Spotify is quietly moving further into original video, dropping on Monday a new series about the hip-hop industry called “The Break” — which plays from inside RapCaviar and other signature playlists on the music-streaming service’s platform, living among songs rather than other videos.
Glassnote Music has ended its distribution deal with Universal Music Group and on Friday announced a new strategic partnership with Kobalt Music's AWAL.
Artificial intelligence and data are becoming more important to both the radio broadcasting and automotive community.
Amazon Music comes to Xbox One consoles along with a plethora of new changes as part of the console’s monthly update. Users can now stream music from the service on their machines.
With so many notable New York-based, indie rock-focused labels turning a decade old within the last year, it begs the question -- particularly for those smaller, boutique indie labels -- what was going on ten years ago?
Here's why.
It’s a growing, but comparatively small, slice of the audio marketplace at present.
Daniel Ek: Hey, I’ve got an idea! I could make money with a service called Spotify that gives away access to musicians’ product for free well almost free, and it’s all legal!
Not all issues in the music industry were solved by the Music Modernization Act: licensing of physical sound recordings (vinyl and CDs) will still occur on a per-work, per song basis. While there is still work to be done, the Music Modernization Act does solve some long-standing issues in the music industry.
A little while back, Billy Corgan pulled the 2007 Smashing Pumpkins album Zeitgeist from streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music.
Spotify launching a music app for Apple Watch, allowing music control and choices from recently played tunes, but no offline support.
