Analysis 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?
Analysis News The music business’s biggest stories of the past week: Universal, Vivendi, Sony, Apple, Troy Carter Here's what caught our attention over the past seven days...
Analysis News Apple Music has over 25m paying subscribers in North America (and more than Spotify) Apple and Spotify now have comfortably over 50m paying subs in the US and Canada between them
Analysis News 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
Analysis News 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
Analysis Blog Music piracy: It’s time to acknowledge the unlicensed elephant in the room MUSO's Andy Chatterley believes the industry is missing out on an opportunity presented by piracy
Analysis ‘The music industry of 2018 is witnessing the end of failure.’ Today’s business has no need for the bargain bin anymore. But, asks Peter Robinson, is that really such a good thing?
Analysis News 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...
Analysis Spotify doesn’t cost $9.99 a month everywhere… and that makes a lot of sense. Why Spotify's reduced subscriptions in emerging markets makes for a smart business move
Analysis News 99.99% of the US population didn’t buy America’s No.1 album in the last chart week And it was a similar story in the UK...
Analysis News How the global music copyright business grew by $1.5bn in 2016 (and why that’s amazing news today) Spotify's Director Of Economics, Will Page, explains how the music industry's size is accelerating
Analysis News 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
Analysis News Music streams in the US grew by over 118bn in the first half of 2018 – the biggest jump in history Total audio streams grew year-on-year by more than 80bn in six months to end of June
Analysis The music business just got spanked by Google. Surely it’s now time to speak with one voice. Why did the music industry just lose a crucial vote? And why isn't anybody asking the question?
Analysis 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