Analysis Blog ‘There are 365m people in China willing to pay for entertainment. The music market is about to explode.’ LiHui Shen runs China's biggest independent record label. He's feeling very optimistic about the future.
Analysis Facebook takes another big step towards the music biz with Source3 buyout The history of Patrick Sullivan and Ben Cockerham suggests their music knowledge is in high demand
Analysis Why Spotify’s ‘fake artists’ issue, like so much in streaming, comes back to transparency BASCA's Vick Bain on why Swedish service should make 'everything clearer' for songwriters - and for listeners
Analysis News Forget about fake artists – it’s time to talk about fake streams. We just bought 10,000 Spotify plays on the internet. It was easy.
Analysis Can Lyor Cohen bridge the Google ‘value gap’ at YouTube? Can the experienced record exec bring together Google Play and YouTube for the good of everybody?
Analysis Why Spotify’s fake artists problem is an Epidemic. Literally. The tall tale of three Swedish companies, with their own economic interests
Analysis After laying off 173 employees, does SoundCloud really have a ‘path to profitability’? How much difference will the company's dramatic downsizing really make to its bottom line?
Analysis If Spotify’s going to become profitable, it needs to make some changes How alterations in marketing spend, advertising revenue and international income could help fix Daniel Ek's business
Analysis Blog The buzzword of the music business is ‘transparency’ – perhaps it should be ‘simplicity’ Sound Advice's Robert Horsfall has been representing artists and labels for decades. He says change is in the air.
Analysis News Spotify’s average subscriber is paying $30 a year less than they were in 2013 Per-head monthly spend on service has fallen to nearly $5 per month
Analysis News Spotify revenues hit $3.3bn in 2016 – but net losses soared to $597m Finance costs hammer Daniel Ek's company as subscriptions fly
Analysis SiriusXM’s Pandora investment looks like a lifeline – but feels like an invasion What does Greg Maffei have up his sleeve for Pandora and Tim Westergren?
Analysis News Mind the gap: Is Europe set to recalibrate the digital market? IMPALA's Helen Smith skewers 'safe harbour' - and explains why things might be about to change for YouTube et al.
Analysis News ‘Legislators must continue to acknowledge and protect the value of copyright’ UNIFIED's Matthew Rogers on safe harbour... and the tech companies which benefit from it
Analysis News ‘The value of creative assets is systematically being taken away from artists and music companies’ Secretly Group's Darius van Arman talks safe harbor, YouTube, SoundCloud - and the tyranny of copyright laws