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Apple Music Exec Shuts Down Rumors Of A Tidal Deal
“We’re not looking to acquire any streaming services,” Apple Music head Jimmy Iovine told BuzzFeed News.
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How Afrobeats Became Pop Music’s Next Big Thing
Top 40’s dancehall obsession is paving the way for America’s first Nigerian pop stars.
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Frank Ocean’s Apple Deal Was A Wake-Up Call For The Music Industry
The biggest major label has reconsidered a key piece of its relationship with streaming services. “It’s our job to make sure that there’s not just one winner [in music streaming],” a source told BuzzFeed News.
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The Playlist Professionals At Apple, Spotify, And Google
At the most powerful companies in Silicon Valley, small teams of anonymous, diehard music fans race to solve the music industry’s toughest problem.
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Drake Demonstrates The Struggle Of Being In Your Late Twenties
On Views, the rapper is getting older, but not necessarily better, which makes him like a lot of people at his age.
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Learning To Mourn In My Father’s Country
After my brother died and my father was partially paralyzed, my family traveled 7,000 miles in search of an old home, a new house, and the things we’d lost on the road in between.
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20 Major Pop Stars Dodged Our Questions About Whether They’d Work With Dr. Luke
The super producer is accused of sexually assaulting and abusing Kesha. But will that hurt his business?
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What Makes Carly Rae Jepsen A Pop Star?
The 30-year-old Canadian singer and songwriter behind one of the decade’s biggest hits made 2015’s best pure pop album. There was only one problem: Nobody bought it. Why she’s the perfect embodiment of our weird music moment.
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The #Blessed Life Of Kaskade, EDM’s Voice Of Reason
How $500,000-a-night DJ Kaskade — a 44-year-old Mormon father of three — became electronic dance music’s most unassailable superstar.
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Selena Gomez’s “Good For You” And The Rise Of “Indie Pop Voice”
How a phenomenon called “vowel breaking” became an epidemic in pop music.
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Your Perfect End-Of-Summer Mix Is Here, From DJ A-Trak
BBQ bangers served by the co-founder of Fool’s Gold Records.
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Disclosure Want To Be Bigger Than Dance Music
Some artists consistently excel at one thing, while others churn through disparate phases over the course of a career. With their ambitious, pop-oriented second album, the electronic music wunderkinds of Disclosure declare themselves members of the latter group. But will massive dance crowds still be moved?
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The Unbreakable Rebecca Black
Four years ago, she introduced the world to the most hated (and maddeningly unforgettable) song in a generation, was passed over by the music industry, and turned into a punchline — all before she was old enough for a learner’s permit. Now 18, Rebecca Black is too famous to be normal and too normal to be famous. So what does she have to smile about?
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What Apple Music Gets Right, And Wrong, About Music Fandom
Ten days in, the best parts of Apple Music are a blast from the past for music nerds.
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Taylor Swift’s “1989” Will Not Be On Apple Music
The technology giant could not secure the rights to Swift’s latest blockbuster, which will remain unavailable on any streaming service, BuzzFeed News has learned. UPDATED: Swift spoke out against Apple Music’s payment policy, prompting the company to change course.
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Taylor Swift Donated $15,000 To The Firefighter Who Saved His Own Family
A friend of the VanRiper family set up a GoFundMe page to help with their medical costs, and Swift delivered.
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The End Of Album Privilege
Six months after Billboard’s Top Albums chart opened the door to tracks and streams, the album has been bumped from its perch at the top of music’s food chain.
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Can Apple Fix Music Again?
Apple Music’s real competitor isn’t Spotify, but years of diverging consumer trends.
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Zosia Mamet, Vanessa Bayer, And Fred Armisen Re-Created “The Golden Girls” For Jenny Lewis’ New Video
Shosh makes a surprisingly good Dorothy, tbh.
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Spotify Will Stream Videos And Podcasts Now Too
The on-demand music streaming leader will transform into a multimedia platform, with content from partners including Vice News, Comedy Central, MTV, ESPN, Radiolab, and more.
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