Tag: Music

In searching for better benchmarks, Judge Stanton is much more impressed by internal Pandora emails in late December 2013 that discussed how Pandora and big publishers came to interim deals when the old licensing agreement expired. At the time, Sony and Universal were telling Pandora the price for not being sued. Nevertheless, the judge says Read More …

According to the BMG CEO, the balance of power is gradually swinging from music’s executives to its creative community – and that suits him just fine.While many see the past 15 years of music’s digital revolution and revenue decline as a disaster, Masuch views it as an opportunity to correct a relationship which has too Read More …

Boiler Room has partnered with Twitch to launch a new channel, hosting a 24/7 video broadcast of both live and archival music performances. Since launching in 2010, Boiler Room has grown from a webcam taped to a warehouse wall to a global broadcaster, streaming underground music from techno and hip hop to jazz and neo-classical. The company Read More …

The public launch of YouTube’s subscription streaming service, Music Key,  has been delayed until mid-September. The announcement comes less than a week after Spotify confirmed it was adding video functionality to its platform at a press conference in New York. Source: YouTube Music Key launch delayed until September – Music Business Worldwide