Pandora In The News

Apple Music gains global streaming subscription market share – as Spotify holds firm

Amazon Music Unlimited has just under 10m paying subs at the close of H1 2018

The music industry must beware it doesn’t get eaten up by phone giants’ hunger for growth

Telco giants are back in love with music - but is that definitely such as good thing?

Pandora Plus subscriptions given away with T-Mobile tariffs in the US

T-Mobile also inks deal with Live Nation for discounted tickets and other perks

CD Baby now publishes over a million songs – and says it’s ‘helping solve the industry’s publishing problem one songwriter at a time’

US-based company first moved into publishing space five years ago

The music business’s biggest stories of the past week: Universal, Vivendi, Sony, Apple, Troy Carter

Here's what caught our attention over the past seven days...

Universal and Sony are now turning over more than $500k from streaming every hour

And they're both generating over $1m an hour from all formats...

Three years ago, Pandora had more users than Spotify. Now it’s over 100m behind.

Total active users on the US-based platform fell yet again to 71.4m in Q2

SoundExchange paid out $399m to artists and labels in the first half of 2018, up 17.4% year-on-year

Organization distributed over $208m to artists and labels in first half of 2018