Music Business Worldwide

The mythical power of streaming playlists: is it more hype than substance?

Is the end of the 'playlist era' soon upon us?

Fortnite is a video game phenomenon. The music business could learn a lot from its success.

Innovative pricing and content approaches are leading to massive revenues for Epic Games title

Spotify is testing semi-personalized playlists. What might that mean for record labels?

Streaming platform's new experiment hints at a very different future for playlisting

Artists are publicly rebelling against streaming services. Will their grievances gather momentum?

The likes of Spotify and YouTube have faced backlash from Nicki Minaj, Cupcakke and Thom Yorke

The music industry must beware it doesn’t get eaten up by phone giants’ hunger for growth

Telco giants are back in love with music - but is that definitely such as good thing?

Why Spotify faces a difficult hardware conundrum (and so does Sonos)

Can both music 'pureplay' companies keep the likes of Amazon and Apple at bay?

Is Instagram about to become the music industry’s new best friend?

The Facebook-owned social media platform has transformed itself - and artists are noticing

Did record labels already lose the fight to ‘window’ album releases?

Why Jay Z and Beyoncé's latest move didn't make industry ripples like it once might have