John Lennon and Paul McCartney have differing memories of who wrote the music for

In its earnings call on Tuesday morning, Warner Music Group announced that it has now sold its entire stake in Spotify, realizing $504 million.

Recording artists received just 12% of the $43 billion that the music industry generated in 2017, according to a Citigroup report. The proportion of the total music industry revenue artists are capturing has actually risen since 2000, when artists took home only a 7% share of the revenue.

When it comes to climbing the charts, research suggests that it pays to be different. From Brenda Lee to Beyoncé, here’s how the top songs stood out from the crowd.

“In 1820, the great Northern War Chief Hongi Hika departed New Zealand for England. On his return, he brought with him the word of God and hundreds of muskets. Things would never be the same again …” … so begins the video for Alien Weaponry’s new single, ‘Kai Tangata’.

A pair of elderly German men escaped from their nursing home to go to a heavy metal festival, it was reported. After the home reported them missing, police found the two at 3 a.m. at Wacken Open Ai…

Long before Aladdin Sane or Ziggy Stardust, a skinny 16-year-old with ambitions to be a saxophonist agreed to do lead vocals on a demo track, in a small studio in south London. Now the only known recording of the resulting session, with David Bowie singing I Never Dreamed with his first band, The Konrads, has resurfaced in an old bread basket, and is expected to fetch £10,000 at auction.

It’s looking like AC/DC might have reunited with their old vocalist, Brian Johnson, after pictures of the band’s members at a Canadian recording studio surfaced online. Yesterday, we noted how rumours of a new AC/DC album were well and truly afoot after witnesses reported seeing members of the group near studio where they recorded their last three albums. Now, a new picture have surfaced, with fans choosing to believe that this means that a reunion of sorts is in the works.

Spotify has announced that its paid subscribers rose 10% during Q2 to hit 83M. This is 8M up from the 75M it had at the beginning of the year… Reuters notes that this was slightly higher than the 82M estimated by analysts. Free subscribers on the ad-funded tier mean that its total subscriber base has now reached 180M.

Musicians get a lot of revenue from their live performances, but they lose income due to too many middlemen. So musician Jason Robert is creating a blockchain-based event ticketing platform to cut down on fraud, reduce price gouging, and help maintain the health of the live entertainment industry.

The author of This Is Your Brain on Music talks about the very human ways the mind and body keep the beat.

First, let me situate you: doors clanging, people yelling, guards barking. The noise in prison is non-stop, and nighttime is often louder than daytime, because at night many inmates cry out, haunted by their trauma.

For nearly half a century after her divorce from Frank Sinatra, she remained the singer’s cherished friend.

Paul Simon told fans how thankful he is for their support as he played his last show in Europe before he retires from touring.

Dedicated to the people of Baro.

It was a life of platinum records and an iron fist.

With everyone from Amazon to will.i.am trying to get us to talk to their speakers, should listeners be excited, or worried?

Rocker’s Warstic bat from charity sandlot game enshrined in Cooperstown

26 years ago, Guns N’ Roses released a suitably epic (and eye-wateringly expensive) video clip for the nine-minute ‘November Rain’, a single plucked from the previous year’s Use Your Illusion I album. The clip has just ticked over one-billion YouTube views, marking the first type a rock song has achieved this feat. In addition, the song is also the first ’90s video clip to do so. The closest to this latter stats are Zombie by The Cranberries, (739 million) and Smells Like Teen Spirit (727 million).

Welcome to Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. In a particularly pastoral section of the North Island lives the De Jong family. The youngest of whom formed the band “Alien Weaponry” back when they were 8 and 10 years old. Their blend of metal, traditional Maori language, history, and a long-standing beef with the system just debuted as number one on the music charts in New Zealand.

“Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album” was cut by the saxophonist’s classic quartet two years before “A Love Supreme.” Then it was stashed away.

Noted blues sideman performed with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon

Drummer's life was marked by tragedy when he saw his brother and bandmate killed on stage.

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His band sold more than 100 million records in the 1970s and had a fanatical teenage following, but he left in 1976, citing stress.

From the ever classic album "Licensed to Ill" (1986).

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Liam Gallagher was performing at the Festival Internacional de Benicàssim in Spain a couple nights ago when someone in the audience threw a fish on stage. Understandably, he wasn't too happy with this development and took a few moments out of his set to address whoever did it. "So which dickhead threw the fish here then?" he asked. "Fucking stinky, smelly fish, man. Now, listen, mate, it really ain't that fucking bad, man. Don't be throwing fish on stage, mate. I've seen a lot worse than this shit. Alright? I fucking can't be singing while there's a fish there, mate." Watch video of the fish incident below. So, which one of you was it?...