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As it celebrates its tenth anniversary, Pandora has been talking up its ability to sell tickets for artists who are popular on its service. Billboard has a profile of Pandora’s presale partnerships with the Rolling Stones...

Billie Holiday is the new Tupac Shakur. Not a sentence we ever expected to write in the 21st century. But Holiday is the latest dead artist to return as a hologram for live performances – in her case, at the iconic Apollo...

Ticketing firm Eventbrite is making its play for the wrist, releasing apps for the Apple Watch, Android Wear and Pebble Time smartwatches. The main use for the apps will be for displaying QR codes from digital tickets to...

Baboom is tackling post-Kim-Dotcom life with enthusiasm, having launched its MySpace-meets-SoundCloud service earlier this month. CEO Grant Edmundson claims the company is signing up around 1,000 artists and 17,000 fans a...

Another PR coup for Spotify on Friday, with news that country star Hunter Hayes has been tapping the streaming service’s data banks to plan his next tour. According to his own site, Hayes used Spotify data on US college...

YouTube has been live streaming from major US festivals for a number of years and now Facebook is looking to muscle in on this area – sideways. It was testing out its live streaming feature at the Lollapalooza festival...

This infographic is an extract from the Music Ally Report

Live-music startups Songkick and CrowdSurge are merging, fuelled by a funding round of $16m led by venture capital firms Access Industries, Index Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. And yes, this is a genuine merger, rather...

Lead: Snapchat, now with 100m daily active users and a lucrative IPO on the horizon, is far more than a social media gimmick. Plus it is heavily skewed towards younger users, a demographic the music industry is finding increasingly...

Gig discovery service Bandsintown already has a popular app for music fans, but now it's releasing one for artists and managers too. Bandsintown Manager was released for iPhone, iPad and Android this month billed as "the...

Kings of Leon became the latest artist to take part in Vevo and YouTube's American Express Unstaged series of concert livestreams on Friday.

Google’s streaming music service, Google Play Music All Access, went live in nine European countries last night.