Analysis News Pandora now has a $14.99-per-month family plan to rival Spotify and Apple Music’s Firm bids to grow subscription base with rival discount bundle
Analysis Why Billboard’s new chart changes will please some – but aggravate others The USA's leading chart is about to slash the value of 'free' streams versus their paid counterparts
Analysis News Will Spotify’s renewed love of ‘free’ make labels at all uncomfortable? Some thoughts about the power of words, and Spotify's use of them
Analysis Here’s exactly how many shares the major labels and Merlin bought in Spotify – and what those stakes are worth now Documents from 2008 reveal much about Spotify then - and now
Analysis Blog ‘Collecting societies are struggling to keep up with the influx of millions of lines of data.’ FUGA boss Pieter van Rijn on the future for licensing societies worldwide
Analysis Do the major labels know something about Spotify that Wall Street doesn’t? The majors have cashed in $1bn in shares despite optimism from Wall Street. Why?
Analysis Blog ‘Big data is about to become a very big problem for the music industry.’ The co-founder of OCL suggests that Facebook's problems may soon spill over into the entertainment business
Analysis News Spotify subscriber base reaches 75m, as firm’s revenues grow 37% in Q1 Company added an average of 1.3m new subscribers per month in Jan-March
Analysis News Sony has cashed in 50% of its Spotify shares, generating around $750m Company's remaining 50% haul is worth over $800m at current stock price
Analysis News More music is played on YouTube than on Spotify, Apple Music and every other audio streaming platform combined Yet YouTube throws doubt on IFPI figure regarding total video service payout in 2017
Analysis Blog ‘A golden age for music is dawning – with the old gatekeepers all but gone’ WIN chief Alison Wenham analyzes the music industry figures from the past two weeks
Analysis Blog In A&R, ‘gut vs. data’ isn’t a binary choice. Instrumental founder Conrad Withey on the potent combination of man and machine (learning) in music
Analysis In Rob Stringer’s first year in charge, Sony Music revenues jumped 12% to top $4bn Overall revenues surpassed $1bn in Q1 this year, with streaming up 40%
Analysis News Independents ruled global market share in 2017 – but Universal was king of streaming What each major label - and the independent sector - claimed in market share last year
Analysis News The global record industry’s growth has actually… stopped growing A run down of what's really happening in the global streaming market