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Just around 10 million people speak isiZulu, a language out of South Africa. So how did a song in the little-known dialect become a hit with billions of people around the world? The song in question is “Jerusalema,” created by 24-year-old Limpopo native Master KG with the vocals of singer …

Twitch unveiled a new feature on Wednesday to give streamers easy access to rights-cleared music, after months of being criticized for not licensing music. Named “Soundtrack,” the feature is essentially an in-house streaming platform: It arrives with a sizable library from artists like Porter Robinson, Above and Beyond and Mxmtoon, …

Napster, the company that cultivated an era of music piracy and pushed the music industry into the digital era before becoming a paid streaming service, is once again entering a new era. London-based virtual reality concert streamer MelodyVR announced a surprise $70 million acquisition of the company on Tuesday, creating …

Phil Collins‘ “In the Air Tonight” saw a noticeable sales bump over the weekend thanks to a viral video from Twins React, where 22-year-olds Tim and Fred Williams filmed their reaction to hearing the song for the first time. In the video, Tim and Fred start off acutely tuned in …

The third season of Netflix‘sElite, a Spanish-language drama centered around the secret machinations of teens at a private high school, kicks off with a scene overlaid by Chvrches‘ synth-pop song “Forever.” As plot lines unfurl across eight episodes, the song rears its head again, and again — and again, marking …

This is the seventh installment of Rolling Stone’s series At Work, in which we explore the fast-changing music business from the perspective of a different industry leader each week. Read earlier pieces in the series here. Veteran music executive Barry Weiss is a difficult man to Google, with everything from …

While it took the folks in the room at Sunday night’s Oscars a moment to register the fact that Eminem was actually there, performing his 2002 hit “Lose Yourself” — particularly Idina Menzel — his performance ended with an uproarious standing ovation. The reaction among music fans was similar: Sales …

When Amazon rolled out a standalone music-streaming service in 2016, the music business largely dismissed it as yet another Spotify clone, entering far too late in the game. But the e-commerce company’s efforts in music are quietly shaping up to be major drivers in the industry. Days after Amazon enlisted …

Slowly but surely, independent artists are devouring the recorded-music industry. This, at least, is the view from the major labels, who are watching self-releasing or “DIY” acts gobbling up increasing percentages of global market share — to this day, still a primary performance indicator for the likes of Universal Music …

When Maroon 5 and Cardi B teamed up for the cross-genre hit “Girls Like You” last year, the collaboration got some raised eyebrows — but also more than a fair amount of interest from listeners, who helped the song scoot its way to the top of the charts. These kinds …