Fan music mashup and remix app Hook launches on iOS today. Hook Studio lets fans browse a library of licensed music, and choose up to a 30-second clip to remix. Hook. Continue reading

Hypebot has been named a top music marketing blog by music marketing and playlist submission platform Grease Release.

SoundExchange is developing a much needed global artificial intelligence (AI) registry for sound recording creators and rights owner

Episode 215 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. Listen here.

The Music Tectonics Conference Swimming With Narwhals music tech startup competition has named its 2024 finalists.

Today, Friday September 20th, is Band Shirt Day. This single day global fundraising initiative brings artists together to sell merchandise on their official sales channels and donate a percentage of proceeds to the charitable organizations of their choice.

From The Beatles to Queen and Earth Wind & Fire to NWA, bands – who mostly wrote their own songs -dominated music. But that started to change sometime in late 1990’s and 2000’s.

It’s harder than ever to turn a profit on tour. Price tickets to high and fans (and potential fans) stay away. Price them too low and you lose much needed income.

MUSIC BUSINESS NEWS: BMI has filed an action in Federal rate court to determine fees for a license with SiriusXM.  After years of negotiations, SiriusXM is attempting to lower its payments to. Continue reading