News Rhapsody now has 2.5m subscribers, but may have lost $15m in 2014 Service's subscriber base grew 60% in calendar 2014
News As Sony scraps its streaming music service, what now for its creator? Omnifone CEO Jeff Hughes speaks to MBW about B2B platform's future
Blog Thanks, Jay Z. Music quality is no longer just for geeks. Can Tidal takeover unleash a new streaming superstar?
News iTunes: music, movie, TV and e-book sales drop 7% iTunes revenues make up 3.5% of Apple's total cash haul
Analysis Streaming now makes more money than iTunes in Italy Streaming now at 22% of the market, according to MBW analysis
News Italy: Recorded music business grows again in 2014 as downloads fall 15% Physical now represents 65% of market
Analysis Canada: Album sales down 5% in 2014 as downloads tumble More than 6bn streams in six months to December
News Music piracy has been ‘virtually eliminated’ in Norway Less than 1% of people under 30 say file-sharing is main source of music
Analysis Australia: Income from free streaming platforms FELL in 2014 Digital downloads are bringing in five times the income from streaming
Analysis Norway’s music market stopped growing in 2014 – because the CD crashed and burned Physical sales down 38%, downloads down 15%
Blog The music industry’s worst nightmare is nearly here: Amazon and Apple as content kings Amazon is becoming a content producer. Apple is already a label. Worried?
Analysis News Shazam valued at $1bn – but it hasn’t turned a profit for over 7 years Last posted a net profit in 2006 - £4.28m
News BMG teams with Nacho Cano’s publishing company Yogisongs Includes compositions from Mecano as well as solo work