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If we learned one thing from the controversy around Spotify’s launch of a new ‘hateful conduct’ policy last year (and its subsequent u-turn) it was that streaming platforms taking action against artists who haven’t...

Amazon has acted quickly after some owners of its Echo speaker realised they could listen to unreleased preview clips of the new Lady Gaga album ‘Joannne’. A devilish hack? Er, no: all fans had to do was say ‘Play Joanne...

Hunter Walk is a VC nowadays, but he used to be in charge of YouTube’s product development. In a new blog post on Medium, he’s been remembering what happened when YouTube gave Lady Gaga a run-through of some proposed...

What next for Troy Carter after parting ways with his former management client Lady Gaga? How about trying an industry that’s even more challenged by digital disruption than music? Carter’s company Atom Factory has launched...

Well-funded startup Backplane made a name for itself by creating own-brand social networks for big stars – notably Lady Gaga, whose Little Monsters community launched its platform. Guns’n’Roses were later another band...

We’re getting a bit bored of the back-and-forth about whether The Album As A Thing is dead or not. We’d rather dream up some ways for the album to evolve, although we’re not yet sold on the album-as-app concept espoused...

Digital startup Backplane made its name building and running Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters community, although it has also worked with Guns’n’Roses, Conde Nast and Coca-Cola. Now the company is preparing to...

Earlier this week, Digital Music News trailed a story that it claimed would explode the streaming royalties and major artists issue. It was published last night, complete with a characteristic ‘How Streaming Services...

We spent much of last night boggling at a Tumblr post written by former Billboard boss Bill Werde: ‘On Angela Cheng, Lady Gaga, and the Culpability of Media’. It outlines a bizarre situation around a pair of journalists...

Lady Gaga: 'The record labels don't have any f***ing money'

Lady Gaga’s former manager Troy Carter has been talking technology in an interview with the Guardian, in which he warns that the pace of disruption is only increasing

We're noticing a pattern in some of the latest BitTorrent Bundle partnerships announced by the technology company.