Spotify cues up a Wall Street listing
The online music-streaming service filed a prospectus to sell shares on the New York Stock Exchange, an indication of the imminent arrival of one of...
Pacific Northwest garage-rock legend Fred Cole dies at 69
As the grunge gold rush in the 1990s made stars of young bands in and around Seattle like Nirvana and Soundgarden, Fred Cole and Dead...
It’s not their pop idol — just a bot — but fans cheer anyway
For celebrities, the next frontier of social media is a deliberately impersonal one: chatbots, a low-level form of artificial intelligence that can be harnessed to...
Streaming drives U.S. music sales up 11 percent in 2016
U.S. music sales generated $7.7 billion in retail revenue in 2016, the industry’s highest sales figure since 2009. The 11.4 percent increase was the best...
No streaming for Adele’s new album ‘25’
Adele, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé are viewed as among the very few superstar acts with enough leverage to set the terms for how they want...
Music industry waits anxiously to see if Adele streams new album
The artist’s choice on whether to stream her new album will reflect the music industry’s larger debate over how fully to embrace the format.
Old songbook could put ‘Happy Birthday’ in public domain
The “Happy Birthday” melody was first published in 1893 as “Good Morning to All,” written by Mildred Hill and her sister Patty, a kindergarten teacher...