The Weeknd’s big streaming milestone; ABBA Gold’s long chart run; Ready for friends to slide into your Spotify DMs?; Apple Music Radio expands; and Radiohead’s ‘Let Down’ gets a TikTok boost.Th

Coldplay's never-ending world tour keeps selling tickets; K-Pop Demon Hunters!; What on earth is "speculative ticketing"?; Bandcamp's $3.5m Friday; and has Steve actually “gone deaf for a living?”

Spotify's prices go up again; Which album's songs are in the wrong order?; Napster are being sued (is it 1999 again?); How easy is it to get a #1 album?; Steve's tip for getting into a sold-out gig

Beyoncé sells $400m+ of tickets; How much money is Oasis making from merch?; Spotify wants a billion subscribers; Hayley Williams surprise-releases songs; and Cardi B’s "full-on cheese experience"...

Steve and Stu answer your questions! Does the money from a stream get split evenly? Do bands get paid if a festival is cancelled? How do music-making AIs work? What is Spotify's Discovery Mode?

Will Drake face Kendrick in the witness box?; Los Campesinos! turn down a $60,000 ad deal – but why?; Steve takes a music superfan test; ... and what connects Taylor Swift & Five Finger Death Punch?

How do songwriters *really* earn money (and which bands moonlight as cover bands)?; Spotify under investigation; Netflix K-Pop animation artists; and Ozzy Osbourne's chimpanzee art

Oasis are back; The AI-generated band with a million listeners; Indies vs Universal Music spat gets grumpy; and who owns your songs if your label goes bust?

The Price of Music: your essential weekly music biz explainer – with Steve Lamacq and Stuart Dredge. (Trailer)

Spotify responds to Kate Nash’s comments on streaming royalties, Warner Music's superfan app

AI music startup Suno in hot water again, South African artists double their Spotify payouts

PPL posts highest ever annual revenues, Harry Kane invests in ticketing firm

US hits 100 million paid music subscriptions, Mariah Carey cleared of copyright infringement

SXSW finances analysed, the music economy of Gloucestershire

Interview: Youth Music CEO Matt Griffiths

Brit Awards artists speak out on grassroots venues, Snoop Dogg vs Spotify

Over 1,000 artists back 'silent' AI protest album, Casey Lowery making debut album through Kickstarter campaign

Spotify's new superfan tier, Sony's multi-billion dollar revenues

Ticketmaster cancel Oasis tickets, The Black Crowes relaunch Crowe-Mafia club

James Blake lifts the lid on the music industry, The Libertines as holograms