More Music Tech IPOs? How Streaming Services Protect Themselves From Lawsuits; Spotify Gets Loudr; Coachella on SiriusXM

After a relatively smooth debut on the New York Stock Exchange, Spotify is inspiring a handful of other music tech companies to consider launching their own IPOs.

Spotify is buying rights company Loudr in a move to beef up its ability to track and pay royalties to music publishers amid attempts by U.S. Congress to simplify the royalty system for artists on streaming services.

From the beginning, the inability of streaming services to accurately pay rightsholders represented an existential risk for streaming as a business model.

Iron Man Records has had little choice, it has had to learn to adapt to digitalisation regardless.

The “music omnibus” bill represents the rare compromise between the music business and tech companies, who have spent years fighting each other over fractions of pennies.

All of the popular streaming services have features where you can follow friends or recommend tracks. Here’s how to use them.

Today, Digital Music News looks into how much YouTube, Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and Amazon pay artists per stream.

SiriusXM announced today that it will be the exclusive radio broadcaster of live performances and interviews from the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for the fourth consecutive year.

We looked at the facts.

Today marks the global launch of Tracklib, the world’s first and only music service that enables music creators to discover, sample and license original recordings.

With a new $4.8 million investment, an Austrian startup says it could have “HD vinyl” in stores by 2019

Fruit Punch, Inc. announces the world’s first music streaming platform built just for kids.

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit will webcast their upcoming concert in Orlando, Florida online for free.

Investors are worried about the economics of music streaming and about Apple Music as a looming threat.