Analysis One reason why Spotify’s deals with the major labels are balanced on a knife-edge Sony and Universal still own around 6% of Spotify – and won't want to see the company's value crumble
News NetEase Cloud Music completes $600m raise to take on Tencent Baidu, General Atlantic, Boyu Capital and others plough money into Tencent Music rival
Interviews ‘It’s always in your best interest to bank a lot of karma chips in the music industry’ Big Deal founder Kenny MacPherson on success – and the opposite of success
Analysis The future looks bleak for the album – can it be saved? Music industry statistics paint a worrying picture for music's most beloved format
News Spotify share price falls to another all-time low, as market cap drops under $24bn That's down 33% on the company's peak stock price in July
News Was this the biggest mistake in the history of the music business? Rockstar Games is making billions in video games. It's not making them for the music industry.
Interviews ‘Lots of people told me that managing songwriters and producers wasn’t a real business.’ Milk & Honey founder Lucas Keller on his business – and the music industry
News YouTube: We’ve paid the music business $1.8bn in ad money over the past 12 months That's nearly double what YouTube paid out in 2016
Analysis News Profits, payments and podcasts: 5 takeaways from Spotify’s Q3 earnings call Platform confirms it's going to charge artists and labels for tools in the future
News Spotify: We don’t expect major labels to ‘hand us an additional pile of gross margin’ CFO Barry McCarthy speaks frankly on subject of re-negotiations with the labels
News Spotify just turned the first net profit in its history (but it’s not particularly happy about it) Company wanted to hire more R&D people... but couldn't get the staff
Analysis Sony Music revenues up 5.8% so far this year, sales dipped slightly in last quarter Streaming revenues shoot up 26% in the first nine months of 2018
News Spotify stock hits new low on NYSE, as market cap value dips under $26bn Firm's Q3 results are due out on Thursday (November 1)
News Johnny Hallyday album shatters records, selling more week-one units in France than Drake’s Scorpion did in the USA MBW expects that the album generated more than $14m in a single week
News Forget Drake. The music sales story of the year could soon be Johnny Hallyday. Mon Pays C'est L'amour shifted more than 630,000 copies in three days