Airline Virgin America is offering its customers free in-flight streaming of over 30 million songs, courtesy of Spotify. The firm becomes the first U.S. airline to offer streaming access to Spotify’s entire music catalogue of over 30 million songs from 35,000 feet….

While Tim Cook was touting subscriber numbers for Apple Music, the streaming service’s chief rival Spotify was enjoying a new milestone as the top-grossing iPhone app in Apple’s own app store. The ranking, within the U.S. only, was the first time Spotify rose above its previous high at No. 3, which it hit in early September, according to TechCrunch….

Pandora has filed an appeal to the rate court determination handed down by Judge Stanton earlier this year, in which he ruled that Pandora should pay the performance rights organization (PRO) 2.5 percent of its revenue. At the very same court, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, earlier this year upheld ASCAP’s rate of 1.85 percent….

Aside from that Oscar-winning James Bond song, it’s been a long time since we’ve heard from Adele. 2015 has been filled with consistent murmurs that her long-awaited follow-up to the blockbuster 2011 album 21 is on the way, and this morning (Oct. 21), Adele herself finally addressed the impending album in a contemplative letter to fans….

Yesterday, Oct. 19, Spotify’s U.S. service pulled down thousands of songs from Victory Records’ catalog. The dispute between Spotify and Audiam/Victory came when Audiam identified 53 million streams from Another Victory which Spotify hadn’t made any payments on….

She may sing about being a nightmare dressed like a daydream, but in real life, Taylor Swift can more accurately be described as an all-around champ. Vevo just announced that the singer’s second single off 1989, “Blank Space,” is the most-viewed video in Vevo’s history. Currently, the tune is registering 1,232,777,634 views — yes, that’s as in billions….

Where do millennials go for music when they read or hear about an interesting new band? The conventional answer is YouTube, but Spotify may be catching up.  When the UK’s Mercury Prize listed its latest nominees recently, day over day streaming jumped dramaticallyfor the artists involved – particular for those artists that were less well known….

Electronic Music has been a critical genre to SoundCloud throughout the service’s start-up phase and now provides the vast majority of its content. So it goes without saying that the Association for Electronic Music (AFEM) supports the principle that a company valued at $1.4B should recognise its duty to pay publishers and writers for the…

Apple has revealed it has 15 million users on its streaming music service, with 8.5 million on free trials and 6.5 million paying for it. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal‘s global technology conference WSJDLive, CEO Tim Cook said he was “really happy” about Apple Music’s performance so far….

Australasian collecting society APRA AMCOS has reported record revenue and distributions to its members for its financial year 2014-2015, and an all all-time high sum of export royalties. …