New metrics are changing the way musicians are making music.
Austin, Texas, is launching a pilot program that will let fans digitally tip their favorite musicians.
Audio entertainment giant SiriusXM, the home of Howard Stern, added 174,000 satellite radio subscribers and 64,000 Pandora subscribers in the second quarter.
What if the major music companies teamed with Merlin — the body that represents the recorded interests of the largest independent labels worldwide — and raised the capital to buy Spotify?
Tool has said that its catalog will finally be available to stream and to purchase digitally on August 2nd.
Mubert's Alexey Kochetkov enters the debate over human versus algorithmic music creation
Sony Music Entertainment’s revenue is up 11% year-over-year in the first fiscal quarter of 2019, with streaming revenue soaring 27%.
One artist has imagined what the internet’s biggest services would look like if they were made for a bygone analogue era, whether it’s an Instagram-branded Polaroid camera, or a Spotify cassette player.
Is Apple planning to cut its Apple Music trial short?
Everyone’s trying to take on Netflix.
Vodafone's 'My Muze' music streaming and download app has reached over a million installs on the Play Store following its launch in April.
Currently only available in Swedish, Spotify Untold recounts the "hero's journey" of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek. Chris Castle explores the curious timing of the book's release and its correlated US book tour.
There’s more data about music consumption than ever before. That doesn’t mean we understand who’s the most popular.
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