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We at Musik !D TV have voiced our concern for SoundCloud's future after they laid off 40 percent of its staff and closed their San Francisco and London offices. Now, there's no need for us and fellow musicians to be concerned because SoundCloud may be selling stakes to two major investors.

Bloomberg reported that Raine Gro...

 In late 2018, BMI and ASCAP plan to launch a new musical works database to offer more transparency to music users and the industry.

BMI and ASCAP are working with copyright and tech experts to analyze data from each of their current systems for inaccuracies in registrations, and share splits, ownership disputes and compli...

Based on an article published on Verge.com on June 29, 2017.

Sony plans to manufacture records for the first time since 1989. The Agence France-Presse reports that the company will soon start production in a factory southwest of Tokyo, and that records should start rolling out by March of next year. Although Sony didn...

Based on an articles published in Music Business Worldwide on June 15, 2017.

Spotify has officially confirmed that its platform’s audience is now made up of more than 140m monthly active users.

The figure represents a 40m climb on the  figure Daniel Ek announced this time last year – and is up by a very impressive 100m peop...

Based on an article published by Daniel Adrian Sanchez for Digital Music News on June 13, 2017

Yes, Spotify will limit certain albums to paying subscribers.  But they won’t be exclusive to Spotify.

To better highlight the contributions of songwriters and producers, Spotify recently introduced ‘Secret Genius.’...

Based on an article published by Tim Ingham of Music Business Worldwide on June 21, 2017

For the past two years, Spotify was very aggressive about trying to negotiate the royalty rate it paid record labels down from 55% of revenue closer towards 50%.

After two years of negotiations, Spotify finally reached a new l...

(By Lora Kolodny | Published on May 16, 2017 for Tech Crunch)

If RecordGram has its way, top record producers will all turn to their app, a kind of mobile recording studio, to find the next Justin Bieber or Nicki Minaj. And aspiring artists will all find beats, create songs and get signed to their first label through Recor...

(By TIM INGHAM | Published on May 5, 2017 for Music Business Worldwide)

Warner Music Group has inked a new global licensing deal with YouTube – but not without some serious reservations.

MBW has got hold of a leaked internal memo sent earlier today by WMG boss Steve Cooper, in which he reveals that the company has extended...

(By Marc Schneider | Published on March 31, 2017 for Billboard.com)

The Fair Play, Fair Pay Act, originally introduced in 2015, is back on the table.

A bipartisan group of legislators led by Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) have reintroduced the Fair Play Fair Pay Act, a bill that would establish a publ...

(By MUSIC CONNECTION | Published on May 03, 2017 for MUSIC CONNECTION)

musical.ly has integrated with Apple Music that enables subscribers to stream full-length songs within the app. musical.ly users ("musers") who are also Apple Music subscribers will have the ability to play a song from start to finish inside the platfor...