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LimeWire is coming back as an NFT marketplace a decade after shutting down following battle with music industry group
Austrian entrepreneurs and brothers Julian and Paul Zehetmayr purchased the rights to the defunct f…
Carla Mozée
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The 50 best-selling albums of all time
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of Linkin Park's debut studio album, "Hybrid Theory," in October, the…
Travis Clark
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Why File-Sharing Could Save The Entertainment Industry, Not Destroy It
…[Traditional media companies would have charged you about $20 for the video. They would have given…
Harrison Jacobs
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The organizers of a January 6 awards gala claim Trump's song with riot defendants' prison choir 'went Platinum.' It didn't.
Donald Trump's song with the J6 Prison Choir has modest success, but it never achieved RIAA platinu…
Jacob Shamsian
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Why Taylor Swift keeps blasting fans with never-ending albums
From Taylor Swift to Beyoncé, albums are getting longer and messier. Blame Big Tech.
Dan Whateley
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Vinyl sales surpassed CDs for the first time in 35 years as records make 'remarkable resurgence'
Vinyl made up a total of 70% of physical music sales in 2022, bringing in $1.2 billion in revenue, …
Bethany Biron
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Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds says he probably wouldn't perform 'Radioactive' live if it weren't a fan-favorite song
Insider asked Dan Reynolds to rank the band's four diamond-certified songs, from most to least fun …
Callie Ahlgrim
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PE firms' eagerness to recruit junior bankers is blowing up in their faces. Here's why they need to change.
Private-equity firms have gotten so aggressive in their recruitment of junior bankers it's starting…
Dan DeFrancesco
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Americans are spending more on vinyl records than CDs for the first time since the 1980s
Revenue from LP and EP record sales was nearly 80% higher than for CD sales, data shows, while stre…
Grace Dean
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MØ says the music video for Major Lazer's 'Lean On' was 'cultural appropriation, for sure'
"I'm not perfect and it's a learning process, but I mean, it was problematic," the singer, who was …
Callie Ahlgrim
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The 25 best-selling music singles of all time
Among the RIAA's (Recording Industry Association of America) biggest singles ever, Eminem and Katy …
Travis Clark
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How much does Spotify pay per stream? What you'll earn per song, and how to get paid more for your music
Spotify generally pays between $.003 and $.005 per stream, but how much you'll be paid differs base…
Ennica Jacob
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I've worked with big-name artists on copyright infringement cases. Here's what happens when their work is stolen.
Lawyer Robert Jacobs, who's worked with Marshmello and Kendrick Lamar, says sometimes a songwriter …
Cari Shane
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Jay-Z's album '4:44' has already been certified platinum, less than a week after its release
Complex has speculated that Sprint, Tidal's partner in the release of "4:44," may have purchased a …
John Lynch
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Ad holding company IPG takes aim at Accenture and consultants
Here are the top media and advertising stories from Business Insider for October 27.
Lauren Johnson
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The best new artist nominees for the 2022 Grammys include bands that have been around for years. Here's why.
This year's crop of nominees includes well-known names like Glass Animals, who debuted nearly 10 ye…
Callie Ahlgrim
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Ed Sheeran sued for $100 million for allegedly copying Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On'
"Thinking Out Loud" peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2014 and has been certified "…
John Lynch
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35 years ago the Senate held hearings on rock lyrics. It was a First Amendment showdown for the ages.
In 1985 the Senate held hearings on "rock porn." Just three musicians stood up to the government to…
Anthony L. Fisher
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The 11 top-selling music singles from one-hit wonders of all time, from Gotye to the 'Macarena'
"We have no words to thank everyone," Antonio Romeo Monge told Billboard at a 20th anniversary part…
Nathan McAlone
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The 50 best-selling music artists of all time
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article ranked artists by "total certified units" of worldwi…