The financial information in Deezer’s filing for a public stock offering provides rare transparency into a standalone music subscription service’s challenges and weaknesses. While the public has limited information about Spotify’s financial performance and detailed information about its licensing contract, it hasn’t had this kind of insight since Napster’s last quarterly earnings release back in…

When South American concert promoter Move Music signed contracts to bring Katy Perry and System of a Down to play shows in Colombia this fall, the exchange rate was a comfortable 1,900 pesos per dollar. A mere six months later, the value of the dollar has soared to 3,000 pesos, the highest in the country’s history….

In his editorial in Billboard on Wednesday, Pandora CEO Brian McAndrewswrites that this is a transformative period in the music industry. On this we agree. Unfortunately Pandora is transforming the industry into a place where songwriters have no say in how their work is given away, and can barely make a living, all while the streaming giant touts the benefits…

Will stiff competition between streaming music services and direct to fan interaction kill the practice of streaming  music prior to release?  Some think so, but music marketer Wes Davenport has a very different opinion….

While the vast majority of bands have some kind of Facebook presence, they do not always utilize the platform to their greatest advantage, often posting inconsistently, or focusing on the wrong sort of fan engagement….

Music coverage at metropolitan dailies has taken a major hit in recent weeks, with writers at several legacy city papers leaving their full-time positions….

When One Direction and Justin Bieber release new albums on Nov. 13, it won’t be the first time two giants of one genre faced off in a race to the top of the charts. Back in 2007, Kanye West and 50 Cent chose the same Tuesday to drop highly anticipated studio efforts — Graduation and Curtis, respectively — essentially engaging in a high-stakes game of retail…

Jukely founder Bora Celik used to work as a concert promoter in places like Hartford, Connecticut. So he knows how hard it can be to get people out on a Monday or Wednesday night to see up and coming artists. “I was constantly banging my head against the wall, ‘How am I going to get…

Rupa Marya says she would like the $450 she paid Warner/Chappell Music to license the song. Rupa Marya, one of the four plaintiffs who challenged the copyright on “Happy Birthday To You,” said she “screamed with joy” when she heard a federal judge ruled that the rights held over the song were invalid. …

A new television network is trying to leverage the popularity of festivals while capturing the interest of cord-cutting online video viewers. Uphoric TV, coming to Verizon’s Go90 this fall, calls itself “the world’s first television network dedicated to the global festival circuit.”…