Streaming is becoming less dominated by mega-hits
It was always going to be a bold claim. In March last year, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told investors:“Our mission is to enable one million artists to live off their
More than 1/4 of all music streamed in the USA last year was hip-hop
Hip-hop’s domination of the modern American music streaming business is reaching new heights. ‘Hip-hop/Rap’ tracks accounted for more than a quarter of all on-demand plays on music streaming services in
Nigeria’s Mavin Records secures multi-million dollar investment from Kupanda Holdings
Local African repertoire is set to become one of the global music industry’s stories of 2019. You just have to look at what the world’s biggest record company, Universal Music
Apple Music reaches a new milestone of 50m subscribers
Apple Music has 50 million subscribers? Hang on, didn’t it have 56 million in November 2018? Well yes, but that was a figure that included trials. Now Apple’s music-streaming service has
The four types of music subscription models in 2019
There’s a widespread perception that paid streaming subscriptions have become recorded music’s lifeline, restoring the sector to a state of growth and driving its ongoing global expansion. In fact, the
Spotify CEO joins protest against EU digital-revenues tax
It’s not just Article 13 and new copyright legislation causing controversy within the European Union. The EU could also be in line for a new law involving a 3% tax
SOUNDCLOUD REVENUES GREW 80% TO TOP $100M IN 2017, AS LOSSES NARROWED 27%
SoundCloud boss Kerry Trainor claimed last year that the streaming company generated more than $100m in 2017 – and it turns out he was good as his word. Berlin-based SoundCloud has just
PPL’s international collections grew by 43% in 2018
British collecting-society PPL has reported some figures for 2018: its international collections, for public and TV/radio performances (plus private copying) of its members’ tracks. The organisation collected £70.9m ($93.3m) in