Music Business Worldwide

Barry McCarthy

Apple wanted to improve songwriter pay to $0.00091 per stream. Spotify and Google weren’t keen.

Historical filings show why Spotify believes "lower royalty rates are critical" to the service's future

What happened when Spotify raised its prices by 10% in Norway?

Local market stats in Norway suggest risky move was a big success

Netflix just raised its prices for the third time since Spotify launched in the USA

Netflix's premium tier is $4 per month more expensive than it was in 2015

Spotify: We don’t expect major labels to ‘hand us an additional pile of gross margin’

CFO Barry McCarthy speaks frankly on subject of re-negotiations with the labels

Spotify just turned the first net profit in its history (but it’s not particularly happy about it)

Company wanted to hire more R&D people... but couldn't get the staff

The exec who took Netflix public just gave a storming defence of Spotify’s future business plan

CFO Barry McCarthy explains why Daniel Ek's company believes it will beat its rivals "like a drum"

Spotify just hired the man who took Netflix onto the stock market

Barry McCarthy switches from board position to CFO