Analysis Spotify’s average subscriber paid 5% less last year – but premium conversion grew 7% The average subscriber was paying $0.28 less a month - but 31.5% of users subscribed
Analysis Spotify must watch its spending if it wants sympathy from the music biz The average Spotify employee is paid $107k a year. Is that lean enough for labels?
Analysis YouTube is paying less than £0.0009 per stream to UK record labels MBW calculates per-stream rates from new BPI data - and it's not joyous reading
Analysis It pays out more than Spotify and is growing fast. Neighbouring rights: the music biz’s unsung hero. How labels and artists are raking it in from TV, radio, public performance and online radio
Analysis Sympathy for the devil: Why do so few music startups succeed? 'This problem affects all of us in the digital music value chain'
Analysis Spotify must break its ‘everything free’ rule – for better or worse Why everything in a fractured, messed up industry currently starts and ends with YouTube
Analysis Drake: King of Spotify, king of Apple – and making streaming history Views generating $12.5m on iTunes, as Drake's top of the pops on Spotify
Analysis The great music biz money pit: How streaming services have lost $1bn After Rdio went bust last year owning $30m, how safe is everyone else?
Analysis Drake’s Spotify gamble is paying off: Views just made $8m in a day Streaming and track downloads having very little impact as iTunes sales soar
Analysis How Beyoncé’s Lemonade is making $3m a day – while saving Jay Z’s business The superstar's US sales so far point to a promising result for Sony
Analysis YouTube’s not scared of Universal – but it should be petrified of an artist revolt If YouTube is the 'devil', who's going to stand up to it?
Analysis Why Pandora’s $2bn music biz payout leaves a lot to be desired Tim Westergren is beating his chest - but we're not quite so convinced
Analysis YouTube’s dreaming of a $40bn record business. Just a ‘fantasy free-for-all’? Does YouTube's lofty prediction for the music industry hold any water?
Analysis The average music streaming subscriber is paying less than $1 a week And if you think that sounds low, you should see the YouTube stats...
Analysis Ad-funded streaming income trebles as Australian music market grows 5% Digital takes 61% of market - as download continues to dominate