Are You Ready For YouTube TV? YouTube TV, the new online TV service from the Google-owned OTT giant, went live Wednesday in a handful of markets – New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco/Bay Area, Chicago and Philadelphia -- with more U.S. cit... Read More...
Celebrity Deaths Drive Music Sales in 2016 According to Nielsen, the unusually high number of deaths of iconic musicians this year and the rush of fans to scoop up their albums will likely boost the bottom lines of the major record labels. While co... Read More...
Irving Azoff’s Open Letter Blasts YouTube Irving Azoff, former record label executive and CEO of Azoff Music Management currently representing artists such as Jennifer Hudson, Christina Aguilera, Raphael Saadiq and R&B icons, Earth Wind & Fire ... Read More...
Forget Apple vs. Tidal… It’s Facebook vs. YouTube Depending on who you ask, the music business advanced to a higher level with the launch of Apple Music and the webcasting of Beats 1 on June 30. Hold on to your apple seeds and cores as word from the curb revea... Read More...
Music’s New Soap Opera: “Apples & Tides” I'm paid yo! Drake may have “started from the bottom” but his pockets are about to be more “top dollar” as the check writers at Apple iTunes continue to seek ways and means to usurp Jay-Z‘s Tidal ... Read More...
Beyonce Signs New Artists After their cover of Beyoncé‘s ballad “Pretty Hurts” went viral with 8 million views, Chloe and Halle Bailey earned the ultimate compliment for their efforts as the Queen Bey herself has signed them to her mana... Read More...