This Week In Music Commentary Posted by April 29, 2018April 27, 2018 Leave a comment on This Week In Music Commentary Commentary inside a humming music business this week included conversations about marketing strategies, tour advocacy, the failure of music discovery, and more. Be-Hookd’s Silas Armstrong Talks Talks, Branding, Bots, Marketing Strategies [INTERVIEW] #irespectmusic Tour Advocacy With Blake Morgan [INTERVIEW] 71% Of Spotify Users Need Free Music says Troy Carter How Music Discovery Failed Me [Glenn Peoples] Related articles HuffPo Pulls Post Critical Of Spotify – Read It Here AM BRIEF: Beatport Acquires Pulselocker – Spotify IPO Day 2 – Music’s Gender Pay Gap – More – hypebot Here’s another reason to be wary of Spotify’s public offering – the amount of money it brings in for each subscriber keeps shrinking Music streaming services like Spotify are the leading source of music revenue in the US Spotify users really do love the service and plan to stay loyal – these stats prove it (AAPL, AMZN, GOOGL, P) Spotify has spent $10 billion on music royalties since its creation and it’s a big part of why its bleeding money