Analysis News UMG's current performance suggests that, with a strong Q4, it will turn over somewhere close to $7bn in the full year of 2018
Analysis News The starting pistols go off on the biggest music rights deal of the year
Analysis Sony and Universal still own around 6% of Spotify – and won't want to see the company's value crumble
Analysis Music industry statistics paint a worrying picture for music's most beloved format
Analysis News Platform confirms it's going to charge artists and labels for tools in the future
Analysis News Spotify has revealed its latest paying subscriber numbers as part of its Q3 2018 earnings announcement. The company ended September with a global subscriber base of 87m people, it has confirmed. That represented a climb of 4m on the 83m subscribers the service had three months earlier, at the end of June. The new figure … Continued
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Analysis After Apple's acqui-hire of Asaii, what's next for AI-driven artist discovery?
Analysis News A rough time for tech stocks has badly damaged streamer's valuation
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