Music Business News: United States

DJ’ing Through the Pandemic: How the Electronic Dance Community is Leading the Industry into Livestreaming

Beatport CEO, Robb McDaniels, on how the electronic music community is pushing a valuable new income stream for the business forward

Last month, TikTok launched music distribution. Now, its users can sell merch direct to fans.

After UnitedMasters tie-up, TikTok inks deal with Teespring, which works with over 300,000 creators

Esther-Mireya Tejeda appointed Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at SoundExchange

Exec was previously Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Communications at Entercom

Warner Chappell Music inks exclusive worldwide deal with Lil Baby collaborator Section 8

Section 8 worked on tracks such as The Bigger Picture, Get Money and Humble

Amazon Music is a livestreaming platform now, thanks to Twitch tie-up

'This new feature couldn’t arrive at a more crucial time in the industry.'

Hipgnosis acquires catalog income from Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx

With Mötley Crüe, Nikki Sixx has sold more than 100m albums worldwide

Triller joins race to buy TikTok via $20bn bid backed by investment giant

Centricus helps fund bid to buy TikTok's operations in the US and other territories

Nearly a third of people in the US are using music streaming subscriptions

Some 51% of the $10.3bn generated by streaming in 2019 was paid out to US labels and distributors