Music streaming

Music News: Music labels looking for a piece of Apple Music subscription fees

Via: TheNYPost Music labels, hell-bent to “bring booty back” to the industry, are hoping to convince Apple to hand over an unusually large slice of the monthly subscription fees from its soon-to-arrive paid streaming service, The Post has learned. Music’s top negotiators are looking for anywhere between 60 percent...

Music News: This Free Music Site Is Shutting Down Forever

Via: Time.com In the heyday of too-good-to-be-true free music streaming services, Grooveshark was one of the most popular. But on Thursday, the company said it was shutting down completely. In a post on Grooveshark’s website, the streaming platform’s leaders apologized “without reservation” for offering free access to songs without...

Music News: Streaming Music ‘War’ Looming Between Jay Z’s Tidal and Apple

Via: NYpost Music-industry sources say Apple is interfering with Jay Z’s music-streaming service Tidal in an attempt to crush it ahead of the relaunch of Apple’s Beats Music, set for June. Last week it emerged that Tidal, following its March 30 launch, has fallen out of the iPhone top...