Spotify's Video Podcasts to be Fertile Ground for Ads; Music Royalties in China; Lollapalooza Preps Four-Night Virtual Fest

With its new Spotify video podcast experience, Spotify is making is podcast ambitions clear: It wants to be YouTube for podcasts, and it's all about the ads.

China is digital. Its music market is almost entirely digital. Physical sales here comprise only about 20% of the total market.  China has more than twice

The free, four-night broadcast will air exclusively on YouTube.

As gamers move from the basement into the entertainment business, esports company FaZe Clan is emerging as a cultural behemoth with music-industry backing.

In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the formation of One Direction, the boy band’s catalog saw a 173.6 percent gain in U.S. on-demand streams the day of the anniversary (July 23), according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

Apple has just released iOS 14 beta 3 for developers, and while we are still looking for what has changed, we have already found some visible updates to the Music app and Apple Music.

Vydia’s Roy LaManna on distribution, DIY… and why, if the record industry’s not careful, artists might find themselves replaces by virtual characters.

The coronavirus crisis has put classical music on hold, but that hasn't stopped some Tucson conductors, composers and musicians from engaging with their audiences.

With RouteNote, it's super easy and free to upload your own music to Resso, as well as many other top stores and streaming services around the world.

Mark and Jay Duplass, creators of HBO’s Room 104, are the latest creatives to sign up to Spotify to create original podcasts.

We reported earlier this month on plans by Indian collecting society IPRS to start charging licensing fees for music livestreams.

Whether you’re a converted fan, only vaguely familiar or a complete MMJ novice, here is a bunch of tracks to draw you in, starting with their more accessible and ‘easy on the ear’ songs, before taking you somewhere more intriguing, and beguiling.

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