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Apple Music is reportedly set to overtake streaming market leader Spotify in the US. According to Wall Street Journal, which attributes the finding to two music industry sources, Spotify has a…

12-year music technology veteran Hazel Savage, previously of Shazam in London, Pandora and Universal Music in Sydney, and BandLab in Singapore, is looking to tackle the issue of content volume in the…

Songwriters in the U.S. should see a lift in their measly royalty cheques after the National Music Publishers’ Association claimed victory in its push for a better cut on mechanicals from streaming…

Enrique Iglesias claims he's missed out on "millions of dollars" because his record label allegedly dropped the ball in two of his contracts. The lawsuit, filed yesterday (Jan 24) in Miami against…

Apple is testing the axiom that it’s better late than never. The tech giant is rolling out "Apple Music for Artists," an analytics dashboard that’ll enable artists to study their fans’ listening and…

Here's all the music industry news you need to know today. A lawsuit filed by independent musician Bryan Eich claims that Apple and Apple Music failed to obtain the required compulsory mechanical…

Spotify and Tencent Music Entertainment have confirmed reports that they are are entering into a stock-swap arrangement. Confirmed via Spotify's blog on Friday night (Dec 8), Sweden-based Spotify and…

Here's all the music industry news you need to know today. Global indie digital rights agency Merlin has announced results of its biennial board elections, including Dave Hansen, Epitaph’s SVP of…

After months of huffing and puffing, and the odd false start, Amazon Australia is finally open for business. The online retail monolith quietly launched its platform Down Under on Tuesday and began…

ARIA's most recent report confirms what many of us clinging to stacks of cracked jewel cases cannot bear ourselves to accept: that streaming is how people absorb music these days. But what about the…