Just three month after the last major iTunes upgraded, version 12.3 was released today. The biggest addition is compatibility with Apple’s iOS 9, also released today.  But there are several other changes and upgrades worth noting:…

British-born high fashion giant Burberry has become the first global non-music brand to launch a dedicated channel on Apple Music….

There was big news out of YouTube towers earlier this week, when the Google-owned giant’s Music Key service appeared to start charging for subscriptions. Now YouTube says it made a mistake, and it won’t be charging for Music Key… for the time being. Context is important on this one, so let’s rewind a little bit….

Say hello to what might be the most frightening app in existence for the music business. Aurous is a music streaming app/website built on similar technology to Popcorn Time, the copyright-infringing streaming movie and TV service that is now one of the 5,000 most popular websites in the world….

Taylor Swift edges out Neil Diamond to earn the top ranking on the Hot Tours tally (see list, below), taking No. 1 for the second consecutive week based on box-office sales from her ongoing 1989 World Tour….

Fewer Americans are listening to music on a regular basis, and they’re listening for a slightly shorter time each week, according to a report released this week by Nielsen. More optimistically, a great number of Americans say they are discovering new music at concerts, festivals and other live music events….

Joining a long list of artists, Lionel Richie has announced that he will begin a Las Vegas residency. Richie announced the news on the Today show on Wednesday (Sept. 16), in addition to performing “Easy.” Richie says his residency will begin in April 2016 at The Axis at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. Tickets are available here. …

  While some of the more diminutive players in the field of social networking like Vine and Flipagram have been making great strides when it comes to integrating music with their services, some of the larger behemoths like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have some catching up to do….

Did you know less than 1% of the world’s population are currently paying for on-demand music streaming services? The wider industry continues to hope that the likes of Spotify and Apple Music will provide salvation – and early signs from the Nordics and other territories certainly provide reason for hope. But why are the vast…

It’s a question that haunts the music industry to this day: what if instead of destroying Napster, they had licensed it?  Well, it turns out the music industry had another missed opportunity with Napster’s bigger, more complicated replacement: Kazaa….