How Do Songs End Up On Spotify Playlists Anyway?; Royalties, Investors, and the New Music Economy

What does it take to get a song on a popular Spotify playlist? Money? The right record label? A good PR team?

Record labels and publishers for decades served as the music industry’s “bank.” They provided the advances artists lived on while making new music, and also paid for services like recording, shipping, marketing and more. No longer

On Aug. 17 you can live stream Coldplay's Head Full of Dreams Tour live in Virtual Reality.

Streaming doesn’t pay? Tell that the three major labels.

What the hell is wrong with TIDAL? Here are just a few of our gripes, penned in an open letter to Richard Sanders, TIDAL's 4th CEO in 2 years.

AT&T Creator Lab has teamed up with Thirty Seconds to Mars to live stream the band's Aug. 12 concert, and provide wireless connectivity and interactive fan experiences for their upcoming Camp Mars Music Festival. The music fest takes place Aug. 11-14 in Malibu, California.

Apple has rolled out its free Beats headphones with MacBook purchase to the United Kingdom and Europe.

In music, movies, and television, the better produced something is, the more it usually costs. In podcasts and audiobooks, the reverse is true: the most popular free stuff all sounds expensive, and the most popular expensive stuff mostly sounds cheap.

It was Peel’s particular talent for discovering and promoting such artists that set him apart from his peers.

Mark Smotroff has an audiophile ah-ha moment