Independent Radio and the Challenges of Streaming Music

As many of you are aware, we announced new listening limits in October. We're not happy about having to establish these limits, and we wouldn't be taking this path if we had another option. In this post, I’d like to go a bit deeper in explaining our decision, providing more context and detailing our underlying…

We speak to Napster about the past, present and future of music distribution.

Chinese internet giant Tencent is increasing the reach of its Joox music-streaming service in Southeast Asia and exploring plans to enter the Indian market.

Although the high volume of music traffic which YouTube attracts would make it seem as though the platform is the industry's best friend, the value gap which the service perpetuates has earned it a fair amount of ire.

Atlantic Records is releasing a compilation of recent songs that have inspired silly dance crazes, but the album is also a strategic experiment to save a highly-profitable format in the era of streaming music.

As the title indicates, Anthology Revisited is basically an extended audio-only remix of The Beatles Anthology, the multipart TV documentary that originally aired on Britain’s BBC and America’s ABC in November 1995.

The service, Groot Tunes (“groot” meaning “big” in Afrikaans), has gone live in South Africa, with a UK launch next and the US and Australia planned for later in 2017.

The lack of a dedicated website disappointed some users this year.

Capitol Records is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a case that could send shockwaves through the music and digital industries.

Music production is already being taken on by artificial intelligence projects. Companies like Sony, Google, and IBM are changing music composition.

If you obsessively spin Sia, Shawn Mendes, DNCE, Fetty Wap, Migos, Young Thug or KoRn on Spotify, you may have a present headed your way.