Canadian rapper Drake helped music streaming services explode in 2016, rising by 76 percent in the United States to overtake digital sales of music for the first time in history, Nielsen Music said on Thursday. Americans used on demand streaming platforms, such as Apple Music, Google Play, Spotify, Pandora and Amazon Music, to listen to 431 billion songs in 2016, led by hip hop and R&B artists like Drake, The Weeknd, Kanye West and Rihanna, Nielsen said in its 2016 U.S. year-end report.

NEW YORK (AP) — Drake leads the nominations for the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards with 12, including male artist of the year, while electronic duo The Chainsmokers has 11 nominations, including song of the year for "Closer" with Halsey.

The line-up for California's two-weekend music festival includes Radiohead (April 14, 21,) Beyoncé (April 15 & 22) and Kendrick Lamar (April 16 & 23, 2017) as well as the XX, DJ Shadow, Bon Iver, Future, DJ Snake, Lorde, New Order and Justice.

NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce is one of the headliners of the 2017 Coachella music festival — a first for the pop star.

The revival of vinyl records in Britain continued in 2016 with sales jumping to their highest level in 25 years, according to figures released on Tuesday. Music fans bought more than 3.2 million LPs last year, a rise of 53 percent on 2015 and the highest figure since 1991, said trade association the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Rock icon David Bowie was the highest-selling vinyl artist of 2016, scoring five albums in the top 30 following his shock death last January.

Song streaming on subscription services more than doubled in the United States last year, bringing solid growth to the music industry despite sagging album sales, data showed Monday. Analytical firm BuzzAngle Music said that consumption by the world's largest music market rose 4.9 percent last year, led by a surge of streams of individual tracks. Streaming services, which offer unlimited on-demand music online, have grown rapidly in recent years and brought new growth to a long-stagnant industry.

BERLIN (AP) — Instead of bombs there were beats. Guitars took over for guns. And there were cheers, not screams. But Aleppo was never far from the minds of the band Musiqana and the crowd at its record release concert in Berlin.

Ed Sheeran is starting 2017 off with a bang by releasing new music, set to debut this week.

Netflix, iTunes, Hulu and Amazon all have something new for you.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Sixty people were injured at an Australian music festival in the crush of a crowd trying to leave a performance, police said Saturday.

The US hip hop artist and producer shared his new song and accompanying music video "Beibs in the Trap" on December 28. Featuring the Toronto singer NAV, the new video by Travis Scott was directed by RJ Sanchez. The video sees the two musicians performing in an airplane hangar alongside a sportscar.

From George Michael to Prince to Bowie, it’s been a “brutal” year in music.