"We don't think that the future of music involves the labels anymore," Napster CEO John Acunto tells Rolling Stone ...

Spotify paid $7 billion in royalties to rights holders — primarily labels and publishers, but also distributors, performing rights organizations and others — in 2021, the company announced on Thursday ...

Fearful of consumer backlash, major record labels in the United States have slowed controversial plans for making CDs more difficult to copy, even as tension over online music piracy mounts. Read more ...

IMPALA says it has "consistently called on regulators to take action against UMG’s 'juggernaut' strategy of serial acquisitions to gatekeep market access and exert power over digital services." By ...

In 2021, CD sales increased for the first time in 17 years. That’s mostly because of Adele, whose new album sold 898,000 of those shiny little discs. The last time CDs were this hot, Usher, Ashlee ...

So here’s what happened this week. Tuesday: Amazon launches an online storage service that allows you to upload your music collection for playback over the internet. Wednesday: The record labels get ...

The compact disc gave us our first taste of digital music – and we liked it. Upon its arrival in the U.S. in March 1983, the sleek 4.7-inch plastic and aluminum disc – about the size of a drink ...

Ahead of its highly publicized rollout of Spatial and Lossless Audio to users on Tuesday, leading up to the launch last month, Apple Music also quietly unveiled a feature that gives record labels ...