Record Labels Demand More Money for Songs on TikTok App; Why Data is a Double-Edged Sword for Radio

The three biggest record labels are demanding more money for songs played on TikTok and its Chinese counterpart Douyin, setting up a showdown with the hugely popular video apps, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Consumers are evaluating the value proposition of data-sharing with their favorite brands.

Fresh economic developments suggest that musicians may soon have new reasons to shake their fist in streaming’s direction (even if streaming is the main reason the industry is again printing money).

Julian Casablancas has called streaming services “a waste of time” and blamed advances in streaming tech for music having “gone backwards”

Pro-democracy music and a song that references the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre have mysteriously disappeared from the Chinese version of Apple Music.

A new plugin from MeterPlugs aims to give producers a better idea of what their tracks will sound like on different streaming platforms.

Spotify recently launched in India, but that path was long and complicated. We take the experience of Spotify and use it as a lens to look at why breaking into India is so difficult.

For the last decade and a half, the music industry was shaped heavily by iTunes.

Spotify is conquering more market share of the audio industry every month.

With strategic investments in rivals and rumored bids for Universal in the offing, Tencent is making some big moves on China's music streaming scene

South Africans now have at least nine music streaming platforms to choose from.

Spotify and Apple are at war with one another.