Instrumental founder Conrad Withey on some very interesting recent movements in his sector
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Ignore the distractions: the future of ticket resale is ethical.
Twickets founder Richard Davies on recent moves in the live music sector
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Tencent Music uses ‘tipping’ to rack up revenues. Why aren’t Western music streaming platforms doing the same?
Cherie Hu on what the likes of Spotify can learn from China’s biggest streaming music company
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Apple’s buyout of Shazam: 5 reasons it could change music streaming forever
How the world’s leading voice-recognition app could shake up the streaming game
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Could SiriusXM’s buyout of Pandora finally deliver the first true ‘full-stack’ music company?
Pandora is back in the game of music streaming – and can dare to dream big
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Spotify is testing semi-personalized playlists. What might that mean for record labels?
Streaming platform’s new experiment hints at a very different future for playlisting
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Spotify’s direct distribution deals: What do artists get paid?
MBW runs the numbers on Spotify’s new offering to artists
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This is how we should be measuring global streaming subscribers
Glenn Peoples on the fast-growing music subscription base – and where it goes next
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Spotify’s direct distribution deals are only a threat to those aggregators stuck in the past
Ditto Music CEO Lee Parsons on the big news that Spotify is accepting directly-distributed music from artists
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Jon Platt’s arrival marks an opportunity for aggressive Sony to finally sing in harmony
What Jon Platt’s move from Warner/Chappell means – and why it completes the new-look Sony
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