Danny Turner is the most consequential DJ you’ve never heard of. Turner creates playlists for some of the world’s top retailers and brands to play in stores, restaurants and hotels as the global ...

While looking for noodles at King Soopers in Louisville, the bouncy studio version of “Scarlet Begonias” by The Grateful Dead started playing overhead. The sound of the 50-year-old tune didn’t make me ...

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Apple launching the iTunes Music Store, allowing Mac users to download music for "just 99 cents per song." At launch, the iTunes Music Store offered over 200,000 ...

If you find yourself in a more money-spending mood while shopping at the Target store in West Hills next week, that might be no coincidence. The chain’s San Fernando Valley branch is one of two-dozen ...

There’s proof a business’s music choices have a significant impact on the customer experience. In his iconic song, American Pie, writer and singer Don McLean asks, “Can music save your mortal soul?” ...

For millennials, grocery stores are a microcosm of long-forgotten comfort music. With each trip, we let go of our egos and embrace the healing vibes each soft rock banger, power ballad and pop tune ...

Loud music encourages consumers to buy red meat. How perfect a metaphor is that for the intrusive nature of music in our grocery stores? It’s literally a red meat issue. Store managers want us to buy ...

On April 28, 2003, Steve Jobs announced the iTunes Music Store with 200,000 songs and a few exclusives that not only changed the record industry then, it paved the way to today's streaming. It's ...

Call me unusual, but I don’t keep any music on my iPhone—I have an iPod touch for that. In the not-too-distant past, the Music app on my iPhone would show no music, which is exactly what I want. But ...

Loud music encourages consumers to buy red meat. How perfect a metaphor is that for the intrusive nature of music in our grocery stores? It’s literally a red meat issue. Store managers want us to buy ...