Music/Audio

Spotify’s singular focus on music sees it adding subscribers faster than the iPhone company with a streaming app on the side. Spotify has added 20 million paid subscribers in les... More

Spotify is tiptoeing into new businesses again. The company is testing whether to devote more resources to areas other than music. Podcasts are a fast-growing field currently domin... More

Alongside revealing its new partnership with high-end audio brand Devialet on the TV Sky Soundbox sound system, Sky has announced that it is bringing Dolby Atmos to its Sky Q platf... More

YouTube's head of music confirmed that the company is planning on merging its Google Play Music service with YouTube Red to create a new streaming offering. Lyor Cohen stated that ... More

The continued growth of Dolby Atmos audio technology and Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR) video in homes and theatrically via the Dolby Cinema platform played a major role in ... More

Vistex has announced that Music Maestro is the first system compatible with Common Works Registration 2.2 (CWR), the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Compose... More

Major indie music company BMG has partnered with Avid Pro Tools, a studio production tool, to bring the legendary catalog of New York House label Strictly Rhythm to the Avid Market... More

If you're confused about how exactly music tech is doing in 2017, I don't blame you. On one hand, some previously dominant music-tech stars are falling prey to money troubles, sugg... More

Paramount has become the latest Hollywood studio to throw its support behind Dolby Vision for Ultra High-Def (UHD) Blu-ray and streamed movies featuring High Dynamic Range (HDR), f... More

Dolby today announced the opening of its 100th global Dolby Cinema location at AMC South Bay Galleria 16 in Redondo Beach, California. This global milestone highlights the strength... More

Google Play announced the launch of HDR (high dynamic range) playback for myriad movies available for sale on the digital retail platform. HDR will first be available in the U.S. a... More

Fun fact: Amazon is now the world's largest audio equipment vendor. Thanks to the success of smart speakers with voice personal assistants (VPAs), the audio market has rebounded... More

Vistex announced that Musicians Institute is the first school to implement Record Maestro as a core requirement of its Music Business Program, which is designed to equip future mus... More

Dolby today announced Chicago club Sound-Bar will boast the first Dolby Atmos music entertainment experience in a club in the United States. The Dolby Atmos residency at Sound-Bar ... More

There are few industries more paradoxical than streaming music. On the one hand, it’s exploding: The boom in paid subscriptions is driving the music industry’s first real growt... More

Queen and Adam Lambert, who recently kicked off their U.S. tour and played two nights at the Hollywood Bowl, will offer fans a virtual reality concert experience. The band has t... More

It’s no secret—nor surprise—that streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio and the select few others that have managed to survive the incredibly tou... More

This report certainly came out of left field, but at this point, the world should have learned not to be surprised by Elon Musk's seemingly limitless entrepreneurial ambitions. ... More

Spotify users have noticed a new opt-out setting appearing both on desktop and in-app: Sponsored Songs. Sponsored content in general is not new for Spotify — last year they allow... More

The slow thaw in artists’ discontent is easy to understand once you see the numbers. Last year, streaming made up more than 50% of the music industry’s revenue for the first ti... More