Three reports in recent weeks have suggested that Apple is getting ready to launch a new subscription service that combines music, original video, and news and magazine content. CNN has the most information on Apple’s next big moneymaker: Apple SVP Eddy Cue is overseeing a plan to bundle Apple’s original TV and film programming, Apple Music,…

Spotify’s share price closed on the New York Stock Exchange at an all-time high on earlier this month – pushing the company’s market cap comfortably above $30bn The below market summary, courtesy of Google Finance, shows how Spotify’s stock price consistently climbed in the eight trading days following Tuesday, May 29 – up to $171.48. What…

We’ll have to wait for recording engineer Susan Rogers’ book about working for Prince from 1983 to 1987. Rogers engineered “ ‘Purple Rain,’ ‘Around the World in a Day,’ ‘Parade,’ ‘Sign o’ the Times,’ the ‘Black Album,’ all but one song,” she told me. After working with her music idol and making lots of money…

Happy birthday to the first vinyl LP! Today marks 70 years to the day since Columbia Records first introduced the 12″ 33 1⁄3 RPM microgroove long playing record with a copy of Mendelssohn’s Concerto In E Minor, performed by violinist Nathan Milstein with the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter. (Several 10″…

Instagram’s IGTV could seriously change the game for music video monetization — starting in just a few months. Instagram’s long-form video platform could seriously shake up music video monetization, while finally giving industry a YouTube alternative. Just today, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom confirmed that the just-launched IGTV will include music monetization, embedded ads, and other paid…

Over the past ten years, the three major music publishers – Universal Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell and Sony/ATV – did not receive any equity in Spotify as part of their numerous licensing agreements. In the case of UMPG and Warner/Chappell, there’s a fairly unsurprising reason this happened. Spotify’s first run of global licensing deals, back in…

A new study has found a link between a person’s appreciation of music and their ability to feel empathy, suggesting that music may have an evolutionary purpose by enabling humans to bond with each other. “What we found is that when they are listening to familiar music it is almost like they are engaging with a friend,” lead…

An audience of patients with Alzheimer’s disease listens in rapt attention as a young woman sings the French song “Beau Soir.” Despite his failing mind, one of the men in the crowd, Les Dean, translates the words into English for a friend. “See how the setting sun paints a river with roses,” he whispers. “Tremulous…

Repeating spoken words is a technique familiar to music buffs — the rhythm of the repetition feels like a song. Now, scientists think they can explain why. It turns out it has to do with how our brains process language. For a paper published today in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers used an auditory illusion called the…

When I’m at the gym with my headphones on (killin’ the game, might I add), you better believe I have some throwback Britney Spears songs blasting through my eardrums — that sh*t gets me going. Both Britney and T-Swift originals will always remain on my ~beast-mode~ workout playlist, no matter how many great new songs come…