Spotify Hits 200 Million Active Users; How Hip-Hop Podcasts Will Adapt in the Streaming Era; The Most Exciting Music Things from CES

Spotify has added nine million monthly active users in the last couple months, a company spokesperson announced.

Streaming services and media companies both want the next big hip-hop podcast, but creators need to be smart about which type of company to partner with.

Music has been center stage this week at CES 2019, the latest edition of Las Vegas's international annual consumer electronics bacchanal.

Paris-based music streaming service Deezer has eased its tradition of keeping subscriber numbers close to the vest, revealing that it ended 2018 with seven million paid users and 14 million monthly active users.

"This sort of thing happens all the time."

Kobalt’s recordings company AWAL has entered into a year-long partnership with The Other Nashville Society (TONS), a community of non-country music industry professionals and artists.

SiriusXM ended last year with around 34 million subscribers for its US satellite-radio service, including 28.9 million classed as ‘self-pay’ subscribers (as opposed to being on a trial or having it bundled with their car).

While much has changed in the music industry over the past ten years, our listening habits while on the move have, until now, remained much the same. Historically AM/FM listening has dominated in the car but, while this is still somewhat true, traditional radio's grip on drivers seems to be...

A new report based on almost 50 interviews with top-level executives at major and independent record labels, industry analyst and educator Larry Miller digs into how streaming and the digital age have made record labels an indispensable partner for the most ambitious new, developing and superstar artists.

When examining the music industry of the past decade, one may be hard-pressed to pinpoint exactly when streaming platforms were introduced.

Former Spice Girls manager and American Idol creator Simon Fuller is hard at work with a new band in 2019, Now United, which includes members drawn from a host of countries.