‘Putting a number on art’: musicians nervous as Spotify announces royalty changes | Music streaming

Daniel Ek, co-founder and chief executive officer of Spotify.

Spotify has confirmed there will be long-rumoured changes to their royalty payments from early 2024, which include a controversial policy requiring tracks to get a minimum of 1,000 listens every year to receive royalties. Certain […]

JOEY TEMPEST: EUROPE Has ‘Great Ideas’ For Upcoming Album

JOEY TEMPEST: EUROPE Has 'Great Ideas' For Upcoming Album

In a new interview with Jorge Botas of Metal Global, EUROPE singer Joey Tempest spoke about the band’s recently released song titled “Hold Your Head Up”. The track, which is described by the band as […]

Taylor Swift helps Universal Music post Q3 revenue of nearly $3B

Taylor Swift attends the "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" concert movie premiere in Los Angeles on Oct. 11.

Cultural phenomenon Taylor Swift helped fuel revenue at Universal Music Group in the third quarter, the world’s largest record label said Thursday. With the release of “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” Swift became the first woman […]

At last, Hyperion recordings are streamable. We pick some of the standouts | Classical music

Pianist Stephen Hough,

Classical music was slow to join the streaming revolution, but the range of recordings available on the likes of Spotify and Apple Music has grown steadily year on year and today a large proportion of […]

TuneCore Partners With CreateSafe To Distribute Grimes AI Music

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(l to r) TuneCore CEO Andreea Gleeson, Grimes, and CreateSafe CEO Daouda Leonard. Photo Credit: Believe In late April, Believe disclosed that it was exploring multiple artificial intelligence partnerships. Now, the company’s TuneCore subsidiary has […]

YouTube Music Is Making Play Counts Available to Select Users

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Photo Credit: Ivan Radic About one week after it began testing a Shorts-like music video offering called Samples, YouTube Music has reportedly started integrating play counts. This latest feature from the streaming service, which has […]

Believe Is Taking Steps to License AI Music, Execs Reveal

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Believe founder and CEO Denis Ladegaillerie. Photo Credit: Believe Believe (BLV on the Euronext Paris) achieved a 22.2 percent year-over-year (YoY) revenue improvement during 2023’s opening quarter, generating nearly €200 million, according to a new […]

SiriusXM Reports Q1 2023 Revenue Dip, Subscriber Decline

SiriusXM Lucid vehicles partnership

Photo Credit: SiriusXM SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI) suffered advertising and subscriber revenue declines during Q1 2023 but achieved $233 million in net income for the quarter, according to a new earnings report. The satellite-radio company and […]

The Weeknd Says Coachella On-Stage Pyrotechnics ‘Almost Cooked Me’

The Weeknd Coachella close call

Photo Credit: YouTube The Weeknd says Coachella’s on-stage pyrotechnics ‘almost cooked me’ in response to a fan video capturing the close call. The Weeknd almost couldn’t feel his face if he’d gotten any closer to […]

Universal Music Rips Down a Viral AI Drake/Weeknd ‘Collaboration’

All that remained of an AI-Generated Drake and The Weeknd collaboration on Monday evening (April 17th).

All that remained of an AI-Generated Drake/The Weeknd ‘collaboration’ on Monday evening (April 17th). A viral AI-generated ‘collaboration’ between Drake and The Weeknd was ripped down by Universal Music Group on Monday evening (April 17th)— […]