Who Wins When Artists Upload Directly to Spotify?; Amazon Music Unlimited Launches in Canada

The streaming service is cutting out the middleman for Noname and others who self-release

Apple is in a music-streaming arms race. It’s getting closer to 50m paying music subscribers worldwide, but remains approximately 39m behind Spotify’s premium global user-base.

The estate of rock and roll "teen idol" Ricky Nelson has filed a class action lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment, alleging the label violates contractual agreements with its artists by assessing an intercompany charge on international streaming revenue that deprives artists of royalties from foreign sales.

Amazon Music Unlimited finally launches in Canada, one year after Amazon Prime Music arrived in the country.

Sirius XM Holdings Inc. is so eager to reach listeners outside the car that it’s willing to take on some of the world’s largest technology companies.

YouTube flags videos that use copyrighted music in them -- so music licensing Musicbed platform is launching a new subscription tool and a way to tell YouTube's bots to back off. Connecting the subscription to a YouTube account will automatically clear flags for copyrighted music.

Spotify has been trying to lure independent artists to sign with it directly. But that doesn't make it a real rival to the Big 3.

Move over Daniel Ek and Lucian Grainge, Greg Maffei is now the most powerful executive in the music industry. Maffei is the president and CEO of Liberty Media, Chairman of Live Nation Entertainment and Chairman of SiriusXM, which yesterday acquired Pandora. If that's not enough to make Maffei music's new...

Nigerian publishing start-up Publiseer has announced a deal that enables it to distribute songs on YouTube Music. Publiseer is home to over a hundred independent writers and musicians.

Since launching in Sweden in October 2008, the 10-year-old Spotify has up-ended the global music industry, turning streaming music into a must-have service and proving that ownership of music is firmly a thing of the past.