Posts by Tim Ingham

Three years ago, Pandora had more users than Spotify. Now it’s over 100m behind.

Total active users on the US-based platform fell yet again to 71.4m in Q2

YouTube Music is on a worldwide recruitment blitz for senior executives

Over 15 senior music roles are currently advertised by Google-owned company

Sony Music revenues topped $1.9bn in the first half of 2018, up 11% year-on-year

Streaming revenues hit $944m in the six month period, up 39.1% on 2017

Universal now generating over $50m every week from streaming – overall label revenues jumped 7.4% in H1 2018

Publishing revenues grew 11.1% in the period

SoundExchange paid out $399m to artists and labels in the first half of 2018, up 17.4% year-on-year

Organization distributed over $208m to artists and labels in first half of 2018

Spotify appoints Austin Daboh as Head of Shows & Editorial in the UK

Exec steps up to succeed his former boss, George Ergatoudis

Live Nation’s half-year revenues have grown by more than 100% since 2010

Company on course for another $10bn-plus sales year in 2018

Spotify: 7 things you need to know about the company’s financial health and its Q2 results

Free users, premium users, churn, Tencent, Daniel Ek, direct licensing - it's all here...

XL Recordings turned over $67m last year… despite only releasing 9 new albums

Those records included efforts from Sampha, The XX and Nines

Drake has generated over $100m on Apple Music and Spotify alone

Canadian superstar has racked up over 23bn streams on the two services

‘Artists with longevity are like athletes – they always want to see how they can get better.’

Joie Manda on a career in hip-hop, and why the genre's been 'having a moment for 40 years'

‘A lot of artists end up frustrated if they sign away their independence.’

Following a period of rapid global expansion, Ditto Music now has 19 offices around the world – and says it’s investing to build the music industry model of the future...

Merck Mercuriadis wants to raise a billion dollars. And then he wants to change the face of the music business.

The veteran manager tells MBW why hes raising such vast sums of money to buy copyrights

Spotify is worth more than $33bn, as stock price hits another all-time high

Market value of Pandora has also soared over the past three months

The real story of Drake, Spotify, Apple Music and the record-breaking streams of Scorpion

Spotify had a bigger worldwide number in week one - but Apple was king of the US