Indie distributors TuneCore and CD Baby each entered partnerships this week with Chinese music streaming giant Tencent, bringing their artists' recordings to a massive new listener base.
The future of music streaming is radio, but not as we know it. Here's what next for Apple Music, according to Oliver Schusser and Zane Lowe
Since launching stateside in 2011, the green logo of Spotify has come to be, almost like Kleenex, synonymous with the weird new world of streaming. So, dozens of billions of dollars later, what's up?
Concert discovery hub Bandsintown is launching the first data-driven online live music charts, tracking interest in artists' touring activity in 10 local U.S. cities and key international markets.
A couple of weeks ago I received an email from an A&R person at a global dance music label. It was a pretty standard email along the lines of “hey we like your song, would you be interest…
Spotify is opening up its Canvas feature to more artists.
The tech giant is pulling the pieces of its services ecosystem together.
Spotify isn't the only large music service to launch on Apple TV this week. Amazon Music is now available on Apple's media box in 13 countries, including the US...
Get ready music fans. Social virtual reality could take the experience of your favorite artist and/or festival to a completely new level of experience. Go inside, now.
Since the rise of social media and other online platforms like YouTube and Facebook, artists have been able to reach their audiences with more ease and efficiency than ever thought possible.
I live for the spine-tingling synth solo or the foot-tapping disco beat.
MBW hears that Ole Obermann will be getting a big gig at social video service.
Power of Women recognizes the female music executives moving the needle in 2019, among them: Spring Aspers, Allison Kaye and Sylvia Rhone.
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