Music business

A groundbreaking deal between Clear Channel Communications and the Big Machine record label raised the possibility of a solution over compensation for broadcasting music.

"For decades, commercial radio airplay was considered the silver bullet for success: a form of promotion with sufficient power and reach to generate significant record sales, while also ..."

Enter Earbits, a online radio station/ marketing platform that boasts a healthy selection of known and unknown artist on their commercial free network. If Pitchfork had an online radio format it would probably sound like Earbits.

Radio was supposed to be dead by now. But in the age of podcasts, Spotify and Sirius XM, a whole new generation of listeners are lending their ears to audio content.

Would you drop Pandora for another service? If you're in the US, the answer may be yes, but in many other territories, you may not even have access to Pandora and the likes. This is ...

(06-19) 04:22 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The music-subscription company Spotify is joining Pandora, Slacker and Songza in offering a free radio service for mobile devices in the U.S. Until now, the company charged people $...

The deal allows Clear Channel to save money in the fast-growing, but unpredictable, world of Internet radio, while giving Taylor Swift and her label access to an income stream in traditional radio they have long coveted.

Over-the-air (OTA) local radio station revenues were relatively flat at $14.1 billion in 2011, up just 0.4% from a year earlier, but are predicted to increase at a faster...

"Pandora and other webcasters who fought for lower royalty rates a few years ago rejoiced when they achieved rates they thought would allow them to achieve profitability, back in 2009.

Yet questions still surround the ability of webcasters such as the now-public Pandora to turn a profit, given that their payments to copyright holders increase at the same rate at which they grow."

"Wahwah.fm lets you turn the music stored on your iPhone into an internet radio station that gets broadcast worldwide, or to other people near your location. Not only that, you can also check out what other users are broadcasting."

Clear Channel Media and Entertainment is again expanding the iHeartRadio platform with the announcement of plans to begin carrying streams from college radio stations on...

"One of the oldest platforms is still the biggest vehicle for new music discovery, even among more dedicated music fans. In a just-released joint study from NPD Group and NARM, FM (and AM) radio consistently emerged as the most important place for discovery, with word-of-mouth falling second."