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Apple takes its Chance to show up the music biz… as Google licks its lips
As a self-release storms the chart, what does the future hold for major rights-holders?
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Spotify’s average subscriber paid 5% less last year – but premium conversion grew 7%
The average subscriber was paying $0.28 less a month – but 31.5% of users subscribed
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Spotify must watch its spending if it wants sympathy from the music biz
The average Spotify employee is paid $107k a year. Is that lean enough for labels?The post Spotify must watch its spending if it wants sympathy from the music biz appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
YouTube is paying less than £0.0009 per stream to UK record labels
MBW calculates per-stream rates from new BPI data – and it’s not joyous reading
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It pays out more than Spotify and is growing fast. Neighbouring rights: the music biz’s unsung hero.
How labels and artists are raking it in from TV, radio, public performance and online radio
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Sympathy for the devil: Why do so few music startups succeed?
‘This problem affects all of us in the digital music value chain’The post Sympathy for the devil: Why do so few music startups succeed? appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
Spotify must now break its ‘everything free’ rule – but at what cost?
Why everything in a fractured, messed up industry currently starts and ends with YouTube
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Drake: King of Spotify, king of Apple – and making streaming history
Views has made $14m on iTunes – yet Drake’s top of the pops on Spotify
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The great music biz money pit: How streaming services have lost $1bn
After Rdio went bust last year owning $30m, how safe is everyone else?The post The great music biz money pit: How streaming services have lost $1bn appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.