Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ is both a chart-topping phenomenon and a turning point for the music business. Here’s what happens when a social media platform becomes a label.
The app that made it so easy to play music on your Mac that it transformed the entire music industry is going away, but the legacy lives on.
It’s well documented that a popular tactic to generate more streams and therefore more revenue in the streaming age is for artists to release albums with as many tracks on as possible.
Madonna will launch her own SiriusXM channel on July 1, the broadcasting company revealed today (June 28).
Spotify seems to have learned little from the Facebook developer platform’s scandals despite getting a huge boost from the social network in its early days.
Penalties for artists, penalties for staff, more funding – why wasn't any of this in the industry's own policies?
Leaked Playboi Carti songs keep getting added to Apple Music and Spotify. The fans behind these unauthorized uploads tell Complex why and how it's happening.
The Royal Opera House will live stream the July 2, 2019 performance of Bizet’s “Carmen” via the company’s Facebook and YouTube pages.
Company registers an average of over 5,000 new songs every week
JOOX was one of the first global music streaming services to launch in South Africa and it has been heavily involved across many sectors of the music industry, supporting up-and-coming artists.
Spotify has ordered comedy podcast series 'I'm Gonna Be Kevin Bacon,' in which the actor stars as a heightened version of himself.
Stats firm Kantar has shared some new music sales data to coincide with the start of the festival season.
Radiohead met drama with creativity, Metallica turned to damaging lawfare.
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