This Week In Music Commentary

This week we hear about Adele's tumultuous relationship with Apple, how Lorde achieved superstar status, what exactly a trademark is and why it's important, as well as more music commentary.

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How Apple Music Paid Subscriptions Stack Up Against The Competition [CHART]

Earlier this week, Apple announced that Apple Music has 6.5 million paid subscribers. While its easy to be critical that with Apple's reach and hundreds of millions of active users,. Continue reading

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Which Billboard Artists Are Being Illegally Downloaded The Most?

While Billboard takes a number of factors into account when calculating its rankings, it does not include illegal downloads, which would alter their statistics significantly. Here we look at which. Continue reading

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Eddy Cue, Jimmy Iovine, Zane Lowe Speak In Code About Apple Music’s Secret Subscriber Numbers

This is the week that Apple learns how many users will choose to pay for Apple Music. They will never tell us the real numbers (if there were a pool, I'd. Continue reading

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Hacked Patreon Data Appears Online + How To Find Out If Your Data Was Breached

Yesterday, we reported that Patreon had been hacked.  At the time, company co-founder Jack Conte assured users that no sensitive information had been breached. Now, much of the hacked data has. Continue reading

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POLL: Will You Pay For Apple Music?

Apple Music launched 90 days ago today, and that means that the first group of free trial subscriptions are expiring.  If you want to make sure you don't ever pay. Continue reading

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THE PITCH: Localized Concert Discovery App DoStuff

THE PITCH today comes from concert discovery app DoStuff. There are a number of startups working on concert discovery. BandsInTown and Songkick, for example, share info provided from artists, agents and. Continue reading

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How To Turn Off Apple Music Auto-Renewal As First Wave Of Free Trials Expire

If, like most of us, you rushed to try out Apple Music when it launched on June 30th, your 90 day free trial is almost up.  Unless you want to. Continue reading

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Google Announces Chromecast Audio, 6 Person Play Music Family Plan, Spotify And More

Tucked away in Google's hardware event today were several major announcements that will literally bring music to the ears of any audio or streaming fans.

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Why You Still Should Register A “Copyrighted” Work

While many creatives in the entertainment industry believe (and are partly correct) that a work is copyrighted as soon as it is fixed in a tangible medium it still pays,. Continue reading

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