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The streaming music service has hired Wall Street veteran Paul Vogel.
The man who helped Lady Gaga and Meghan Trainor will now help Daniel Ek.
The streaming music service’s losses increased — but revenue grew much faster.
But it would like more from YouTube.
Tidal will still have the exclusive streaming rights.
RIAA boss Cary Sherman says Katy Perry and the rest of the music business are getting a bad deal.
“The Life of Pablo” leaves its Tidal-only shell tomorrow. We think.
Customers can sign up for Amazon Prime as part of their monthly Sprint bill, but will have to pay a hefty premium.
Here’s a guess: Videos.
Like Spotify, Apple and many others, it’s $10 a month. The free version is sticking around, but some songs may move behind a pay wall.
Streaming generated $2.4 billion in the U.S. last year. It should be much more, says the RIAA.
The streaming music service reaches an agreement with the National Music Publisher’s Association.
Gutierrez is best known for his work at Microsoft striking patent licensing deals over Android and Linux.
Here we are in 2016 with more news about the struggles of online music businesses than success stories to share.
More money for Coldplay if Spotify IPOs.
Music is hard.
How many of its 175 million users will actually convert when the service starts charging?
The streaming-music site is hoping to distinguish itself and outpace Apple Music.
Cracker’s David Lowery leads class-action lawsuit.
Here. There. Everywhere.Get it? Hohohohoho Merry Christmas.
All together now.
Pandora investors think that’s great news.
You don’t know Max Martin, but he knows what you like to listen to. John Seabrook, the author the “The Song Machine,” explains.
Funny how that works.
Adele is popular enough to get away with it.
I’m scared of a world where one company is the record label, distributor, radio station and record store all in one.
R.I.P. Rdio and Aether.
Billions of songs a month means lots of information about who listened, when and where.
The new music service will likely look a lot like Apple Music: Free music, within limits.
Related: Facebook wants to be friends with the music business.
Michael Nash will oversee the world’s biggest music label in its negotiations with Spotify and YouTube.
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Pandora says free, on-demand music isn’t “sustainable.”
Now the question is, can the business actually start growing?
Dave Goldberg’s prescription for Sony Music called for a complete overhaul.