Music Business News: Spain News Indie music labels form ORCA, a think tank for ‘recorded culture and arts’ORCA's goal is to equip policymakers, business leaders, and communities with a deeper understanding of music's significance News Spanish collecting society SGAE fined $7M for anticompetitive practicesSpain's competition authority says SGAE abused its dominant market position with the use of flat-rate licensing fees News Royalties generated by Spanish artists on Spotify exceeded $133m in 2023Spotify data shows Spain surprisingly weak in exporting music, despite strong domestic growth Analysis Blog Can the independent music sector unite under a set of global independent values?The following op/ed comes from Noemí Plenas, CEO of the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) Analysis News Over half of the artists who generated at least $10,000 on Spotify last year are from countries where English is not the first language"The music industry today is a more diverse and accurate reflection of the world we live in" News Barcelona appeals court rules that Spanish authors’ society SGAE ‘abused its position’ in the market, in victory for rival UNISONSGAE's all-or-nothing rights contracts with its members prevented the liberalization of the rights market in Spain, competitor UNISON says Analysis Big European countries are the winners in the latest music ‘glocalisation’ trendsWill Page updates the data surrounding how local music artists are streaming in their home territories News Worldwide Independent Network elects five new board membersThe new members hail from Argentina, Chile, Croatia, India and South Korea, part of WIN's effort to "connect as many territories as we can"1 2 … 14 Next
News Indie music labels form ORCA, a think tank for ‘recorded culture and arts’ORCA's goal is to equip policymakers, business leaders, and communities with a deeper understanding of music's significance
News Spanish collecting society SGAE fined $7M for anticompetitive practicesSpain's competition authority says SGAE abused its dominant market position with the use of flat-rate licensing fees
News Royalties generated by Spanish artists on Spotify exceeded $133m in 2023Spotify data shows Spain surprisingly weak in exporting music, despite strong domestic growth
Analysis Blog Can the independent music sector unite under a set of global independent values?The following op/ed comes from Noemí Plenas, CEO of the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN)
Analysis News Over half of the artists who generated at least $10,000 on Spotify last year are from countries where English is not the first language"The music industry today is a more diverse and accurate reflection of the world we live in"
News Barcelona appeals court rules that Spanish authors’ society SGAE ‘abused its position’ in the market, in victory for rival UNISONSGAE's all-or-nothing rights contracts with its members prevented the liberalization of the rights market in Spain, competitor UNISON says
Analysis Big European countries are the winners in the latest music ‘glocalisation’ trendsWill Page updates the data surrounding how local music artists are streaming in their home territories
News Worldwide Independent Network elects five new board membersThe new members hail from Argentina, Chile, Croatia, India and South Korea, part of WIN's effort to "connect as many territories as we can"