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France-born music streaming service Deezer has reported a 250% growth in podcast usage on its platform over the last two years and is stepping up its capabilities in this space to make the most of what it’s describing as a podcast ‘boom’.
Music Busine…

Tencent (TCEHY) dominates music streaming in China. Now rival tech titan Alibaba (BABA) is forging an alliance that could help it knock the leader down a peg.
CNN

Music streaming services have generated years of consistent revenue growth for rights holders in developed countries, making them the dominant source of revenue for recordings worldwide.
Music in Africa

L’industrie musicale est comme un archétype de l’économie en général : elle est devenue de plus en plus mondialisée et « winner-takes-all ».
Contrepoints

Recorded music trade revenues fell very slightly (-0.25%) in the first half of 2019 in Japan, according to MBW research – but there was brighter news for the business behind the topline numbers.
Music Business Worldwide

Why a fan-fueled “equity crowdfunding” model may be ready to explode.
Rolling Stones

Recently, festivals and associations reported a weakening trend for 2019: The ticket sales of big festivals are decreasing due to repetitive line-ups and rising ticket prices.
Midem

You may not have heard of Kobalt before, but you probably engage with the music it oversees every day, if not almost every hour.
Tech Crunch

Quasiment disparu, ce format renaît chez de petites compagnies de production musicale. Même si les ventes restent plutôt confidentielles.
Le Monde

Last year, Elissa also hinted at problems with her record label Rotana after it signed a deal with music streaming service Deezer. The deal saw her songs removed from a key Arab music streaming platform on which she had received hundreds of millions of…