Some of the biggest music stories in 2024 revealed inalienable truths. Kendrick beat Drake, once and for all; on the heels of her Eras Tour, the highest-grossing tour in history, Taylor Swift is the ...

As 2025 comes to an end, we can see signs that the music industry may be ready to move on from a model that hasn’t really changed in over a decade. Every mode of distributing music to the public has ...

2026 approaches with our bright-eyed resolutions in tow. If you spend any significant part of your day streaming music, 2025 may have left you rethinking those listening habits, especially if Spotify ...

Artists have long complained about the low payout from music streaming services. Now some from Wisconsin taking a stand. Milwaukee musician Brett Newski will not release his new album on streaming ...

Looking to start music lessons? It might not be as easy as do-re-mi. Googling “music lessons in Sacramento” spits out endless results, and that’s just the problem: With so many choices, how do you ...

Is physical music doomed? A new survey found most Americans believe streaming music is “superior” than all physical forms of music combined. The poll of 2,000 U.S. adults found 38% believe streaming ...

It sounds like a joke, or a bad episode of Black Mirror. A band of four guys with shaggy hair released two albums' worth of generic psych-rock songs back-to-back. The songs ended up on Spotify users' ...

LONDON (AP) — Want to switch to Apple Music because you can’t find your favorite indie band on Spotify? Or maybe you’re on Amazon Music but saw a new subscriber offer on Tidal that’s too good to pass ...

Country music has always been three chords and the truth. But the way those truths and chords get delivered to and consumed by country music fans has changed, thus changing the actual recording of the ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. The ...

Taking a page from plane tickets, hotel taxes, and live music, could this be a way to emerging artists? For many people who stream music every day, how artists and rightsholders are paid is not a ...