News Instagram launches @Music account to boost emerging artists Questlove helps social network show off abilities
News Downloads down 12% in UK, albums down 5% – but streaming soars 81% Overall album sales fall 5.3% in unit terms
News Spotify’s Daniel Ek launches conference for ‘Brilliant Minds’. Tickets cost $2,900. Symposium Stockholm takes place between June 8-13
News PledgeMusic launches Emerging Artist Series with Swatch Danish artist Oh Land kicks off campaign in the US
News Americans really don’t want to pay for music in their cars 80% of US drivers listening to free music say they would not be willing to pay in future
News Grooveshark faces possible $736m payout as Universal damages trial kicks off Sam Tarantino and Josh Greenberg face a jury today
News Jay Z accuses Tidal rivals of ‘smear campaign’ as platform hits 770k subscribers 'Our actions will speak louder than our words', says Shawn Carter
News Don’t spend it all at once, artists: Pandora is paying out $0.0001 more per stream than it was last year Service now paying out $0.0014 each time an ad-funded user streams
News Songwriters suffer from ‘nonsensical disparity’ of streaming payments… says a Grammy-winning artist 'The time for change is now', argues Ne-Yo
News Pandora loses 2m listeners and $48m in three months Total active listeners fall under 80m people
News Facebook has 10 times as many users as Spotify and Pandora combined Total video views on social network now rival YouTube
News Tidal’s popularity plummets on US and UK Apple charts App has slid over 700 places on unofficial iOS rankings since launch
News ReverbNation launches music publishing operation with Sentric CONNECT Songs will offer administration under a revenue sharing model
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