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For years, Spek has been a fixture of the UK and US music publishing industries – and their relationship with the MENA region. Here, he explains why he recently upped sticks from New York to live in (and work from) the UAE...
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"Being empathetic will help us to know our artists better, understand them well, and as a result, achieve bigger goals together."
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Spotify is still loss-making, but its market cap is so massive... should it pay a 'phantom dividend' to popular artists in need?
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Subscription streaming pulls in over $1.5bn in retail revenue alone, according to ERA figures
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DiMA CEO Garrett Levin: "Any honest reckoning of our business must examine what happens to the 69 cents of every dollar that digital music services pay to record companies, music publishers, and PROs."
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But it was a less good year for CD albums, with sales down by nearly a third on 2019
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EMI Records Streaming Manager, Alex Bingham, crunches the numbers that drove Spotify's chart last year
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Ed Sheeran agent Jon Ollier on the crucial global interdependence needed for a bounce back from COVID
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NMPA boss David Israelite on the tech platforms who've supported composers in 2020... and those who have been less beneficial
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BigStar’s Nick Lawrence on why the royalties system is well past its sell-by date
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There's no doubt 2020 was an innovative year for music and artists – but, says Dave Roberts, it owes a clear debt to 1964
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The CEO of Kiswe, which provided the tech for BTS' record-breaking digital concert earlier this year, on the future of shows in screens
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Pat Corcoran says he's owed $2.5m of his own money he invested in Chance, plus $3m in unpaid commissions
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Merck Mercuriadis: "We’ve been one of the FTSE 250’s biggest yielders and have now reached a £1.25 billion market cap."
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Peter Robinson wonders if the secret to a happy and successful artist career is focusing on your biggest fan – literally