Analysis Blog Apple won’t own the music biz unless it wins the ‘freemium wars’ Lucian Grainge, Rob Wells, Taylor Swift and Daniel Ek all point to a fiery future
Analysis Spotify is paying out 100% more money for its biggest tracks than it was a year ago Approximately US $2m was paid out to firm's Top 50 last week
Analysis News Streaming soars in Finland – but music market down 14% in 2014 Ad-supported services shoot up, but downloads and CD suffer
Analysis Piracy has devastated the Spanish music industry for over a decade. Finally, it’s fighting back. Streaming claims 32% of market in 2014, as income rises 21%
Analysis News Japan’s recorded music business fell again in 2014 Digital music sales set to rise, but CD falls 6%
Analysis News Major labels keep 73% of Spotify premium payouts – report But in terms of net profit, labels take just €0.26, says SNEP
Analysis News Streaming overtakes iTunes in France – but music market falls 5.3% Streaming revenues leap up 35% as downloads fall 14%
Analysis News Sweden’s recorded music market falls as CD sales plummet Income from CD sales fell by a massive 38%
Analysis The world’s biggest music stars: Who’s faking it on Twitter? Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga under the spotlight
Analysis Apple makes more money every 3 weeks than the entire recorded music industry does in a year See how small 'major' music companies are compared to Cupertino giant
Analysis ‘Old’ albums now outsell new albums on iTunes in America Annual sales of new albums have plummeted by more than 150m in the past ten years
Analysis Streaming now makes more money than iTunes in Italy Streaming now at 22% of the market, according to MBW analysis
Analysis Canada: Album sales down 5% in 2014 as downloads tumble More than 6bn streams in six months to December
Analysis The CD is still king of the music biz in Australia – but it’s hurting badly Format generated more than AUS $115m
Analysis Australia’s recorded music business declined 10% in 2014 Country in danger of being overtaken by Canada