What If Tidal Streaming Vanished?; Facebook, Universal Music Group Strike Global Licensing Agreement

The Internet cloud giveth, but it can also take it away...

Facebook and Universal Music Group today announced a global, multi-year licensing agreement.

Amazon Music will end its streaming support for users' uploaded mp3s in 2019, the service announced this week with a statement on its website.

The Neil Young Archives are already a huge treat for fans, and behind it, writes Ben Rayner, is a service that the beloved rocker hopes will bring the best audio to the masses at last.

The long awaited Music Modernization Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), was finally introduced into the House of Representatives today in a move that would create a collective to manage a blanket mechanical licensing system.

We should call this what it is: the automation of selling out.

Last year marked streaming’s full arrival in the world of music consumption.

The weather conditions and the Christmas season definitely has an effect on streaming listening behavior.

Here Chris Robley reveals the DIY success story that is Lance Allen, an artist who doesn't tour or sell merch, but is able to earn a full time living from music through the combined revenue of guitar lessons and money generated from streams on Pandora, Spotify, and YouTube.

Michael Stipe and Mike Mills of R.E.M. break down "Try Not to Breathe" from their seminal album Automatic for the People.