News Hi-Res music streaming service Qobuz to launch in US in ‘early 2019’ The company will offer four different subscription tiers for US subscribers
News Student plans launched for YouTube Music and YouTube Premium Student plans are available for YouTube Music Premium for $4.99 and YouTube Premium for $6.99.
Analysis News How Taylor Swift’s big demand will affect $280m+ of Universal’s money Why the pop icon is also, in one regard, a punk-rock rebel
News Record industry attacks YouTube for ‘carpet-bombing propaganda’ over Article 13 Labels respond to latest Lyor Cohen op/ed, which claims artists will be paid less after Article 13
News Lyor Cohen: Article 13 could mean ‘less money for artists and songwriters on YouTube’ 'Article 13 would [open up] YouTube... to unmitigated liability and such a large financial risk, we would be forced to block huge amounts of video.'
News Anghami partners with ACRCloud to bring Radar music recognition feature to Middle East It’s done so ahead of Apple fully integrating Shazam into its service
Analysis Why did Warner just spend $180m to buy a merchandising company? Merch is becoming a huge, and vital, component of artist careers
News Pandora Premium can now be streamed through Amazon Echo devices The company published a blog post announcing the news 'just in time for the holidays'
Analysis News Universal is having a huge year – right on time for sale-hungry Vivendi UMG's current performance suggests that, with a strong Q4, it will turn over somewhere close to $7bn in the full year of 2018
Analysis News Liberty Media: We’re ‘absolutely’ interested at looking into buying a stake in Universal Music Group The starting pistols go off on the biggest music rights deal of the year
News UK music tech firm Pirate Studios receives $20m investment from Talis Capital The investment will fund new locations across UK, US and Germany
News Pandora rolls out new podcast recommendation technology in beta The platform's podcast's are powered by the Podcast Genome Project
Interviews ‘It’s always in your best interest to bank a lot of karma chips in the music industry’ Big Deal founder Kenny MacPherson on success – and the opposite of success
Analysis The future looks bleak for the album – can it be saved? Music industry statistics paint a worrying picture for music's most beloved format