Colin Cohen, Author at Digital Music News

DaBaby Faces Robbery, Battery Charges — Just Weeks After Signing with UMPG

January 3, 2020

Police in Miami arrested Grammy-nominated rapper DaBaby because of an outstanding warrant for battery in Texas, only weeks after he signed a publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG). The ... Read More...

TWICE Threatens Legal Action, Beefs Up Protection After Stalker Threat

Colin Cohen

January 3, 2020

South Korean police are reportedly keeping singer Nayeon of the K-Pop group TWICE under protection because a stalker has threatened her. JYP Entertainment, which is the company that created TWICE, issued a s... Read More...

Britain’s Music Streaming Market Tops £1 Billion for the First Time Ever

Colin Cohen

January 3, 2020

Echoing a report from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) says that sales from music streaming last year exceeded £1 billion ($1.3 billion) in the United Kin... Read More...

Coachella Announces 2020 Lineup

Colin Cohen

January 3, 2020

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has announced its 2020 lineup, which includes headliners such as Rage Against the Machine, Travis Scott and Frank Ocean. What's more, the three headliners will ap... Read More...

George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody In Blue’ Enters the Public Domain (UPDATED)

Colin Cohen

January 2, 2020

"Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin is entering the public domain, along with other works from 1924, and not everyone is happy about it. With the coming of the new year, Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" is no... Read More...

Endeavor Acquires Majority Stake in On-Location Experiences in $660 Million Deal

Colin Cohen

January 2, 2020

Leading Hollywood talent agency Endeavor has acquired a hospitality company called On Location Experiences, which was once owned by the National Football League (NFL). The NFL still holds a minority stake in... Read More...

Streaming Accounted for 80% of US-Based Recording Revenues in 2019, Up from 7% in 2010

Colin Cohen

January 2, 2020

In an announcement that mirrored a similar report from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said that music streaming accounted for 80% of the U.S. rec... Read More...

For the First Time Ever, Music Streams Cross 100 Billion Annually in the U.K.

Colin Cohen

January 2, 2020

According to a new report from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), there were more than 100 billion music streams in the United Kingdom during 2019, which breaks a record. The organization says that the... Read More...

Apple Faces Two Separate Lawsuits Over 'Deliberate iPhone Throttling'

Multiple Rock Documentaries Slapped with Copyright Infringement Lawsuits

Colin Cohen

January 1, 2020

A set of companies that control the rights to a slew of popular songs are suing those that they accuse of using some of this music in documentaries without permission. The plaintiffs in the case include the ... Read More...

Rare, Unreleased Rolling Stones Recordings Surface on YouTube

Colin Cohen

January 1, 2020

On New Year's Eve, a collection of around 75 unreleased Rolling Stones songs were temporarily posted onto YouTube, in an apparent attempt to extend the term of the songs' copyrights. According to Variety, th... Read More...

Mariah Carey's Worst-Selling Album Ranked on iTunes Top 100

Mariah Carey Becomes First Artist with No. 1 Hits in Four Separate Decades

Colin Cohen

January 1, 2020

Pop superstar Mariah Carey has reached a milestone no other artist can claim: she has had a Billboard No. 1 song in four separate decades. Carey also scored the very first Hot 100 No. 1 song of the 2020s. Th... Read More...

‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ Singer and Jazz Musician Jack Sheldon Dies at 88

Colin Cohen

January 1, 2020

Jazz musician Jack Sheldon, who worked with some of music's greatest names and who also gained fame as a singer on a number of Schoolhouse Rock! songs, has died at the age of 88. Doug McIntyre, who is Sheldo... Read More...

Can We Sue Our Way to AI Control?

Will the Music Industry Ever Get a Handle on Rightsholder Payouts?

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You Wrote the Music. Who Gets the Value? A Special Interview With One of the Most Influential Figures In Music Publishing

DaBaby Faces Robbery, Battery Charges — Just Weeks After Signing with UMPG

TWICE Threatens Legal Action, Beefs Up Protection After Stalker Threat

Britain’s Music Streaming Market Tops £1 Billion for the First Time Ever

Coachella Announces 2020 Lineup

George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody In Blue’ Enters the Public Domain (UPDATED)

Endeavor Acquires Majority Stake in On-Location Experiences in $660 Million Deal

Streaming Accounted for 80% of US-Based Recording Revenues in 2019, Up from 7% in 2010

For the First Time Ever, Music Streams Cross 100 Billion Annually in the U.K.

Multiple Rock Documentaries Slapped with Copyright Infringement Lawsuits

Rare, Unreleased Rolling Stones Recordings Surface on YouTube

Mariah Carey Becomes First Artist with No. 1 Hits in Four Separate Decades

‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ Singer and Jazz Musician Jack Sheldon Dies at 88

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