In a typical record label contract, the record label pays all of the initial costs to make the record, including the studio costs, the hiring of additional musicians, engineers, and producers.

labels rush into an old-fashioned bidding war. While social media certainly disrupted the music business, it didn’t uproot the traditional record label model. There have been numerous other game ...

In a lengthy statement posted to both her Twitter and Instagram accounts, Swift accused Braun, who owns her former label Big Machine Records, and Scott Borchetta, who founded it, of impeding her ...