SoundCloud’s mission has been to offer a free-to-register music platform with little or no advertising. It has gained a reputation since its foundation in 2007…
Adele is officially the top selling artist of 2015. 25 sold more than the next three ranked albums combined in the U.S. and broke all…
The logistics of correctly attributing the money earned from the sale and performance of recorded music has always been a daunting task. This is a…
In response to the transition from digital music downloads to the rise of music streaming, Apple Music was launched on June 30th. Its debut has…
Nielsen recently published its annual Music 360 Report, detailing consumer spending in music, especially subscription services. According to Nielsen, the appetite for music in the…
Apple revolutionized the music industry with the launch of the iPod and iTunes in 2003, when it became the first company to monetize music successfully…
In the last four months three new streaming platforms were launched: Apple Music, Tidal, and Google Play Music. Others, among them YouTube, Deezer, and Rdio,…
Of the issues that have bedeviled the music industry, perhaps the most insidious has been that of transparency, or, more accurately, a lack thereof. In…
Before celebrity hip-hop mogul and businessman Jay Z came along, WiMP and Tidal hardly made an impact on music streaming. The two services are now…
It’s been rumored for quite some time that Google is working on an on-demand music streaming service to be run through their video streaming service…
On February 5, 2015, the US Copyright Office released a comprehensive set of recommendations on how to revise copyright law called “Copyright and the Music…
Records and live performances define the state of the music market. 2014 was special for two things: a consumer preference for accessing a recording with…
A&R executives are being forced to change their game. This is in part because streaming services such as Spotify and YouTube are fragmenting the music…
On September 19th, the Alibaba Group had its Initial Public Offering, the largest in history, on the New York Stock Exchange. Alibaba quickly became the…