Is Asia Spotify’s Weak Spot?; The District is Reshaping the Music Business; The Case for Napster

Its US$26 billion stock debut has tech industry mouths watering, but the music streaming company may have hit a bum note in the region, where piracy, limited budgets and a love of karaoke are conspiring against it.

By managing YouTube streaming accounts, it's formed one of the biggest music distribution networks in the world.

On stage at Coachella, Josh Conway could practically taste it. He and his compatriots in the indie band The Marias were playing the largest music festival in North America. They were on the verge of making it.

Napster is the catalyst which was needed to spearhead the movement. But sadly, it is also the ship that had to sink for others’ sake.

Spotify disclosed on Tuesday that it's spending at least $447 million on Google's cloud over the next three years.

Part of our strategy blog series, which will investigate the paths to building decentralised infrastructure for the intellectual property industries.

It's Record Store Day this weekend, which means tons of lovingly curated vinyl releases in your local indie shop. But, even as streaming becomes the dominant format, the biz shouldn't neglect CD buyers. Music Week explains why...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced his company has reached over 100 million subscribing Prime members, a new milestone for the 13-year-old program.

Vevo uses YouTube for a large chunk of its distribution and viewership.

A number of classic releases from 2010 through 2012 have been collected on the services.

Being a true aggregator means gaining power over supply; Spotify doesn’t have that — the company doesn’t even have control over its marginal costs — and it’s hard to see where the profits come from.

TheWaveVR, a social virtual reality platform for music and visual arts experiences has closed a $6 million Series A funding round.