Portishead Go Digital; Kate Bush Runs Up the Charts; LimeWire, Winamp, Napster Find New Life in Web3

Portishead have digitised their musical archive and have uploaded HD versions of their music videos including 'Sour Times' and 'All Mine'

Thanks to "Stranger Things" on Netflix, a Kate Bush song from 1985 is running up the contemporary charts.

P2P and piracy-fuelled software are sailing the unexplored seas of Web3 – but will they bring about genuine change this time around?

More than a million music streaming subscriptions have been cancelled in the UK over the last three months, as customers try to save money.

A new partnership between music clip company Songclip and the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) aims to facilitate music licensing and compliance within the global app marketplace.

The Pulitzer winner calls Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers his “most present” album and also spends time at the Freedom Skatepark.

It offers artists a fixed fee upfront to get a track exclusively for 90 days, playing it in rotation within its app as part of a curated selection.

Spotify announced plans to acquire audiobooks company Findaway in November last year, but it's taken seven months to actually close the deal.

Belgium’s Parliament yesterday updated the country’s copyright laws to bring them in line with the 2019 European Copyright Directive and in doing so added a performer equitable remuneration right for streaming

A music-streaming study has revealed that only hip-hop and pop artists really benefit from the system's payment model.

Brand new iPhone app, New Path, is a MIDI sequencer that allows you to play with a range of tones and sounds on the go, all from your phone.

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