

SPOTIFY ACQUIRES BLOCKCHAIN FIRM TO BUILD ‘A MORE TRANSPARENT MUSIC INDUSTRY’
(By Music Business Worldwide Staff | Published on April 26, 2017 for musicbusinessworldwide.com) Spotify has acquired the team behind...
Kendrick Lamar Charts All 14 Tracks From 'DAMN.' on Billboard Hot 100
(By Amaya Mendizabal | Published on April 24, 2017 for Billboard.com) The rapper is just the fifth artist to land that many songs on the...


ASCAP Wants You to Stand With Songwriters
(By ASCAP Staff | Published on April 24, 2017 for standwithsongwriters.org) Songwriters explain the challenges facing today's music...
With a new exclusives deal, Spotify just gave 50 million people a good reason to pirate music
(By Amy X. Wang | Published on April 04, 2017 for Quartz) Remember in 2014 when Taylor Swift unleashed a flood of rage on Spotify? “Music...


Nicki Minaj Passes Aretha Franklin for Most Billboard Hot 100 Hits of Any Female Artist
(By Gary Trust| Published on March 20, 2017 for Billboard.com) Minaj debuts with three tracks, upping her count to 76 career Hot 100...


Warning: Universal Music Is Ripping Down ALL Facebook Cover Videos
(By Paul Resnikoff | Published on March 23, 2017 for Digital Music News) Uploading cover song videos to Facebook? You might want to stop...
What Big Tech's Quarterly Reports Say About The Future Of Music
(By ANDREW FLANAGAN | Published on February 09, 2017 for The Record/NPR) Our relationships with and access to music lie between rocks and...


A MONTH AFTER POSTING HEAVY LOSSES, SOUNDCLOUD LOSES TWO TOP EXECS
(By TIM INGHAM | Published on February 12, 2017 for Music Business Worldwide) SoundCloud has parted ways with its COO Marc Strigel and...


How to Win a Grammy in 2017
What does it take to win the Grammy? Would you ever imagine that you would work your whole life, sacrifice every waking moment, every...
Lady Gaga's Sales Surge Over 1,000% in Wake of Super Bowl Halftime Show
(By Keith Caulfield | Published on February 6, 2017 for Billboard.com) Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl halftime show performance on Feb. 5 scored...