Lyor Cohen says YouTube, once the main target of the music industry's ire, can soon offer the biggest payouts of any digital music service. We crunched the numbers, and they are on his side
In an "iconic transaction," billionaire Bill Ackman's SPAC will seek to acquire 10% of Universal Music Group for approximately $4 billion
In the controversy over streaming economics, warring factions of the music industry are bickering over how to move pennies around a plate, rather than how to expand the size of the shared meal
The company also announced that it surpassed 158 million paying subscribers worldwide
Live Nation hosted 40,000 concerts in 2019. How will it get back to that number — and what else is in store for the concert giant in the post-pandemic future?
Analysts suggest that the world's biggest music rights-holder could be worth three times its current public valuation
The global recorded-music industry in 2020 saw $23.1 billion in revenue, up seven percent from 2019, according to new estimates from Midia Research
Universal is sitting on billions of dollars in Spotify stock. If it sells its stake today, it will trigger a massive payout for artists — but that's not the only reason it should cash out
The deal, which is one of the biggest acquisitions in music in recent years, is really about the unstoppable explosion in DIY indie artists
From Spotify payouts to YouTube's global user base, the music industry is rife with misinformation. Let's set the record straight
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