Doja Cat Sets Spotify Record With 10 Billion-Stream Tracks
Doja Cat has become the first female rapper with 10 songs topping one billion Spotify streams, reigniting debates about her genre style and South African roots.
Subscription Streaming Now More Than Half UK Labels’ Income
New figures from industry body the BPI show that streaming subscriptions accounted for 54% of British labels’ income in 2018, as the revenue from these subscriptions grew by 34.9% year-on-year
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