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Video-hosting juggernaut, Vevo, will be launching a subscription service for music videos later this year. At Re/code s Code/Media conference in Dana Point, California, Vevo CEO Erik Huggers said,…

Universal Music Group s full year revenue in 2015 amounted to 5.11 billion (A$7.95 billion). It translated a rise of 12.1% as reported by the world s largest music company s parent company Vivendi,…

MixRadio is the latest music streaming app to be abandoned. Originally created by Nokia, its current platform owner Line Corporation is shuttering it in coming weeks. The Japanese messaging company,…

Songwriter and producer Max Martin, the hit maker behind Britney Spears Baby One More Time, Katy Perry s I Kissed A Girl, Pink s So What and Taylor Swift s Bad Blood is to receive 2016 Polar Music…

After a beta test from early December, Sonos announced that its whole-home speaker systems around the world can now access all Apple Music features, and stream its 43 million + tracks. Australia is…

UK-based digital radio brand Pure, which is available in Australia, is up for sale. It comes as its parent microchip-making company Imagination Technologies Group which is part-owned by Apple seeks a…

The International Federation of Phonographic Industry has hailed Adele as the biggest global artist across all music formats. The achievement is made greater considering that the British singer…

Warner Music Group (WMG) announced robust growth in revenue in its first fiscal quarter ending December 1. Total revenue grew 2.4% (or 11.1% on a constant-currency basis) to US$849 million. This was…

Executives at Japan s Sony Corp are seeing the growth of its streaming revenue as an example that its music division s bleak days are starting to see light. Streaming made up 24% of total revenues…

Amazon has quietly started to set up a streaming music service to launch in the third quarter of the year, sources in the US told the New York Post. Its $99 a year Amazon Prime shopping service…

As many as 46% of seats for many popular concerts in New York are not offered to the general public. A three-year investigation of the online ticketing market has seen New York Attorney General Eric…

Apple now has 1 billion active devices around the world, its CEO Tim Cook said. The figure is based on the number of iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod Touch, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch engaged with Apple s…