Apple this week introduced a new feature designed to allow prospective Apple Music users to import their saved music and playlists from third-party music services to ‌Apple Music‌. The feature ...

If you made a Likert scale of pop music gangsta credibility, you could defensibly put Snoop Dogg on one end and Ed Sheeran on the other. Yet last month they both signaled their country music ...

The inaugural U.K. Power Players list includes executives — nominated by their peers and companies and chosen by Billboard’s editors — from selected sectors of the industry: major music ...

Music festivals are facing a crisis. On the brink of what should be another exciting summer festival season, dozens of music festivals are shutting down. The trend has been simmering for years ...

Taylor Swift is now the proud owner of her entire catalog of music, roughly six years after she protested the sale of her master recordings by her former record label. Swift announced the news in ...

Salt-N-Pepa wants the rights to their music’s masters. On Monday, the rap duo — Cheryl “Salt” James and Sandra “Pepa” Denton — sued Universal Music Group (UMG), accusing the label of ...

“There’s not a centralization of key platforms where people are finding artists,” says Mike Weiss, vp of music/head of A&R at UnitedMasters. “Everything is more niche. To become a ...

The saga began in 2019 when Braun purchased Big Machine Records from Scott Borchetta Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019 ...

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Can we enjoy the Tennessee superstar's music without seeing red hats? As 80 years of popular music show, it can be difficult to separate the art from the artist. At a time when so many seemingly ...

Almost no one hits it big in music. The odds are so bad it’s criminal. But on a late spring evening in Louisville, Kentucky, Mike Smith and Jonathan Hay were having that rare golden moment when ...

By Kwame Anthony Appiah Is it ethical to buy used books and music instead of new copies that will financially reward the author or artist? What do consumers owe to producers of art?