Analysis Blog Ignore the distractions: the future of ticket resale is ethical. Twickets founder Richard Davies on recent moves in the live music sector
Analysis Tencent Music uses ‘tipping’ to rack up revenues. Why aren’t Western music streaming platforms doing the same? Cherie Hu on what the likes of Spotify can learn from China's biggest streaming music company
Analysis Apple’s buyout of Shazam: 5 reasons it could change music streaming forever How the world's leading voice-recognition app could shake up the streaming game
Analysis Could SiriusXM’s buyout of Pandora finally deliver the first true ‘full-stack’ music company? Pandora is back in the game of music streaming - and can dare to dream big
Analysis News 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
Analysis News Spotify’s direct distribution deals: What do artists get paid? MBW runs the numbers on Spotify's new offering to artists
Analysis This is how we should be measuring global streaming subscribers Glenn Peoples on the fast-growing music subscription base - and where it goes next
Analysis Blog Spotify’s direct distribution deals are only a threat to those aggregators stuck in the past Ditto Music CEO Lee Parsons on the big news that Spotify is accepting directly-distributed music from artists
Analysis Jon Platt’s arrival marks an opportunity for aggressive Sony to finally sing in harmony What Jon Platt's move from Warner/Chappell means - and why it completes the new-look Sony
Analysis News Apple Music gains global streaming subscription market share – as Spotify holds firm Amazon Music Unlimited has just under 10m paying subs at the close of H1 2018
Analysis Blog Pascal Nègre: ‘Article 13 would take the music industry backwards.’ "It would erect new barriers for the creators and artists," says French music industry legend
Analysis Blog Underground Lobbying 'Music, art, and writing are now communicated through the internet, and historic protections are simply not applied,' argues Paul Pacifico
Analysis Blog Copyright reform in Europe: In politics we trust… IMPALA's Helen Smith on tomorrow's crucial Article 13 vote in Europe
Analysis Blog Vine and Musical.ly transformed the music industry – then they disappeared. Will history repeat itself? What does the death of innovative (and beneficial) digital music platforms mean for the future of the business?
Analysis Blog Spotify profit payouts: What’s the fairest way to recompense artists? Annabella Coldrick of the Music Managers Forum dissects the main players to examine how they're distributing cash windfall