Apple Music Tops 10 Million Paid Subscribers 6 Months After Launch

The power of Apple's reach and marketing has propelled the service past 10 million subscribers in its first six months. The impressive growth of Apple's paid-only service is likely to. Continue reading

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Apple Music’s App Has More Users Than Spotify’s

The Apple Music app is allegedly now the 9th largest smartphone app, with 54.5 million users. Whether these users count as actually "active" however, is questionable to say the least.

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Why Fans Pay For Streaming Music And What Makes Them Convert From Free [STUDY]

[UPDATED] Some predict that 2016 is the year that streaming services like Spotify and Deezer will be forced to cut back on free music. Spotify argues that its free tier. Continue reading

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4 Major Music Industry Stories You Missed While On Christmas Break

While you were sleeping late and over indulging last week, The Beatles offered a Christmas surprise, Spotify committed to change its ways, and the music industry – in particular, its. Continue reading

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Spotify Admits Their Music Publishing Payment System Is Broken, Commits To Major Overhaul

Spotify has gotten a lot of flack in recent months from music publishers and songwriters over unidentified and misidentified tracks leading to incorrectly paid or unpaid royalties.  Today, Spotify pledged. Continue reading

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The Beatles To Stream On Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Rhapsody, Others Starting At Midnight Tonight

[UPDATE 2] The rumor is true. The Beatles will finally be available on streaming music services as of midnight local time tonight.  Here are official lists of the music streamers. Continue reading

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The Beatles Streaming Music Services Debut Set For Christmas Eve [Report]

The Beatles appear to have a Christmas present ready for all of their fans.  One of the last major holdouts from music streaming will become available there on December 24th,. Continue reading

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This Week In Music Commentary

This week's music commentators have quite a bit to say on the subject of streaming, some claiming that it may actually be better for artists than they think and that it. Continue reading

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10 Top Music Marketing Trends of 2015

In this article, music marketing company Red Tape X looks at some of the best marketing techniques of 2015 and how they were effectively used by some of the music. Continue reading

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Songkick Raises $10 Million From WMG Owner Acccess Industries, Triples European Direct To Fan Ticket Sales

Songkick has raised another $10 million. The new funding, coming after a June $16 million round,  is from Access Industries, owner of Warner Music Group.

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