YouTube Launching Subscription Music Service
YouTube hasn't confirmed these reports yet, but sources are telling Billboard that YouTube is hoping to launch its own music subscription service by the end of the year. The service will be something...
View ArticleHow To Fix The YouTube Music Awards
As Tom opined yesterday, the YouTube Music Awards, with its forward-thinking concept and Spike Jonze creation direction and exceptional list of performers, "could’ve flipped the entire awards-show...
View ArticleIndie Labels Reach Licensing Deal With YouTube Music Service
Last year, YouTube announced that it was working on developing a subscription feature in a similar vein to Spotify, Rhapsody, and its parent company's service Google All Access. They reached agreements...
View ArticleYouTube Launches Streaming Music Service
Just this morning we learned that YouTube struck a deal with the hundreds of indie labels that had united in pursuit of a fair shake in digital media revenue. Now Billboard reports that YouTube's...
View ArticleBilly Bragg Says Taylor Swift Is A Liar Who Sold Her Soul To Google
Billy Bragg must have an invite to YouTube's new Music Key subscription service because he's noticed Taylor Swift's albums in Music Key's library, and he's not happy about it. Swift recently caused a...
View ArticleIrving Azoff’s Coalition Of Songwriting Heavyweights Ramps Up Battle To Get...
Last week after YouTube announced the launch of their new subscription music streaming service, industry mogul Irving Azoff -- who represents artists such as the Eagles, John Lennon, and Pharrell...
View ArticlePrince Deletes Facebook & Twitter, Pulls Music From YouTube
Prince joined Twitter last summer, and he signed up for Facebook this year to participate in an ill-fated fan Q&A session in which he only answered one question. Now his experiment with social...
View Article“Gangnam Style” Broke YouTube’s View Counter
PSY's 2012 sensation "Gangnam Style" was inescapable at the time of its release and, two years later, it's been largely forgotten, but it's still been racking up YouTube views from curious listeners...
View ArticleDavid Lowery Blasts YouTube Music Key’s Artist Terms Disclosed By Zoë Keating
Last year, YouTube announced that it's getting ready to launch Music Key, its own streaming service. Given all the power that YouTube and its parent company Google wield in the music universe, it's...
View ArticleQ&A: OK Go On 10 Years Of Making Viral Videos
One Of Those Treadmill Guys. Regardless of how many years he is eventually blessed to squeeze out of this corporeal existence, this is the epitaph OK Go vocalist/guitarist Damian Kulash is absolutely...
View ArticleYouTube’s Paid Subscription Service Is Almost Here
It was only a matter of time, and the time is now: Youtube is rolling out a paid model. According to the Verge, the video-hosting service's paid tier will cost the user approximately $10 a month, in...
View ArticleYouTube Music Service Appears Imminent
YouTube has been working towards establishing a music subscription service for almost two years now, and it looks like it's finally about to actually happen. Last November, they launched a beta version...
View ArticleYouTube Announces Music App
Today, Google announced the details behind Youtube's long-awaited music service. As previously expected, their plan centers around two separate and confusing services: One is called Youtube Red, which...
View ArticleStreaming War Pigs: Apple, Tidal, Spotify, & The Year In Music Services
In June 2015, a week before the official launch of Apple Music, I was given an in-depth pre-release demonstration of the new streaming service. I was accompanied on this tour by a writer from another...
View ArticleChris Cornell’s Final Video, Which Depicted Him With A Noose Around His Neck,...
Chris Cornell hung himself in a Detroit hotel room last month, which cast past material like Soundgarden's "Pretty Noose" in a disturbing new light. In hindsight, perhaps the most eerie item was...
View ArticleYouTube To Launch New Subscription Music Streaming Service Next Year
YouTube has plans to release a third paid music service next spring, Billboard has confirmed with sources familiar with the matter. The new service, reported earlier by Bloomberg, is planned to arrive...
View ArticleYouTube To “Frustrate” Users With Ads So They Pay For Music
Right now, a whole lot of people use YouTube as a de facto music streaming service, searching for songs on the site rather than opening up Spotify or Apple Music. But YouTube is planning on launching...
View ArticleYouTube Hack Replaces “Despacito” And Other Hit Videos With Image Of Masked...
The most-viewed YouTube video of all time, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito," fell victim to hackers today. YouTube pulled the video down after discovering that it was tampered with. The...
View ArticleYouTube Announces Another Music Service
After months of testing and teasing, YouTube will relaunch its streaming platform next Tuesday (May 22) with multiple subscription price points alongside an entry-level, ad-supported version. The new...
View ArticleYouTube Deletes 30 Violent Music Videos
YouTube has removed 30 music videos deemed excessively “violent,” following a takedown request from the UK's most senior police officer. More »
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