Music Biz Banking on VR Concerts; Netflix Loves Music Content; Goodbye, iTunes; Spotify on Apple TV

The industry turned to live shows as their main source of income, yet the problem with live concerts is that they place a natural limit on the number of people who can attend them.

It’s time to bid farewell to iTunes, the once-revolutionary program that made online music sales mainstream and effectively blunted the impact of piracy.

Studio musicians are seeking something they have never had: residual payments for programs made specifically for streaming platforms.

Spotify has launched its long-awaited Apple TV app.  This is the first time that the company has launched an app for Apple’s set-top box and largely resembles different versions of the platform as offered on other TV devices such as Roku and PlayStation 4.

Netflix seems to release so many music-related projects — but are they just another box to check on the road to eyeball monopolization?

The funk classic saw a spike in sales and streams on September 21st.

Mr Eazi never planned on being an artist.

The high and low notes from around the international opera stage.

SoundCloud has a reputation as a platform for launching careers and finding your first audience.

The wealth distribution model of podcasts: 99% of podcasts don't make a dime.

This 10-year-old Swedish startup aims to transform the Indian music industry from piracy driven to content driven.

While for years millennials were the target demographic of most music business marketing, Generation Z has since risen up as the primary stakeholder in the contemporary marketplace, which is in turn reshaping how artists, labels, and companies market themselves.

“It’s still really the beginning,” says Charlie Hellman, head of Spotify’s creator marketplace. “This is the part of the conversation where we’re continuing to get feedback and trying to iterate the product.”

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