AC/DC Joins YouTube Elite; HIFI Labs Debuts EQ; CD Baby, Soundrop Artists Get First Crack at Rotor’s New Tool to Make High-Quality Spotify Videos

AC/DC has been doing dirty deeds for decades. By cracking one billion views for a single video on YouTube, the rockers get another one done.

There’s no real roadmap for navigating the music industry. From mental health to complicated innovations in technology, there are always new paths to explore.

Artist services providers CD Baby and Soundrop, both owned by Downtown Music Group, have teamed up with with UK-based Rotor Video to offer artists a better, easier, and cooler tool to make Spotify’s Canvas videos, the engagement-boosting 8-second loops that artists can add to their tracks.

Apple Music users around the world will soon have access to more Chinese musicians.

Ho, ho, hold the festive tunes that are a source of dread for 23% of consumers.

If you own a Tesla you can now have a new alternative to Spotify. You can also stream music on Tidal. But why stop there?

China’s Tencent Music Entertainment Group beat analysts’ estimates for third-quarter profit on Monday, as efforts to bolster content attracted more paying users to its Spotify-like music streaming platform.

French startup Groover launched its service in early 2019: a platform for musicians to submit their tracks for feedback from industry professionals.

Amazon Music is about to become the second-most-popular music service in the U.S.

Radio has not kept up with the times in “connected cars,” leaving it behind competitors like Pandora, Spotify, and Sirius/XM. Here’s how it catch up.

Sheeran’s “=” (pronounced “equals”) opens at the top of the Billboard 200 with modest streaming numbers for a star of his magnitude.

The concert will stream for one night only on November 30th via the premium social live media platform Moment House.