Tidal, Sonos Launch New Series; Universal's Streaming Revenues Smash Past $2bn

TIDAL, along with leading home sound system, Sonos, today launched “Sound Tracks,” an original interview series filmed in the Sonos Store in New York.

As beat leasing becomes a common practice, artists gain independence, but what is lost?

Those streaming milestones just keep on getting destroyed, don’t they? Universal Music Group’s recorded music streaming revenues are dead cert to blast through the $2bn barrier in the calendar year of 2017.

An Australian law firm has confirmed it is investigating the possibility of launching a class action lawsuit in relation to failed streaming service Guvera, with private equity outfit AMMA and a number of accountancy firms it had relations with the likely defendants.

Music streaming service Spotify Ltd is moving to a new London office in order to double its workforce over the next two years, focusing on roles including engineering, data and machine learning.

According to a recent Nielsen Music study, the average person only spends $156 a year on music, with a fraction for streaming music.

Maroon 5 is one of several A-list bands to incorporate fan-generated video into its social media strategy, most recently for its Billboard 200 No. 2-charting album Red Pill Blues.

MusicBee for Windows 10 is a feature-filled and highly customizable music playing app that’s close to perfect.

Tired of pirates and illegal online sharing, ECM is releasing its music to Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services

Nico Perez, co-founder of Mixcloud, joins co-hosts Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert on this week’s Hypebot Music Biz Weekly podcast.

Hear a pair of songs from Seger’s upcoming album in this exclusive streaming debut, along with two Seger classics.