China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba has now set its sights on the music industry. The company recently unveiled Alibaba Planet, a Chinese music streaming app.
Category archives: Music industry
Music downloads may only have about four years left
All signs point to music heading toward a post-iTunes world. Ownership of songs and albums, which saw its own transformation from physical to digital in the 2000s, is now steadily being edged out by massive streaming catalogs and monthly subscription m…
ASCAP settles with U.S. over music licensing
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, better known as the music licensing firm ASCAP, agreed to pay $1.75 million to settle a Justice Department charge that it blocked members from independently licensing their songs, the departmen…
SoundCloud’s music subscription goes international
One month after launching its subscription streaming service in the U.S., SoundCloud is kicking off its big international expansion today with a launch in the U.K. and Ireland.
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Les majors de la musique haussent le ton face à YouTube
Universal, Sony et Warner ouvrent un nouveau front dans le bras de fer qui les oppose à la plate-forme vidéo de Google.
Professionnaliser le secteur de la musique africaine
Le Programme pour le Développement de la Musique Africdaine (AMDP), coordonné par le Conseil International de la Musique et soutenu par le Prgoramme ACPCultures+, a organisé les 19 et 20 avril 2016 la seconde édition de l’IMPACT Music Conference. La Conféerence avait pour thème : «Musique, Tech, et nouveaux modèles économiques en Afrique».
Tidal: can Prince and Beyonce save the underdog of streaming services?
How Much Is Music Really Worth?
With the music business in an especially volatile state right now, Marc Hogan puts the industry’s woes in perspective by breaking down how we’ve valued songs and albums over the course of more than a century—and learns that the economics of music can be more dark art than dismal science.
Is YouTube a music industry devil or buzz-making deity?
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ manager Peter Mensch is the latest to slam the internet company for not fairly paying artists. But there’s more to the online music streaming debate than meets the ear.
Radiohead’s corporate empire: inside the band’s dollars and cents
The band have proven themselves shrewd businessmen, forming some 20 companies since their inception – including LLLP LLP and Random Rubbish Ltd.