YouTube announced earlier this week that it is introducing an ad-free subscription tier on the site, separate to its upcoming Music Key service….

The standard music superstar critique of services like Pandora and Spotify (there have been a lot of them lately) goes something like this: My song was played millions of times on [insert service here] and all I got was a lousy few dollars….

The music industry’s mantra of “free is bad” is spilling over to the talk-show circuit….

If you’re reading this, Drake has his own search engine. The “Let Me Drake That For You” search allows fans to enter terms and then the engine searches the web for everything related to the words entered and OVO’s own….

Spotify Ltd. is in the process of raising new financing that would value the largest subscription music-streaming service at about $8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter….

Apple Inc. has asked Florence and the Machine and more than a dozen other artists for exclusive deals to promote a revamped Beats Music, and persuade people to ante up for what they’re accustomed to getting pretty much for free….

50 Cent’s four-year-old headphone company SMS Audio will be partnering with Reebok and Marvel for upcoming headphone launches, an announcement that came yesterday via a feature on the rapper/mogul in Fortune….

AC/DC, Tame Impala, Ride and The War On Drugs were among the acts to play the opening day of Coachella Festival (April 10)….

When an estimated 100,000 EDM fans per day flocked to downtown Miami for the 17th annual Ultra Music Festival, held March 27-29, they expected the lights, thumps and fist-pumps of such dance titans as Skrillex, Tiesto and Avicii. Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande? Not so much. But there they were, along with Diddy and Usher,…

Vic Mensa has dropped the studio version of his new single “U Mad” on his Soundcloud page following a preview of Kanye West‘s verse at a London gig last month. Listen below….