Hearing music while grocery shopping is a given, but ever think about the type of music? Turns out there's a reason why ...

Holiday music isn’t just nostalgic—it’s one of the most profitable genres in entertainment history. A single Christmas hit ...

“I don’t want a lot for Christmas / There is just one thing I need / An answer to just one question / An estimate of Mariah Carey’s song royalties, please?” No, my makeshift lyrics aren’t as catchy as ...

Earlier this year, a musician named Kinny Landrum sent Planet Money an email, and he made an unusual proposal. Back in the 1970s, Kinny explained, he was the keyboardist for an instrumental funk band ...

NPR's Planet Money recently got ahold of a 47-year-old song about inflation that has never been released. They decided to start a record label to try to get the song out into the world. You can listen ...

Monet's AI-powered R&B tracks are climbing the charts and forcing long-simmering questions over royalty payouts for AI-created tracks to the fore. By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall AI-powered artist Xania ...

It doesn’t matter what kind of artist you are — a weekend-warrior cover band, a multi-platinum singer-songwriter, or a composer, or an instrumentalist — because musicians everywhere are coming to ...

There's only so much to go around. But streaming economics may not apply. By Robert Levine Over the past few weeks, I’ve been looking at how music will be licensed by AI companies — why I think it’s ...

If you’re like me, music has been an integral part of your existence, the soundtrack to your life. I grew up with vinyl, lived through cassettes and compact discs, and now enjoy creating streaming ...