Song Skip Rates and Our Attention Span; The Failed MP3 Player That Changed the Music Biz Forever

A study of song skip rates on Spotify tells us a lot about our attention span these days.

These days you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who's heard of the Rio PMP300, especially after the iPod became as much a household name as the Walkman.

Live-music tapers, data archivists, and media technologists are creating an authentic musical underground in a freemium world, a hideout where listening habits go unmonitored and unmonetized.

China’s answer to Spotify may push on with a $2 billion New York listing next month, but it’s a bad time of year to sell new equity.

Apple wants to 'scale' its music streaming business in China. And it's hoping a new head of music for the region will be able to help it do so.

The agreement between the two companies brings independent labels and Merlin's recording artists into the mix, alongside Mixcloud's recent agreements with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group.

The new plans are the first significant changes to YouTube’s music subscription program since its launch last year. At that time, YouTube had also rebranded its ad-free YouTube Red subscription as YouTube Premium.

iHeartMedia names post-bankruptcy board and Gail Austin and John Scott

Funds from the token sale will be used for development of the eMusic Blockchain project, a music distribution and payments platform.

Spotify's been busy announcing a bunch of new features this week, including an app for Google's Wear OS and better direct uploads for artists -- and it's made s...