Music Business Russia

Telco had 78.5m subscribers at the end of Q1 2020

"Today’s launch opens the door for nearly 250 million fans to start discovering new music from around the world on Spotify."

MBW's sources suggest platform will partner with local telco MTS

New distribution partners include NetEase and Tencent Music

Founding duo will continue to manage TCI’s business and retain a stake in the company

Mubert's Alexey Kochetkov enters the debate over human versus algorithmic music creation

Unverified screenshot indicates that platform is coming soon, and cheaper than Apple Music

With over 100 million active users, Russian Facebook VKontakte (VK) has the same sized audience as Spotify

Universal signs an $8m advance with VK parent Mail.ru

Streaming music app launches

Sony settled with social networking site last year

Earlier verdict overturned, VK not liable for infringement

Notorious site must block copyright-infringing uploads in the future

Nigel Elderton 'very pleased' First Music entrusts Peer with repertoire

Sound recordings body VOIS rallies against merger