“Different year, different partner.” That is an accurate description of the industry maneuvering behind Apple Music’s new relationship with Taylor Swift and the pair’s just-announced exclusive on a 1989 tour documentary….

  The US Copyright Royalty Board is set to decide the new webcasting rates this week – a moment which will cost Pandora, or the music business, hundreds of millions of dollars. To understand why, we need to worth through some rather bamboozling maths. MBW will do our best….

Of course. It’s video. Ever since Apple Music was announced at WWDC in early June, we’ve been asking the same question: in a world of locked-down and heavily protected copyrights, how is Apple going to get closer enough to artists to garner a significant business advantage? Now we know….

Stalwart streaming music service Rhapsody has grown its subscriber base by 45 percent over the last year, and now has nearly 3.5 million global subscribers in 34 countries, the company announced on Monday. Rhapsody was able to grow despite increasing competition in the streaming market by the likes of Apple Music, Tidal and YouTube….

As the sun began to set on Chicago’s Soldier Field, the positive vibe was palpable as more than 70,000 fans — most of them clutching American Beauty roses — settled in for arguably the most highly-anticipated shows of 2015: the Grateful Dead’s Fare Thee Well 50th anniversary concerts….

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….