A number of recent label realignments led to a shift in the market share landscape for the third quarter.  By Dan Rys As the ...

Music made by AI is already making its presence felt, in the zeitgeist as “slop” as well as in the charts. There is more dross than ever. Alexis Lanternier, boss of Paris-based Deezer, says that about ...

Major labels never had a magic button. They had a sequence, and the one step independents cannot copy alone costs $99, not a label budget. Picture a Saturday night in any city with a real club scene.

The “Snowfall” spinoff’s showrunner has big plans for future seasons, including exploring how the music industry profited ...

The singer-songwriter is invoking California’s “seven-year statute,” a 1944 state law that allows an individual to exit a personal services contract after that amount of time. The statute was amended ...

The question of whether artists still need record labels never seems to fade from industry discussion. It has invariably surfaced in conference panels, think pieces, and behind-closed-doors ...

Record labels always push music forward into interesting new places. Here’s a celebration of their power by readers and Guardian music writers ...

The investment of more than $1.59million will support 40 record labels across the country, providing funding for artist ...

A group of major record labels has fired back at Cox Communications, asking the Supreme Court to uphold the $1 billion piracy liability verdict. The music companies describe Cox as a hypocritical bad ...

When The Beatles took off, every major record label wanted a piece of their success. Ultimately, The Beatles were with Parlophone Records(EMI) for their British Label and Capitol Records for their ...

Plenty of people love the spooky season, as demonstrated by one runaway success song that was rejected by record labels ...