Analysis Blog My music startup failed multiple times before we got it right. Here’s what I learned. Fanbytes co-founder Timothy Armoo on pivoting three times - and then succeeding
Analysis What happens when artists and record labels build and buy their own media companies? Cherie Hu breaks down the increasing similarities between 'music companies' and 'media companies'
Analysis News Spotify is on a collision course with the major record companies. Here’s why. Spotify has a number of tricky issues to face down during its 2019 negotiations with the biggest labels
Analysis News Apple Music beats Spotify to biggest day-one streaming number for Travis Scott’s Astroworld Following J.Cole and Drake albums, Apple's done it again...
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