SoundCloud Launches Twitch Channel; Music Livestreams Up; Pandora Founder's New Project; Music Sales Rise 5th Straight Year

Global music sales grew for the fifth consecutive year in 2019 with streaming accounting for more than half of all label revenue for the first time, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry’s (IFPI) "Global Music Report 2020."

SoundCloud is launching its own channel on livestreaming platform Twitch, with a slate of original programming that includes panel conversations, music sets and more.

Disillusioned after leaving Pandora, Tim Westergren set out to create a better kind of streaming platform. Can he save struggling artists while redeeming himself?

OpenAI is the non-profit artificial intelligence company backed by (among others) tech mogul Elon Musk. Just under a year ago it showed off Musenet.

Weekly livestreams rise by 21% with new data from Bandsintown.

Soundfly.com has launched a low-cost monthly subscription plan that includes unlimited access to the site’s variety of paid courses, as well as exclusive partner perks, peer and pro community support via their private Slack channel, and discounts of up to 33% off four- and six-week sessions.

Are you streaming a lot of music online now? Here’s an audiophile’s guide to the basics of greater sound.

The new installment of the Nielsen Music/MRC Data study reveals how music companies can help their artists reach consumers during the pandemic.

This is the second part of our Amazon Music piece, based on a face-to-face interview in February that was being held for our Q1 2020 report in early April.

Spotify’s prevailing message with its quarterly earnings report should help much of the music business breathe easy.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook has taken notice of the flourishing music livestreaming landscape.

With millions stuck at home due to coronavirus shelter-in-place orders and searching for entertainment, data suggest that new releases by major pop artists are drawing fewer listeners than normal.

WMG’s Arts Music division and Mattel will make hundreds of never-before-released songs from its catalog available for the first time and will collaborate on the creation and distribution of new music.

Other than China, the countries are the biggest music markets Spotify doesn’t serve yet

You’ll be able to mark Facebook Events as online only and, in the coming weeks, integrate Facebook Live so you can broadcast to your guests.