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Spotify, the largest music streaming service at the moment, has announced it has now signed up 40 million subscribers. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took to Twitter to claim, "40 is the new 30." The tweet s…

US filmmaker Ron Howard s Beatles movie Eight Days A Week The Touring Years begins its American run on Friday (September 16). But the movie has already run into legal problems. The issue is over 30…

Music streaming service Tidal doubled its losses last year, the Wall Street Journal reported on figures released this week. Tidal doubled its loss from US$10.44 million in 2014 to $28 million in…

Stream ripping is proving to be the dark underside of the platform that the global music industry was banking on returning it to major profits streaming. Streaming now has 68 million users and its…

Image: Jessie J The fourth edition of UK Music’s annual Measuring Music report says that the music sector contributed 4.1 billion (A$7.25 billion) to the UK s economy in 2015 in in GVA (Gross Value…

Following approval from France’s competition regulatory body L Autorit de la concurrence, digital music company Deezer is now under the control of Ukrainian-born American billionaire Len Blavatnik s…

While it still trails behind rival Spotify, Apple Music s streaming service continues to make bounds. Its number of subscribers has now risen to 17 million, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced in his…

Former One Direction member Zayn Malik is Executive Producer of a new one-hour drama for America s NBC network based on a boy band. Malik has joined forces with long-time US TV producer Dick Wolf,…

Apple Music for Android has surpassed 10 million downloads on the Google Play store, nearly ten months after it was released on the platform. Specifically, the app’s total number of installs is now…

One Direction member Niall Horan has signed a solo record deal with Universal Music according to British media reports. The move has upset and angered 1D s one-time mentor and manager Simon Cowell,…

Image: OneRepublic In April this year, global figures for 2015 from the International Federation of The Phonographic Industry (IFPI) indicated that the recorded music industry was worth US$15 billion…

Ed Sheeran and DJ Mustard shone in the latest list of certifications by the National Music Publishers Association in the US to songwriters and publishers. They had six certifications each for sales…