Music streaming has always been a cutthroat market, with the leading companies not having many positive things to say about one another. But things became particularly heated this week when a small tweak to U.S. copyright rules — which actually happened a whole year ago and is resurfacing now because …
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Jay-Z’s music-streaming service Tidal, which was the subject of a major report offraudulent streaming numbers for Beyoncé and Kanye West albums last year, is under investigation from Norwegian authorities, according toDagens Næringsliv, the newspaper that published the original claims. Last May,Dagens Næringslivalleged, off of internal data it acquired from an …
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Music’s most innovative business was about to implode. This time last year, Pandora was in dire straits.The company had gone from being the music industry‘s gilded pioneer — exciting everyone from teens to retirees with the newfangled idea of Internet radio at the turn of the century — to a …
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“Men are going to try to break you,” one of Dorothy Carvello’s teachers told her in grade school — and, she says, they were words that seemed to prove true every day she worked in the record industry. Carvello began as a secretary to legendary Atlantic Records president and co-founder …
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In the weeks since a shooter killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others at Las Vegas‘ Route 91 Harvest festival, Kevin Lyman, producer of the long-running Warped Tour, has been thinking a lot about security at his outdoor festival. In recent years, he’d already added police dogs and …
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