Streaming may have been hailed as the death knell of the CD and download, but new research suggests that services such as Spotify and Apple Music can actually drive sales — at least for dedicated music fans….

The global music business is generating billions more dollars every year than most people appreciate. And today MBW, with the help of leading industry economist Will Page, can reveal why and how. The headline news: across 2014, the worldwide music copyright industry – that’s recorded music income plus publishing and songwriting (‘musical works’) – generated a grand total of $25.28…

SHE CHANGES EVERYTHING!…

Warner Music Group showed improvements across the board in its fiscal year ended September 30. Helped by growing royalties from streaming services, total revenue increased 6.2 percent at constant currency to $2.97 billion….

A film financier based in the United Kingdom has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit over The Weeknd’s hit song, “The Hills,” alleging that it illicitly sampled a score from an obscure film titled, The Machine….

As with many industries, the holiday season is one of the best times of year for music sales, and although high profile albums tend to take in much of this money, independent artists can also take advantage of the season to give their own music an extra push, as well as set themselves up for a successful new year….

Stu Bergen’s career has thrown up one sanity-saving truth on a number of occasions: “There’s always a peak after a valley.” In mid-1993, Bergen, then an on-the-up promotions exec at Epic Records, accompanied one of the most powerful rock music radio programmers in the US to Lollapalooza….

Coldplay is aiming to debut at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with their latest effort, A Head Full of Dreams. Industry sources suggest the album, which was released through Parlophone/Atlantic on Dec. 4, could shift around 200,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Dec. 10….

Adele’s 25 album is set to surpass 5 million copies sold in the U.S. by the end of its third week on sale, according to industry forecasters….

It’s official: Ed Sheeran’s tour Down Under is a record breaker. The English singer-songwriter set a new attendance mark at AAMI Park in Melbourne with 33,602 on Saturday night (Dec. 5), only to break it again the next night with 33,877. …