After its record 3.38 million-selling debut week, Adele‘s 25 has surpassed 1 million sold in the U.S. in its second week, according to Nielsen Music. It makes more history by becoming the first album to sell a million copies in two different weeks since Nielsen began tracking sales data in 1991….

“Adele, you could have done good here. You could have driven listeners to streaming services, you could have bumped up subscriptions. Instead, you’re just muddying the water. Keeping people in the past… Do the right thing, don’t selfishly stand up for yourself only.” Here lies notorious industry baller/bawler Bob Lefsetz’s frenetic reaction to the launch…

There are those who believe Pandora’s recent aggressive expansion moves have been born out of ambition and market opportunism. And there are those who believe they have been born out of desperation. The latter camp appear to be dominating consensus on Wall Street, judging by the worrying decline in the streaming music company’s NYSE share…

Coldplay aren’t doing an Adele, but they are doing a bit of a Taylor Swift. MBW understands that the huge UK band’s hotly anticipated new album, A Head Full Of Dreams, will be on paid streaming services including Apple Music and TIDAL when it’s released around the world at midnight tonight (December 4)….

In early November, the New York Times included a Google Cardboard smartphone mount in every edition of its Sunday paper. The Cardboard product — a box and two lenses and some velcro — gives a very useful approximation of virtual reality that the paper used to tell the story of displaced Syrian refugees. It was, for many, the…

  Facebook has been rolling out the ability to buy a variety of goods for months, and since summer they’ve talked about getting in live concert ticketing.  Today, their talk turned into action, and its likely a boon for small artists and venues….

Artists take note, a recent review of the statistics reveals that social video on both Facebook andYouTube has blown up in the past year, and will likely only become even more popular moving forward into 2016….

Instant messaging (IM) has become one of the main methods of communication, first starting out on social media platforms such as Facebook and Google Hangouts and developed further into mobile apps like WhatsApp, WeChat and Viber….

Coldplay is reportedly set to storm the 2016 Super Bowl stage as the annual game’s halftime show performer, according to the Wall Street Journal. …

Creative industries contributed $2.25 trillion to the global economy, but the creators behind the boom are not properly compensated, according to an in-depth report presented by global rights group CISAC at a press conference in Paris this morning….