“The music industry is undergoing an incredible period of transformation,” Tedder said of his deal to KKR, the investor behind companies like Gibson and ByteDance
The deal with Primary Wave includes big hits like Adele's "Someone Like You," The Chicks' "Not Ready to Make Nice," and Semisonic's "Closing Time"
Only white artists were nominated for Best Children’s Album — and three of them have asked to be taken off the ballot. Artists of color in children’s music are fed up with the genre’s homogeneity: “It’s like being served a baked potato with fries and hash browns on the side,” says one black artist
Amazon Music agreed to pay $300 million for a podcast company. Why didn't it want to spend the money on a music deal — like, for instance, the acquisition of Taylor Swift or Neil Young's music catalog?
Hipgnosis founder Merck Mercuriadis, who bought Young's publishing, promises fans that there will never be a "Burger of Gold" fast food commercial
Merck Mercuriadis' London-based Hipgnosis has acquired Buckingham's song catalog, including 100% of writer and publisher share of Fleetwood Mac's hits
From six-figure TikTok snippets to virtual-reality stardom to Travis Scott McNugget pillows, here are 12 ways the bizarre year upended the music industry — setting artists and fans up for an even wackier 2021
Beatport's acquisition of Loopmasters may have just fired the starter pistol on an acquisition frenzy in sector of "sample packs," plugins, and other modern technologies that have become key to music production
After a bruising 10 months of Covid shutdown, live music businesses — not to mention artists and fans — are hoping concerts and tours can return in the spring of 2021. But is it a pipe dream?
Labels are trying to use TikTok to launch a new song into the Christmas music canon
