Author archives: Tim Ingham

Hip-hop and R&B loses market share of US streams – but so does Rock, Pop and Latin

Genre still dominates streaming – but with less market share than in H1 2018
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Audio streaming growth fell by 5% in the United States in the first half of 2019

Lil Nas X was the biggest track in H1 2019 – but he couldnt prevent a slight slowdown in the numbers
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‘We have to understand: without the song, there is no artist.’

Rodney Jerkins, aka Darkchild, joins MBW’s World’s Greatest Songwriters series
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‘The music business is changing all the time. If you’re not willing to innovate, you’re gonna be left in the dust.’

Motown’s Ethiopia Habtemariam on hip-hop’s explosion, ego in the music business – and Motown’s new age
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‘Music is significantly undervalued – people are thinking about it in the wrong way.’

Kobalt’s Willard Ahdritz talks publishing, major record companies, and the true worth of the business today
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Should Spotify pay songwriters and publishers the same amount as it pays artists and record labels?

How much money can streaming services expect to pay in future – and why Atlas Music Publishing’s CEO is thinking differently…
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Hipgnosis already owns over 5,000 songs – with another $1bn-plus of deals in its sights

“We now have a pipeline of catalogs with an aggregate value in excess of £1 billion.”
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The music industry is tackling streaming fraud with a pointless ‘Code’. It won’t work… but these ideas might.

Penalties for artists, penalties for staff, more funding – why wasn’t any of this in the industry’s own policies?
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Spotify: We ‘overpaid’ songwriters and publishers in 2018, and we would like our money back

Technicality in CRB ruling means publishers now owe Spotify millions of dollars
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