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Category archives: Analysis
Will 2021 Herald a Golden Age of Artist Partnerships for Independent Labels?
“Independent labels have an important part to play in the current landscape,” says Marathon Music Group GM, Pru Harris
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The harsh reality about the music business, and a pantomime led by clueless self-regarders.
UK politicians just grilled the heads of the three major labels in the market. It did not go well.
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There’s never been a better time to be a recording artist. I hope our politicians can understand that.
Ditto Music’s Lee Parsons: “A thousand artists earned at least $84,000, just from streaming platforms, and just from the UK, in one year, in 2020.”
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Ex-Geffen head Neil Jacobson plots $200m US IPO to buy music rights, tech startups
New S-1 filing reveals large-scale ambitions of The Music Acquisition Corporation
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Why I Just Moved To The Middle East
For years, Spek has been a fixture of the UK and US music publishing industries – and their relationship with the MENA region. Here, he explains why he recently upped sticks from New York to live in (and work from) the UAE…
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For record labels, 2021 should be the year of empathetic A&R
“Being empathetic will help us to know our artists better, understand them well, and as a result, achieve bigger goals together.”
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Spotify, worth $67bn, has seen its share price TREBLE in 10 months. Should Daniel Ek pay artists a ‘bonus’ to say thank you?
Spotify is still loss-making, but its market cap is so massive… should it pay a ‘phantom dividend’ to popular artists in need?
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UK record industry nears $2bn in pandemic-hit 2020 – but streaming growth slows significantly
Subscription streaming pulls in over $1.5bn in retail revenue alone, according to ERA figures
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Fans’ Embrace of Streaming Sustained Music During A Tumultuous Year. Why, and What Does It Mean For 2021?
DiMA CEO Garrett Levin: “Any honest reckoning of our business must examine what happens to the 69 cents of every dollar that digital music services pay to record companies, music publishers, and PROs.”
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