Music business

"On-demand, video, online radio, whatever: this is who's serving streaming music to the world right now. The breakdown is based on the most updated, figures supplied by the companies themselves, then annualized and proportioned (methodology below)."

"We're guessing rivals like Tunecore have similar ratios, and this probably extends beyond the unsigned and indie space. According to the year-2011 revenue analysis, CD Baby artists pulled a massive 77.4 percent of digital revenues from the iTunes Store, on an aggregated basis. AmazonMP3 was a distant second, but still a substantial 10.5 percent of the total."

Shares in social games company Zynga fell off a cliff last night, falling 37% to $3.18 – they originally traded at $10 when the company w...

In a major settlement between the music industry trade associations for record labels, music publishers and digital music providers, the Copyright Royalty Board, is...

For a long time, the copyright industries have taken the position that they won't launch new digital music services until piracy is "solved" – or at least punished. The inevitable consequence of that position is obvious to...

That is, according to federal court documents filed Wednesday by attorneys for Chuck D. The detailed breakdown shows that for every 1,000 iTunes downloads sold, a UMG-signed artist gets paid $80.33.