One could do worse than write a history of the business from the pages of Billboard’s Power 100 rankings. This year the venerable music industry…
Records and live performances define the state of the music market. 2014 was special for two things: a consumer preference for accessing a recording with…
Apple unveiled new products as usual, and this year it put out the iWatch and a new iPhone. But its partnership with Irish rockers U2 …
For more than a year, Twitter has been addressing music. Its 241m monthly users are closer now than ever before to bridging the divide between…
In February of 2013, Billboard and Nielsen made another modification to the “Billboard Hot 100” chart, the official singles chart in the United States. The…
2011 was a year of hit records, powerful female artists, the discovery of electronic dance music within the US, and more genre crossovers into the…
Since the early evolution of the music industry, there has been a struggle to find a way to accurately measure success among artists….