Tag: beyonce

This isn’t the first time Beyoncé has dropped an album out of the sky. Nor is it the first ‘visual album’ to appear. Nonetheless, it’s been nearly three years since her last album and the hype has reached a critical...

Beyoncé sprung another surprise album on her fans this weekend, but for the foreseeable future, the only place to stream ‘Lemonade’ will be on Tidal. Sources are telling tech sites The Verge and Mashable that the...

Like many in the industry, we’ve been thinking of Beyoncé’s video for her latest track ‘Formation’ as a Tidal exclusive. As it happens, the video IS available on YouTube, but it’s not easy to find. Tubefilter...

Instagram turned five this week, and celebrated by releasing some stats on its community of 400m active users. They included the interesting fact that four of the top five Instagram accounts belong to musicians. Taylor...

In recent weeks, we’ve had a number of mentions of the @musically Twitter account in tweets with videos of people lip-syncing to music. We wondered why, until establishing that there’s a Dubsmash-style social music app...

Imagine the PR issues if Tidal were to lose the music of some of its co-owners? According to Sony Music, though, that scenario will have to stay imaginary: a report last week claiming that it could remove its catalogue from...

A question: if you haven’t released an album for a few years, if it’s likely to be a big deal for fans, and if it’s finished, why announce it a couple of months before release rather than going the Beyoncé or My Bloody...

Music remained one of the driving forces of YouTube in 2014 even before the trial-launch of the YouTube Music Key service. Now we have more details on how some of the most popular musicians grew their audiences of subscribers...

Excitement in Vine-land earlier this month, as it seemed that Beyoncé had launched an official account on Twitter’s video-sharing service. Swiftly verified and tweet-welcomed by Vine execs, the account has turned out to...

We and the rest of the collective tech and music media have written acres about Taylor Swift’s Spotify dispute in recent weeks, but what about other artists who’ve been prominent in their holdout strategies? They might...

We gave you some highlights of our on-stage interview with Lauren Wirtzer-Seawood of Parkwood Entertainment in yesterday’s bulletin, talking about why her CEO (Beyoncé) doesn’t use Twitter or have an official mobile...

Beyoncé sprang an almighty surprise on the musical world last December by releasing a new album and accompanying videos on iTunes with no build-up. She may struggle to repeat the same trick twice though: reports overnight...