Music Business News: Europe

Amazon Music raises standard monthly subscription price from $9.99 to $10.99. (Spotify, so far, still refuses to do the same.)

Amazon had over 80 million paying music subscribers last year, according to Midia Research

Emmy Lovell named Global Head of Music at SoundCloud

Lovell will continue to be based in London and will report to Chief Content and Marketing Officer, Lauren Wirtzer-Seawood.

Viberate cuts subscription cost to under $10 in bid to democratize access to high end data analytics tools

Music data analytics company implements 'scary' subs cost cut to 'revolutionize' pricing model in the sector

UK music bodies express concern over future of ‘vital’ BBC Introducing music discovery platform

BBC Introducing is a new music discovery platform that launched in 2007

FUGA inks global distribution deal with Marathon Music

Marathon Music Group is the parent company of Marathon Artists

Streaming fraud accounts for at least 1-3% of plays on services like Spotify and Deezer in France, shows investigation

Landmark study into France's music industry focuses on illegitimate streaming practices

How much productivity is too much productivity?

This op/ed comes from long-time music industry journalist Eamonn Forde

Sir Lucian Grainge’s royalty payout letter was a ‘hallelujah moment’ for streaming’s anti-fraud movement.

Nick Dunn, founder of UK-based distributor Horus Music, hopes that Universal's new focus will help neuter criminal activity on platforms