Music

YouTube says YouTube Premium and Music have a combined 100M subscribers; CEO Neal Mohan says subscriptions have become a “meaningful part” of YouTube's business

Apple raises its monthly prices for Music by $1 to $10.99 for individuals, TV+ by $2 to $6.99, and Apple One by $2 to $16.95, citing increased licensing costs

DJ 3LAU launches Royal, which lets users trade shares of song royalty rights as crypto tokens, with $16M in seed funding led by Founders Fund and Paradigm

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Royalties from digital services to UK copyright society PRS for Music rose 17% to £145.7M in 2018, the first year of its licensing deal with Facebook

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Sources: in the US, Apple Music subs are growing ~5% a month, may overtake Spotify this summer, which is growing at ~2% a month; Apple says Music has 36M subs

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Apple says Music now has 20M+ paying subscribers, up 15% from 17M in September

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Apple says Music now has 20M+ paying subscribers, up 15% from 17M in September

Eddy Cue and Zane Lowe on exclusives and why their service rules hip-hop.  —  Apple has released the latest numbers for the music subscription service Apple Music.  In the 18 months since the service ...