Universal Music Group’s veteran digital exec David Ring is out at the music major just days after his boss Rob Wells exited….

Now that the first full seven-day tracking period after the release of Drake’s surprise mixtape album, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, has passed, its tracks are starting to storm onto the Streaming Songs chart. On the chart dated March 7, “Energy,” “Legend,” “10 Bands” and “Know Yourself” arrive at Nos. 26, 29, 32…

  In the latest study by MIDiA Research, released to its subscribers, new data define high-value music consumers in streaming services, leading to a proposal of future services that for fully monetize music’s best fans….

The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to regulate Internet service like a public utility, expanding the U.S. government’s oversight of a once lightly regulated business at the center of the country’s commercial and social activity. The 3-2 vote, along party lines, starts the clock ticking on an expected legal challenge from the telecom and cable…

Birdman and Cash Money Records‘ legal troubles continue to build up, as now it’s being reported that Jas Prince is suing the label for not receiving money that he feels he is owed. Prince, who is credited for discovering Drake and introducing him to the label, claims that he has only received around $2 million…

Great Britain’s big-ticket music awards ceremony, the Brit Awards, just concluded in London, but, like the Grammys, the trophies themselves weren’t the trending topic after Madonna took a frightful spill during an onstage performance and Kanye West unveiled a hot new track….

Starbucks, the coffee giant with over 21,000 retail stores throughout the world, will stop stocking and selling physical compact discs, Billboard has confirmed, with the CD clean-out due to start next month. “We will stop selling physical CDs in our stores at the end of March,” a rep for the Seattle-based company tells Billboard, adding:…

The future record business could be huge. Despite the potential, revenue growth is going to be modest in the next five years, says music industry veteran Tom Silverman, founder of Tommy Boy Records and executive director of New Music Seminar. He does not warn that downloads and CDs will fall off the proverbial cliff. He…

In 2011, a young musician in Australia named Harley Streten began posting electronic dance tracks online under the name Flume. Every morning before heading off to work at a magazine shop, he checked the site, SoundCloud, to see how many people were listening. When the play count reached 10,000, he was stunned. When he got…

The night before his somewhat hotly anticipated third album Dark Sky Paradise dropped, Big Sean hit the stage at downtown Manhattan nightclub SOB’s decked out in a chunky white cardigan, gold chain, and, of course, a fresh pair of Yeezy Boosts. Behind him sat New York rap radio on-air personalities Ebro Darden, Peter Rosenberg, and…