Legal threats against SoundCloud from major content owners are now intensifying, according to sources, with filings likely to happen within a few months if negotiations don’t progress.  Earlier, Digital Music News pointed to looming legal threats from major labels Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, based on massive and unresolved levels of infringing content on…

  Billboard took a close look at the state of web radio and its major players and interviewed Beats 1 ringleader Zane Lowe at length in this week’s issue — below, our top picks for your digital listening pleasure….

On the latest Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 22), Disney’s Descendantssoundtrack opened at No. 1, marking the fourth soundtrack to lead the tally in 2015. The set moved 42,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 6, according to Nielsen Music….

Korean phone builder LG announced plans today for an online music service, describing it not as a streaming initiative but a high-fidelity music download store that will launch in 70 countries including United States, Australia, Brazil, China, France, Italy, Russia and the U.K. …

Billions were too small to measure the number of streams tracked by Next Big Sound in the first half of the year. In its mid-year report issued this week, the music analytics company says it tracked a gigantic 1.03 trillion music streams from a host of popular streaming services.  …

Bruce Warren, program director for the University of Pennsylvania’s musically ­adventurous public-radio station WXPN, says he’s “loving Beats 1,” Apple’s 5-week-old digital radio station. But, he adds, he doesn’t understand the media’s fascination with the service’s human-curated, DJ-hosted ­format. “There are a lot of cool radio ­stations around the world that are doing that on…

Vevo is looking to roll a turkey. The video portal, co-owned by Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Abu Dhabi Media and Google is looking to bring Warner Music Group, the only major on the outside….

Are you a proactive user of social media, but find that you’re unable to gain the kind of traction with fans that you’d like? This article offers some suggestions about why you may not being seeing significant growth in your social media following….

We need to have a little word about your language. The mainstream audience that the music biz so desires thinks that ‘curation’ has something to do with preserved ham. A ‘playlist’ remains a relic they stuck onto a cassette in a bid to win the affection of their teenage sweetheart. And as for ‘streaming equivalent…

As previously reported, The Weeknd crowns the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Aug. 22), rising 2-1, notching the surging R&B/pop star his first leader on the list. “It’s so hard to imagine that we’ve come this far, but it seems all the hard work has paid off,” the Hot 100 Music Festival headliner mused to Billboard exclusively. Who else makes notable moves on the Hot…