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Music industry bodies have been talking more openly about the danger they see in ‘stream-ripping’ sites that help people rip permanent downloads from streaming services like YouTube. Now they’re taking one such site...

As its core audience is made up of early adopters, dance music is over-indexing on streaming services. However, dance artists from Europe could find themselves seriously disadvantaged as US acts and US playlists ossify as...

Today is the day when Samsung shuts down its Milk Music streaming service, with its US users – however many remain – encouraged to switch to Slacker Music instead. Slacker has published a blog post revealing the extent...

The reactions to the European Commission’s proposals for copyright reform made one thing very clear: nothing has been settled. The proposals are just that – proposals – with plenty more lobbying in store before they...

Instagram has announced that it now has more than 500,000 active advertisers on its platform. Strong growth, given that Facebook’s photo and video-sharing app only opened up its ads platform a year ago, and grew to 200,000...

Nielsen has published its annual Music 360 study of American listeners, including their preferred methods of accessing music. Radio remains popular, with respondents preferring it as their music source 27% of the time, compared...

US industry body the RIAA has published its figures for music sales in the first half of 2016, and they tell a positive story: an 8.1% year-in-year rise in revenues. "For the first half of 2016, strong growth in revenues...

Pandora has inked its final direct-licensing deal with a major label in the US, with Warner Music Group yesterday joining Universal, Sony, Merlin and other indies on the company’s roster of agreements. As with those...

Obligatory caveat: nobody knows how much Frank Ocean has made from his latest album ‘Blond’ – not even Ocean himself – until the money actually rolls in. Billboard has been taking some educated guesses based on...

Pop songwriter Maureen McDonald (aka Mozella) has joined the discussion about publishing licensing in the US, including the Department of Justice’s push for ‘100% licensing’ in the sector. Her guest column for Daily...

It’s tempting to go tabloid and call this the Summer Of Shutdowns in the digital music world. After Crowdmix and Cür Media, Samsung announced on Friday that its Milk Music streaming service is also closing down in the...

Did US music-streaming firm Cür Media ever have a genuine shot at survival, let alone success? The company that famously promised $8m of advance payments to labels when it had much less than that in the bank appears to...