Why Spotify is Not a Music Company; Lincoln to Integrate Tidal Music Streaming in New Vehicles

On October 28, 2018, as I was on Spotify’s mobile app searching for a certain music playlist I had made for myself, I received the following, unsolicited push notification: The notification was for…

Tidal, the Jay-Z backed music streaming service, primarily caters to audiophiles. Its main customer is the person that’s willing to pay a...

Following the Jan. 3-5 airing of Lifetime's six-part docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, on-demand streams of R. Kelly's music soared, as did his Wikipedia page views. Conversely, radio airplay has plunged for the controversial R&B singer.

On the alt-rock airwaves, new voices boast bars, not Fenders.

CD Baby artists earned "well over" $100 million in 2018, which represents a 25% increase over 2017 when artists earned $80.1 million. Industry analysts are pointing to two strategic opportunities that CD Baby was able to leverage this past year that helped fuel the increase in artist payouts.

MQA, the world’s leading company delivering master quality audio in a file small enough to stream, today announced that the company is expanding its innovative technology to the automotive market

Research firm Nielsen published its 2018 figures for the US recorded-music market earlier this week, but it has also put out some numbers for Canada. The topline stat: total ‘album equivalent audio consumption’ was up by 21% in 2018. And yes, streaming was key.

The Music Network is Australia’s #1 source for music industry news, charts and jobs since 1994.

The number of plays attracted by the Top 50 audio streaming hits last year went DOWN

Music consumption shot up in 2018, no thanks to album or song sales.

Lady Gaga is pulling her 2013 collaboration with R. Kelly “Do What U Want” from iTunes and all streaming services, as fallout from sexual assault allegations brought to forefront by a new Lifetime docu-series "Surviving R. Kelly."

Drake was king of streams in 2018, as he finished the year as the most-streamed artist in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music.

Last year, Spotify announced that it was going begin a focus on podcasters, and at Tuesday's C Space Storyteller session at CES 2019, company VP Courtney Holt revealed some of the ways it is happening, including introducing journalist Jemele Hill on stage as the latest exclusive podcaster to sign with Spotify.