Music mogul Jay Z is expected on Monday to unveil his blueprint for high-resolution music streaming service Tidal….

Actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen will write, direct, produce and star in a biopic about late Queen singer Freddie Mercury, according to the band’s manager Jim Beach….

Canadian rights management company ole has acquired TV production music agency Jingle Punks to create what it claims is one of the world’s largest production music libraries….

Tidal , the HQ music streaming service which will be officially owned by Jay Z at the end of this month, is now live in a total of 31 countries and preparing to launch in another six….

Top execs at Universal and Warner will be watching Vessel’s progress very closely this week, after they pledged to give the subscription service – which launched yesterday – exclusively ‘windowed’ content before they release it onto Google’s video platform….

The manager of Lil Durk, a rapper signed to Def Jam Recordings, was shot and killed outside of a Chicago restaurant early Friday morning (March 27), Billboard has confirmed….

On the Billboard 200 albums chart dated April 4, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly debuted at No. 1, while the previous week’s leader, the soundtrack to the TV series Empire slipped to No. 2….

Judith Glory Hill, a singer who became prominent as a contestant on The Voice after performing backup vocals for artists such as Stevie Wonder, Elton John and Michael Jackson, is the subject of two lawsuits filed this week….

UK users of YouTube and Vevo will start to see BBFC age ratings appear on online music videos after the major labels reached an agreement with the online video platforms via the BPI….

Like generations of record collectors, actor Colin Hanks was seriously bummed when a friend told him she’d walked by a going-out-of-business sale at New York’s Tower Records store in 2006. The retail empire had opened in 1960 in the back of a drugstore; when the red-and-yellow, 89-store CD chain went bankrupt 46 years later, it…