Spotify in South Africa; Deezer Now Works with Amazon Alexa; End of iTunes?

Music streaming service Spotify will launch in South Africa this month.

Deezer Premium+ users will also be able to take advantage of Deezer’s Flow feature, which plays “a never-ending personal soundtrack” directly through Alexa voice commands.

Whether Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group will share any funds from the shares they own from Spotify when the streaming service goes public is an up-to-now-unanswered question.

Die-tunes: Industry experts predict that Apple will bin its music download store

Music streaming platforms are mushrooming around the region.

It's taken two years and an IPO, but Universal Music Group is now ready to commit to sharing with its artists the bounty it will generate from the sale of its Spotify stock.

In a matter of hours last Wednesday, music streaming services in India suddenly came under the spotlight.

CD Baby, now celebrating its 20th year in existence, unveiled a few significant milestones: in 2017 alone, CD Baby paid out $80.1 million dollars to independent artists, a 33 percent increase over 2016; and it passed $600 million in payouts over the past 20 years.

Spotify's Daniel Ek and Troy Carter will be presented with the prestigious Music Visionary of the Year award by UJA-Federation of New York. 

While recent ERA and BPI figures have made much of the growth in revenue and consumption of music streaming services in the UK, they didn’t explains how many people in Britain pay for a music subscription.

What we learned from the streaming company’s public filing.

Spotify's planned IPO will make the major record labels hundreds of millions of dollars, but will artists also benefit from the potential windfall?

Listen to “Hell-On,” the lead single and title track from the forthcoming new Neko Case album.