Spotify: Don't Compare Us to Napster; How is New Music Friday Doing? BE-AT.tv Boss Talks Livestreams

Spotify, facing a lawsuit claiming "staggering" copyright infringement, is attempting to distinguish itself from illegal file sharing services of yore and putting an issue front and center that will likely command notice throughout the entertainment and tech sectors.

Initially a campaign to combat piracy and make consumers happier, New Music Friday now seems to be straddling identities between a crucial marketing tool and a glitzy costume for an outdated industry rulebook meant to be broken.

Since its inception 16 ago years, Discogs (short for Discographies) has transformed from a kind of Wikipedia for vinyl into the world’s biggest facilitator of buying, selling and cataloguing physical music releases online.

After being the only game in town for decades, broadcast radio is now battling Internet services that offer better features and vastly different listening experiences.

I recently completed my product design internship at Spotify in NYC. Although my time here was limited, I’d like to share my experience.

ReverbNation gave rise to popular music acts like Imagine Dragons. Now it has evolved to become an A&R-type farm system for record labels seeking new talent.

With streaming leading the charge, Universal Music Group enjoyed a 15.6 percent increase in revenue to €1.382 euros ($1.49 billion) for the second-quarter period ending June 30, 2017, the company announced.

NPR Music’s ‘First Listen’ series has made the late Gregg Allman’s final album ‘Southern Blood’ available to stream.

LG's V30 is clearly the most hyped handset at this year’s IFA, but Motorola’s got a surprise contender for the most interesting. While the Lenovo-owned..

Many advertisers want reach, but when Canada Dry executed a campaign with Spotify and Adobe, it optimized against a softer metric: mindset.

BE-AT.tv was founded in 2008 as a livestreaming website specialising in electronic music. Since then, it has seen a number of competitors emerge.

Spotify has shared the songs that listeners streamed most this summer.

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