Music is a great thing to bring people together, no matter what category they fall into. Probably one of the best in the world – after all, it is able to interest even representatives of the most ...

All the growth in the music business now comes from old songs — how did we get here, and is there a way back? The new music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from ...

Artificial intelligence can generate new songs and even artists, but it can also be used to raid hits of the past for new earnings potential. AI is being used already to separate elements -- called ...

For those who haven’t noticed, there’s been a rush on legendary artists’ musical catalogs recently. In the past few months, entire (or almost entire) catalogs from musicians like Bob Dylan, Whitney ...

These country songs might be decades old, but that doesn't mean they aren't as good today as they were when they were ...

When host Peter O’Dowd asked his 13-year-old daughter what songs are popular on TikTok right now, she responded with “Put Your Head On My Shoulder” by Paul Anka from 1959. Music writer Ted Gioia has ...

Sometime in the mid-two-thousands, when people would still hand you cassette tapes or CDs at shows or in record stores or during hangouts in someone’s parents’ basement or smoke-filled apartment, I ...

According to one analysis by a music analytics firm, 70% of the U.S. music market comes from songs at least two years old, with much of it decades old. We dig into this with music writer Ted Gioia.