Streaming Contributed the Most in Recorded Music Revenue For 2019: RIAA
The RIAA released its 2019 year-end revenue numbers for the U.S. recorded-music business, and for the fourth straight year it showed double-digit percent increases and...
More Than 1,000 Studio Quality Albums Added to Music Services Each Month
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) today issued a first-ever tally of high-resolution (“hi-res”) music titles available in the U.S.
According to new data...
Music Community Calls For Building A Better Digital Attribution And Credits System
Today, the Artist Rights Alliance, SAG-AFTRA, RIAA, and A2IM announced a new collaboration in support of building a “more robust and effective system of digital...
U.S. Music Industry Dominated by Streaming
The U.S. music market trends in the first half of 2018 continued to reflect the music industry's rapid transition from unit based physical and digital...
Streaming Services Keep Driving Music Business
The American recorded music business grew in 2017, for the second consecutive year, as music fans continued to subscribe to streaming services, which counted...
The State of Music Mid-Way Through 2017
In the first half of 2017, growth in revenues from music subscription streaming services in the U.S. continued to offset declines in traditional unit...
Fair Play Pay Act Re-introduced
Today Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn), John Conyers (D-Mich), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Ted Deutch (D-Fla), and Tom Rooney (R-Fla) introduced The Fair...
World's Largest Music Strem Ripping Site Faces Legal Action
Organisations representing record companies in the US and UK took legal action today against Youtube-mp3.org, the world’s largest site dedicated to offering "stream ripped" music...
Creative Community Says FCC's Set top Box Proposal is Harmful Impact on Content Creators
A group of creative industry companies, advocacy groups, labor unions, associations, programmers, and individual creators are raising concerns about the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to...
Artists, Songwriters Call For Reforms of DMCA
Artists, songwriters, managers and music organizations are calling for reforms of the outdated Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Nearly 400 individual artists, songwriters, managers, and...
