streaming service, Melon, found that subscribers to the service used the “music recommendation function” 28 percent more often on rainy days than on sunny ones.

Indie labels now have a global reach has they now account for more than 14 billion streams a month, according to indie label association Merlin.

If you've ever played a YouTube video for what it seems like the thousandth time to listen to your instrument's part of a composition, you'll love MIT's new AI....

Laurence Juber, former guitarist for Paul McCartney and Wings, shares some thoughts.

Here's a comprehensive look at all the music streaming options available to Canadians, and how they stack up.