Thanks Migos And Ed Sheeran: Streaming Leads The Music Industry To A Strong First Quarter

For a reality check, though things are looking up, revenue is still far from what it was 20 years ago. For 2016, the music industry earned $7.65 billion, down from $13.7 million in 1998, which was the last year that the U.S. music industry saw a ... #musicindustry

Ed Sheeran album boosts UK music industry with sales up by more than 10% in first quarter

The UK music industry has seen Album Equivalent Sales for the first quarter of 2017 rise 10.7 per cent compared to last year, according to the Official Charts Company and BPI. #musicindustry

Op-Ed: Streaming has now taken over the music industry and A.I. will push it into the stratosphere

The late, great David Bowie got it spot on back in 2002. Telling the New York Times that music is going to become like "running water or electricity," the "Starman" singer predicted the meteoric rise of the streaming subscription that last week ... #musicindustry

Music Industry Jobs: Who's Getting Hired, Fired, and Retired

At Viacom, she built and managed a cross-functional team responsible for growing digital reach and revenue. The team worked with MTV, CMT, shows like Unplugged and Crossroads, and live events including the Video Music Awards. She'll head up WQXR, ... #musicindustry

US Music Industry Sees First Double Digit Growth in Almost 20 Years as Streaming Takes Over

It looks like happy days are here again: U.S. recorded music sales were up 11.4 percent in 2016. The industry brought in $7.65 billion in revenue, according to the RIAA, up from $6.87 million in 2015. #musicindustry

Editorial: Reviving the Memphis Music Industry

Three hours from Memphis, a country-and-pop music industry in Nashville has become an economic engine powering Middle Tennessee, spawning jobs and development. #musicindustry

Music Industry Executive Predicts a Major 'Wake-Up Call' on ...

Artists have long complained about poor royalty payments from streaming platforms. Yet, the CEO of BMG says that labels should pay out drastically more. #musicindustry

How the music industry came back to life

The latter is only half the industry's sales in 1999, before the outbreak of digital piracy, but growth has returned. Universal Music, the biggest music label, struck a new licensing deal this week with Spotify, the streaming service, easing the way ... #musicindustry

New research details why the music industry, listeners crave faster songs

Last month, the peer-reviewed journal Musicae Scientiae published the research, "Drawing listener attention in popular music," conducted by Hubert Léveillé Gauvin, a doctoral student in music theory at The Ohio State University. In the first study of ... #musicindustry