Plex — a global streaming media company that compiles many media types together in one app — is partnering with Tidal, it was announced Thursday (Nov. 29). Plex members will have access to Tidal’s entire catalog, which includes more than 60 million track and 244,000 videos. Following a free trial, subscription plans start at $9.99 per month,…

If there’s one thing Taylor Swift hates more than the bad girl who was cheer captain while she was on the bleachers, it’s Spotify. She spent years crusading against music streaming sites before finally granting Apple Music the rights to 1989, and then she finally gave up the rest of her catalog to both Apple…

Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O and producer Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton have shared a new song titled “Lux Prima,” the first offering from their upcoming collaborative album together. Danger Mouse said of the nine-minute first single, which surrounds Karen O’s atmospheric track with a lengthy synth-laden intro and spacey outro, “With ‘Lux Prima,’ we were really…

Today wasn’t just a big day for Spotify – it was historic. As MBW covered earlier, the company issued its Q3 financial results this morning in New York, revealing that global paying subscribers in the three months to end of September had grown by 4m. Yet Spotify really didn’t make a very big deal out…

The Universal Music Group reported 1.495 billion euros ($1.732 billion) in revenue for the company’s third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2018, which represents a strong 13.3 percent increase from the prior year-earlier period when revenues totaled 1.319 billion euros ($1.542 billion). For the nine-month period, UMG’s revenues are reported at 4.123 billion euros ($4.939 billion),…

If there was one theme that came up more than any other during the Representation Matters: Agents At the Top of Their Game panel at Billboard’s Live Summit on Tuesday (Nov. 13), it was that agents put their artists first and foremost when making decisions. “It’s about the artist and building a career,” said Artist…

Songwriter Daniel Marino has received more than $44 million in damages from a lawsuit targeting his co-writers. The Philadelphia-based writer alleged that he was cut out of profits and credit from a song written and recorded by Usher. A jury decided on the sum with a split between a former co-writing partner and Destro Music…

Make no mistake: in terms of the global recorded music business, this is the sales story of the year so far. In a fast-declining albums market, French superstar Johnny Hallyday’s last album – Mon Pays C’est L’Amour (My Country Is Love) – has officially smashed records to hit No.1 in his home country’s chart. As…

When a rap video critical of Thailand’s military government became a huge sensation, the authorities first responded with threats to arrest its creators. Then they did what the establishment often does when under fire: try to co-opt the genre. So on Thursday (Nov. 1) a government “Thailand 4.0” rap video was played to introduce Prime Minister…