The Trump Administration fired U.S. Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter on Saturday (May 10), sparking concerns in the music business that the White House will take...
One night during the last week in February, a crowd of fans wrapped in Ukrainian flags gathered in front of the 4,200-capacity Tempodrom in Berlin to...
Classic rock is still big — it’s the pictures that are getting smaller. The definitive modern pop music documentary was Beatles Anthology, the 1995 multi-night television...
Over the past dozen years, vinyl records have grown from an indie-rock subculture to a significant, established part of the music business. In the U.S. alone,...
Over the past decade, vinyl has grown from a can-you-believe that comeback story to a serious business. Vinyl sales revenue in the U.S. grew 10% in...
This time, everything really is going to be different. Americans now live in a country where neither felony convictions nor dancing to “YMCA” onstage during a...
Global royalty collections for song rightsholders grew 7.6% last year, to a new high of 11.75 billion Euros ($10.9 billion, based on the average exchange rate...
Once upon a time, most artists performed live to promote new albums. For most acts, the real money was in music sales, so they went “on...
For a little over a year, since the Fake Drake track bum rushed the music business, executives have been debating whether generative artificial intelligence is a...
Lil Uzi Vert turned a scrapped festival set into a celebration on Friday (July 31), surprising fans with a new...
Smashing Pumpkins turned their Lollapalooza headline set into a generational summit on Thursday (July 31), with Billy Corgan bringing out...
The SOCAN Polaris Song Prize has revealed its second-ever short list. This year’s edition features songs by Angine de Poitrine,...
Around a dozen publicly traded music companies are reporting earnings in the weeks stretching from late July into August —...
BE:FIRST boasts a dozen No. 1s on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, played its first stadium concerts this past spring...
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Karol G understands that her fans value her honesty and that her success lies in her vulnerability as an artist....
Warner Records co-chairman and COO Tom Corson was promoted to COO of the larger Warner Music Group (WMG), succeeding Armin...
A judge says class action litigation is not the right forum for claims that Drake misleadingly endorsed online casino Stake...
BTS announced on Wednesday (July 29) that it will not submit its latest album, ARIRANG, or any of its songs...
