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Spotify CFO Paul Vogel stressed the need for "a level playing" field for all services a day after Apple announced a bundle package with music, TV, and Cloud storage. "For us it's just about a level playing field and it's treating all products and services equally and making sure that someone isn't disadvantaged at the…

Apple has created a set of subscription bundles called Apple One, with three tiers ranging from about $15 to $30 a month. Plans bring together music and video streaming, news, video games, fitness offerings and iCloud. The tech giant made the announcement during a virtual event primarily dedicated to product…

With her dance album Chromatica scaling the music charts since its release in May, Lady Gaga is launching a radio show devoted to the genre on Apple Music. Gaga Radio premieres Friday, August 7 at 11 am PST, with new episodes every Friday. “The last few weeks I’ve been figuring out different ways at home that I can be…

As we head into the Thanksgiving break, it’s time for some special treats from the recording industry, including new music from Paul McCartney, who was in some band whose name escapes me, and a juicy and provocative list of fresh Grammy nominations spotlighting bright new artists. Big corporations are also hard at…

Gary Stewart, whose love of the music industry’s hidden gems saw him successfully curate TV’s The Gilmore Girls soundtrack and the tunes for the period pieces of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, has died. He was 62 and was widely known in the music industry for his passion for catalog. Stewart began his career at the Rhino…

Apple has issued a lengthy response to Spotify’s complaint before European Commission regulators, which was issued earlier this week. The iPhone maker dismisses it as “misleading rhetoric” that conceals its streaming competitor’s financial motives. Spotify told the EC that Apple’s 30% “tax” on Spotify streams…

Spotify has filed a complaint against Apple with European Commission regulators, alleging the so-called “Apple tax” gives Apple an “unfair advantage” over rival companies. Apple launched Apple Music in 2015 in a bid to compete with Spotify in the burgeoning streaming music space. Spotify said it had chosen Europe…

Apple Music is coming to Amazon’s Echo smart speakers. The streaming music service will be available to Apple Music subscribers, starting the week of Dec. 17. Customers will be able to ask Alexa to play any track from Apple’s catalog of 50 million songs — or any of the playlists made by Apple Music's editors from…

Qobuz, a music tech company founded in France in 2007 that bills itself as “the world’s first and only certified hi-res streaming and download service,” is planning to launch in the U.S. in 2019. The company, which already operates in 11 European countries, has not yet revealed the launch date but it has opened a U.S…

Apple Music has taken the wraps off a trailer for Season 2 of Carpool Karaoke, the spinoff of James Corden’s Late Late Show franchise that won Apple an Emmy Award this year for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series — giving the tech giant its first nod for original programming. The trailer for Season 2 of Carpool Karao…

UPDATED with closing stock prices. SiriusXM, the satellite radio company controlled by John Malone’s Liberty Media, is buying Pandora Media in a $3.5 billion aimed at creating a larger rival to Apple Music and Spotify in the intensifying streaming music battle. The all-stock deal imputes a market valuation for the…

Ed Sheeran's documentary Songwriter, which Apple Music acquired in a seven-figure deal before the film’s Tribeca Film Festival deal this spring, is getting ready to hit the stage. The film from Sheeran’s filmmaker cousin Murry Cummings that chronicles the making of his 2017 album Divide will hit theaters via Abramorama…