How Bitcoin Technology Could Save Streaming Music Revenue; Amazon Is Now The 3rd Biggest Music Subscription Service

It's the biggest dilemma facing the modern music industry: how to fairly compensate artists for digitally distributed music. Do cryptocurrencies like...

Labels accuse YouTube of being the biggest threat to the industry since piracy in the 2000s.

At MIDiA we have long argued that Amazon is the dark horse of streaming music.

The streaming apocalypse is in full swing. Despite launching an on-demand subscription service last year to rival that of streaming juggernauts Apple Music and Spotify, SoundCloud has not had an easy time.

Spotify's Tuma Basa walks Billboard through the process of pitching and placing artists and songs on playlists at the world's largest streaming service.

Warner Music Group has acquired many of the core assets of concert discovery platform Songkick, including its website and app, along with the trademark.

Back in March, MBW revealed that Facebook was hiring for no less than three senior positions – all focused on the direct licensing of music.

Shutterstock photoBy Michael ScottThe 1999 launch of the file sharing service Napster was a seismic wake up call for the music industry. For many.

As “fake artists” rack up millions of Spotify plays, the company’s new AI lab–intended to help artists–has raised the specter of songs written by robots.

It's no longer enough to simply offer on-demand music as part of the value proposition for music streaming services - you have to enable discovery of new..

The Latin Alternative Music Conference hosted a series of panel discussions tailored for the different conundrums that arise when U.S., Latin and Latin American artists try to swim in the mainstream of the music business in the United States.