The gravestone of the much-maligned record-industry practice of “windowing” has a date etched on it: April 13th, 2018. That was the day country superstar Jason Aldean released his latest album, ...

Spotify‘s insistence on standing by their model of ad-supported free access to all their music has lost them several huge artists in 2015. The streaming giant held fast through the initial Tidal ...

That’s one way to further boost your subscriber numbers: Apple told users of its iTunes Radio service Friday afternoon that they will have to subscribe to Apple Music’s paid subscription tier to ...

The idea of Apple Music struck fear in the hearts of listeners like me. The company had enough money to buy exclusives that could fracture and balkanize the world’s music catalog. The problem with ...

They went from being the kid nobody wanted to talk with to one of the cool kids on the block. (Apparently showing the other kids how to make money helps.) Paywall tech company Piano has now introduced ...

Faced with growing competition from the likes of Spotify—and the impending launch of iCloud—cloud-music provider Rdio on Thursday partially dropped its paywall and began offering its web service for ...

In a major shift to its business model, the world’s largest streaming service, Spotify, will begin placing select new releases from Universal Music Group behind a paywall. Under a global licensing ...