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Spotify could have the full house of indies and music majors on board by September as Warner Music Group reportedly inches closer to ending its licensing holdout. The streaming music company and WMG,…

Just yesterday we spoke about Gotye has not received a single cent in YouTube royalties, due to his decision not to monetise his channel, but now it's been revealed just how much one of music's…

The Birth Of A Giant “Daniel just saw the opportunities of streaming music before anyone else.” – Mark Zuckerberg on Spotify’s Daniel Ek, The New Yorker. You wouldn’t think much of Daniel Ek if you…

As we reported in March, Facebook's music strategy, which was revealed by way of a handful of interestingly-worded job ads, raised a number of red flags. Lars Brandle noted that Facebook would have…

If you've ever tried to show your mates just how good Prince's 'When Doves Cry' music video, chances are that you've managed upon a stumbling block of sorts. Namely that the video wasn't exactly…

Claes Loberg, the founder of Guvera, the imploded streaming service which burnt through an estimated $180 million and is facing an ASIC investigation, is already plotting his next “wild” venture in…

Jay-Z's thirteenth solo album has been illegally downloaded almost one million times since its release last Friday (June 30). According to UK piracy analytics company MUSO (and reported on by MBW),…

If a report by gossip rag TMZ is to be believed, Kanye West has quit his role as one of the founding shareholders of Jay-Z's streaming service, TIDAL. According to TMZ, "sources close to Kanye" have…

The axe has dropped at Pandora, claiming three top executives and the Internet radio group’s Australasian operations, TIO can confirm. In a dramatic changing of the guard, the company has released…

Songwriters, for so long the unsung heroes, the forgotten geniuses behind the soundtrack to your life, should get the money and the glory. And that’ll happen, if the world’s most powerful music…