Big Loud Records is winning the Platinum Decade Award at Variety's Hitmakers. Its leaders discuss looking up to indie ...

Founded in 2023 by Andre Benz and Brandon De Oliveira, Broke Records is an independent record label, publisher, and distributor headquartered in New York City. The company was built with a clear ...

Independent music labels return a third of revenue to artists, according to a new report from global advocacy group ORCA.

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 ...

NY, UNITED STATES, August 22, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Soundplus Record LLC, an independent record label founded by Widens “Pkolo” Dorsainville, announced today ...

It found that labels invested an average of $236,197 per artist in 2023, or about a third ( 33.5%) of their revenue. In total, they spent $134 million in support of 569 artists across different genres ...

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 ...

The concerns raised by indie music labels highlight a growing debate within the music industry regarding Apple Music's implementation of enhanced spatial audio royalties. Some Apple Music users say ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. If MySpace Music represents a hopeful new marriage between major record ...

As an audiobook narrator, Derik Hendrickson spends most of his weekdays alone, holed up in his home studio recording page after page of instructional material for a slew of upcoming nonfiction ...

Anger over the split royalty scheme Apple announced last month was initially reported by the Financial Times. It echoed the anger of independent label executives at the 10 percent surplus paid to song ...

Keira Knightley attends the London premiere of ‘The Woman in Cabin 10’ last month dressed in Erdem (Aimee Rose McGhee/Dave Benett/Getty) Fashion being a notoriously cut-throat industry, it’s an ...