Today Spotify shared a list that they are calling the World’s 25 Most Influential Artists Under 25, led by Ed Sheeran. The global ranking was determined by volume and growth of streams over the past year, number-one hits and performance on Spotify’s viral chart.  …

Pharrell Williams, One Direction, Florence + The Machine and Disclosure are among the headliners at the 2015 Apple Music Festival at London’s Roundhouse this September. The Apple Music Festival replaces the iTunes Festival, which was first held in 2007, and will take place over ten nights from September 19 to September 28….

As recently reported on MBW, France’s streaming market continued growing in H1 2015, with a +36% period-to-period increase in total on-demand streams. According to IFPI figures, France was the 5th music market in the world in 2014, and ranked also 5th when it came, more specifically, to streaming revenues….

The race for blockchain dominion has begun in earnest. As Billboard recently reported, the technology offers solutions to multiple, previously intractable, problems of the industry, such as song rights monitoring and complex, but transparent and reliable, royalty distribution….

Lionel Richie is to be honored as the 2016 MusiCares Person of the Year. The legendary singer and songwriter will feted at the 26th annual MusiCares benefit gala, which will be held Feb. 13, 2016 in L.A., just two nights before the Grammy Awards. …

These days, SoundCloud is stuck between a rock and a hard place. The rock in question: Universal Music Group, a label with a back catalog and current roster so vast and essential that their absence from a digital music service, especially one as unique and in as challenging a position as SoundCloud, makes that service’s…

Russia’s communications ministry has come up with a proposal aimed at changing the existing system of copyright royalty collection, but the initiative has been criticized by the record industry….

Dr. Dre has racked up 25 million streams and $56 million in box office for the juggernaut that has become Compton, but that’s not enough evidence to convince FM to step out their zone and start playing brand new unfamiliar music.  Based on the latest Mediabase stats, here’s a total summary of what Terrestrial Rhythm and Urban stations are doing with the Dr….

Instagram has no match among photo-sharing social networks, which is why businesses are eager to include it in their social media strategies. It’s taken the network five years since its official launch to begin rolling out advertising, due to the developers’ long-standing goal to make the integration of advertising content into normal browsing experience as…

SFX Entertainment boss Robert Sillerman was supposed to have taken the company private by now – but it hasn’t happened. Sillerman missed his deadline on Friday (August 14) to buy the 62% of SFX he doesn’t currently own for $774m. However, he clearly didn’t manage to raise the cash in time, which sent SFX’s value…