Judge Tosses Block Shareholder Lawsuit Over ‘Terrible’ Tidal Purchase by AP. Originally published 10 May, 2023.TIL: Jack Dorsey and Jay Z “summer” together. Which is nice.Reply to this link on my website →Hard to tell whether this is incompetence or fraud, but basically Dorsey ga … | Continue reading
A coalition of label marketers worked with MTV, radio stations and music stars to sell skeptical executives on the format — and delivered a boom that lasted for nearly 20 years. | Continue reading
Inside the brazen but surprisingly simple scheme that took royalties from songs by artists like Daddy Yankee, Anuel AA, Julio Iglesias and more. | Continue reading
“Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” Mitchell wrote on her official website Friday. | Continue reading
Gerhard Behles and his partners wrote the code that makes modern pop sing — and makes investors drool. But they’re not selling. | Continue reading
Aaliyah’s uncle, Blackground Records founder Barry Hankerson, has struck a deal with EMPIRE to put his catalog back on the market after a decade out of print. | Continue reading
A Norwegian company is planning to create a doomsday vault to preserve the world’s most important music recordings for at least 1,000 years. | Continue reading
Billboard spoke with Eddy Cue, Apple’s svp of internet software and services about lossless and what Spatial Audio may mean for the future of music consumption. | Continue reading
After 10 years of haggling, Congress officially passed the The Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act late Monday evening (Dec. 21) as part of the Ominbus COVID-19 Relief Bill. | Continue reading
Has streaming volume really peaked in the U.S., or is the current stalled growth a blip? | Continue reading
Ticketmaster has been working on a framework for post-pandemic fan safety that uses smart phones to verify fans' vaccination status or COVID-19 test results. | Continue reading
Ticketmaster has been working on a framework for post-pandemic fan safety that uses smart phones to verify fans' vaccination status or COVID-19 test results. | Continue reading
Billboard is changing the rules to its Billboard 200, Hot 100 and other album and song charts, in an effort to rectify how sales are counted with respect to album bundles with merchandise and concert tickets. | Continue reading
On Saturday night (July 4), West took to Twitter to announce he is running for president, sharing the hashtag #2020VISION. | Continue reading
Florian Schneider, who co-founded the influential electronic band Kraftwerk, has died. | Continue reading
With venues and bars shut down from coast-to-coast, here's your guide to the best livestreamed music content right now. | Continue reading
Two ticket touts who bought and resold large numbers of Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift concert tickets online have been jailed for a total of six and a half years in a landmark British court case. | Continue reading
Cox Communications was found liable for piracy infringement of more than 10,000 musical works, awarding $1 billion statutory damages to plaintiffs Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and EMI. | Continue reading
In a move to bring more transparency and potentially help reduce black-box royalties, SoundExchange is updating its website to allow artists and labels to now see all recordings currently associated with their accounts. | Continue reading
At just 17, Billie Eilish has racked up billions of streams and, in the process, become a model for how classic strategy can work in the digital age. She still finds it all a little ‘weird.’ | Continue reading
On Wednesday (August 7) Apple Music announced the launch of Apple Digital Masters, a new initiative by the streaming giant that combines all of its “Mastered for iTunes” offerings into one global catalog. | Continue reading
A nearly 20-year legal battle over the unauthorized sampling of a Kraftwerk song appears to finally be at an end after the European Court of Justice ruled in favor of the pioneering German group. | Continue reading
Apple Music has rebranded its The A-List: Alternative playlist as ALT CTRL, spotlighting new music across the broad spectrum of alternative music, Billboard can exclusively reveal. The playlist will be handpicked by the company’s staff curators. | Continue reading
In 15 months, Oliver Schusser streamlined Apple’s premier service and united its divided ranks. Is a “grown-up” what the company needs to chart a course to global growth and profitability? | Continue reading
“You hear Tim talk a lot about humanity -- how we’re at the crossroads between the liberal arts and technology,” says Oliver Schusser. “It’s got to be both.” The new leader of Apple Music (the Tim in question would be his boss, Apple CEO Cook) is relaxing in his sun-drenched corn … | Continue reading
In February 2017, days before Metallica announced its WorldWired North American stadium tour, Live Nation president of U.S. concerts Bob Roux spoke by phone with a little-known wealth adviser turned event promoter who had been tasked by an associate of the band to sell 88,000 tic … | Continue reading
From Abbey Road to The Village Studios, an inside look at the facilities where some of the world’s most iconic music has been made and today’s hitmakers find inspiration. | Continue reading
Users who “pre-save” upcoming releases to their Spotify accounts can hear music as soon as it’s out — but may not realize how much data they’re giving up in order to do so. | Continue reading
The Chinese tech startup behind popular video-sharing app TikTok is planning to jump into the music streaming game. | Continue reading
The more than decade-long battle over the .music top-level domain extension has finally come to an end. The victor: DotMusic Limited, a company founded by Cypriot entrepreneur Constantine Roussos that won out over such heavy hitters as Google and Amazon. | Continue reading
Amazon is readying to launch a free, ad-supported music service as soon as next week, sources familiar with the plan tell Billboard. | Continue reading
Direct-to-fan music platform PledgeMusic started as a way to connect bands to their biggest fans, but the company has lately struggled to pay its artists on time -- if at all. | Continue reading
SoundCloud co-founder Eric Wahlforss announced on Wednesday (Jan. 23) he will be stepping down from his day-to-day role as chief product officer and transition into an advisory role for the streaming service effective March 1. | Continue reading
Spotify is making it easier to mute R. Kelly. Or any other artist for that matter. The music streaming service has quietly gone wide with a feature that makes it easy to block a particular artist from automatically playing in personal and curated playlists as well as charts, radi … | Continue reading
Cassette tape album sales in the U.S. grew by 23 percent in 2018 thanks to such acts as Britney Spears, Twenty One Pilots and Guns N’ Roses, along with soundtracks from the "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise — which boats the year’s top two sellers. | Continue reading
Founded by Quincy Jones and Time Inc., the glossy became the magazine of record for hip-hop culture, the East-West rap wars, Obama's rise and the street racers who inspired the 'Fast and the Furious' franchise. | Continue reading
Beginning today (Sept. 20), Spotify will begin allowing a select group of independent artists the ability to upload their music directly onto the streaming platform through their Spotify For Artists account. | Continue reading
The long road to copyright revision is nearing its end as the U.S. Senate passed the Music Modernization Act by unanimous consent Tuesday. | Continue reading
If you’re an artist and see “New York City” listed as one of your top cities for fans, that might not mean exactly what you think it does. | Continue reading
Spotify has offered advances to a number of managers and indie acts in exchange for licensing their music directly to the streaming service, sources tell Billboard. | Continue reading
Ticketfly, the indie-focused ticketing service that last year was purchased by Eventbrite, has fallen victim to what it describes as a "cyber incident" and has temporarily shut itself down. | Continue reading
Under the terms of a new public hate content and hateful conduct policy Spotify is putting into effect, the company will no longer promote the R&B singer's music in any way, removing his songs from flagship playlists like RapCaviar, Discover Weekly or New Music Friday, for ex … | Continue reading