Discovering new music talent like James Bay, this year’s tipped breakthrough act whose debut album duly topped the charts, is an expensive business for record companies….

No one innovation or event changed the course of the modern music industry more than the introduction of Napster. On this day 15 years ago, Napster faced its first real challenge from the artistic community….

After releasing the album artwork for Mariah Carey #1 To Infinity, a comprehensive greatest-hits package compiling all 18 of her Billboard No. 1s, Mariah Carey has confirmed its release date….

In 2007, as the ascent of digital music continued, scratchy, unportable records seemed to be spinning into oblivion, accounting for 0.1% of UK album sales – equating to just 205,000 LPs….

Madonna crashed the Coachella stage on Sunday night, surprising the tens of thousands of festivalgoers there to watch Drake’s headlining set. But it was Drake himself who looked the most baffled when Madonna, during an odd performance of “Human Nature,” bent over and made out with the Canadian rapper….

Mumford & Sons have joined Lily Allen in the backlash against Jay Z’s streaming service Tidal. The band’s banjoist, Winston Marshall, claimed the big-name celebrities endorsing the service, and who took part in Tidal’s launch, were the “new-school fucking plutocrats”, while frontman Marcus Mumford suggested his group would never align themselves with any specific service….

Rumors continue to circulate, a few months after they began to surface, of a massive funding round for Spotify from Goldman Sachs that would peg its value at $7-8 billion. On Friday night (April 10), The Wall Street Journal reported that the round would bring $400 million dollars from Goldman Sachs and Abu Dhabi’s sovereign…

Bandzoogle now reports its direct-to-consumer sales to Nielsen SoundScan, giving artists that use service the chance to appear on the Billboard charts such as the Billboard 200 album chart….

Jay Z has made his $56 million move. Apple is at work attempting to crush the competition. Spotify racks up hundreds of millions of dollars in additional funding. YouTube does little except maintain its audience of 1 billion viewers….

Rapper and reality TV star Nelly is facing felony drug charges after being arrested in Tennessee on Saturday….