PledgeMusic is based on a lovely idea: a marketplace where serious music fans can buy everything from vinyl to personal visits directly from artists and help them to fund their recordings and other ...

Direct-to-fan music platform PledgeMusic admitted to falling behind on artist payments back in June of 2018, and it appears its troubles are ongoing. Company co-founder Benji Rogers posted a statement ...

Direct-to-fan music platform PledgeMusic has come under fire for failing to pay funds to musicians who have raised money through the website over the past year. In a report by Colin Stutz for ...

PledgeMusic, the direct-to-fan music platform that was under fire for not paying the artists who use it, is headed toward bankruptcy. Co-founder Benji Rogers, who returned to the company to “help the ...

One of the more confusing aspects about the already confusing disintegration of PledgeMusic — the direct-to-fan marketplace that ceased operations earlier this year, leaving artists on the hook for a ...

Musicians are “unlikely” to receive money pledged by fans via PledgeMusic following the company’s dissolution. Earlier this year, PledgeMusic was ordered by a judge to be liquidated; a move to pay off ...

The company also announced that cofounder Benji Rogers has returned temporarily as an unpaid advisor, and that it is appointing a third party to “manage all artist funds going forward.” The situation ...

Musicians now don't have access to money – sometimes thousands of dollars – directly donated by their fans. Bernie Torme, the ailing former guitarist with Ozzy Osbourne, is among the many impacted, as ...

For eight years, PledgeMusic was a success story: A direct-to-fan platform where artists worked directly with their audiences to fund their albums, tours and all stripes of merchandise, with fans able ...

PledgeMusic, a crowdfunding site designed to allow fans to back projects from artists, has gone offline, according to Variety. The company closed down its operations earlier this year as it went into ...

Terri Clark is working on a new album, and she's enlisting the help of her fans to complete the project. The Canadian has launched a PledgeMusic campaign, which allows fans the option to pre-order the ...

A security bug in popular music platform PledgeMusic let anyone log in to accounts without needing a password. One of the site's users told ZDNet that he found the bug by mistake when he tried to log ...