A year-and-a-half ago, Facebook’s director of strategic partnerships Ime Archbong told Billboard that the company was looking to fragment its Swiss Army Knife-like social platform, creating separate apps for each of the many powerful features it has. Evidence of this came soon after out talk with Archibong, when the company split off its messaging service…

Rapper Meek Mill scores his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as Dreams Worth More Than Money opens in the top slot. The set — which was released on Maybach/Atlantic Records on June 30 — moved 246,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 5, according to Nielsen Music….

The 1979 funk track that inspired a recent Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars hit and led to Michelle Obama showing off some of her finest dance moves has a new home….

Reacting to the lower prices of Apple Music and other competitors, Tidal now offers a family plan with discounted prices for its on-demand music subscription service. The company announced Wednesday it is offering a 50-percent discount when subscribers add up to four additional users to the same account….

From an interview with Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen CTNow:…

Apple will have a tough time selling people on the music subscription side of Apple Music, which has received mixed reviews and many user complaints about the iCloud storage service deleting and renaming song libraries. But it’s having a far easier time getting them to listen to old-fashioned radio. Beats 1, the free radio station…

Rdio has expanded the “Label Stations” program it first launched in March of this year to include eight new label partners, as well as a new arm of the program overseen by influential media properties like Hype Machine, The Onion-owned A.V. Club and more….

More than a year after SESAC made an unsolicited bid to buy the Harry Fox Agency for $35 million, the Nashville-based performance rights organization has closed on the deal, according to The New York Times….

Microsoft has rebranded its Xbox Music app as ‘Groove Music’, promising a catalogue of over 40m tracks and ‘music for everything you do’….

Continued growth in streaming and a softening decline in CD and download sales helped lift UK music sales in the first six months of 2015, according to new figures released by British labels trade body BPI….