Spotify Launches in India Despite Licensing Row with WMG
Yes, Spotify *has* launched in India, despite yesterday’s confusion surrounding a court ruling on Warner Music Group’s request for an injunction to prevent the streaming service taking a statutory licence
Streams Power Ariana Grande to a 1-2-3 US Chart Success
We knew that Ariana Grande’s new album ‘thank u, next’ had broken records on Apple Music, but now we’ve got a sense of its wider streaming performance in the US. Ariana Grande Breaks Apple Music Day-One Streaming Records
After a very-public row with the organisers of the Grammys, it’s back to business as usual for Ariana Grande: breaking records on music-streaming services. Apple Music announced that Grande’s new
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
‘Streaming Price Bible’ reveals one label’s 2018 per-stream rates
Every year, artist-rights blog The Trichordist publishes a new ‘Streaming Price Bible’ comparing the latest per-stream rates for the main music-streaming services. This year’s went live this morning, based as