With negotiations ongoing between Apple and Sony Music for their proposed iRadio streaming service over payments from listening to fragments of songs, among other items,  Sony/ATV and BMG Rights Management have now emerged as roadblocks as well. Both music publishers are holding out for better terms from the tech giant, as download sales slow in favor of…

Whaddaya know, there’s an upstart in the latest new-release Top 10—the Beggars Group, home of XL Recordings, which in turn is the home of chart-topping band Vampire Weekend. See how that happened? XL—which also has the not-insignificant distinction of being the label that signed Adele—joins nine major labels on the chart, the top three and…

The next generation of in-car music entertainment has moved up a gear following the announcement that U.K.-based music streaming service rara.com has partnered with BMW to launch what is billed as the first direct-to-car music streaming service in Europe. Exclusive to the new range of BMW’s 5 Series, the in-car ConnectedDrive Online Entertainment pack, featuring…

Via FastCompany: “Radio stations used to play a record all the way through. You’d anticipate that eagerly. That’s exactly what we’re trying to do.” That’s Pandora CEO Tim Westergren on the online radio giant’s newly launched Pandora Premieres, a new T-Mobile sponsored station aimed at reengaging listeners by luring them in with album previews. Because Pandora Premieres…

Not sure if it has any correlation, but after the lawsuit that Ticketmaster settled, things had to change. Live Nation’s massive subsidiary Ticketmaster announced today the appointment of Jared Smith as president of Ticketmaster North America. Smith has been with Ticketmaster since 2003, initially overseeing venues in Georgia and Illinois before going on to become…