Rhapsody was one of the first streaming music services. For now, its been eclipsed by Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer. But by sticking to “paid only,” a model Apple also adopted, they forged a path that other music streamers may someday be forced to follow….

Alibaba, the Chinese web commerce giant whose stock serves double-duty as Yahoo’s revenue shield, has announced the formation of a division to focus on the music industry….

X Ambassadors front man Sam Harris is psychic. In between tracks of the band’s debut album “VHS,” Harris can be heard as a kid telling his father that come 2015, he’ll be famous. Fast-forward to present day and the band is just that. Thanks to a timely spot in a Jeep commercial, the band’s single…

Troy Carter, whose company Atom Factory represents John Legend, Miguel and Meghan Trainor, among others, is launching a tech accelerator he’s calling SMASHD Labs, a brother of sorts to the entrepreneurship-focused editorial site SMASHD.co, launched earlier this year….

Apple CEO Tim Cook said on Tuesday (July 21) that millions of people are using Apple Music, the company’s new music subscription service, and Beats 1, the global Internet radio station….

Arctic Monkeys, Kendrick Lamar, Sia, and Florence And The Machine have all been nominated for MTV’s Video Music Awards 2015 with Taylor Swift racking up the highest number of nominations. …

From her initial hit “Pon De Replay,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100, to her recent designation as the first artist to surpass the RIAA’s 100 million cumulative singles award threshold, Rihanna’s phenomenal success over the past decade has generated international interest in the music of Barbados and has raised the career aspirations of artists hailing…

Canada’s first full six months with Spotify available in the territory has proven transformational. Total streaming volume was up to 10.5bn in the first half of 2015, according to Nielsen – which includes both video sites (YouTube, Vevo) and audio platforms (Spotify, Rdio etc.) That represents 67% growth on the last six months of 2014 – the…

The rights to 100% of publishing and songwriting royalties to Do The Bartman, the 1990 novelty hit from TV series The Simpsons, have been sold to an anonymous buyer for US $38,500, MBW has discovered….

No one can influence the Song of the Summer quite like iHeartMedia national programming chief Tom Poleman, 50, whose 850 radio stations are influential enough to create the next Katy Perry or to anoint Demi Lovato’s next single….