Author archives: davide

Il y a beaucoup de travail à faire ensemble, mais “le potentiel est vraiment énorme. L’Afrique est en première ligne sur ce marché de demain”, a-t-il dit à l’ouverture à Dakar du “MIDEM African forum”.
All Africa

While paid streaming subscriptions have, in many circles, been billed as the savior of the music industry, the reality is that the business is still operating at a severely reduced capacity since the devastation visited on it in the early days of digit…

Losing them threatens the talent pipeline on which labels and promoters depend.
Financial Times

Universal Music Group’s recorded music operation turned over €1.208bn ($1.37bn) in the first three months of 2019 – up 19.2% year-on-year at constant currency.
Music Business Worldwide

A lot of people that want to be in the music industry don’t know how the business works and educating themselves first about what they’re getting into is important.
Complex

Le géant du e-commerce pourrait proposer un service musical gratuit dès les prochains jours.
Clubic

Both Spotify and Deezer are up against the same formidable rival in the Middle East – the region’s reigning music streaming king, Anghami.
Music Business Worldwide

Contrary to popular belief, entrepreneurship is not as prominent among millennials as public opinion may assume due to the rise of superstar entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel, Brian Chesky, John Zimmer and even music tycoon and Spotify f…

When Ariana Grande issued thank u, next earlier this month, she was staying true to a long-held promise.
Wired

As the management consultants say, what can’t be measured won’t get done, and so in a world of real-time statistical feedback, why make an album if you cannot know who is listening and how?
Music Industry Blog