Daniel Ek is wondering if Netflix “didn’t get ahead of itself” with its streaming price rises…
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‘Music creation has changed, fan behavior has changed, and therefore, artists’ needs for digital music distribution have changed too.’
The following MBW op/ed comes from Andreea Gleeson, Chief Executive Officer of DIY distribution company TuneCore
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Becky G is giving away $500,000 worth of Bitcoin to fans via Cash App
Approximately 27,500 winners will receive a Bitcoin payment via Cash App
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Spotify says it can hit 1bn users globally by 2030. But its MAU growth is slowing in Latin America.
MBW analysis shows that Spotify’s LatAm MAU growth was smaller in 2021 than it was in 2020
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The Gamification of Everything
The following op/ed comes from Dan Symons, founder of SPLIT / LIP, a Web3 and metaverse business consultancy for rights owners
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From Justin Timberlake’s catalog sale to Sony’s unrecouped balance program expansion: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
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Tencent Music and NetEase Cloud Music both added more paying music users than Spotify in Q1
NetEase Cloud Music added 7.8 million paying users in Q1; Tencent Music added 4.0 million
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Music streaming has a ‘tsundoku’ problem
London-based music industry journalist Eamonn Forde on the future of music streaming’s subscription model
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From Universal dumping DIY distribution to Bandcamp using its own payment system on Android: It’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up
The biggest stories from the past week – and why they matter
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Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber currently have the most monthly listeners of all artists on Spotify
With just over 84 million monthly listeners, Ed Sheeran remains comfortably in the lead, despite having not released a new studio album since October 2021
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