Last July Billboard reported, on the strength of a source from the largest major label, that reports of a carte blanche takedown tool for rights holders on SoundCloud was inaccurate, and that rights holders were required to submit requests for infringing uploads to be removed, much as they are on YouTube….

High-res music service Tidal is getting some updates including links to Ticketmaster sales for artists’ dates and a welcome discount price for students….

Tame Impala‘s previous releases—including 2010’s Innerspeaker, 2012’s Lonerism—were put out by Modular, an Australian record label. Now, Modular and the label’s founder, Steve “Pav” Pavlovic, are being sued for withholding the band’s royalties, as Billboard reports. BMG, the rights management organization, has filed a suit against Pavlovic, Modular, Universal Music Group, and Universal Music Australia….

There’s scarcely a more controversial brand working in music in 2015 than Pandora….

Rapper A$AP Rocky claims his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as At.Long.Last.A$AP bows atop the tally. The set, which was released on May 26, moved 146,000 equivalent album units in the week ending May 31, according to Nielsen Music….

Apple has announced a recall of all Beats Pill XL speakers following reports of overheated batteries in the popular product. The company said on Wednesday that in some “rare cases” the speaker’s battery posed a fire safety risk and encouraged owners to return it for a refund….

  Through its rolling record store project, Jack White’s Third Man Records has set up shop in cities all across the United States….

Who’s worried about the delay of YouTube’s music subscription service, Music Key? Not YouTube, this according to the company’s head of content, Robert Kyncl, who told reporters in a Google Hangout session that “we’re still going through some development” and that the recently extended beta period for the service was only a minor setback….

It looks like Jay-Z was speaking pretty literally during his TIDAL B-Sides freestyle……

There was a moment in the mid-2000s when it seemed like we might be collecting songs, one-by-one, into eternity. Internet connections were getting faster, hard drives stored more data in tinier spaces, songs were easier than ever to find and available for little or no money. Every year, the new version of Apple’s iPod, first…