JAAK Moves Ahead with Blockchain Pilot; Pirate Radio Stations Explode on YouTube; Will Spotify Ever Make Money?

London-based tech start-up JAAK has announced a successful pilot of its blockchain network, KORD. Pilot participants include BMG, Global Music Rights, Outdustry, Phoenix Music International Ltd, Sentric, Warner Music Group and Warner/Chappell Music.

A trick of YouTube’s algorithms has led to the blossoming of hundreds of unlicensed, independent radio stations on the site, reminiscent of an age of underground broadcasts in the previous century.

Paid streams now count three times as much on free streams on Billboard's album charts

Spotify has a broken business model.

Just over five years ago I wrote a piece called ‘Music collections in the era of the cloud’, in which I lamented the then-contemporary streaming services’ inabilities to properly represent a users’…

Spotify and Instagram announced a new partnership on Tuesday that will allow users to share what their listening to via their Instagram Stories or Instagram Direct and even encourage their followers and friends to tune in as well.

Pandora have released their financial results for the first quarter of the year ending March 31, 2018.

New on-line companies like SoundBetter and BeatStars give artists and producers a new lifeline.

Adrian Swish is the Founder/ CEO of Swish Management and Digital Currensy Inc. He is on a mission to revolutionize the way creators get paid royalties and the way they pay each other.

“[Content Match] will let you identify who reuploaders are and let you take some actions,” explains product manager Barbara Macdonald -- including doing nothing, contacting offending channels, or asking YouTube to delete the video in question.

While execs might not use the words "vertical integration," that goal is arguably alive and well within the company.

JioMusic, the free-to-use music app, topped the charts in terms of unique visitors which stood at 19 million in February this year.