Spotify Pushes Beyond Just Streaming; Amazon is Out of the Music Streaming Shadows

Few people have heard of Lauv, Russell Dickerson, or Trippie Red. In a couple of months, everyone will.  Spotify—the biggest music-streaming service in the world right now, with 140 million active users, 60 million of whom are paying subscribers—this week launched RISE, a program that promotes hand-picked emerging artists.

We have the biggest distribution system in the world for streaming music, so why not use that to help young artists,” Troy Carter, Spotify’s head of creator services, said to Billboard.

Earlier this year, Sonos founder John McFarland stepped down from his role as CEO after 14 years on the job, admitting he had allowed his company to be beaten to the punch by Amazon when it came to making voice-activated speakers.

But nine months later, Sonos is working to stay in the game with its new Sonos One speaker.

We’ll stress upfront that this isn’t an official announcement from Amazon: the company hasn’t abandoned its policy of keeping its key music stats to itself.

Despite its historical resilience, some researchers say if radio doesn’t adapt to the rise of digital, its days are numbered.

Billboard is changing the way it formulates its charts, but will not be including YouTube views. Is the exclusion coming from label pressure?

It all depends on your definition.

Music icon Antoine “Fats” Domino passed away Tuesday, leaving a legacy and an incalculable impact on future generations of musicians and fans. (Click here for a tribute station at Pandora,…

"Best.Cover.Ever.", a YouTube original series featuring aspiring singers competing to win the chance to sing a duet with their idols, will debut exclusively on the ad-supported video platform worldwide on Nov. 20.

Maybe KUVO can help answer "Track ID?" too

With every music-streaming service now keen on making original video projects with artists, should the latter pick one partner? Not if you're Sam Smith.

Live streaming and on-demand audio service TuneIn has appointed Holly Lim as Chief Financial Officer. The news comes little over a year after Lim joined SoundCloud as CFO from her prior role at Google.

Unsurprisingly, given the record-breaking success of Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's song of the summer "Despacito," Latin music revenue in the United States is up 44 percent in the first half of 2017 over the same period last year, according to the RIAA, reaching $115 million.