Apple Music is said to have a goal of reaching 100 million subscribers, despite being a late-comer to the streaming scene. If current numbers hold, and people opt to pay, the new service is already a tenth of the way there. USA Today is reporting that Apple Music has attracted 11 million trial users to date….

If you want your music to be streamed, get your music on playlists. To that end, Universal Music Group has named industry veteran Jay Frank to the newly created position of Senior Vice President of Global Streaming Marketing….

The Grateful Dead’s run of five sold-out shows earlier this summer, billed as Fare Thee Well and featuring Phish’s Trey Anastasio, was not a final farewell after all. As previously reported by Billboard, three of the Dead’s “core four” players — guitarist Bob Weir and drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann — plan to continue the party, with John Mayer on guitar. Their first performance as…

Beatport has written to labels telling them it won’t be paying owed royalties for the past quarter until its parent, SFX Entertainment, completes its ‘going private’ process. In a letter to music rights-holders sent last night and obtained by MBW, Beatport told labels that SFX’s ‘going private’ procedure had “trapped certain earned label payments”….

Apple is exploring the idea of adding five additional Beats radio stations to Apple Music, and according to a new report, the Cupertino company already has the licensing agreements to move forward. Sources with “knowledge of the situation” told The Verge that Apple can launch Beats 2-6 without having to renegotiate with major labels over payments….

SiriusXM has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought on by former interns at the satellite radio giant. In court papers filed Monday in a Manhattan federal court, Sirius agreed to pay about $1.3 million over complaints it violated U.S. labor laws by not paying interns who claimed they were doing the same work…

The popularity of digital radio services in the United States has turned into big money for the record industry. SoundExchange announced Wednesday it has distributed over $3 billion in digital performance royalties to record labels and performing artists since 2003….

The RIAA is requesting uTorrent creator BitTorrent Inc. to step up and help prevent infringement of its members’ copyrighted content. In a letter sent to BitTorrent Inc. CEO Eric Klinker, RIAA executive vice president, anti-piracy Brad Buckles accused the San Francisco-based tech company of making disingenuous claims over its involvement with piracy, “when BitTorrent, Inc….

Los Angeles County supervisors are considering banning music festivals from county property after the weekend deaths of two teenagers at an event in Pomona, California. Supervisors on Tuesday (Aug. 4) ordered the county’s chief executive to look into a moratorium….

It’s time to play the “Radioactive”! It’s time to play the “Demons”! Imagine Dragons is coming to The Muppets, as announced by the show’s executive producers Bill Prady and Bob Kushell during the TCA press tour panel for ABC’s upcoming mockumentary sitcom. They’ll appear on the show’s series premiere on Sept. 22 on ABC….