Discogs, the online music database and marketplace, is partnering with Record Store Day for a post-event sale called “Record Store Day Afters.” The sale begins after the conclusion of Record Store Day on Monday, April […]
US Representative Rashida Tlaib has introduced a new bill proposing higher streaming payments for musicians. Dubbed the Living Wage For Musicians Act, the bill was introduced by Tlaib after the Michigan representative partnered with Rep. […]
What is Aurora Aksnes’s Net Worth? Aurora Aksnes, better known by the mononym Aurora, is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and record producer who has a net worth of $500 thousand. Since gaining recognition with her debut […]
The Middle-Eastern guitar melody in Blackpink’s How You Like That. The whistle at the very beginning of S-Class by Stray Kids. The sax melodies in Money and Lalisa by Lisa. The crowd chants at the […]
Photo Credit: NewsInStar / CC by 3.0 South Korean girl group (G)I-DLE tops the NetEase Cloud Music charts with 300,000 copies sold of their latest mini-album. Chinese online music platform NetEase Cloud Music has announced that the […]
Photo Credit: Neven Myst Major labels are celebrating a court order blocking BitTorrent trackers in Bulgaria. Here’s the latest. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) represents the recorded music industry worldwide, alongside the […]
Photo Credit: HYBE Insight K-pop powerhouse HYBE has inked a music distribution deal with China’s Tencent Music Entertainment. According to reports from The Seoul Economic Daily, the deal will see HYBE artists available on streaming […]
Despite facing heightened domestic competition, Tencent Music posted over $1 billion in revenue for Q1 2023, when the Shenzhen-headquartered company is said to have achieved more than 30% year-over-year (YoY) subscription-income growth across its streaming […]
Music is an integral part of our daily life. With each passing day, our way of listening to music has changed a lot. And now we are completely dependent on music streaming platforms. There are […]
Photo Credit: YouTube-DLG IFPI and BVMI have managed successful action against the web hosting provider of stream ripping software YouTube-DL. The Hamburg Regional Court has issued an injunction requiring the individual to stop hosting the […]
Customers shop at the Shuga Records store during the Record Store Day in Chicago on April 13, 2019. Vinyl record sales have been on the rise for 16 straight years, with an extra bump in […]
I’m an introvert, so I have to be excited about doing something in order to leave my house. This means that work-at-home music jobs are perfect for me. I sit at home, make or write […]
Photo Credit: NetEase Cloud Music NetEase Cloud Music is continuing its explosive growth by adding nearly 10 million paying subscribers. The company added 9.4 million paid users, growing from 28.9 million in 2021 to 38.3 […]
The BRIT Awards 2023 with Mastercard took place tonight at a packed out O2 arena full of fans, BRIT School students, artists and music industry guests in celebration of British and international music over the […]
Photo Credit: NetEase About two weeks after scoring an expanded licensing deal with J-pop giant Avex, Chinese streaming service NetEase Cloud Music has officially added the catalog of Tokyo-based anime and music company Pony Canyon […]
Photo Credit: Klaus Heymann © HNH International Ltd Klaus Heymann, founder of the Naxos classical label, discusses digital distribution, supporting new artists, and classical education in a drastically changing music climate. When Klaus Heymann entered […]
Photo Credit: Nick Karvounis Austrian collection society AKM and its subsidiary Austro Mechana are the latest rightsholders to join ICE Core. The deal continues the exponential growth of the IE Core, which smashed its record […]
Tencent Music generated CNY 1.09 billion (currently $154.73 million) in net profit during Q3 2022, according to the Shenzhen-headquartered company’s latest earnings report. Tencent Music (NYSE: TME), which operates three China-based streaming services (QQ Music, […]
Photo Credit: Eva Rinaldi / CC by 3.0 The popularity of Taylor Swift has reportedly extended to China’s quick-growing music market, where Midnights is said to have sold north of 250,000 copies on QQ Music […]
Downtown Music’s CD Baby and Soundrop distribution services have laid off “a number” of team members “due to the current economic conditions.” Downtown employees reached out to Digital Music News with word of the layoffs […]