Getting your music to rank on one of the Billboard charts can often be the big break that helps kick an artists career up to the next level, and if you have a single or new album headed for release, there are a few things your fans can do for you that are guaranteed to up your music's chances of charting.

Lyrics annotation site Genius,com says that it has caught Google stealing and using its song lyrics to power some of the tech giant's search results, Genius says it caught Google by cleverly inserting a series of alternating straight and curved apostrophes in the lyrics that it hosts and then finding them verbatim in more than 100 Google search results.

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Taylor Swift made a surprise appearance at last night's Stonewall Inn and AEG's pride celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising during NYC's Pride Month.

This week, commentators from inside the music industry weighed in on how to increase you chance of getting lucky in the music biz, why consumers shouldn't be worried about Bandwear  (even after the PlegeMusic debacle), whether or not AI created music should be protected by copyright, and more!

Peter Shapiro, the legendary concert promoter and venue owner, announced that he’s promoting dozens of family-friendly Grateful Dead tribute shows across the United States on Father’s day.

This week, our tips and advice for those music industry do-it-yourselfers out there covered how to start a grassroots tour, the best way to win over a lame crowd, a new feature allowing users to add music to their Instagram stories, and much, much more!

This week on MusicThinkTank, contributors shared articles on a new grassroots touring course, Nick Cave's primary obstacles to creative progress, the effect music can have on student success, and more.

In this journey back through a busy seven days in the music business, we revisit why music's superstars are suddenly getting streamed less, how Spotify is redesigning your music library, a look at how a recent fire in the Universal Music archives may have been much worse than previously thought, and more!

Topping the charts to become Hypebot's most-read articles this week, we had pieces exploring the new Instagram feature allowing users to add lyrics to their stories, the exit of Spotify exec Shane Tobin from Sofar Sounds, how indie stores are suffering as a result of major label distribution, and more!

[UPDATED] MIDiA analyst Mark Mulligan has been warning for more than a year that radio is streaming’s next frontier; and with this week's release of the personalized music + news playlist "Your Daily Drive," Spotify took a giant step towards making his prediction a reality.

Once a platform focused exclusively on images, Instagram is embracing their expansion into the musical real with a recent update allowing users to easily add lyrics to their stories.

Connecting with your audience and cultivating a meaningful career as an artist is a dream of most performers, but in order to make this happen, you first need to get paid. Here we look at some key tech platforms that can help you book gigs and keep you career moving forward.

Spotify updated its app for Premium users yesterday with a streamlined look, new music features like 'Your Daily Drive' and, of course, more emphasis on podcasts. As part of the streamlining, however, Spotify buried the users lists of "Songs" as well as the list of downloaded music that many use to listen offline.