She can’t help herself, Charlotte Aitchison, better known as the musician Charli XCX – she’s obsessed with cars. Not in a Top Gear-quoting, ooh-what’s-under-the-hood kind of way: she couldn’t care less how many miles you get out of your Polo. Aitchison is more taken with the kind of car that comes with a driver and has…

Users can add one of thousands of songs to their photos or videos now Instagram has announced a new feature that allows users to add popular music to their Instagram stories, according to TechCrunch. Users can select from thousands of tracks, including ones from Post Malone, Bruno Mars, Guns N’ Roses, and Demi Lovato. They…

Another giant of digital music is about to float on the stock exchange in the United States. Tencent Music Entertainment (TME), which is majority-owned by massive Chinese corporation Tencent, is reportedly readying an application for an IPO in the US this week. That’s according to an unverified (but seemingly well-informed) scoop from China-based news group Sina….

Drake continues his Scorpion success with yet another milestone. According to the Recording Industry of Association of America (RIAA)’s website, the project was certified platinum on June 29, the day it dropped. That means Scorpion moved at least one million equivalent units in the U.S. in a single day. As a point of comparison, Post…

James Blake has discussed how the pressures of his early career led to him developing “suicidal thoughts”. “I would say that chemical imbalance due to diet and the deterioration of my health was a huge, huge factor in my depression and eventually suicidal thoughts,” said the 29-year-old British songwriter. “I developed [dietary] intolerances that would lead…

Facebook Your Time On Facebook Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that it is testing a “Your Time on Facebook” feature in an unreleased version of its app. The “Your Time on Facebook” feature would show users how much time they spend using the service over the last week and the average time spent for the total week. And…

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″…