Analysis Spotify’s investment striptease is an ugly necessity – but an insult to artists Spotify goes all out to attract investors in new $500m round - but what about musicians?
Analysis News Why do major record labels dominate UK radio quite so much? There were 18 independent tracks amongst France's biggest radio songs last year
Analysis Netflix is putting all sides of the music business to shame Making A Murderer - and setting an example to labels and Spotify
Analysis Adele’s 25 is a very special album – but it’s not a miracle Just how special is 'the Adele factor'?
Analysis News Germany’s recorded music market grows 3.9%, widens lead over UK Physical claims 69.1% of overall market
Analysis News Even Adele can’t stop ‘old’ albums outselling new artist releases Catalogue trumps current album sales in historic milestone for the music biz
Analysis Can SoundCloud actually afford to take on Spotify? Why SoundCloud's running costs leave it exposed - unless it can crack the subscription game
Analysis Only two of last year’s biggest hits were written without outside help. Guess who? Hozier and Fetty Wap are going to be enjoying those royalty cheques for some time to come
Analysis How One Direction’s ticket sales dwarfed their recorded music income in 2015 British boyband grossed over $300m on primary and secondary markets, MBW estimates
Analysis The music business failed to dent YouTube’s power in 2015. What now? The music biz's hopes of toppling a free YouTube look slim - but not impossible
Analysis Streaming music is too expensive, say a worrying number of consumers 46% of consumers say streaming services are too expensive
Analysis 16bn reasons why Adele’s streaming snub paid off Record-breaking album made more than $100m in six weeks
Analysis Adele: Officially bigger than Call Of Duty and Jurassic World XL-signed star records UK's biggest-selling entertainment product of 2015
Analysis Physical music dominates UK market – and it’s stubbornly refusing to die CD and vinyl claim more than £500m of sales in 2015
Analysis Adele’s 25: the true value of a money-making machine Here's how much money it made in just six weeks