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While digital streaming revenue growth continues to offset the decline in digital album and track sales, the music industry still has th

With equity in Spotify and a willingness to speak out whenever it feels its membership is being disrespected by digital services, licensing

Technology Didn’t Kill The Music Industry. The Fans Did..
A Guest Post by Sahpreem A. King




Give It Away…Give It Away…Give It Away Now!
Why Fans Are Destroying the Music Bu

Cellist’s latest publicly-shared numbers reveal 92% of her income still comes from sales rather than streams. By Stuart Dredge

 Despite all the negative press about the low per-stream rate, Spotify is now the No. 2 digital retailer for most labels in terms of income. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Beats Music and many others have launched streaming subscription options for their customers. All told, streaming revenue makes up approximately one-quarter of all income for most content owners, having quadrupled in the last two years. So what is the short-term impact, and how long will it last? Longer term, what does this mean for the average label and artist?

Digital music sales for 2013 were up in Canada from the previous year, according to a year-end report released today by Nielsen SoundScan.

Music from the Academy award-winning blockbuster, Les Misérables, has helped to boost year-on-year overall sales of film and TV soundtracks by almost 50% to 1.7 million units in the first nine months of 2013, revealed a BPI analysis of Official Charts Company data.

The Wall Street Journal are running their Tech Cafe the for second year, in Shoreditch in the heart of London's tech scene. This morning the music industry was

Video Games Make Music Composer Third Fastest-Growing Job in the US ...

The founder and CEO of Spotify Daniel EK tells Newsbeat it "doesn't make sense" for artists to withhold their work from streaming sites.

If certain lobbyists for ASCAP have their way, streaming music could go the way of the cassette recorder and the Betamax.

Music is the universal language that fans speak fluently. In fact, a recent Nielsen study found that 40 percent of U.S. consumers—those classified as fans—are responsible for 75 percent of music spending. These fans, who spend between $20 billion and $26 billion on music each year, could spend an additional $450 million to $2.6 billion annually if they had the opportunity to snag behind-the-scenes access to the artists along with exclusive content.

Helienne Lindvall: Dispute rages over how royalties should be split in the age of Spotify, Google and Apple

U.S. digital sales continue to be under pressure.

Music and news are very different businesses, but the digital age presented them both with a very similar problem: how do you get someone to pay for something they can get for free?

Ex-Ticketmaster CEO and Twitter's first head of commerce 'will be strong industry advocate'