Analysis Australia: Income from free streaming platforms FELL in 2014 Digital downloads are bringing in five times the income from streaming
Analysis Which modern pop megahit owes its chorus to Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne? Veteran duo contribute to current Grammy-nominated smash
Analysis Norway’s music market stopped growing in 2014 – because the CD crashed and burned Physical sales down 38%, downloads down 15%
Analysis News Shazam valued at $1bn – but it hasn’t turned a profit for over 7 years Last posted a net profit in 2006 - £4.28m
Analysis 94% of Radio 1’s most-played songs in 2014 were major label releases Radio 2 Top 50 contains exactly the same major/indie ratio
Analysis Guvera: everything you need to know about the Spotify rival set to explode in 2015 It's buying Blinkbox - but what is Guvera and where's it come from?
Analysis Here’s a cold, hard fact about Spotify. Can the music industry live with it? A quarter of Spotify's users pay - a stat that's been the same for three years
Analysis Which country loves its own artists the most? Artists: if you want to feel the local love, learn some Japanese
Analysis How long will streaming take to dominate the music business? Will streaming dominate US market by 2016?
Analysis Vinyl’s revival is now a phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic Vinyl's share of US market has grown to 3.6% from under 1%
Analysis Why the music business would be mad to let the CD die CD unit sales declined just 0.46% in the UK last year
Analysis UK digital album sales fall for first time in history Ed Sheeran's X best-selling album overall with 1.3m tally
Analysis The sad story of the collapse of the album in America Total sales have dropped 61.5% in last ten years; CD albums down 78%
Analysis Streaming now makes more money than entire Singles market in the UK Streaming volume doubled in 2014
Analysis Mexico: streaming revenues leap 130% in 2014 More than £8 million accrued from Spotify et al already