Major labels are hungry for a bigger slice of global recording revenue and the indie sector – now one-third of the total – is ...

Mark Speer, Laura Lee and DJ Johnson of Khruangbin perform in London, England. Photo: Getty Images At Sunday’s Grammy Awards, a genre-hopping indie rock band from Houston called Khruangbin will go ...

If there is one constant in the music business, it is change — and in the past few years, the rate of change has accelerated rapidly, as new technologies, new money, new players and new ideas have ...

Futures Music Group has raised $6 million to sign more artists to its independent label, invest in infrastructure and expand into catalog deals, executives exclusively tell Axios. How it works: Two ...

Earlier this year, when TikTok and Universal Music Group locked horns over their licensing agreement — and the world’s largest music company removed nearly all of its artists and songwriters’ work ...

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The week's most popular albums on independent labels, as compiled by Luminate, based on multi-metric consumption blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums and streaming (audio + video) ...

Universal Music Group (UMG) has bought PIAS, one of Europe’s biggest independent music companies. After acquiring a 49-percent share of the company in 2022, UMG is now the label group’s majority ...

We first heard Conner Youngblood back in 2010 with “A Summer Song” and “Monsters.” Since then, he’s released a handful of tracks and a couple longer projects, but with his two recent songs, he shared ...