News TIDAL has hit 3m subscribers, adding 2.5m since Jay Z buyout Firm claims that Kanye West's latest album was streamed 250m times in 10 days
News Spotify ready for streaming showdown as it raises $1bn in convertible debt Expect some big spending from Daniel Ek in the coming months
News SoundCloud launches subscription service ‘Go’ in the US market SoundCloud Go makes platform a real rival to the likes of Spotify and Apple Music
News Pandora CEO Brian McAndrews exits after $5bn company valuation drop Tim Westergren takes over at helm of company
News Apple Music scores another exclusive as association with Drake pays off DVSN's debut album unavailable on Spotify
Blog The indie label services market is shrinking – and that’s a problem Absolute's Mark Dowling surveys the landscape in the wake of Sony's Essential buy
News Sony’s music boss Michael Lynton steps up amid corporate changes Doug Morris and Martin Bandier now 'Business Executives' in top-level restructure
News France set to introduce streaming data into albums and singles chart No word yet on formula, but it's coming
News Dubset isn’t licensed by the majors or Merlin… but says it’s working on it CEO Stephen White explains the platform's position
News 200m takedown requests later, BPI tells Google: this is getting silly Geoff Taylor calls for 'notice and stay down' policy from search giant
News SoftBank invests $250m in entertainment agency WME-IMG Agency represents Frank Ocean, Foo Fighters and many more
Analysis The real price of a music stream? It just keeps going down and down… Per-stream figure dropped 24% in 2015 across free and premium
News Pandora appoints fourth new board director in 12 months Exec joins former EMI boss Roger Faxon and ex-AEG exec Tim Leiweke
Analysis Streaming trumps CD and download income as US music market grows 0.9% Ad-funded makes up just 16% of total streaming tally
Analysis YouTube wants you to stop comparing it to Spotify and Apple Music 'YouTube boasting about its payments to the music industry is like Bernie Madoff boasting about paying dividends to his investors.'
News Universal tries to break artist via multi-million pound ad campaign Norma Jean Martine is at centre of McArthurGlen campaign
News Oh good. Here comes another YouTube ripping platform MP3Cola adds its name to a growing problem for the music business
News Warner owner Len Blavatnik pumps $1m into anti-Donald Trump group Richest man in Britain backs Rubio's failed bid for Republican leader