All-new subscription service YouTube Red will launch this Wednesday in the US (October 28). As MBW covered last week, it could be a real game-changer for the adoption of paid-for streaming services – especially as Google Play subscribers will get all of Red’s benefits for free. But that doesn’t mean everyone’s on board….

Adele’s new single “Hello” is off to a blazing start, and could post the largest ever U.S. digital sales week for a song, according to industry sources….

Adele‘s new single “Hello” arrived at radio at 2:30 a.m. eastern on Friday, Oct. 23. By morning-drive, it was already blasting to listeners nationwide. The superstar also checked in (by phone from England) with multiple interviews, including Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, syndicated from its home base at WHTZ (Z100) New York….

On October 15, New York-based electronic composer Rafael Anton Irisarri rattled off a series of frustrated tweets about a little-reported change in how Bandcamp pays artists for digital sales. “Bandcamp doing digital sales math just like Beatport does,” he wrote. “So much for listeners’ money reaching the artists directly! #ShameonThem.”…

A year ago, Amazon was being watched very carefully. The company had released a widely panned, now-discontinued smartphone, causing a stock tumble despite having moved into producing innovative original programming likeTransparent. A year later, and one glowing earnings release later, and Jeff Bezos is the third-richest person in the U.S., with its stock ballooning by…

If any music journalist working today has stories, it’s David Fricke. Over a career that stretches back four decades, the longtime Rolling Stone writer — who has also contributed to Mojo, Melody Maker, Trouser Press, People and others over the years — has interviewed virtually every major rock artist and written Grammy-nominated liner notes for many of the rest. Since leaving…

When designing a studio and purchasing the equipment for it you need to decide what you’re studio is going to be used for, what kind of music you are going to be making? This guide to studio equipment is the essentials for a singer songwriter looking to do release worthy recordings at home. …

If Billy Joel were breaking into the songwriting business today, he might need to make some room for collaborators. Pop hits penned by just one writer are now almost completely anachronistic: On the Oct. 24, 2015 Billboard Hot 100, just two songs were authored by one writer: “Hit the Quan” by Richard Colbert (aka iLoveMemphis) and and Twenty One Pilots‘…

The MTV EMAs, the Viacom network brand’s biggest international music event of the year, will give fans new ways to experience and interact with the show….

The Recording Industry Association of America has announced that its members have come to a $90 million settlement to end litigation over Pandora’s use of sound recordings authored before 1972….