Radiohead Dropped 18 Hours of Unreleased Music to Screw Pirates; Spotify Playlist Combines Music, News, Podcasts; Pandora Debuts Digital Audio Consultancy Ahead of Cannes

It's impressive to see Radiohead release that much material to spite an aspiring pirate.

In its latest move to bring podcasts to the forefront, Spotify is launching a new personalized playlist called Your Daily Drive on Wednesday, which will combine music with news updates from popular podcasts produced by outlets including The Wall Street Journal, NPR and PRI.

Pandora on Wednesday launched a new digital audio consultancy dubbed Studio Resonate, aimed at helping brands navigate how their logo should sound. 

Global music marketplace BeatStars, where Lil Nas X found his "Old Town Road" beat, has paid out more than $50 million to producers who license and sell their work on the platform.

Catalog includes tracks from well-known producers and songwriters

About half the 39 titles that topped the charts last year were sold as part of ticket or merchandise “bundles.” Now even some who benefited from the strategy are complaining.

The idea of the concert series was born originally from the third most followed playlist on the platform, ¡Viva Latino! Playlist.

TikTok now has 200 million registered users, with 120 million using the short video app every month.

iTunes may be no more, but it wasn't a surprise to anyone paying attention. The culprit? Streaming services.

What is Happening to Streaming’s Superstars? My conclusions: 1. The major labels are screwed. 2. Rock isn’t as dead as we think it is. 3. When other genres adopt streaming, hip-hop’s he…

Shazam can now identify music and songs playing internally through headphones. The feature, called Pop-up Shazam, works with music playing

Today, Apple exec Craig Federighi revealed the end of iTunes. Here’s what happened.

Entitled Doom Nights, the special edition will have scene-setting soundbites preceding each track.

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