Mark Mitchell and Nick Burgess answer MBW’s questions on a big day for their Warner label
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Pandora’s user base is now nearly one quarter of the size of Spotify’s, having lost 1.8m listeners in three months
Service ended Q3 with nearly 6.3m ‘self-pay’ subscribers
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Sony Music posts another billion-dollar quarter, as streaming revenues grow 21%
Sony labels have posted more than $3bn in revenue in first three months of 2019
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What’s Facebook’s game plan in music?
Tamara Hrivnak explains how FB is “filling a gap” in the marketplace
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Spotify hits 113m subscribers, up 5m in three months
Company reveals subscriber and user growth for Q3 in latest financial update
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Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy to exit company in January
Spotify has announced its Q3 results (more on those soon). Perhaps the bigger news today: the firm’s CFO, Barry McCarthy, will be leaving the firm in January. According to a financial release, Spotify said: “After playing a pivotal role in …
Steve Clark, global administration head at Warner Chappell, is leaving the publisher
Steve Clark, a two-decade veteran of Warner Chappell Music, is departing the company’s ranks at the end of the year, MBW has learned. The popular exec, who leads the company’s global administration efforts, currently holds the position of E…
Record labels can now pay Spotify to promote artists on the platform, via pop-up ‘Music For You’ alerts
US-only ‘test’ is first official sign of Spotify charging labels and artists for ‘two-sided marketplace’
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Lizzo fights back against Truth Hurts copyright claim with her own fierce lawsuit
“The Raisens did not write any part of the material in question; they did not come up with the idea of including the lyric in the unreleased demo,” claims lawsuit
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Stephen King, UK Managing Director of Believe, exits company after 10 years
Exec originally joined TuneCore parent in early 2010
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