Mailchimp Powers New Björk Podcast; Bandcamp Fridays are Coming Back; Magroove App Promises to Reveal Your New Favorite Artist

Have you heard of Apoki? If you don't live in South Korea, that's perhaps not a surprise, but Sony Music would like to change that.

Artists can launch podcasts, but should they? Only if they're interesting enough is the blunt answer to that question.

Magroove vows to help you find the perfect match to your music taste. You can start from a favorite track, and the AI will suggest other music similar to that one. After listening to a small snippet of each song, you can either swipe right or left. All the songs you've approved are then automatically organized into a tailored playlist that can be synced with your favorite streaming service.

Bandcamp is bringing back the promotion where it waives its cut on music purchases to send more money to artists and their labels.

YouTube Music is changing the way it serves suggested songs by removing precise location-based recommendations.

The music industry and some of the world's biggest companies brawl over billions of dollars in royalties generated by streaming services.

The music industry remits billions of dollars in revenue yearly from the masterpieces music artists create in the form of songs.

In a new interview with Goldmine magazine, Joe Elliott said that streaming music services like Spotify and Apple Music have helped establish DEF LEPPARD as "a cool legacy band."

Music artists who stream over popular music streaming services are typically paid less than a penny for each stream. NFTs might be able to help.

One of the platform’s best features keeps an automatic playlist downloaded with all your top bops.

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