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President Joe Biden announced from a White House roundtable on Thursday that entertainment giant Live Nation and ticketing behemoth Ticketmaster have pledged to give US consumers the ability to see the full price of tickets up front, minimizing the frequently frustrating experience of watching additional fees add up late in the checkout process when buying online.

Swifties are spending big on travel, lodging, makeup, fashion and food to attend the shows.

A Taylor Swift concert is a combination of music concert and broadway play costing over $100M. Ever wonder what the logistics is for the one of the most expensive concert tours in history? 1/ pic.twitter.com/oM6g8h6ZtC— Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) May 6, 2023

Want to know how much Spotify pays artists per stream in 2023? We've got the recent low-down plus a Spotify royalty calculator!

A picture is worth a thousand words...but how about if someone listens to you sing a million times? Answer: Around $4,370 Questions: Have you ever thought about how the artists on platforms like Spotify are paid? Do you think around $4,000 per 1 million streams is high or low? What other things have you seen artists do that would supplement their streaming income?

The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History. Adam Levine, Justin Timberlake, KISS, Elton John, Rolling Stones

Opening statements are set for Tuesday morning in a trial that mashes up Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” with Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” The heirs of Gaye's co-writer of the 1973 soul classic, Ed Townsend, are suing Sheeran in a trial that started in Manhattan federal court Monday. After a jury was picked, jurors were told to await openings on Tuesday. Townsend's heirs say Sheeran's 2014 hit is so similar to “Let's Get It On” that it violates copyright. Sheeran is among witnesses expected to testify. His lawyers say the similarities are simply the basic chord progressions and song structures behind much of pop music.

Composers and recording artists are all different too, but the music is identical—what's going on?

Latin music revenue surged 24% last year to hit a record high of $1.1 billion in the US.

Latin music revenue in the United States reached an all-time high of $1.1 billion in 2022, marking the industry’s second year of double-digit growth for an annual increase of 24%. As predicted in t…

AI-generated songs that emulate the voice of pop stars have been proliferating across the internet and getting pushback from the music industry.

When is the best time to buy resale concert tickets? FinanceBuzz analyzed thousands of ticket purchases to find out when you should buy to get the lowest prices.

Nope. 5K a day. Love to my brother @OfficialSting! 😎 ✊🏿🫶🏿 https://t.co/sHdjd0UZEy— LOVE (@Diddy) April 5, 2023

How do people around the world consume their music, and how are these consumption habits changing as technology evolves?

With the help of a highly specific band camp and a legendary California studio, Daisy Jones & the Six evolved from a fictional 1970s group to a real 2023 band.

Taylor Swift is not the first artist to be at the center of controversy over Ticketmaster and Live Nation’s domination of the live entertainment industry. In...

With ticket prices surging at some North American tour locations, fans have decided their money is better spent on a trip and a show.

Love to sing, play, or write music? It could become your life’s work. Read this article to learn how to rock a career in music.

As the world faces multiple mounting crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine War, and the severe e...

This graphic shows the percentage of Americans that are monthly music listeners for each service. Which online music service is most popular?

50 years in music has seen consumption change from vinyl and cassettes to CDs and streaming. This video highlights sales of music formats over time.

This chart shows the rise in LP sales in the United States.

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As recorded music formats repeatedly changed during the past 50 years, we saw the progress that creative destruction can create.

Major League Soccer (MLS) has entered into a new multi-year agreement that names Ticketmaster as the League’s Official Ticketing Partner. In a move aimed at

The thrash metallers have secured their own supply of the high-value format, which is enjoying a 16th consecutive year of growth, ahead of the release of a new album

On this week's episode of Idea Generation, Scooter Braun takes us on a journey from his days as a college dropout and party promoter in Atlanta, to becoming one of the most successful music executives on the planet. The former manager of Justin Bieber and Asher Roth, Braun explains his part in acquiring Big Machine Records, and how he later sold his own company for $1 billion. In the process, Braun built one of the most impressive resumes in music. #ScooterBraun #IdeaGeneration #Business -------- Like this video? Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/Bloomberg?sub_confirmation=1 Become a Quicktake Member for exclusive perks: http://www.youtube.com/bloomberg/join Bloomberg Originals offers bold takes for curious minds on today’s biggest topics. Hosted by experts covering stories you haven’t seen and viewpoints you haven’t heard, you’ll discover cinematic, data-led shows that investigate the intersection of business and culture. Exploring every angle of climate change, technology, finance, sports and beyond, Bloomberg Originals is business as you’ve never seen it. Subscribe for business news, but not as you've known it: exclusive interviews, fascinating profiles, data-driven analysis, and the latest in tech innovation from around the world. Visit our partner channel Bloomberg Quicktake for global news and insight in an instant.

The frontman said that artists had no way to limit the ticketing giant’s fees but his band had declined to participate in the ‘greedy scam’ of dynamic pricing

Travel through time and discover the ways in which we listen to music has changed