This time next year, Taylor Swift might sound a little different. If you’ve been keeping up with the back-and-forth between Swift and the now-owners of her first six albums (who we’ll return to), you’ll know two things for sure: She’s not happy that she doesn’t own the recorded rights (masters) …
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Michelle Lewis and Kay Hanley, two songwriters who double as the executive directors of advocacy group Songwriters of North America, describe their roles as “first responders to a fire,” their organizational missive as “building an army for when the big fights erupt,” and their career trajectory as de facto union …
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While Led Zeppelin fans were busy digging up their favorite old T-shirts and nostalgia-dusted tour photos in the months leading up to the band’s 50th anniversary this year, Tim Fraser-Harding’s team at Warner Music Group was drawing up a battle plan. As Warner Music Group’s president of global catalog of …
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He was eight when he got his first smartphone: an iPhone 5c in beaming lime green. He was 10 when his impromptu breakdance at a high school basketball game in Florida went viral. Now, at the grand old age of 12, Seth Vangeldren finds himself juggling marketing contracts in six-figure …
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Indoor bike company Peloton has amassed a cult following and a $4 billion valuation off of its dreamy lifestyle sell: Well-dressed men and women pedal their way to fanatically good health with the help of electrifying videos and hit songs. But the latter may have involved some cut corners, according …
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An app allowing users to create videos with the face of any person in the world, an immersive entertainment platform that lets fans interact with things they watch and an augmented-reality live music company are among the nine new startups that Techstars Music believes can shape the future of music. …
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In the music industry, big advance payments are old hat: A new artist lands a hit and a bunch of labels rush over waving multi-million-dollar checksfor his or her next album. But the high bets are often risky, and the cash only goes to a handful of names every year. …
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SoundCloud, the Berlin-based streaming service whose launch of so many young rap careers spawned its ownmusic genre,upped its global revenue from 2016 to 2017 by more than 80 percent, according to its latest financial reports. The company, however, has been troubled recently byfinancial upheaval. The company’s 2017 accounts, recently filed …
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Half a year after launching its standalone music-streaming service, YouTube is following the lead of its competitors and rolling out student pricing. On Tuesday, YouTube announced a $4.99-a-month plan for YouTube Music Premium subscribers enrolled in colleges and universities, which is the same price point offered to students by Spotify …
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Spotify’s Genius-powered “Behind the Lyrics” integration, which flashes lyric snippets and behind-the-scenes tidbits during users’ listening experience, has become one of the music-streaming service’s most viral, beloved features. Not to be outdone, rival service Apple Music is now also partnering with Genius — and in classic one-up fashion for the …
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