News The Orchard hires Lucy Blair and Nikoo Sadr in the UK Duo join Sony-owned company's European HQ in London
News Spotify’s own playlists are paying out $1m a day to the music business A billion streams a week taking place on the likes of Today's Top Hits
News Kobalt: New app is a ‘giant step’ towards transparency for songwriters 'Putting the power of Kobalt into the hands of creators has always been a top priority for me'
News YouTube launches tool to enable ‘faster, more accurate royalty distributions’ DDEX update is free to download and open-source
Analysis Sympathy for the devil: Why do so few music startups succeed? 'This problem affects all of us in the digital music value chain'
News These are the shows Spotify hopes can pull you away from Netflix Music at centre of 12 new programming launches on service
News YouTube: We’d love to tell you what we’re paying artists… if we were allowed If Spotify can do it, why can't YouTube?
News Beyoncé’s Lemonade is a piracy smash – but it’s taken TIDAL to No.1 Album surges on torrent sites, as Jay Z's app overtakes Spotify on daily US chart
Blog ‘The music industry needs more innovators and fewer lawyers’ CD Baby CEO Tracy Maddux on class action lawsuits fired at streaming services
Analysis The average music streaming subscriber is paying less than $1 a week And if you think that sounds low, you should see the YouTube stats...
News Tunecore expands into Germany, single upload will cost artists €10 Album uploads will cost €29.99 in first year of registration
News YouTube faces new DMCA enemy: Katy Perry and Deadmau5’s artist supergroup Lionel Richie, Elvis Costello and Christina Aguilera have all signed petition
News Spotify launches in Indonesia with $3.80 per month premium tier Market has a population of more than 250m people
News Pandora appoints fourth new board director in 12 months Exec joins former EMI boss Roger Faxon and ex-AEG exec Tim Leiweke
Analysis Sony deal done, here’s how SoundCloud can survive a brutal streaming market A seven-point survival plan for the challenged Berlin-based service