Apple Music In The News

Apple Music beats Spotify to biggest day-one streaming number for Travis Scott’s Astroworld

Following J.Cole and Drake albums, Apple's done it again...

Why Spotify faces a difficult hardware conundrum (and so does Sonos)

Can both music 'pureplay' companies keep the likes of Amazon and Apple at bay?

The music business’s biggest stories of the past week: Universal, Vivendi, Sony, Apple, Troy Carter

Here's what caught our attention over the past seven days...

Universal and Sony are now turning over more than $500k from streaming every hour

And they're both generating over $1m an hour from all formats...

Fake artists still dominate Spotify ‘chill’ playlists. Now Universal is fighting back… with Apple Music.

Nothing has changed on Ambient Chill, Sleep and Music For Concentration

Apple Music has over 25m paying subscribers in North America (and more than Spotify)

Apple and Spotify now have comfortably over 50m paying subs in the US and Canada between them

Universal now generating over $50m every week from streaming – overall label revenues jumped 7.4% in H1 2018

Publishing revenues grew 11.1% in the period

Music piracy: It’s time to acknowledge the unlicensed elephant in the room

MUSO's Andy Chatterley believes the industry is missing out on an opportunity presented by piracy